What are language preferences for?

[Sylvos]

I would really like if valve actually could fix their language preferences meaning nothing within the game,and im asking this due the high amount of latinos in US servers,is annoying being in a team complete of spanish speaking people,and this is not a hate thread or anything but dota is a game that requires COMMUNICATION,I rather to wait 20 minutes for a match for english speakers than a 2 minutes search with people who cant understand me.
the points i want to enphasise
-for people who is gonna say,use pings and stuff (how is it fair a full communication team against a team pinging the whole time?)
-lets face it,promotes hate towards latinos (when a person cant speak a language,but certainly knows the bad words,cause everyone knows them,what do u think is the only thing they gonna say,oh yeah swearing)
-gives you an overall bad experience in the game (especially when u actually spend money on the game and u cant have fun becuase u are not able to communicate with your team)
PLEASE VALVE add a way to get only in teams who speak your same language
or limit servers to language,the experience will be better for everyone,not only english speaking people but for spanish speaking people aswell.

[cyberpinoy]

Language preferences are so you can see, read and understand the game in the language you pick. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the language the players speak. Its so if you get someone who does not speak your language the chatwheel and ping commands work for both of you. IN your game you see them in your language in their game they see your commands in their language. You do not need to speak another language to properly play DotA. Just use your chat wheel and ping commands they work fine.

[Absche]

Segregation is back.. take the real world challenge and don't go for easy black and white solutions. Others are facing the same challenge, go for it. Team building is the toughest task in the game.

[Sylvos]

Originally posted by ☣ cyberpinoy ☣:

Language preferences are so you can see, read and understand the game in the language you pick. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the language the players speak. Its so if you get someone who does not speak your language the chatwheel and ping commands work for both of you. IN your game you see them in your language in their game they see your commands in their language. You do not need to speak another language to properly play DotA. Just use your chat wheel and ping commands they work fine.

im sorry man,u talk about understanding,but u dont understand,im no talking about the language the game is in,there is a tool called matchmaking language preferences,but it actually does nothing and about that chat wheel............yeah man..........chat wheel and pings will always equal actual communication.

[Sylvos]

and against is not segregation,but if i want to communicate.....becuase im playing a social game "involves interacting with people" it would make sense if u speak the same language. there must be a solution.

[cyberpinoy]

You asked what the language preference is for, I gave you the answer, not liking what I said will certainly not change what its function does. So like it or not, I told you what it does and whats its for.

[Sylvos]

Originally posted by ☣ cyberpinoy ☣:

You asked what the language preference is for, I gave you the answer, not liking what I said will certainly not change what its function does. So like it or not, I told you what it does and whats its for.

i guess u only read the tittle then,cause I think it was understandable that i was talking about the matchmaking language preferences.....which actually did state at some point that it was meant to get people of the same language together.....

[Sylvos]

but that tool is clearly overlooked by the engine now a days in the sake of faster queues..........

[cyberpinoy]

Originally posted by Sir Sylvos:

i guess u only read the tittle then,cause I think it was understandable that i was talking about the matchmaking language preferences.....which actually did state at some point that it was meant to get people of the same language together.....

They both work the same way bro, The Language preferences (in matchmaking or primary engine) are so you can see, read and understand the game in the language you pick. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the language the players speak. Its so if you get someone who does not speak your language the chatwheel and ping commands work for both of you. IN your game you see them in your language in their game they see your commands in their language. You do not need to speak another language to properly play DotA. Just use your chat wheel and ping commands they work fine.

And Pings do work, just because you dont like it and the latinos are trashtalking you and you cant understand what they are saying about you WILL NOT change the actual real function of the language preference. They are not for what language the players will speak in the game, its so the chat wheel and ping commands can be read in the language you pick.

[hrooza]

its a preference not the core thing match making will count on
so most likely there not many english speaking ppl playing at the same time you play who also share the same mmr/hidden mmr
theres also ppl who would set their preference on english

anyway you say a team who speak the same lang will have an advantage over a team which did not?? not really you can easily work with chat wheel in most cases and if you speak the same lang you wont really land that enigma + magnus dream combo or whatever

im saying this because most of my good games were with a silent team

[Absche]

Originally posted by Sir Sylvos:

and against is not segregation,but if i want to communicate.....becuase im playing a social game "involves interacting with people" it would make sense if u speak the same language. there must be a solution.

1) Communication is apparently overrated in a game where the most quoted pro tip is "mute them all from the beginning"
2) the lack of mutual understanding ruins more games then language barriers
3) giving the language preference a higher weight in matchmaking would be an unfair advantage for the native speakers of the only six matchmaking languages
4) there are dedicated game modes for more reclusive players who don't want the typical effects of going public in public matchmaking
5) chat wheel, pings and alt+key/mouse button are great because of the automated translation but also there are only positive and helpful phrases on the chat wheel
6) it always has been an advantage to be multi-lingual
Live is a better representation of social living than a social game. This is not only a Dota2 but a real world challenge. Take it!

[graystripe]

Originally posted by Sir Sylvos:

I would really like if valve actually could fix their language preferences meaning nothing within the game,and im asking this due the high amount of latinos in US servers,is annoying being in a team complete of spanish speaking people,and this is not a hate thread or anything but dota is a game that requires COMMUNICATION,I rather to wait 20 minutes for a match for english speakers than a 2 minutes search with people who cant understand me.
the points i want to enphasise
-for people who is gonna say,use pings and stuff (how is it fair a full communication team against a team pinging the whole time?)
-lets face it,promotes hate towards latinos (when a person cant speak a language,but certainly knows the bad words,cause everyone knows them,what do u think is the only thing they gonna say,oh yeah swearing)
-gives you an overall bad experience in the game (especially when u actually spend money on the game and u cant have fun becuase u are not able to communicate with your team)
PLEASE VALVE add a way to get only in teams who speak your same language
or limit servers to language,the experience will be better for everyone,not only english speaking people but for spanish speaking people aswell.

this post contradicts your reply to ☣ cyberpinoy ☣ post completely.

you are complaining about

1) why people can't speak english language.

2) why am i being team up with people who don't speak english language even though i have chosen the english language in my language preference.

this thread you started is the same as all those threads where others are complaining about russians in EU east and EU west.

[mortacci]

Originally posted by cyberpinoy:

Originally posted by Sir Sylvos:

i guess u only read the tittle then,cause I think it was understandable that i was talking about the matchmaking language preferences.....which actually did state at some point that it was meant to get people of the same language together.....

They both work the same way bro, The Language preferences (in matchmaking or primary engine) are so you can see, read and understand the game in the language you pick. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the language the players speak. Its so if you get someone who does not speak your language the chatwheel and ping commands work for both of you. IN your game you see them in your language in their game they see your commands in their language. You do not need to speak another language to properly play DotA. Just use your chat wheel and ping commands they work fine.

And Pings do work, just because you dont like it and the latinos are trashtalking you and you cant understand what they are saying about you WILL NOT change the actual real function of the language preference. They are not for what language the players will speak in the game, its so the chat wheel and ping commands can be read in the language you pick.

you are totally wrong, and still don't get what he asked.....in game lnaguage have nothing to do with match making language preference, are 2 different stuff meant to work in 2 different way, the problem is that is just a preference for match player that marked same preference, now if player use it like they use ranked button, become totally useless, is like region lock, if you losk just eu west for exsample, but you are russina that can spek just russian, is not others fault if they don't understand you and ask to use english.
lthe problem is that if you mark english like prefered 1, other language don't get censored or translated, so is an useelss option if they don't fix it for working in the right way.