AU/NZ on SEA servers. Possibly more segregation? - Page 3

On April 28 2010 00:54 BroOd wrote:
I think the segregation in this case is done in the interest of the social welfare of the Australian people. Blizzard is doing the hard thing by telling the Aussies what they need, not simply giving them what they want. I’ll quote the great American statesman Henry Ford, “If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”

Many Americans and Europeans don’t know this, but Australians have a remarkably difficult time dealing with “western” culture and norms. I once knew a girl, a writer, who flew out to Australia and met a guy there. They became romantically involved over there and she brought him back to the US to give him an idea of what it was like over here, and it was unbelievable how large the culture gap was. We got into a limo at one point and he asked Gus, the black driver, what his tribal background was. He also assaulted a pimp for using foul language on the street, and aggressively groped a transvestite’s genitals. Even relatively simple western technology like the bidet and the escalator seemed absolutely foreign to him. I guess, thinking back on it now, it was actually sort of funny.

Combine this with the lag that occurs when people on the “bottom” of the earth, Australia, play with people on the “top” of the earth, USA, and you have the perfect recipe for a bad time. I’m glad Blizzard, in their wisdom, has seen fit to prevent this situation from further damaging the already strained US-Aus relations following the loss of Oceanic 815.

On April 28 2010 15:29 Rabiator wrote:
So the "real reason" for the separation is the Americans and their bad behaviour? I am fine with that, because useless trash talk has no place in a computer game you play with people you dont know. Its possibly insulting, because you only have written text and no body language to figure out if its real / sarcasm / trash talk ...

On April 28 2010 00:54 BroOd wrote:
I think the segregation in this case is done in the interest of the social welfare of the Australian people. Blizzard is doing the hard thing by telling the Aussies what they need, not simply giving them what they want. I’ll quote the great American statesman Henry Ford, “If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”

Many Americans and Europeans don’t know this, but Australians have a remarkably difficult time dealing with “western” culture and norms. I once knew a girl, a writer, who flew out to Australia and met a guy there. They became romantically involved over there and she brought him back to the US to give him an idea of what it was like over here, and it was unbelievable how large the culture gap was. We got into a limo at one point and he asked Gus, the black driver, what his tribal background was. He also assaulted a pimp for using foul language on the street, and aggressively groped a transvestite’s genitals. Even relatively simple western technology like the bidet and the escalator seemed absolutely foreign to him. I guess, thinking back on it now, it was actually sort of funny.

Combine this with the lag that occurs when people on the “bottom” of the earth, Australia, play with people on the “top” of the earth, USA, and you have the perfect recipe for a bad time. I’m glad Blizzard, in their wisdom, has seen fit to prevent this situation from further damaging the already strained US-Aus relations following the loss of Oceanic 815.

I am sorry that you are experiencing big latency on the US server, however your intended region is Oceanic and any latency caused by choosing not to play within your intended region is your own responsibility.

On April 28 2010 16:10 DeCoup wrote:
-- Blizzard 6 months from now.

On April 28 2010 16:55 SoMuchBetter wrote:

what makes you think that you'll be playing on the US server in 6 months? all evidence points to blizzard locking people to servers by region.

On April 27 2010 23:50 Lazix wrote:
What kind of authentication is there for this? I mean will Starcraft 2 have region specific product keys binding us to a realm?

I don't think it can have anything to do with our Battle.net account as there isn't any information for Blizzard to tell where we are actually from.

On April 28 2010 18:00 DeCoup wrote:

No. Blizzard has never locked anyone to any region, and has even noted already that if you contact them they can move your account between the existing realms. Eg move from EU to US.