Global Play is live on Wings of Liberty (testing?)

On January 25 2013 04:58 blade55555 wrote:
I hope they add korea at some point

On January 25 2013 04:59 lsdg13 wrote:
How do we switch servers ?

On January 25 2013 05:02 darkshad30000 wrote:
How create an NA profile from my EU profile?

On January 25 2013 04:57 KiF1rE wrote:
hmm how does this effect those that have NA and EU on the same bnet account?

On January 25 2013 04:59 lsdg13 wrote:
How do we switch servers ?

On January 25 2013 05:02 darkshad30000 wrote:
How create an NA profile from my EU profile?

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

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

On January 25 2013 05:13 Gamegene wrote:
So if you change the region, you can't go back to the original reason without manually switching back right?

On January 25 2013 05:20 mrRoflpwn wrote:
Does region switcher not work?

On January 25 2013 05:20 mrRoflpwn wrote:
Does region switcher not work?

On January 25 2013 05:09 OldEnt wrote:
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
BEFORE YOU INSTALL SECOND STARCRAFT II CLIENT
READ BELOW TO AVOID CORRUPTION OF YOUR ORIGINAL REGION CLIENT


Download:




INSTALLATION

On January 25 2013 04:54 Foogazi wrote:
holy shit... sick, i just logged into EU

Edit: TW working as well (with almost 400ms ping )

On January 25 2013 05:24 Growiel wrote:
Can I choose an account so I can have both NA and EU from the 2 licenses I bought ? Would be neat to have a smurf in the process.

On January 25 2013 05:33 askmc70 wrote:


do you mean to run it for 100% completion? also i'm confused about your link at step 6, what am i supposed to do?

On January 25 2013 05:42 sashkata wrote:
So I need multiple sc2 installs to play the different regions? I though I would be able to switch like in BW.

On January 25 2013 05:42 sashkata wrote:
So I need multiple sc2 installs to play the different regions? I though I would be able to switch like in BW.

On January 25 2013 05:42 sashkata wrote:
So I need multiple sc2 installs to play the different regions? I though I would be able to switch like in BW.

On January 25 2013 05:46 Voreau wrote:
What's happening now seems to be a a side effect of Blizzard laying the groundwork for the feature.

As far as I know, the feature itself is not actually live.

On January 25 2013 05:57 MarkZinger wrote:
Korea isn't working for me, throws an error in Korean (which I obviously can't read)

On January 25 2013 06:00 AGIANTSMURF wrote:



It says you have to achieve Master's league or higher (on a different server) in order to log into KR server

On January 25 2013 06:05 RotterdamBlt wrote:
I'm guessing its the language authorization error? Did you just install it to a new folder?

On January 25 2013 06:08 askmc70 wrote:
is korea available? or is taiwan korea server?

On January 25 2013 06:09 MarkZinger wrote:

KR confirmed working for both my NA accounts

On January 25 2013 06:10 askmc70 wrote:

how do i get to korea?

On January 25 2013 06:11 Ahli wrote:
You don't need further installations...

Simon's Relocalizer changes the server just fine.
I'm already using that tool to change servers to publish my maps to US and EU with the same installation.

On January 25 2013 06:22 Extenz wrote:
simon's recolizer wants me to download it i dont see how it's different.

On January 25 2013 06:23 Elairec wrote:


I was going to post the same thing. Should be added to OP instead of making people download multiple instances of the client and waste time >.<



It is different because you don't need multiple install paths for each client. The program changes the necessary files and you go on about your business without worrying about fucking it up.

On January 25 2013 06:35 ToXSiK wrote:
Anyone else feel silly they bought multiple region accounts and put them on their same email? Seemed like a smart idea at first, but now I'm assuming they're just going to merge them and instead of having two smurfs I'll have just one account

On January 25 2013 06:43 Netto. wrote:
Anybody tried already playing from EU on KR and NA ? What the pings are ? worth the time managing it or it is just unplayable ?

