Why is that?

Extremely disruptive and destructive culture-wise, impossible to implement, and painfully federalistic. And the advantages wouldn't really be significant, since English is pretty much the de facto lingua franca anyway.

It's a cute thought, though.

Have you ever experienced the vast variety of culture and language in Europe? Sorry, but I'm afraid that many Americans can't really put themselves in the position of Europeans concerning the discussion around a common EU language. Just visit this page and you'll find out what I mean.

I hear Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and all sorts of languages at my mall and univeristy. The entire time I think to myself. I don't care about their culture, they should just learn some decent english

Your situation is completely different. These people talk a language other than English in the US (a foreign one). German, English, French, Spanish and Italian (just to name a few) are all native in Europe.

BTW, an "Indian" language doesn't even exist.

I'm aware of that, but I don't know what they actually speak, and I'm too lazy to look it up on wikipedia. I just know it isn't english...

Adopting an official european language isnt that silly. I reckon adopting two languages would be a good solution. I would have to say English and German.

Well as long as they are released its fine. I cry everytime I think how many SNES, PS1 and even PS2 RPG's never made it to Europe :/

I think what Words was getting at is that if Europeans have such an issue with getting RPGs late, maybe a one language solution, while not realistically possible, is a good way to get those games out sooner, since the problem seems to be localizing the games into so many languages in the first place. If everyone was speaking one language then the localization process wouldn't be so gruesome and the games would likely get there faster.

For practicalness sake, I'd say the two European languages most spoken around the world: English and Spanish.

It would cater too for learners' convenience, as English is easy for northern people and a good share of southern people too, at least written, while Spanish is easy for southern people and not too difficult for the others. German is too difficult to learn for most not northern people, my mother knows it a little and clearly remembers a lot of her classmates, including my grandma (that tried to learn it but she found it harder than ancient Greek, that she knew very well), saying appalling nonsenses completely different from what they meant to say.