Why so many more ZOS replies in German than anything else?

KerinKor · April 2014

Just look at Dev Tracker, not for the first time there are several lengthy replies from German ZOS people than in English, indeed French often is more voluminous than English, we tend to get one or two sentences and not much more except when a ''statement' of some kind is made in which case it appears in all three languages.

Of the top 6 current Dev Tracker entries 5 are German, one French, all several paragraphs. Look further down and the few English replies to question (not 'statements') are terse, one or two sentence replies.

Can the English ZOS staff spend the same amount of time replying to us as the German and French staff manage to do please?

Also, can we get translations of what's being said because clearly there are discussions about botting, spamming etc going on where information is being imparted that only German speakers get to know.

Yes, it can be Googled and I do that, but Google doesn't offer French translations.

Harkrider · April 2014

A lot of the complaints made by players are the same things, over and over again.

IMHO, it seems obvious that the developers are working on things and there's no need for them to tell us yet again 'we're aware of the issue and we're working on fixing it' every single time somebody opens a new thread.

Fenbrae · April 2014

With some of the NPCs suddenly talking in German, i think that this game was made with the Germans in mind, not the English speaking playerbase.

Prospero_ESO · April 2014

I´am a german player and i can tell you that you do not miss anything not reading the responses of the german speaking staff. The german players have the same problems and the same complaints about the game as the english speaking community. Unfortunately the replies are most of the time as meaningless as the responses you get but with more "bla bla bla we will look into it but have no clue bla bla bla" around it.

Tankqull · April 2014

Fenbrae wrote: »

With some of the NPCs suddenly talking in German, i think that this game was made with the Germans in mind, not the English speaking playerbase.

works the other way too, im having french and english speaking npcs with the gemran client aswell - so has the german client made with english and frensh in mind? doubt so

cheeser123 · April 2014

It's that German efficiency.

Turelus · April 2014

Translate the issues they're replying to and see if they're

"OMGZ BUGS FIX IT RAWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!"
"OMGZ SEVERS DOWN AGAIN RAWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRR!!!!!!!"
"OMGZ F2P IN A MONTH LOLZ FAIL LAUNCH RAWWWWWWWRRRRRR!!!!!!"

If they're not those then it might be that the German population are posting more constructive threads and posts and not duplicating ones over the same issues just to rage and insult the Dev's and as such are getting more feedback and help with issues.

Also there are probably a lot less threads to go through in the German section than the EN section, so they'll notice the ones worth answering instead of pages of useless rage.

columbineb14_ESO · April 2014

I read German and enough French to tell you with assurance that you are not missing anything. Same major gripes, same fairly useless ZOS replies (if any). It just takes longer to say anything in German

chimichi · April 2014

concerning the "lengthy replies" the OP mentions, this is why i prefer to play and communicate in english when in comes to gaming. Many times a sentence is much shorter in english. So basically you have to type more to tell the same thing in german.
I do find it easier to be specific in german, there are many occasions where you have 5 or more german words with slightly different meanings. In english its one or two words, so the english sentence isn't as precise as the german. Yes i do use dict.cc ...
That could lead to a more specific answer for germans.

thats just my experience as native-german-speaking but english-preferring player.
I do not frequent the german boards much, as i did expect it to be the other way round- most information in english.