Originally Posted by
Quebec
You can think that it’s kind of joke, but I really want to speak about this bizarre trouble. Today, we all have access to some programs that can help us to find a raid/battleground which we want to visit. Yes, I am talking about OpenRaid, oQueue. So, everybody who wants to find an appropriate team or who doesn’t have a good guild fellow, they can use this stuff. When I have said «everybody», I mean people from different servers, including Russian Community. So, I want to explain my opinion about some points.
First of all, it is a large number of stereotypes. I have looked through the forum on this web-site, games and etc. I see that you guys have very strange and awkward perception about Russian people. Yes, I know that some Russian individuals like to promote stupid ideas such as «All Russian people drink VODKA every day and every moment» or «Bears are everywhere». But seriously, pals! Do you really believe in that? I tired from that. Stop it. Russian people are an usual society like yours. For example, I have a friend who doesn’t like to drink an alcohol. Moreover, I don’t like this stuff. Also, we have usual cities and the same infrastructure as yours. Maybe, they work slightly different, but they do the same functions. People work on their jobs, they like to spend time with friends or family on the weekend and we don’t use bears as vehicles. You can see wild animals only in a zoo like you can find in yours cities. I don’t want to speak about all stupid stereotypes, but I think that you understand my idea. Although there is one small remark about behavior. Maybe, you often see that Russian guys show moron actions but what about you? Think about that. Everybody sometimes can present a stupid behavior or an inappropriate activity. Maybe, some person can show it more often than other fellows, but it describes only the person, but not the entire nation.
Also, it is a bad Russian dude. One time, I have started to use oQueue because I could not find people and also I didn’t want to go raid on a define schedule (every Friday at 7 PM… you know what I mean). So, I uploaded the addon and started to use it. After some time, I have got some strange perception about Russian players. Some people give them beforehand a negative attitude. Yes, I agree that some players have an inadequate behavior but it doesn’t mean that all gamers have the same attributes. For instance, I have my experience when players give me strange comments and emphasize my nationality in negative colors. However, I make my «role» properly. Also, one time I went through all raid in the tank role and on the last boss a raid leader kicked me out from raid without any explanation. He ignored all my questions and he started to ask his friends about a tank spec. After some time, he decided to answer my questions but his answer was really weak. What I want to say here, that this man got a decision that he doesn’t want to speak with me and he doesn’t want to find appropriate way to complete raid which have been going without any problems. He kicked me out. That is all. It is really rude.
Likewise, I want to talk about this fact that Russian communities don’t know English language. I agree that we have poor knowledge in this field but it doesn’t mean that we cannot understand your jokes and unpleasant comments. I don’t know, but some guys really like to share some their opinion about Russian dudes with their friends in raids. Moreover, every time when I connect to international raids some guys decide that it is really important to point on me and my «stupid nickname» which they cannot read. It is really necessary to do?
Last point of my discussion, it is nickname. Fellows, you are one of the biggest game community and you have abilities and opportunities to say Blizzard about «what is strange and unreadable nickname?!!? How I have to handle that?!?». For example, when I was in university, I was working on one project which gave opportunity to convert Russian letters to English letters. I completed this work successfully. So, I can say that it is not big deal to develop option which can help you to understand Russian nicknames.
In conclusion, we are all different people and we all have different perceptions, attitudes. We can look on one thing with various opinions. I want you to start to look slightly different on Russian communities and I want you to stop call us in this way «Russian Community».
Thank you for your time.