Comments on: Cultural Differences: Sometimes we don’t all want to be treated the same

By: Jal

Jal — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:59:02 +0000

Minor point, but I’ve enjoyed speaking French in UO and raiding with Aussies in WoW (Proudmoore was, at least for a while, nearly 50/50, which made early morning play for me a ton of fun). The eGeoSegregation must go!

But yeah, a bonfire sale still sounds kewl. ;^)

By: Brian 'Psychochild' Green

Brian 'Psychochild' Green — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:37:05 +0000

One of the reasons I really appreciated our German licensees for M59 was because they could do things that made sense for their local fans beyond providing support in German. They held big get-togethers for M59 fans, usually renting out a hostel in an old castle. I attended a few of those and they were definitely the highpoint of me running M59. It’s also something I couldn’t have done as easily not knowing hardly anything about Germany before working with the company.

You get the good with the bad, as with everything.

By: Dril

Dril — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:35:53 +0000

Got to keep the rich rich somehow

By: Tipa

Tipa — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:17:49 +0000

In the US, we can commercialize ANYTHING. We even make NEW holidays ONLY so we can have new things to commercialize!

By: darkeye

darkeye — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:43:31 +0000

Codemasters do actually have a sale today, but it seems a bit last minute dash, like they are having it on maintenance day so it’s really a half day sale, and they’ve only announced a few of the items that the US have, so far no half price expansions yet. On second thoughts the fact that the sale won’t happen til after the occasion has been marked could be seen favourably, but doubt that was how it was considered.

By: ZombiePirate

ZombiePirate — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:13:58 +0000

Or, as I like to refer to July 4th as a Brit, “celebrate kicking my own ass”.

By: Kring

Kring — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:13:53 +0000

> But this week, I was reminded that sometimes having separate regional
> organisations can be a good thing.

So, yes, now you’re just on the other side. You’re now in a tier-1 country but it leaves enough “second class citizen” in other countries.

By: canazza

canazza — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:37:03 +0000

with the advent of V for Vendetta, I think more people know about Bonfire night than they did beforehand.

Besides, we’ve had to put up with American Independence Day celebrations in games for decades, and I’m sure Americans would be more willing to get behind blowing up parliament than most brits would get behind losing a war to the collonials