EPTEspecially as I was under the impression that South and North America share servers anyway, so if you were to register a North American account, you'd be playing with the exact same player base/servers o_O
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
Especially as I was under the impression that South and North America share servers anyway, so if you were to register a North American account, you'd be playing with the exact same player base/servers o_O | ||
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J7S
Brazil179 Posts
On July 22 2010 02:46 Girlscoutcookie wrote: This is true. The Polish game will unlock the English Client, because they're both available languages in the EU region, however, English does not seem to be available in the Latin America region. That's what I thought when I read this message. That's why I asked Blizzard. There's two different informations regarding that. The guy in the forums says it will be possible, and the guy in support tells it wont. | ||
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Girlscoutcookie
United States244 Posts
On July 22 2010 02:48 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Hm, that is an absolutely bizarre restriction. Especially as I was under the impression that South and North America share servers anyway, so if you were to register a North American account, you'd be playing with the exact same player base/servers o_O Do you have a Blizzard quote about the shared servers? If this is true, then there's no reason not to just buy a NA client and play in the NA region. If not, I imagine after launch we can do some traceroutes and find out, though. Also, here's some good posts by Blizzard about region locking at launch (and for the foreseeable future afterwords. They've promised cross-region play, but also assured us they haven't even started on it yet.) http://beta-us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/13531371?page=1#6 http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25969522553&postId=262247222496#262247222496 | ||
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dogmeatstew
Canada574 Posts
As Jinro said above --bizarre, I don't see any reason why languages would be locked based on region, if I moved to China for a job I would still speak English, as far as I'm aware my native language doesn't change based on my current region. | ||
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Girlscoutcookie
United States244 Posts
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J7S
Brazil179 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On July 22 2010 02:21 Girlscoutcookie wrote: Do you know of a way to do this in SC2 Beta without borrowing data files from the client for the region you want to connect to? Yes it's quite a simple process but it involves changing a game file. Here it is: + Show Spoiler + 1. Download the .MPQ editor here 2. Open \StarCraft II Beta\Mods\Core.SC2Mod\Base.sc2data with the editor. 3. Extract the text file “ProductLocale.txt” edit it and change its contents from “enUS” to “enGB” or vice versa. 4. Go back to the editor, select add file and add the modified “ProductLocale.txt” file. (Remember to add a new rule for text files) Add it as a compressed file. (Not as the default, an encrypted file) You can also then save more than 1 ProductLocale with different regions for quick changing. I'm not sure if this is technically "legal" but I'm sure others can fill you in | ||
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theBlues
El Salvador638 Posts
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eLFootman
Chile58 Posts
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
example living anywhere but US/Canada with intention to play on an Asian server. Download US client, wait until the 27th. Install and use your CD key given from wherever you are in the world, and play? If it doesn't work then I'm sure the next step would be to try and locate a realmlist file, or gateway whichever you want to call it. As with beta when it came back for phase two, EU got the patch before US did and to download it we just changed our path to the EU realm, downloaded the patch and switched back. Maybe it was possible to play on the EU realm as well if we had the appropriate BNET account, not sure this is all just speculation. | ||
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DarkwindHK
Hong Kong343 Posts
Either you buy English to play in SEA server or you buy Chinese to play in Taiwan server. Imagine you and your friend wait for 10 years just to buy and play together. "Hell! Its about time!!" Have you installed your game yet? Let's play online now. After 30 minutes Where the FXXX are you? I still cannot find you on Bnet? I guess we are in different servers..... WTF!! Nice way to trick your returning customer and a sure way to piss of new customers as well. | ||
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KiF1rE
United States964 Posts
On July 22 2010 02:48 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Hm, that is an absolutely bizarre restriction. Especially as I was under the impression that South and North America share servers anyway, so if you were to register a North American account, you'd be playing with the exact same player base/servers o_O actually they are separated. and thats one of the reasons why south america has the subscription fee as well =/ note the SA server didnt exist in beta. | ||
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nbMifu
Brazil170 Posts
On July 22 2010 02:20 Girlscoutcookie wrote: This is probably the best idea. Within a few days of launch, we should have a good idea of exactly how things actually work instead of just speculation on them. Yes, I am also Brazilian, and I'm facing the same dilemma as J7S. We should probably wait somedays until people figure out if it is possible to change the UI languages like it was in the beta client. What I expect to happen is that we Latin Amercans will end up buying the LA version, and be able to change some files to have an English UI. Also, I read a blue post that said that language packs will be available later. But it may take some time... http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=22739813925&postId=227373976011&sid=3000#11 | ||
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Two
United States95 Posts
edit: ya? or will that not solve any problem~ | ||
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LeCastor
France234 Posts
Other thing, get à NA client and translate IP adress of battle.net server to LA. | ||
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RA
Latvia791 Posts
I want ONLY English, I play and use English everywhere. This is a very stupid policy. | ||
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
On July 22 2010 01:50 Numy wrote: In the beta you could also change clients to connect to whatever region you want. It's the same with WoW so I'm sure it's the same with SC2 come release. Just DL an english client from wherever and change the gateway to the server your account is on. That is if you can't find another solution. I don't think combining data files or whatever the poster above mentions is a better solution though This is what I assumed, just find the realmlist and edit it to its appropriate gateway. | ||
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theBlues
El Salvador638 Posts
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TobZero
Germany493 Posts
bought the CE from amazon.de - got it shipped on saturday - activated sc2 on my bnet account(key from the german CE box). -> manage games -> sc2 -> client download -> en_GB = no problem strange that you cant do the same. | ||
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FrogOfWar
Germany1406 Posts
On July 22 2010 01:34 J7S wrote: [...] I'm not sure if you're being ironic, but have you ever played Starcraft in other language? Is pure crap. And more, everything SCI-FI in movies, games, series is in english. A marine speaking portuguese simply do not exist, it's a lie. Sry but the German version of SC2 (and BW for that matter) isn't crap at all, it's very well done. And I am a person who is opposed to dubbing and always tries to watch US movies in the original version simply because I want it how it was meant to be. But those aren't "real" marines/zealots/banshees anyway, they are all animations dubbed with voices, and I can't see why the portugese voices should necessarily be inferior to the US ones. And your latter statement is simply silly. You have trouble with a terran soldier speaking portugese, but not with an extraterrestrial species speaking english?  BUT maybe the portugese version is really crap, and in this case i sympathize and think Blizzard should make the english client more easily available to you and others with the same problem. If they don't, you can still hope that language packs will come from the community. | ||
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