I’m in Venezuela, but I usually prefer to do my gaming in english. This is specially true on MMOs, since almost everyone I know speaks english, and I usually don’t like translated names anyway (I prefer how “shiverpeaks” sound to “picoescalofriante”, for example, and that goes to most translated names).
Thing is, anytime I try to go to the guildwars2.com website it seems to use a very strict geolocation that defaults to spanish everytime, with no way to change it to english. The forums do this as well, but there’s an option on the top right to change languages, plus if I go to forum-en.guildwars.com instead of forum.guildwars2.com (which redirects me to forum-es.guildwars.com) it leaves me in the english version of the forums.
No such options on the website, there are no controls to switch languages, and if I try to change the “es” bit of any guildwars2.com URL to “en” it redirects me back to the “es” version, and if I try to go to www.guildwars2.com/en/, it sends me instead to www.guildwars2.com/es/en, of course to the “page not found” site. It has come to the point that anytime I want to see a news item about GW2, I just look for somewhere else with the sign. I don’t mind reading it in spanish, of course, but I find it a little annoying when I read something about “el Arco del León” and takes me a few secs to figure out it means “Lion’s Arch”, for example, not to mention some regionalisms that also make it a little harder for me to understand than if I read it in english. The word “Sudadera” (sweater), for example, in the news about the new gem store items, is a word that it’s commonly used in Mexico… but not in other parts of latinamerica (we just calle it sweater here in Venezuela, though some people write it as they hear it so it ends up being written something like “sueter”).
