however over the course of the last 12 months or so we have had a rise in the number of complaints regarding politically motivated trolling and inappropriate content being displayed in them.

Hello i already filled a ticket on this matter, overall ukrainian community supports this idea but only cause of huge number of trolls from russian channel better known as sruchat, i cant speak for other channels its probably terrible news for tham, but we think the way out exists and its quite simple, as ccp said player owned channels(we made ours after Russian invasion started) and atm its more active then official ukranian channel and everyone is happy with moderation no political discussion and just enjoying spaceship pewpew, thing is new players and how they gonna find those channels hence i propose ccp to add some player owned chats to a new made tab called unofficial languages or how you preffer to call it, so a new person can check a channel and see for example UA channel and how many people it has(we are quite active atm over 60 active members ) im really looking forward to have this option in new expansion.

CCP, why give use time to disucss this if you dont follow the discussion?

Aaand, the culprits I suspected eventually surfaced. Ukrainian and Russian troll each other and so 33 other channels are shut down so CCP spare themselves some trouble. What a briliant way to go, CCP!

(There is a "Player Channels" category, but I've no idea how to get a channel listed there.)

Good afternoon capsuleers

Some of you who've been on Singularity may have noticed that the officially hosted language have vanished from the channel listing in the client.

Previously we've supported a total of 39 language channels in game, however over the course of the last 12 months or so we have had a rise in the number of complaints regarding politically motivated trolling and inappropriate content being displayed in them.

With most of these languages having no official support from CCP, this means that investigating and answering tickets of this nature from these channels is sometimes not possible due to a significant language barrier. This is contrary to our policy of moderating and enforcing our terms of service (in particular the sections on player conduct) in persistent CCP hosted channels within the EVE client.

As such, with Oceanus we'll be removing the officially hosted language based channels from the EVE Online client, and only the help channels for our officially supported languages will remain.

We'd like to let you all know in advance, and invite you to create your own player run language channels after the Oceanus release is deployed in order to continue discussions in your native languages if you wish to do so.

- F <3

Hello i already filled a ticket on this matter, overall ukrainian community supports this idea but only cause of huge number of trolls from russian channel better known as sruchat, i cant speak for other channels its probably terrible news for tham, but we think the way out exists and its quite simple, as ccp said player owned channels(we made ours after Russian invasion started) and atm its more active then official ukranian channel and everyone is happy with moderation no political discussion and just enjoying spaceship pewpew, thing is new players and how they gonna find those channels hence i propose ccp to add some player owned chats to a new made tab called unofficial languages or how you preffer to call it, so a new person can check a channel and see for example UA channel and how many people it has(we are quite active atm over 60 active members ) im really looking forward to have this option in new expansion.

Did any motd of the 39 channels updated to notify existing and new visitors of them about this change?
What's the probability of chat links to unofficial chat channels in the remaining (five plus E-UNI) help channels?
Who will provide and maintain a list of channels created by players to provide an alternative to the communities that exist in the channels about to vanish?
How will it be possible that such channels are not used by their owners/moderators to exclude individual members not because they troll/spam/harass but just because the mods don't like someones face(/origin/corp or alliance membership)

Many of these foreign players, have actual RL bloodshed occuring in their countries, this is one of their "releases" ...

what happen to all noob who don't know to talk english

if you remove those all the noobs from non english country will gone away

OK, what I really came to say was.

I don't hang out in other language channels much, and personally I think localization of software is a terrible idea and only cause bugs and other issues. (no English is not my first language, and I actually have a very hard time learning other languages).

I am still opposed to the removal of the language channels though. Not everyone like to chat in English, or understand all English terms. Where are people going to go to have a random chat in Eve in non-English? Into 100 different channels where they only got themselves to talk to because their small community is split up? Where is someone who didn't understand an English term going to go to get a translation that understand the context of Eve? Where are people going to find each other to form corps of people with same language background? I think those corp are bad idea myself, but they are still popular in MMOs and would think CCP would like Eve to be considered a possible game to play by people who only join own-language guilds.

I know I don't like people spamming 50 different languages in the channels I am in, I find it very confusing, so I like when it is strictly forbidden. This change is just going to pollute the English channels. Not only hurting the people who were in the language specific channels, but everyone else too.

A little numbers, currently 7% (1648 (in game channel list + calculator) of the 24568 (launcher)) people online are in the language channels.