As you know, currently CCP client only supports English, German, French, Russian and Japanese. (Unofficial) access to Chinese will probably be cut off in the upcoming patch. There are quite lot of people troubled by not having localization in a language they understand.
I know CCP has difficulty addressing this issue–they have to spend money and human resource before they can support a language. Even if CCP is benevolent and decides to work on Chinese or other language’s localization, it will still be months before that is done. While some people are trying to communicate with CCP, we can also talk abbout what we players can do by ourselves: helping others understand what the game is about when language is a problem.
I know many of you would just say “learn English/other supported language” at this step. As a person who had learned another language from scratch I know how difficult it is. Fortunately, to learn enough English/other supported language sufficient to play the game is way easier than to learn the whole language. You need to understand only the fraction of the language about what you have and what you are doing in game. And some times you don’t even need to understand the text because the icon is more convenient.
But as a person who can communicate well in English I still find it difficult to imagine what kind of difficulty those who are less proficient have. And I may still missing something good. So I need your advice on what are the problems and how can we help others.
Thank you!
==中文版
目前CCP客户端只支持英德法日俄五种语言。(非官方的)中文下个补丁有可能被关闭。也就是说有很多人受到没有合适的本地化的困扰。
我知道CCP也有他们的难处，比如说为了完善一种语言的本地化要花很多钱很多人。就算CCP良心发现去开放汉化或者其他语言，可能还要等几个月才能真正实装。在尝试和CCP交流的同时，我们也可以讨论我们玩家自己能做的：帮助有语言障碍的人理解这个游戏。
我知道，这里很多人会跟我说“学英语/其他支持的语言”，作为一个经历过“从零开始学习另一门语言”的人，我知道这不是简单的事。不过还好的是，你并不需要完全掌握这门语言，只要能看懂游戏里面常用的这些就行了。有时候你能看懂图标就足够理解了。
但是作为一个会用英语交流的人，我还是比较难想象不懂的人容易遇到哪些问题，我的知识还有遗漏之处。所以我需要你们多多指教，分享一下还有哪些问题和解决的方法。
谢谢大家！