Lately we have received a number of players who are concerned about the languages used by other players on the English servers, and I would like to take a moment to clarify our policy and the reason for the choices we have made.
We have a lot of different nationalities playing together on the English servers, which is great. We call them English servers because the game client is in English, the support is in English and we recommend that people speak English in the general chat. The last part is a recommendation however, it is not a requirement.
While it is more polite to speak a language that most of the game community understands, we do not want to force people to exclusively speak a language which is not their mother tongue while they are playing. Most don't have a problem with speaking English, but to some it is difficult.
In terms of rules and sanctions, we strongly recommend people to speak English, but using other languages in the general chat is not something we will take sanctions against. On the flip side, all our policies regarding in game behaviour apply, no matter what language you speak. If you are spamming, harassing or similar, we will sanction those actions in accordance with our policies.