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It took me a little time to work out where the free transfers for a lot or realms that are currently available until the 5th, actually went to. The extensive realm lists  gave me a hint that it wasn’t to an oceanic server,  and I searched in vain as there was no  US server list for Quel’Thalas  – after rechecking the details on the realm It advised it was a Latin American Server.

 Ahhh I say..  that 3rd tab that appeared some months ago. I rolled a Undead something on there once because Oceanic went down, and they didn’t.   Besides General chat being half in Spanish and English it was interesting.   They hadn’t had their realm long and there were a lot of real noobs round the starting realms, and then all these leet peeps from oceanic came and hijacked the chat.   Oceanic came back up and we all went back home, probably much the the relief of the local residents.

I thought at the time the realm would have provided an interested language exchange, it was the 1st General chat that I had seen that was really multilingual.  On our Oceanic realms we have alot of Asian origin players, but General chat, guild chat is all in English,  most raiding guilds are English speaking guild run, and at best I’ve gotten to practise some swear words in Arabic, and Turkish and some Japanese on Americans stationed in Japan, but everything is in English.  Our idea of foreign is the token member from wherever, and usually that member is  very quite in Vent, or chats.  Over my play time I have put a smattering of lobie toons across the US realms and the oceanic, and have played with people from all corners of the world, Yet English as the gaming language dominates

I often wonder how the European guilds communicate – and how potentially one server could have 30 different languages.  What an amazing cultural exchange that would be.  Or do they all speak English?  ( I have developed a taste for Viking Folk Metal for Bands like Tyr, and Midnattsol,  German-Norwegian type folky music mixed with Metal.)   Alot of the Bands I love have European origins so would jump at the opportunity learn new words, if only so I could sing the song lyrics right instead of making unintelligible somewhat pitched vocal sounds. )  What’s Gank in French? Or Swedish, or Finnish.

I didn’t spend too long on Quel’Thalas, only to level 6 or so, but it was long enough to impress upon me the at least lingual uniqueness that this server had, so will these free server transfers encourage people to go over and it become a massive cultural melting pot?  Or will the nature of potential language barriers make people hesitate. It will be an interesting realm to play on though, transfers from US and Oceanic were open.

I had considered transferring because I was at the point where I needed change for the sake of changing and people tell me I think too many things through too much,  so I was going to dive straight in,  but the multitude of different people in different time zones would not make it a very productive realm progression wise. So I didn’t transfer.

Will the change in the population change the uniqueness of the server, for good or for bad? A great thing about MMORPGs is the diversity, and the interaction with all ages and cultures, but servers seem to be cultural centric,  but I would imagine Quel’Thalas would get to be an interesting conglomerate of all cultures