hm, so if I understand correctly, the problem will solve itself over time. ;)
no seriously. After the "discussion" about België - Belgium, it is my feel that English is acceptable to most Belgian BB-users at this time.
The statistics you look at might be correct, but I'm not sure if they take into account age.
We have a lot of old population here, which unfortunatly I doubt there will be many amongst them that are interested in the game. If you look at second languages I think (I might be wrong) that most of those would be in the upper age-class, while the public that has most chance of being interested in the game will most likely have English as second language.
I estimate over 90% of the targetted people will be like this: either Flemish or French as first language - English as second. Some of those might also have Dutch or French as third language.
It's your call ofcourse. I just want to give you my impression.
It might be politically sensitive, as you say, and to some, this will indeed be the case. But even to the ones it isn't the case, English is neutral, while opting for 1 of the 3 National languages isn't neutral. I'm not sure if you can call it political, but they might feel BBs are favouring a part of Belgium.
So we have 2 diffrent things here:
1: how many people understand the page. And then it MIGHT be possible either French or Flemich might win, but I'm not even sure of that, if we only take into consideration the group of people which might be interested in the game.
but:
2: how does the chosen language make the users feel? And I think this has a bigger impact on the eventual decision wheter to play it or not. And then I believe it's best to opt for a neutral language, favouring none. (which is also the reason why België was changed to Belgium).
Maybe you could make a survey for Belgian users about this. Have them rank 4 languages in order of acceptance, or what they would like most (English, Flemish, French and German). I predict most will be selfish and set their mothertongue on the No 1 spot, but I'm prety confident that English will be on the No 2 spot for over 90%.
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