Major global DC travel/test issue (cultural/language)

[ChrysOCE]

Someone had to say something, but not you and not your message. I welcome the visitors. Hopefully we see OCE get a bump in actual player base. Probably wishful thinking.
And, very funny, about the concern of foreigners coming in and overtaking Australian-English, like Australia owns OCE. Speaking for my own FC and circle of friends, we have quite a mix of AU, NZ, NA and Asian players. Kinda like how Australia and NZ are in real life, no? But, maybe that is your IRL attitude too?
Also, love the Easter concern. Like Easter currently isn't just an chance to take a long break and go shopping, drinking, beach days, grinding out FL matches, whatever. Yes, AU/NZ, where we all 100% definitely spend Easter contemplating the meaning of Christ...

[Cat_Girl]

I think the OP is, Mansplaining®

[LuciferNacht]

Ok, deleted my original response because it's important to assume positive intent.

It is ok to feel concern over change, honestly it's very human to selfishly want things your own way.

But look at it from a business perspective and be realistic when thinking about if you're going to get your way:

1.)By the numbers OCE is a little over 20k endgame characters strong compared to the 300K, 500k and 600K for EU, JP and NA respectively. It is not a good financial decision for the company to have invested so much into physical data centers for a dead data center. Long term I would not be surprised if OCE becomes a location for all regions to travel to permanently to give it relevance.

2.)Xenophobia has no place in this game, by the community and more practically by the TOS. Especially when you speak from a small subjective view but try to inflate that opinion by using "we" statements. How about approaching this topic with constructive criticism, and give the devs something reasonable to maybe try and assuage your fears. You cannot really expect them to read your post and go "you're right, discriminating on players in 2024 IS a good reason to shut it all down" especially when your argument is as weak as "versions of very similar english, accents aside"

Currently this reads as very immature, xenophobic with misinformation left and right. It immediately destroys any credibility you hope to have here.

[IDontPetLalas]

This is rather uneducated bait - "The main threat that has emerged (for my language/culture) is that N-A English is already eating away at British-English and Australian-English, and without corrective action will eventually replace both. Make no mistake- our regions do not speak the same language and we do not share the same values (we all know this). But there are far more North-American-English speakers on the internet than B-E and A-E speakers- and this means language replacement/contamination "

there is no such thing as "N-A" English. There's (very broadly) speaking American and Canadian English, and each of these has multiple dialects. We can easily confuse ourselves in our own countries if we want to, we don't need to DC travel.

[ChrysOCE]

This is rather uneducated bait - "The main threat that has emerged (for my language/culture) is that N-A English is already eating away at British-English and Australian-English, and without corrective action will eventually replace both. Make no mistake- our regions do not speak the same language and we do not share the same values (we all know this). But there are far more North-American-English speakers on the internet than B-E and A-E speakers- and this means language replacement/contamination "

there is no such thing as "N-A" English. There's (very broadly) speaking American and Canadian English, and each of these has multiple dialects. We can easily confuse ourselves in our own countries if we want to, we don't need to DC travel.

Sorry, I can't read that because of your accent. Can you please re-type that in "Australian"-English?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Sorry, I can't read that because of your accent. Can you please re-type that in "Australian"-English?

This is what AI thinks Aussie's sound like:

This here's some proper bog-standard rubbish - "The big worry that's popped up is that Yankee English is already chomping away at British-English and Aussie-English, and if we don't do somethin' about it, it'll end up takin' over the whole shebang. Don't get me wrong - our neck of the woods ain't chattin' in the same tongue, and we sure as heck don't see eye-to-eye on everything (that's a given). But there's heaps more North American English speakers online than there are in the land Down Under or back in Blighty - and that spells trouble for our lingo's future."
As for that "N-A" English jazz, that's a load of hogwash. We've got American English and Canadian English, each with its own bushel of dialects. We could easily muddle ourselves up without even hoppin' on a plane to the States.

[ChrysOCE]

This is what AI thinks Aussie's sound like:

This here's some proper bog-standard rubbish - "The big worry that's popped up is that Yankee English is already chomping away at British-English and Aussie-English, and if we don't do somethin' about it, it'll end up takin' over the whole shebang. Don't get me wrong - our neck of the woods ain't chattin' in the same tongue, and we sure as heck don't see eye-to-eye on everything (that's a given). But there's heaps more North American English speakers online than there are in the land Down Under or back in Blighty - and that spells trouble for our lingo's future."
As for that "N-A" English jazz, that's a load of hogwash. We've got American English and Canadian English, each with its own bushel of dialects. We could easily muddle ourselves up without even hoppin' on a plane to the States.

Much better. I understood everything.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It is very true that even without leaving NA there's a noticeable difference in dialect depending on where you go. I went to the South on a work trip recently and for the first time in my life felt like my relatively neutral (as American accents go) Californian-with-Midwestern-parents accent marked me as an outsider.

Try growing up in the south with 2 parents from Detroit. I have no discernable accent. It was very weird listening to some people talk lol.

[Myrany]

It is very true that even without leaving NA there's a noticeable difference in dialect depending on where you go. I went to the South on a work trip recently and for the first time in my life felt like my relatively neutral (as American accents go) Californian-with-Midwestern-parents accent marked me as an outsider.

Which is how I feel when I visit family in Michigan with my West Texas Accent.

[LianaThorne]

This is what AI thinks Aussie's sound like:

This here's some proper bog-standard rubbish - "The big worry that's popped up is that Yankee English is already chomping away at British-English and Aussie-English, and if we don't do somethin' about it, it'll end up takin' over the whole shebang. Don't get me wrong - our neck of the woods ain't chattin' in the same tongue, and we sure as heck don't see eye-to-eye on everything (that's a given). But there's heaps more North American English speakers online than there are in the land Down Under or back in Blighty - and that spells trouble for our lingo's future."
As for that "N-A" English jazz, that's a load of hogwash. We've got American English and Canadian English, each with its own bushel of dialects. We could easily muddle ourselves up without even hoppin' on a plane to the States.

Had an Australian read this and they said your AI needs updating lolol