AU/NZ on SEA servers. Possibly more segregation? - Page 4

On April 28 2010 18:53 abrasion wrote:
Umm because we want to play with our friends?

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 15:11 Elec wrote:

lol.