Well as much as I hate to generalize and determine the quality of a person based on nationality I must say the whole spam situation is a little bit troublesome.
For example Iām currently Testing the game by my own (none of my friends were able to get a beta key) aside of the occasional exploring with my bf (when heās out of work q.q) I find myself mostly playing on my own so what is the common place to go when in need of a dungeon group, grind party, selling items etc in an mmo? The area shout or the world broadxast the game uses for that prupose. The problem is not Portuguese or br spam on its own is spam in general, ppl engage in pointless conversations about how brs need a server or an island or whatever and any posibility of actually finding a group to run something, ask questions to fellow players about in game current bugs, or stability situation so nobody waste time with a glitched npc or any other useful info that can be bought using that tool gets lost in spam and I didnāt even adressed how frustrating it is to see how obcene it can get.
Letting the spam in general aside, I do belive playing with people who just refuses to comunicate in other than their own language can ruin the experience of cooperative games, I Iām anti segregation too, but we must understand that mmorpgs are designed to be played with others, to interact, make parties, share info and build a āhelpful communityā (personally it does annoy the hell out of me when obnoxius players regardless of nationality break a comunity, and more often than not americans tend to bring a lot of hate and really arrogant behavior that can ruin online communities ie: LoL) with that statement Iām generalising I know most americans are amazing and polite but no country is safe from bad apples and given the fact that NA playerbase is big, as big is the impact they make in such communities and such is the case of brasil too.
I found myself in situations where I have no choice but to try and play with whoever is willing to group with me, and Iām not shocked in the slightest 7/10 groups I come across with have br players or br party leadersā¦ on a good light, most of them are really social they like to share and talk a lot (I do like that) but on the worst part Iāve found myself with ones who are unwilling to comunicate or just donāt understand what is being said, even when you want to help the party progress just the feeling of being in a group and not being understood in english wich is such an easy language to pick up is agravating, those players go out of their way to make gameplay frustrating and have ruined my gaming experience I n some cases.
I do appreciate those brazilians yhat even when they canāt do english try to communicate and make things smoother, try to be valuable to the group and just make things easier since, lets face it games like TOS are really tough to solo as over powered as a player might be.
With my previous statement I didnāt mean I appreciate more brs who do english I appreciate brs who just use the tools and their wit to try to make group play easy, hells I even had to sort of comunicate with a lot of brs using the little knoledge of the language I know, so itās more of an attitude issue, a toxic community doesnāt benefict anyone.
To close the post Iād say the game could benefict a lot by using an auto translate feature Iām sure most gamers nowdays should be familiar with. Fron a tehnical stand point ofc (to ask/answer simple things that are game related and not just for vain conversations) I do apologise for the long post, I really felt like mentioning the real problems I face as a foreign player trying to enjoy the content as much as americans, brs, eu etcā¦
Nationality wise, Iām not br, Iām south american bron and raised in a 3rd world country, facing the cultural problems that were mentioned here about brs, and the desire to want to be able to play an internatonal game led me to learn english as a second language the old fashin way, grabing a dictionary and mostly self taught. We all know the problem now the solution would be imo "you donāt or canāt speak/write in English move into a server whith a community built around your language, wait on a localization, or at least try to comunicate with the rest of the playerbase, but donāt blame the rest because they canāt undersand or they are being xenophobic it has nothing to do with race and more with communicatoon skills, and segeegating yourself looking for people who only speaks your language is the equivalent of having a server for your country, the only difference is you make a group inside a bigger group.