EPTSEA copies to get NA access - Page 7
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Scruff
Singapore509 Posts
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Zyth
Chile9 Posts
We also had bad lag sometimes with US servers but in SC2 wasnt so bad, actually I played in the EU beta and was fine.. I hope that blizz implement the cross server option in the future , but for the moment i'm prob getting the US version | ||
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RodrigoX
United States645 Posts
Yes, its good you guys got this. I am happy for all you Ausi NZ people. This is good. But there are just obvious continuity problems with allowing this. I mean if, IF, Blizzard wants to separate the servers for a more cohesive gaming experience in latency, forgetting whether its a good decision or not, its stupid, to go back on it. I mean its like I said with my first post, Draw a line, either make EVERYONE have a cohesive experience, or dont make EVERYONE have a cohesive experience. Its hard for me to see this and not say bullshit. Because we all know not letting cross server play is stupid, we all know that and for them to go back on it, just for one section of people, forgetting whether they deserve it or not, to call that fair. Its impossible to see where blizzard is coming from. They want everyone to have a good latency experience and they specifically, stop people from not getting that. And then they come out with this. I mean if they are willing to break for this, just break for it all. Blizzard knows EVERYONE wants xRegion. We know that EVERYONE wants xRegion. And I mean if your willing to give it to NZ and AU, for obvious reasons, give it to everyone. | ||
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Lysenko
Iceland2128 Posts
I'd guess that the issue with cross-region play has more to do with ensuring there's enough support in each region for the expected load than anything else. If there were a tendency, for example, for American players to pile on the Asian server, or vice versa, I could see there potentially being difficulties with server capacity estimates. This would explain, for example, why it'll be up to 60 days before they provide NA keys to SEA customers, so that they can plan for any likely impact. | ||
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deth
Australia1757 Posts
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TheKing
Australia186 Posts
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Trang
Australia324 Posts
On July 23 2010 15:18 Ocedic wrote: I am as critical of blizzard as anyone but when they do something right and people still complain... that's just beyond ridiculous. Self entitled people who will never be satisfied apparently. I agree. This is doing something good for the AUS/NZ players, who always (among others also) get the bad end of the stick. Over the past few weeks ping tests have been done showing that the latency from AUS/NZ to SEA could be either good or horribly bad, depending on which ISP you were with. This is the type of shit that we always have to put up with, and we don't bitch and moan all day because we know our geography puts us in a sticky situation. This move by Blizzard is really a solution that helps us with that latency problem, since not everyone in SEA is in the same boat. It's quite straight forward if you look at it that way, and the decision hasn't got much to do with whether or not Blizzard wants SEA/Oceania to stay connected with other realms. It's just outright selfish to assert that Blizzard has to either completely allow or completely disallow cross-realm play across the board --- especially from the people who always get it better than anyone else. Of course, I would prefer complete cross-realm play for everyone, and I am all for the argument that it should exist. But if somebody else gets a bite of the pie, then good for them. I would express that others should also get a share of it, but I would not take an all or nothing approach by complaining that those fortunate somebodies don't deserve it. That would just be childish. And I've grown the f*** up. | ||
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tertle
Australia328 Posts
On July 23 2010 15:38 RodrigoX wrote:I mean if, IF, Blizzard wants to separate the servers for a more cohesive gaming experience in latency, forgetting whether its a good decision or not, its stupid, to go back on it. I mean its like I said with my first post, Draw a line, either make EVERYONE have a cohesive experience, or dont make EVERYONE have a cohesive experience. The difference is, a lot of Australians actually get lower latency to the US compared to SEA. In fact SEA is near unplayable for me (400+ ping). I need to be able to play on US servers to actually play the game online competitively. | ||
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WAAA
New Zealand291 Posts
Haveing said that, very good news and I will be buying on release day now! | ||
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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
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Kiante
Australia7069 Posts
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Lejving
Sweden82 Posts
On July 23 2010 13:14 Imagist wrote: We'd all like to see cross-region play, but it isn't a kick in the balls regardless of the "honestly" you cavalierly added there. Nothing has gotten worse for you at all. I should start with 12 workers. You start with 6, nothing has gotten worse for you at all. See my point? EU should have access to US and SEA. "Nothing has gotten worse for you at all". Either allow everyone to play everywhere or nobody to play anywhere except for their local area. Everything else, is bullshit. Why is SEA-US friends more valued the my EU-US friends? Or EU-SEA friends? Come on. This solution is specifically targeted to address gamers in Southeast Asia/Australia/New Zealand who have social relationships with North American players from previous Blizzard Entertainment titles. Yeah, I forgot, EU players didn't play previous Blizzard games? All and all I agree this is a step in right direction. A little "we will continue adding cross realm play as soon as possible for everyone" and we all would have been happy. This is just not the case right now. I am from EU so ofc I'm biased. Still doesn't make it better. | ||
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HeIios
Sweden2523 Posts
But I can say that there are people in europe who have ties with americans and australians, by language and culture. If someone from one region wants to play a laggier version of the same game on another region- Just let them do that. But of course this same thing has been said a million times over on this forum, pretty lame post by me I must say... | ||
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spheresword
14 Posts
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kar1181
United Kingdom515 Posts
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Rhodan
Australia232 Posts
On July 23 2010 15:38 RodrigoX wrote: Its impossible to see where blizzard is coming from. They want everyone to have a good latency experience and they specifically, stop people from not getting that. And then they come out with this. I mean if they are willing to break for this, just break for it all. Blizzard knows EVERYONE wants xRegion. We know that EVERYONE wants xRegion. And I mean if your willing to give it to NZ and AU, for obvious reasons, give it to everyone. While I am ecstatic that we (Im Australian) get cross realm play, it shows just how easy it would be for them to implement it on any server and its absolute crap that they're choosing to not implement it for everyone. That being said, their argument about latency is still valid. Many Australian internet connections connect to the US much faster than they do to Singapore (where the SEA server is located), so the argument about latency is event. Still, that shouldnt be enough reason on its own to limit people's ability to play the game with friends =/ | ||
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deL
Australia5540 Posts
On July 23 2010 17:15 Lejving wrote: I should start with 12 workers. You start with 6, nothing has gotten worse for you at all. See my point? EU should have access to US and SEA. "Nothing has gotten worse for you at all". Either allow everyone to play everywhere or nobody to play anywhere except for their local area. Everything else, is bullshit. Why is SEA-US friends more valued the my EU-US friends? Or EU-SEA friends? Come on. Man, you talk as though having SEA server access is a gift for us. No, this just moves us from SEA to the US servers, perhaps dropping in to SEA to host local tourneys with lower ping on occasion which you guys already have the luxury of on your own native servers. Think of it less as we're getting 12 workers, so much as we did only have 4 workers and now we have 6. | ||
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Subversion
South Africa3627 Posts
ladder only in your region. if they care about lag ruining other people's games so much. | ||
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sjh130
Australia24 Posts
Thank you SOOO much Blizzard, I LOVE YOU ;D Hahahaha wow honestly, I did not see this coming. I was going to buy the electronic copy of the SC2 NA version at 00:00 27th July O_O. | ||
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eelix
Australia36 Posts
Yes crossrealm play across the board would be fantastic however the Australia and New Zealand situation could not stand. | ||
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