On January 25 2013 10:23 Tosster wrote:
Regions Button works perfectly fine! Altough when i try to relocalize to NA, error says i need to download authentcation service or something like that.

Do you have an authenticator on your account?

MooMu

Canada615 Posts

January 25 2013 01:25 GMT

#182

Played with a Taiwanese fella and the lag was fucking terrible. Barely playable. Ah well.

Lemure

189 Posts

January 25 2013 01:30 GMT

#183

Is the latency supposed to be this bad? On average around 250ms from east coast to Korea.

blade55555

United States17423 Posts

January 25 2013 01:31 GMT

#184

On January 25 2013 10:30 Lemure wrote:
Is the latency supposed to be this bad? On average around 250ms from east coast to Korea.

Depends on where you live and if you are lucky.

For instance I rarely get latency on korea (although it has been 6 months since I last played on there so it's possible it got worse, but I hope not).

It's really about luck, you could have an amazing internet connection but just be in that part of the world that has awful connection to korea.

OafLoaF

Canada4 Posts

January 25 2013 01:35 GMT

#185

Just installed EU client. Tried to login with my NA info but it only allows me to enter the "Starter Edition" of the game? I installed into a different directory and can still log into NA just fine, but EU asks me to upgrade to a full license? Did I do something wrong?

Elwar

953 Posts

January 25 2013 01:37 GMT

#186

On January 25 2013 10:35 OafLoaF wrote:
Just installed EU client. Tried to login with my NA info but it only allows me to enter the "Starter Edition" of the game? I installed into a different directory and can still log into NA just fine, but EU asks me to upgrade to a full license? Did I do something wrong?

No idea if you did something wrong, but try using the much simpler and more convenient regions.xml and see if it works.

jmbthirteen

United States10734 Posts

January 25 2013 01:39 GMT

#187

On January 25 2013 10:30 Lemure wrote:
Is the latency supposed to be this bad? On average around 250ms from east coast to Korea.

250ms from east coast to Korea is actually pretty damn good.

Joedaddy

United States1948 Posts

January 25 2013 01:40 GMT

#188

Just found this Blizzard post in the general discussion forum:

Global Play has not yet been released. What people are experiencing is the work that is being done behind-the-scenes in preparation for it's official launch. We’ll have more information about it soon.

Keep in mind that once it is released, you'll be able to switch regions on the login screen and will NOT have to download multiple StarCraft II clients.

Feel free to refer to our Global Play blog and the FAQ.

The part about "will not have to download multiple SC2 clients" is interesting. Are we sure that we have to download multiple clients in Wings?

Source

Ljas

Finland725 Posts

January 25 2013 01:42 GMT

#189

Just reread it a couple of times if that's unclear.

Joedaddy

United States1948 Posts

January 25 2013 01:44 GMT

#190

On January 25 2013 10:42 Ljas wrote:
Just reread it a couple of times if that's unclear.

Just passing on the information... I'm to big of a chicken to make declarative statements regarding the matter.

corpsepose

1678 Posts

January 25 2013 01:45 GMT

#191

played two games each on eu and kr, lag wasnt unplayable but it certainly wasnt great. stop-microing hellions and stutter stepping etc. definitely arent easy with the degree of latency im getting. guess i'll stick with NA

Tallestmanonearth

United States9 Posts

January 25 2013 01:47 GMT

#192

On January 25 2013 04:51 OldEnt wrote:

Following numerous complaints earlier today about having problems with logging in or downloading Battle.net data players are now able to play full version of Wings of Liberty on servers other than their original license is for. For example EU players are free to log in and create fully functional character on NA and vice versa, provided they have appropriate game client.

We don't know yet if this is just a last stage test or permanent change to be announced today or tomorrow by Blizzard.

Wings of Liberty Global Play live:
EU - confirmed
NA - confiremd
SEA - confirmed
KR - confirmed
TW - confirmed
CN - will not be available

EDIT #1: As of now players are not able to post on forums for other than their original region.
EDIT #2: Since this is still to be announced change players are required to install separate game client in order to be able to play on foreign servers (read important notice below). Blizzard plans to patch every game client with option to switch regions freely so if you are patient enough you might not need to download game second or third time).
EDIT #3: Battle.net accounts with multiple region licenses work exactly the same (nothing has changed so far).
EDIT #4: If you log in as Starter Edition try logging into battle.net www account manager first. You can also try a repair tool.
EDIT #5: An acquaintance of mine called Blizzard support. Works should be done by the end of this weekend.
EDIT #6: Regarding Starter Edition problem - try typing in wrong password first, then correct one.
EDIT #7: addendum to #5: Accounts are being cleared/updated progressively, it will take time to process millions of them.