On January 25 2013 06:32 Origamimouse wrote:
Whenever I log onto the european sever with my NA account info it puts me into a starter edition account, any advice?

On January 25 2013 06:00 AGIANTSMURF wrote:



It says you have to achieve Master's league or higher (on a different server) in order to log into KR server

On January 25 2013 06:45 askmc70 wrote:
how do use the relocalizer?

On January 25 2013 06:43 Netto. wrote:
Anybody tried already playing from EU on KR and NA ? What the pings are ? worth the time managing it or it is just unplayable ?

On January 25 2013 06:50 Existor wrote:

• open it
• choose "change display text + region" option and select which region and UI language you want
• choose what installation destination your SC2 have
• click "relocalize"
• play in that region

You can have ANY voice pack in ANY region. Just after relocalization, open Relocalizer again and choose other Voice Asset

On January 25 2013 06:51 Existor wrote:
Guys, one of regions will not support Global Play, Blizzard said it long time ago.

On January 25 2013 06:50 Sabre wrote:


same problem here

On January 25 2013 07:02 dspro wrote:
For anyone getting unhandled exception error/cant access agent.db file, I used this and it worked for me: uncheck the hidden box for the agent.db file and run the relocaliser.exe as an administrator (by rightclicking on the exe).

On January 25 2013 07:07 askmc70 wrote:

where is the hidden box?

On January 25 2013 07:08 dspro wrote:


go to program files and into your sc2 folder, make sure you can see hidden files (google to find out how), right click on the agent file -> properties -> uncheck hidden.

On January 25 2013 07:07 EtherealDeath wrote:
So I already had starter edition of EU, which had a random ass name on it. Now it has given me full EU, but no name change. Guess that's just not implemented since it still thinks I'm on starter edition on the website?

edit - Actually I have no name change on NA either now wtf lol

On January 25 2013 07:25 Ponchmeister wrote:
what is this 1.37 gb its downloading when i go to kr?

On January 25 2013 07:44 blade55555 wrote:
I hope they add a way to switch on one client without a third party tool by hots release xD

On January 25 2013 08:05 Censured wrote:
I got a different problem - I can login on NA from EU, but when I start 1v1 matchmaking, it says "There was a problem downloading this content. Try again later". Seems I can't download the maps? Anyone got same error?

On January 25 2013 08:25 uyubo wrote:
I used the Relocalizer, switched to koKR, but when I tried to log in I got a "GLOBAL_INTERNAL_ERROR" message ;_;

On January 25 2013 08:30 shineq wrote:


Close SC2, re-open it. Type in a wrong password the first time you do it, get the error and then type in the real password. It worked for me.

On January 25 2013 08:34 uyubo wrote:


Well, that did something, now it's giving me a different error message, but I can't read Korean so I don't know what it says :/

On January 25 2013 08:51 Shadow_Dog wrote:
I keep getting starter edition TT.

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.

On January 25 2013 04:57 KiF1rE wrote:
hmm how does this effect those that have NA and EU on the same bnet account?

On January 25 2013 09:16 xpaperclip wrote:


It only appears when you aren't logging in, so if you have it set to Remember Account (so that when you start it is already at the password prompt), you have to cancel that first.

On January 25 2013 08:48 Pokebunny wrote:

Screenshot it

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.

On January 25 2013 09:16 xpaperclip wrote:


It only appears when you aren't logging in, so if you have it set to Remember Account (so that when you start it is already at the password prompt), you have to cancel that first.

On January 25 2013 09:26 joopajoo wrote:

I can't get it to work. Where is the button supposed to appear?

On January 25 2013 09:33 mau5mat wrote:



You pasted the text into notepad, right? I have tried doing this method, and I have unchecked remember account, but I'm not getting anything.

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.

On January 25 2013 09:33 mau5mat wrote:



You pasted the text into notepad, right? I have tried doing this method, and I have unchecked remember account, but I'm not getting anything.

