too many Russian players -> game still has no official Russian localization. ZOS logic.

Yes, please. Give us ru chat.
This will not solve problem completely, but it will at least allow ru (and other) players to freely speak their language outside guild without annoying english speaking players (I am russian. I hate to speak russian in /zone. But there's no options for speaking with more then one random people!). And ask questions to people who will understand it. So some people will use it. Less cyrillic in chat is better then like it is now.

oxygen_thief wrote: »

its a discrimination against national origin. they will sue you

Discrimination would be if only that chat would be available. Just have one more option - isn't a problem.

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

If you are on PC and this really annoys you (personally I don't have problems with that) there is an addon called "Cyrillic Chat Filter" - it filters out any chat message that contains Cyrillic font so you don't even see those message if they clutter the chat for you.

Haven't installed it for a long time so I don't know if it works with the current version of the game:
https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1538-CyrillicChatFilter.html

What to do if I'm also russian, but still don't like too much cyrillic in zone? )

mocap wrote: »

too many Russian players -> game still has no official Russian localization. ZOS logic.

1. There is no need in really big amount of players to make it annoying,
2. Localization cost a lot - and will give nearly no money back. Too few people, who likes TES, doesn't play ESO only because of language. At least since RuESO. So everybody will pay for localization few will need (because they can't say "hey, pay to play with ru localization"). Do you want to have higher prices for everything for attracting most toxic and rude part of ru players that doesn't know anything about TES and want just to "win" and insult? Because that's who will come.

Zatox wrote: »

ATomiX96 wrote: »

limit the general zone chat to ASCII characters only

You just will get "Horoshaya gildiya ishet igrokov" or "xopoLLla9l ruJlbgu9l UWET UrPoKoB" instead of "Х о р о ш а я г и л ь д и я и щ е т и г р о к о в". it's not much better

No, it's much better. This "Horoshaya gildiya ishet igrokov" doesn't cause so much mess in chat as it's cyrillic equivalent.

However this "xopoLLla9l ruJlbgu9l UWET UrPoKoB" can still be recognized as spam.

oxygen_thief wrote: »

... "xopoLLla9l ruJlbgu9l UWET UrPoKoB" ...

Ha, I was not familiar with that method of rendering Cyrillic characters. This is ingenious and annoying at the same time.

Vifen wrote: »

There's been a breakout of Russian speakers on PC EU writing in Russian in the zone chat.

Everybody else makes the effort to speak in English or write in the appropriate language zone chat but Russians don't have one. It's gotten quite annoying and alienating seeing the chat filled with incomprehensible characters 1/3rd of the time.

Can we get a Russian zone chat already?

https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1538-CyrillicChatFilter.html

Your idea would not help a bit, everyone is mad about Russians well I understand that however I wonder why when Germans are speaking in /z chat instead of German chat nobody cares tho ? Well I guess it's just 1 of the wonders of ESO community...

The main reason for the additional hostility against Russian, I think, is the writing. The characters are unfamiliar to many people, so even if it's an innocent guild recruitment post (that could be recognisable in German, French, or Polish by key words sounding vaguely similar to "guild"), people feel they have no idea what's going on.
But most importantly, it's the frankly horrific Cyrillic font with its wide spacing that makes every Russian message stick out like a sore thumb.
Yes, there is an addon that alleviates this, but most people won't bother to download it - and frankly, I don't really blame them. It's ZOS' fault, and implementing that travesty was a very weird decision in the first place.

Cyrillic must be simultaneously banned from the general chat too, since I do know from my previous mmo experience that a lot of them will not go to the designated zone because they feel themselves "kings" of the general chat.

Enemoriana wrote: »

B e c a u s e i t d o e s n ' t l o o k s o t e r r i b l e.

Doesn't look like OP is asking to fix this stupid font issue, more like they're asking for a ghetto for people who they consider inferior. No issue with french and german people writing in zone chat, apparently.

myskyrim26 wrote: »

I'm Russian and I beg ZOS to create a Russian chat. No, I will never use it. I'll always stay in English chat and write in English. But I hate to read things in my native language in zone chat. Because, you know, 99% of these messages are just strong language. It usually starts like this:
- Any Russians here?
- Yep
- (strong language expressing joy)
And than these 2 persons (or more) start spamming strong language. Why are they doing it? Oh, mabe they think it is fun? Nobody understands them, nobody will ban them... Well, it is not fun at all. I hate it. Please, @ZOS, give them a sandbox to play, make a zone chat healthy!

Well, its the same on the german language too - but no one uses the de-zone chat. I dont know if you need those language based chats in the game. The open Chat is about all languages and yes, cyrillic posts are irritating (because of the symbols)- but you're seeing turky, swedish and german posts too.

But Hell, i can live with all that languages in the open world chat, too. It does what it does.

Runschei wrote: »

I'd like to believe the regular zone chat is for everyone. If you speak English only and want to see only English, why don't YOU stick to the English zone chat?

Zone chat is for everyone. This also means that it's better to use language everyone will understand. And it's not good to occupy it with long, terribly looking messages few can read. Just not polite.
If they will add ru zone that will do nothing bad, because people who want to use zone will still be able to do it. But people who don't, will have another option. No one loses from this!

And many russian players want it. Because it's much more comfortable to write in chat where everybody understand you and nobody is annoyed with unknown language.

1) LFG. i am russian, but watching at ru messages in zone chat makes me crazy. They dont understand, that simple: "LFM <boss-name>" will greatly increase the chances to find players. or WTS <itemLink> <price>.

2) Flood. Adding specific ru zone chat will solve "flooded zone chat" problem a bit. because if your lang are ger/eng, then no need to show you other lang unless you specify that in settings. It is pure flood, isnt it? I dont know ger and when i see huge recruitment msg in zone chat - it is simply flood for me.

3) What is the purpose of zone chat?

Balticthunder wrote: »

Most of EU and USA people are so naive towards russians - majority of them still live in soviet mindsets. They are not going to use russian chat, simple as that. For them we are still enemies, damn capitalists and they love every minute if they can do something to anoy us. Their society is build on principle that the cool guys are those, who can make others life miserable, you can get all the respect for doing such things. Thats why they love putin so much lol.

Some russian players here already stated that they dont want to see more of their natives here and it's because of what I said above.
Sorry, but it is still about politics for them than happy and healthy international gaming.

Yes, yes, and we ride bears, play balalaika and wear ushanka all the time.

Majority is adequate and in game you'll even not understand they are russian until they say: they will speak english or just avoid situations where they have to communicate with not russian-speaking players if they don't know english good enough.
You speak about inadequate minority. They make more noise, so they are just more visible . Like any other loud idiots.

They probably know, they just don’t care.

They wouldn’t use their own zone, ignoring conventions and trolling to prove their relevance is possibly a cultural tendency.

Zone chat is NOT English zone chat, which one is already exists.
Russian zone chat would be nice, but it will not be Russian reservation anyway.