Not everyone is american.

[Soukyuu]

The problem is, rather, that anyone outside GR, FR or UK is lumped into the "American" category and thrown to the US Lodestone page.

Please fix this already SE.

It's not the SE that is at fault here, but your browser settings. Go to your browser options and set your preferred display language to English (UK) instead of English (US). Reload lodestone and you get the UK/EU version.

For Chrome that would be options -> under the hood -> language and spell-checking options

Why should I have to change the language of my browser?

Maybe... just maybe... because SE was smart enough to code their page to get you the info that applies in your region? And the only way they can see which region you are from is .... your preferred website language?

[Betelgeuzah]

It's not the SE that is at fault here, but your browser settings. Go to your browser options and set your preferred display language to English (UK) instead of English (US). Reload lodestone and you get the UK/EU version.

My preferred display language is my first language, which isn't English, nor any other language found outside Europe. Yet using that as the default language results in the Lodestone loading the US version.

It's SE's fault and I should not need to do anything to create a workaround.

Maybe... just maybe... because SE was smart enough to code their page to get you the info that applies in your region? And the only way they can see which region you are from is .... your preferred website language?

Again, my preferred website language has nothing to do with the United States, nor the North American region.

[Soukyuu]

My preferred display language is my first language, which isn't English, nor any other language found outside Europe. Yet using that as the default language results in the Lodestone loading the US version.

It's SE's fault and I should not need to do anything to create a workaround.

Even if your preferred language is not english, browsers start out with your primary language on top of the list followed by English(US), which leads you to the US page instead of the UK one. If you don't want to change your browser settings then you have no reason to complain about it to SE. The webpage is working as intended.

[Betelgeuzah]

Even if your preferred language is not english, browsers start out with your primary language on top of the list followed by English(US), which leads you to the US page instead of the UK one. If you don't want to change your browser settings then you have no reason to complain about it to SE. The webpage is working as intended.

So, perhaps, SE could make it so my primary language leads me to the page closest to it, which in this case would be the UK Lodestone? Is this too much asked? No.

Expecting me to change any settings when I have done nothing to deserve it is entirely unreasonable. My browser is in European language, and as such I should be taken to the European website.

If they expect me to pay for the service they need to deliver with said service. Not make the customer do all the work for them while their systems don't function properly.

Who is going to laugh and tell you to set up your browser properly -> what I and others told you already.

It's merely just another of the reasons to take my money elsewhere. SE isn't going to laugh, that's for damn sure.

[Soukyuu]

So, perhaps, SE could make it so my primary language leads me to the page closest to it, which in this case would be the UK Lodestone? Is this too much asked? No.

Which would make them check every country in the world and calculate the distance to the nearest country they support.

Or rewrite the whole site and separate all the pages into standalone versions. Which is a lot less optimal management and/or performance wise. Basically, this is a fine example of stupid/lazy human behavior making other people dumb things down to accommodate the masses.

It's merely just another of the reasons to take my money elsewhere. SE isn't going to laugh, that's for damn sure.

Seriously? So if your PC needs a driver update to start a game you are not going to install it and ask the game company to do it for you instead? The problem is on your side, not SE's side.

[Betelgeuzah]

Which would make them check every country in the world and calculate the distance to the nearest country they support.

Every other developer manages this just fine. If SE can't manage it they have no business being in the industry.

Seriously? So if your PC needs a driver update to start a game you are not going to install it and ask the game company to do it for you instead? The problem is on your side, not SE's side.

I've never come across a game that doesn't have everything necessary for the game to run included in the installation process. That's the common procedure and not being able to provide it makes the company in question incompetent.

The problem is on SE's side when they aren't getting a dime from me for providing service that doesn't meet the standards of the industry.

[Soukyuu]

I've never come across a game that doesn't have everything necessary for the game to run included in the installation process. That's the common procedure and not being able to provide it makes the company in question incompetent.

Battlefield3 wants to have a word with you.
(Hint: prior to that driver, the game would crash on startup or ingame, and that's just one example.)