January 2010

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On the Crew page in Popmundo http://www.popmundo.com/Common/Crew.asp there are numbers on how many people use a certain language as their primary language.

Running a simple script I made, which summarizes all numbers and calculates percentages, the page looks like this:

(Sum is 229,071 users)

We can most certainly assume that many pick either US or UK English as their game interface language, even if it’s not their mother tongue (I always play the game in US English myself).
And we can most certainly assume that nobody selects Turkish unless they actually speak the language.

So to see Turkish alone is 49%, we can be pretty sure that over 50% of the players speak and know Turkish… (if we include people who don’t pick Turkish even if they could).
Even Brazilian Portuguese only reaches a feeble 16.3% of the user base, and it’s supposed to be the second biggest language in the game.

So in case anyone ever wonders: Turkish IS the main / dominant language in the game. Accept it :)

Top 10 languages are:

112,200 Türkçe 48.98%
37,365 Português, Brasil 16.31%
17,087 Español 7.46%
13,504 US English 5.9%
6,761 Lietuvių 2.95%
6,138 Polski 2.68%
6,075 Italiano 2.65%
3,852 Chinese, Singapore 1.68%
3,680 Eesti 1.61%
3,613 Suomi 1.58%

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Happy Christmas and Merry New Year! Time to make a few promises for 2010.

Currently I’m on a vinter vacation and haven’t been home since New Year’s Eve, so there hasn’t been much happening the past week (or actually two…)

So, what will Popodeus be up to in 2010?

  • Snuggly 2.0 will be launched (yes, seriously…).
  • Better Forum Search and more up to date content.
  • A couple new and improved Name Search interfaces.
  • More graphs! Everyone loves graphs. Right?

I will release new stuff as soon as I get back home later this week.