why did english as world language fail?

[76561198982041973]

I started playing cs with css and literally everyone there spoke english , when I started playing cs go most of the people used english but nowadays all I see is people swearing on each other in their native language ... I mean what's even the point if they can't understand your swearing except for lets say cyka. Why did english fail as language, why are we turning back to medieval times where people can't understand each other. Did they stop teaching english in school? I see so much people especially spanish, turkish and russian speaking ones who keep it their language and then wonder why tf you don't understand ♥♥♥♥

[PatchAdams]

Hello, fellow old-timer.

First, Dota 2 was free and popular in various places, and so it became popular in places like Russia, Turkey, Brazil, etc., where competitors like World of Warcraft were never that much played because it costs money, and those places aren't wealthy.

So, people in these places already had Steam mainly for Dota 2 or other free games.

Then, CSGO became free with the Danger Zone update. The same people and nationalities started playing CS too. Plus, it does run on a toaster.

At the same time, there was tremendous success of teams and players from those places (Na'Vi, MIBR, Xantares, etc.), and the popularity grew even more.

The economy has not been getting better, either, especially for young people, since Source days.

So, we have had a long period where unemployed or underemployed -- and maybe not always the best-educated -- young people have played CSGO more and more.

A different question is, why doesn't Valve have region- and language-specific servers, like several other games? Even on NA servers, it's normal to get a group of monolingual Colombians or Venezuelans on the Chicago server with 150+ ping. This makes no sense.

Another example: there is a Madrid server, but it's not officially meant to be Spanish only. Plenty of Portuguese and French and North African and UK and other players are routed there. To expect them all to speak Spanish is silly: not even all Spaniards speak Castilian Spanish as their main language.

Another question, this time not for Valve: even if they can't and don't speak English, why don't 3- and 4-stacks use Discord or Skype or Teamspeak or something for their communications in other languages, out of common courtesy?

TLDR:

Mainly the difference is generational and demographic.

[The Boy Who Lifted]

I've talked to Russians in cs:go about this topic for a long time now, They just dont have schools in certain regions, so how the fuq they are supposed to learn different alphabet and language?

[lil_menor7]

Originally posted by Drake123:

I've talked to Russians in cs:go about this topic for a long time now, They just dont have schools in certain regions, so how the fuq they are supposed to learn different alphabet and language?

I learned from reading an English Dictionary when i was 9 or so, my school only had French and German (and of course Portuguese).. Im from Southern Brazil.

[The Boy Who Lifted]

Originally posted by sinta o grave:

Originally posted by Drake123:

I've talked to Russians in cs:go about this topic for a long time now, They just dont have schools in certain regions, so how the fuq they are supposed to learn different alphabet and language?

I learned from reading an English Dictionary when i was 9 or so, my school only had French and German (and of course Portuguese).. Im from Southern Brazil.

Mate i learnt english playing runescape. But they have different alphabet. You're not learning Japanese from reading dictionary.

[76561199485625332]

yea

[ReflKnight]

Because if two neighbors are fighting, there's an Englishman that has visited one of them.

[Tiggaz]

Because there is no proper etiquette in CSGO, its not a game for finesse, its more for CYKA BLYAT RUSH B SUKA, I KICK YOU NOW, GG.