Quote Originally Posted by miriadel View Post
EN does not mean english enforced but preferred. On EN servers (all en servers, us and eu) there are people from multiple cultures and languages, german and french too, and you will likely see that multiple languages pop up in world chat. English is not enforced, and EN servers does not mean that only people from UK or NA play on them.
Some games don't even have separate servers for regions or languages. Given Laurelin will be the de facto only RP Supported server, it'll be interesting to see how many residents of the DE-RP and FR-RP servers go with Laurelin as RP versus their non-RP language-specific worlds versus none of the above. I hope Turbine publishes transfer stats as things unfold.

Hopefully the RP world compression doesn't mean /world chat changes from occasional kinship or fellowship ads in various languages to people talking over each other in separate (and to some, incomprehensible) unrelated conversations (which isn't great even in the same language). EN does not mean English is enforced, but a language tag brings an expectation that you can fully participate in the game, including public conversation, in that language. Maybe we end up with language-specific world chats to compensate for the RP compression, and maybe that includes a separate one for English out of fairness if Laurelin really becomes the global rp-supported world and if what EN signifies is no longer true.