What is the point of the...

...language option? Is still get a lot of people that can't speak English in the Europe servers. =P

Yup, people don't care what languages you know, they just want to find a match faster and play.

I play in US East and there are lots of people who can speak English perfectly but choose to communicate to their friends in Brazilian or Chinese or whatnot. Don't know what can be done.

It's good idea, just people don't know how to use it properly :/

There aren't enough language options. In most cases its the system, not the user.

I totally agree with xCO2 on this one. I've been getting matched up with people from Greece and places in Italy quite often lately. Some speak English but quite a lot of them don't. I only play on American servers but of course, that doesn't change anything. I believe that Valve won't really be able to fix this problem regardless. People just need to be kind to each other regardless of language. Pings and the built in commands can work quite well for communication when it's really needed. Sorry for the book I just wrote you all haha. :)

Kind of agree. People will just pick a language regardless if they can or cannot speak/understand it. I guess it was an "attempt" to solve the R problem I see posted a lot, but it obviously was a failure of epic proportions.

Playing on the Europe servers often match me with Russian players, and many are unable to speak any English. Make sit hard to coordinate with them in a game. Sure its only a pub, but I still like to have some strategy. =P

I think you people exagerate. It is not like you can not communicate simple gameplay orders with just a ping. You can also use predefined communicates like "missing ...", "get back" etc by binding them to the keys in options too.
If you get annoyed by the russian, italian, greek or alien chat in game just mute the person.
And it is not like people not speaking any english are less competent players. In my experience quality of the team doesn't depend on the language they speak. It is just about the will to cooperate and understanding what a team play is.
Most often the text and voice chat is just ussed to insult, call names and cry in general by some "pro" players who blame the others for their own mistakes. So I even prefer if they do it in some language that I don't understand.

Usually, when I play with 2-3 friends of mine I try to speak Italian as little as possible: I give them some suggestions for the Heroes they should pick and then I usually chat on Steam, while using the game chat to speak English with the others. Also, I'm usually the only one that understands spoken English/American, so I have to translate it sometimes.

When I play with just one friend I never use Italian anyway, as it can be very annoying for the others.



The real problem with this is that more often than not payers completely refuse to speak English, which makes teamplay much more difficult. But there are some people that actually try to speak with the international languarge: maybe they use a broken English, but it's understandable enough to coordinate in teamfights and decide the laning setup.

Also, the worst ally you can have is not a person who can't understand you or interact with you, but a person that uses English (this happens with players whose main language is English, too) just to swear or to repeatedly say in all chat that his team is bad: it's really annoying and can bother even players that usually behave kindly.