Why isn't there a language preference on the forums?!

Veenified

How simple would it be to to add a language preference and filter the readily visible forums to just those that matches that preference?!

Bethesda and ZOS, contact me if you'd like to hire me as a User Experience consultant.

AlliN

Ammount of misconceptions, poorly though-throuh designs, lack of common sense and lack of bare bone elements in ESO and it's forum is really, really depressing.

5 years of development, and things like website are still badly designed. It's like 1990 forums all over again. Seriously it looks like made by a junior-grader for IT class.

AryaWythers

There was in beta and then they asked us how easily it was to access the forums in Beta...then POOF this mess arrived on launch. Might just be planned for how many issues people would experience and this is just to throw them off, at least the English forums aren't in German anymore

Sakiri

Is it really that hard to not click the forums marked "DE" and "FR"?

AryaWythers

In first week the EN was still in German...and the forums were a lot better in Beta, just saying it's strange

Auldjohn

My only concern is in some cases something is posted in an French or German staff post that doesn't appear in the English version.

I don't have the precise example at my fingertips, but there was a note in the German v1.0.6 Patch Notes that was not in the English notes. A Guild-mate brought it to my attention.

Perhaps an automatic translation feature would help.

P.S.: Using Google Chrome, I opened the DE Patch Notes. The browser offered to translate it, and the translation seemed reasonable. I only speak a tiny bit of German, so have no idea how effective Google Translate of a web page actually is.

Sakiri

Beta forums were a bloody mess. Maybe youre thinking of the temp Bethesda forum?

This one in beta had no nesting, no separation. Was a mess.

Mobile site is easier to navigate fwiw.