Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Slirith]

Then let them give us local servers.

Not enough players from South America to justify the cost of putting servers and maintaining them there. Same thing applies to folks wanting Oceanic servers.

[BloodRubyXII]

Not enough players from South America to justify the cost of putting servers and maintaining them there. Same thing applies to folks wanting Oceanic servers.

Plus, why should Brazilian players pay less than everyone else (not having dedicated servers is not a valid argument; I don't recall us saying the same thing before Chaos was actually based in Europe).

Statiscally speaking the majority of the region does. But if we wanna talk languages that most people in general speak, it would be more prudent to do the game in Spanish, Portuguese, or Russian instead of German since those languages are all much more commonly spoken. But German is still a language of choice because Germany and Austria have more wealth on average than much larger countries with more prolific languages like Brazil and Russia do.

I think you underestimate how widely spoken German is. Personally I'm from Lugano which is Italian speaking, but everyone here speaks and understands German like most of Switzerland. I recognise that Portuguese is like 3x more speakers than German, but given that Germany is the base of SE's European operations; as well as it covering 6 countries (even if we don't include Sudtirol, which is an almost entirely German speaking region of Italy, and Opole/Silesia in Poland) - it's obviously not a "wealth" thing. WoW didn't initially have all the localizations it has today either (Portuguese and Italian especially coming extremely late, and Russian being the last of the "big three" languages added; despite having multiple servers overrun with Russian speaking /2)