I’m from Brazil, which even with it being a huge country it is still really common on games such as CS:GO for you to end up in a lobby full of people from other countries speaking spanish. Some days ago i was watching a portuguese streamer play and every single match he joined had only portuguese speaking people, and that confused me a lot since Portugal is a tiny country, how did he not have anyone from other countries on his matches? Since Europe is a very diverse continent with mostly small countries is it common to people from different countries to end up on the same lobby? How do you guys work it out with the language barriers?
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I’m from a country with about 10 million people and in every game I’ve played (not CS:GO) there usually were none or a few people from my country
>Some days ago i was watching a portuguese streamer play and every singlematch he joined had only portuguese speaking people, and that confusedme a lot since Portugal is a tiny country, how did he not have anyonefrom other countries on his matches?
Maybe he only did matchmaking with dedicated servers.
>Since Europe is a very diverse continent with mostly small countries isit common to people from different countries to end up on the samelobby? How do you guys work it out with the language barriers?
Extremely common. English is usually the way to go, although Russians are notoriously the biggest offender in speaking in their own language the whole time with a few phrases of broken English. A lot of CS memes like “Cyka Blyat” and “Rush B” come from that language barrier. [Here an example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo5ZVe1LHxU)
> Since Europe is a very diverse continent with mostly small countries is it common to people from different countries to end up on the same lobby?
Depends on the team size but people generally speak English in random groups by default, even if they notice a few people from their country. People are used to situations where 10 players are from 8 different countries.
Ironically it’s the big countries that are often problematic, not the dozens of small ones. For example when I meet a Czech or a Swede speaking English is a given, but French or Russian people are nearly impossible to communicate with because learning a second language is less important to them and they often stay in their own communities so they are not really prepared for conversation with outsiders.
Some games especially MMOs tend to have language based servers for bigger countries where only they play. Of course they are not restricted to those and some of them go to international servers for one reason or another.
> and that confused me a lot since Portugal is a tiny country
Some games are more popular in certain countries than in others, so that could be a factor too.
You just speak English?
Like, this is such a non-issue imo.
Some bigger countries tend to have less pressure to learn English so the French and such can sometimes be difficult but that’s about it. They’re the exception and not the rule.
If I’m in a group with 4 dutch people(language, not country) and 1 Swedish person, we speak English and I would tell any dutch person in that group speaking dutch to stop being an ass and just speak English.
There is no discussion on this.
There is often a divide between Western and Eastern Europe servers as well.
Western Europe will have English as the language but the Eastern European servers might have either German or Russian depending on player base.
I rarely engage in voice chat. But I mostly end up with either Spanish or Russian speakers, often Arabic speakers too. Though on very rare occasions you might end up meeting people from Scandinavia.