Also, have a good night. :') 00:05 GMT 25th

IMPORTANT NOTICE!
BEFORE YOU INSTALL SECOND STARCRAFT II CLIENT
READ BELOW TO AVOID CORRUPTION OF YOUR ORIGINAL REGION CLIENT

+ Show Spoiler +

Download:

1. sign in to http://battle.net/

2. go to accounts

3. click on download client on the right side of the screen

4. under Star Craft II, click "change" next to your pre-defined region

5. select the region of the new version you wish to download, and click save in the right upper corner of the gray box

6. click on the OS icon to download the new client

7. save the new client files to a different directory than current version's installation files, if you still have them.

8. change region back to your original

INSTALLATION

1. rename your "StarCraft II" desktop shortcut to something like "StarCraft II NA/EU" to avoid overwrite or confusion

2. Run downloaded StarCraft II installer

3. IMPORTANT: select DIFFERENT INSTALLATION PATH than your original region installation (for example if you installed your NA StarCraft to default directory, install EU StarCraft to C:\SC2EU . Ignore warnings about "my documents" overwrite and such.

4. You did select different installation path, right? RIGHT?

5. ARE YOU SURE?

6. (optional, help page seems offline) after installation is complete do not run game, download and run full EU (or other region) patch (http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_GB&tag=sc2patch&rhtml=true) to avoid long patching

7. run your second copy of SC2 from desktop, wait for final patching and play

OR

YOU CAN USE SIMON'S RELOCALIZER
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=357860

OR

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On January 25 2013 09:00 xpaperclip wrote:
It is totally unnecessary to download a new client or use a relocalizer (unless you want different voices or text). Just create a file called regions.xml in your StarCraft II program files folder (where the Starcraft II.exe is) with the following contents.

<regions>
	<region displayname="AUTHENTICATION_SG_REGION" hostname="sg"
		allowedProductLocales="all" localesThatDefaultToThisRegion="enSG"/>
	<region displayname="AUTHENTICATION_US_REGION" hostname="us"
		allowedProductLocales="all" localesThatDefaultToThisRegion="enUS"/>
	<region displayname="AUTHENTICATION_EU_REGION" hostname="eu"
		allowedProductLocales="all" localesThatDefaultToThisRegion="enGB"/>
	<region displayname="AUTHENTICATION_KR_REGION" hostname="kr"
		allowedProductLocales="all" localesThatDefaultToThisRegion="koKR"/>
</regions>

This will cause the Region button which SEA has had for the longest time to appear (it fades in after a while), but the strings for AUTHENTICATION_EU_REGION and AUTHENTICATION_KR_REGION were only added in 1.5.4.

Region button troubleshooting: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=395154&currentpage=7#138

As a bonus a fan-made wallpaper by Dexistor371

http://dexistor371.deviantart.com/art/Global-Play-319192071

NA Player had issue with the Starter edition, going into battle.net and changing your password solves the problem.

Ljas

Finland725 Posts

January 25 2013 01:49 GMT

#193

Did you have to quote the entire OP?

Tenshix

United States169 Posts

January 25 2013 01:49 GMT

#194

Holy shit. Time to play KR ladder and get owned like a noob.

KrazyTrumpet

United States2520 Posts

January 25 2013 01:50 GMT

#195

On January 25 2013 10:40 Joedaddy wrote:
Just found this Blizzard post in the general discussion forum:

Show nested quote +

The part about "will not have to download multiple SC2 clients" is interesting. Are we sure that we have to download multiple clients in Wings?

Source

it should end up being just like Diablo 3. You select what region you want to play on and what language, then log in and play. You will have to download language packs first time you use a language, but after that its just a matter of choosing from drop down menus.

Asturas

Finland587 Posts

January 25 2013 01:55 GMT

#196

On January 25 2013 10:47 Tallestmanonearth wrote:
NA Player had issue with the Starter edition, going into battle.net and changing your password solves the problem.

Didn't work in my case... I mean, when I want to play everything is fine, but on us.battle.net the game is still marked as Starter.

KrazyTrumpet

United States2520 Posts

January 25 2013 01:56 GMT

#197

On January 25 2013 10:30 Lemure wrote:
Is the latency supposed to be this bad? On average around 250ms from east coast to Korea.

That's about as good as you are going to get from USA to Korea

Young Terran

United Kingdom265 Posts

January 25 2013 01:56 GMT

#198

i fucked something up i changed my client to taiwan now everything appears in Taiwan and i dno how to change it back to EU help plz

FataLe

New Zealand4495 Posts

January 25 2013 01:58 GMT

#199

Argh, nothing's working. Getting starter edition on my home server (SEA) and getting some weird error when I try to join games on NA.

Also that regions.xml did absolutely nothing to my built-in region changer. Only showing SEA and NA like normal.

WeRRa

378 Posts

January 25 2013 02:02 GMT

#200

I don't get the point of this, if the lag makes it unplayable. In bw it worked playing with everyone and there was in general no lag.
But well bw also had lan and now blizzard says it is impossible...