Originally posted by Tergeron I know that, the past two guilds I've been in have had latin american players in them (Mexico and Brazil). I was assuming most people in latin america dont speak english/ arent comfortable speaking the language, if this isnt true then I wish more immigrants would start speaking english.
There are many guilds with latins only. Those who dont know the language receive help from others. I helped many with quests they could not understand alone.
Its was not a problem at all cause they never needed it. Nobody cares what language you speak in guild chat, whisper or teamspeak/Ventrilo. In fact i belive half of my old US Server dont have english as native language (Russians, Portugueses, Mexicans, Brazilians, Chineses,...).
No. I dont think there are people waitting a official release to buy it now.
The majority of latin's fans had the game already or drop it long time ago. It wont sell as its should with a 4 years delay. Im sure of it.
Huh, I've never heard of guilds with that many spanish native speaking players in them (And on the servers I play on something like that would be a joke for a week between everyone, which is what happened to the guild below) .The closest I've seen is a guild composed of entirely Asian players (not sure if they are Chinese or Korean), which makes sense because they all live in the US or hate the way the native sub plans work.
Regardless, people are waiting and they all have their own reasons, not everyone goes out of their way to play wow, and Im sure casuals arent exactly motivated to spend their time getting an american copy sent to them from someone in the states.
my point? there has NOT been limited growth in US/EU
its not growing as fast as the market in Asia but US/EU still a growth of around +30%
from Jan 2007 to Jan 2008
If you look at X-fire stats and WoW realm stats you will see that the 3.5 to 4.5 million jump happened in conjunction with the TBC release (as I said if you read my posts). The TBC release basically upped the total subscriber base with roughly 20%. From mid 2007 until today # of subscribers have been roughly constant in EU and NA based on available information.
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There are many guilds with latins only. Those who dont know the language receive help from others. I helped many with quests they could not understand alone.
Its was not a problem at all cause they never needed it. Nobody cares what language you speak in guild chat, whisper or teamspeak/Ventrilo. In fact i belive half of my old US Server dont have english as native language (Russians, Portugueses, Mexicans, Brazilians, Chineses,...).
No. I dont think there are people waitting a official release to buy it now.
The majority of latin's fans had the game already or drop it long time ago. It wont sell as its should with a 4 years delay. Im sure of it.
Huh, I've never heard of guilds with that many spanish native speaking players in them (And on the servers I play on something like that would be a joke for a week between everyone, which is what happened to the guild below) .The closest I've seen is a guild composed of entirely Asian players (not sure if they are Chinese or Korean), which makes sense because they all live in the US or hate the way the native sub plans work.
Regardless, people are waiting and they all have their own reasons, not everyone goes out of their way to play wow, and Im sure casuals arent exactly motivated to spend their time getting an american copy sent to them from someone in the states.
there was no regional break down in summer 2007 (that I can find)
but for Jan 2007
eu.blizzard.com/en/press/070111.html
US/EU was 3.5 Asia was 3.5
1 year later Jan 2008
eu.blizzard.com/en/press/080122.html
US/EU was 4.5 Asia was 5.5
my point? there has NOT been limited growth in US/EU
its not growing as fast as the market in Asia but US/EU still a growth of around +30%
from Jan 2007 to Jan 2008
If you look at X-fire stats and WoW realm stats you will see that the 3.5 to 4.5 million jump happened in conjunction with the TBC release (as I said if you read my posts). The TBC release basically upped the total subscriber base with roughly 20%. From mid 2007 until today # of subscribers have been roughly constant in EU and NA based on available information.