On January 25 2013 09:12 Darkthorn wrote:

this?

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.

On January 25 2013 09:38 xpaperclip wrote:



It takes a few seconds to fade in, but you can try clicking where it is supposed to be (even if it hasn't faded in yet).

What client are you using?

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.

On January 25 2013 09:22 uyubo wrote:



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Cool! I get the "Region" button, but when I choose Korea and try to log on, I get this:

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On January 25 2013 09:52 Pokebunny wrote:

Error message says you're using the wrong language - do you have a TW account attached to that account? It's the message you get when you try to log on a KR client with a TW account.

On January 25 2013 09:54 Gumbi wrote:
What would be considered good ping? Can somone give a rough scale? From Very good to unplayable? My tracert to kr.battle.net gives pings from 100 -350 (which I think is pretty good considering I'm in Ireland - read, other side of the world). Is doing a tracert to the bnet site a fair equivalent of what the game servers would be like?

My ping to the US is pretty good, it times out after about 23 tries and gets alot of sub-100s (95ish). Only one goes over 200 (a lot of 170s). This is playable isn't it? Sub 150 is alright, sub-100 is decent (50s is good/very good). Would I be correct?

Again, I'm just looking for some input on a rough scale and if my numbers for my country might be good. Also, I'm assuming the first few "hops" with low ping are local ones (like the first onwe is 1, which is my network I'm guessing, and the next 2 are less than 15).

Thanks! I Time to tear up NA

On January 25 2013 09:52 Pokebunny wrote:

Error message says you're using the wrong language - do you have a TW account attached to that account? It's the message you get when you try to log on a KR client with a TW account.

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.

On January 25 2013 10:14 FataLe wrote:

Aware me on how to do this.

These instructions are pretty vague. I'm too nooby.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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OR

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

OR


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

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



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

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.

On January 25 2013 11:13 Oerbaa 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.

Where do i locate the StarcraftII.exe and is it a text document i use to make the regions.xml?

On January 25 2013 10:56 Young Terran wrote:
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

On January 25 2013 11:29 Goldfish wrote:


Starcraft II.exe is generally something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II"

(If you are using 32 bit Windows, there will be no (x86).)


Make sure windows is set to display the full extension. Go to "Organize" (it's a button on the top left of the window inside folders) > Folder and search options > View > "Uncheck" "Hide extensions for known file type". Then right click, create a .txt file called "Regions.txt", then paste in what the person wrote, then click on the name of "Regions.txt" and change the name from Regions.txt to Regions.xml.

On January 25 2013 11:35 Goldfish wrote:


Go to "C:\Users\<User Name Here>\Documents\StarCraft II"

Then click "Variables.txt".

Look for
localeidassets=
localeiddata=

and make it:
localeidassets=enUS
localeiddata=enUS

(Not sure if it works but I think I remember this being the fix.)

On January 25 2013 11:42 Oerbaa wrote:


thankyou

On January 25 2013 11:55 Tazerenix wrote:
Is there a fix to the error about language packs yet?

On January 25 2013 11:56 zhurai wrote:

Edit your variables.txt

On January 25 2013 12:08 DG.Zeya wrote:
I've done the regions.xml file method, and I get the regions button to show up, and I can switch regions, but I am stuck in the starter edition of them. Previously I had tried to use the relocator thingy and it didn't work. I've uninstalled in since-- still all starter editions (cept for NA ofc). Ideas?

On January 25 2013 12:09 ( bush wrote:



enter a wrong login first, then after the error message put your correct login. Might work.

On January 25 2013 12:15 Ahli wrote:
Big thanks for the Regions.xml knowledge. I have no idea how you found that out, but... awesome....

This makes it possible to change the server within the editor's settings, too.

We can publish on every server!

On January 25 2013 12:19 FataLe wrote:

Bump for help.