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On June 26, 2017, we will migrate all StarCraft II players from the Southeast Asia region to the Americas region. We’re taking this step to consolidate the player base across the Americas, ANZ, and SEA regions.
This change primarily affects login to the SEA region, and we plan to continue operating regional game servers in the SEA region even after the migration is completed. Upon logging into the Americas region, players will see a new entry for a Southeast Asia regional game server in the Preferred Game Server selection dropdown menu in the Options > Language and Region menu.
How It Works
We expect the migration process to take several hours on June 26. During that time, we will transfer your StarCraft II account information from the SEA region to the Americas region. Once the migration process begins, you will no longer be able to log into the SEA region. Once the process is complete, you’ll be able to login to the Americas region and play, with your achievements, campaign and Co-op progress, race levels, Collection purchases, Friends List, and other information transferred over (for more details, see the FAQ below).
If you already had a StarCraft II character in the Americas regions prior to the migration, you can still play on that character while the migration is underway, and you will end up with two StarCraft II characters in the Americas region to play on after the migration is completed. The characters will remain separate from each other and will not be merged.
No special action will be required on your part – we’ll handle all the busywork on the backend. All you’ll need to do is login to the Americas region after the migration is completed, and you’ll be playing StarCraft II again in no time.
When will the migration occur?
The migration will occur on June 27, 2017, 01:00 SGT (June 26, 2017, 10:00 PDT). We expect the migration to last for several hours, and will provide an update when it has been completed.
Why are you migrating the SEA region to the Americas region?
The purpose of the migration is to consolidate the player base across the Americas, ANZ, and SEA regions. As a lot of players in ANZ and SEA already play on the Americas server, we felt that it was a good time to standardize the experience for StarCraft II players playing across these regions.
Will the games be more laggy/have higher ping?
When possible, StarCraft II will continue to match players with other local players of equal skill. We don’t expect the migration to have a negative effect on latency for players in each region, as we are continuing to maintain regional game servers in all regions.
What account data is being moved and what is not?
The data that will migrate with your account includes: career games and wins tracked, career summary, highest career ladder finish, all achievements, all Collection rewards and purchases, campaign and Co-op progress, race levels, season snapshot, friends list (including both Character friends and Battle.net friends), and tournament trophies.
What’s not making it across will include: MMR (you’ll need to play your placement matches again), groups and clans affiliations, published maps, tournament brackets, map bookmarks, and map reviews.
If you are a melee map maker or Arcade map author, please consider publishing your maps globally prior to the migration by navigating to File > Publish and checking the Americas, Europe, and Korea and Taiwan regions in the StarCraft II Editor.
Will any other account progress be lost?
We plan to take a snapshot of your Friends List in the SEA region immediately prior to the migration, on June 26, 2017, 09:00 PDT (midnight between June 26 and June 27, 2017, SGT). Please be aware that any new Friends List changes or addition made after this snapshot will not transfer over.
We also intend to end the previous ladder season in the SEA region immediately prior to the migration. Any ladder activity that happens on your SEA StarCraft II character between the end of the previous season and the start of the migration will not transfer over. We expect this window of time to be very brief.
What if I already have a StarCraft II character in the Americas region? What happens to that?
The StarCraft II character on your SEA account will migrate into your existing Americas account and you will end up with two StarCraft II characters in the Americas region. We’ve added a new UI dialog upon login that will allow you to select which character you want to play for that game session.
To save this character selection for future logins, navigate to Options > Language and Region > Character Select Dialog and check the box labeled “Don’t show me this message again”.
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Wouldn't mind if they just merged my sea and us account together to be honest
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Interesting. Sounds like the swarm is coming to the US. Huge % gonna increase in the zergs
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Ahh yes, so now when I play on NA, I can be forced to play on Brazil, AUS, AND SEA! Thank you blizzard!
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Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway?
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments.
Not being able to choose region is so outdated.
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On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote:
Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway?
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments.
Not being able to choose region is so outdated.
You've been able to choose your region with one account in SC2 for many many years.
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On June 24 2017 08:30 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote:
Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway?
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments.
Not being able to choose region is so outdated. You've been able to choose your region with one account in SC2 for many many years.
have you considered just overlooking that fact to complain about blizz's handling of sc2 though?
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On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote:
Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway?
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments.
Not being able to choose region is so outdated.
But you can in 5 sc, i dont get your point
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Nice! This one has always seemed like a no brain-er to me. SEA and AM have always seemed very similar in average skill level and ladder culture so its a perfect fit.
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On June 24 2017 08:40 Meepman wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2017 08:30 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote:
Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway?
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments.
Not being able to choose region is so outdated. You've been able to choose your region with one account in SC2 for many many years. have you considered just overlooking that fact to complain about blizz's handling of sc2 though?
Hahaha well played.
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Finland940 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:40 Meepman wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2017 08:30 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote:
Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway?
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments.
Not being able to choose region is so outdated. You've been able to choose your region with one account in SC2 for many many years. have you considered just overlooking that fact to complain about blizz's handling of sc2 though?
Post of the year right here.
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On June 24 2017 08:40 Meepman wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2017 08:30 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote:
Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway?
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments.
Not being able to choose region is so outdated. You've been able to choose your region with one account in SC2 for many many years. have you considered just overlooking that fact to complain about blizz's handling of sc2 though?
TL would lose half of its traffic
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This is a good thing if you live in SEA region.
When I lived in Singapore, I tried to play in SEA server and will wait for a long time to find a player for 1v1. I ended up playing in NA servers.
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On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote:
Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway?
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments.
Not being able to choose region is so outdated.
There was a regional lock back in Wings of Liberty, likely because people higher up at Blizzard - or with their parent company Activision Blizzard - wanted to milk as much money out of the player-base as possible.
It was a pretty unpopular move and a huge departure to the global play system we saw in previous Blizzard multiplayer games. Anybody who was serious about competing across regions essentially had to purchase a new copy of the game for each region they wanted to play in. You also had to install separate versions of the game as well and had to play SC2 in the region's native language, which meant that anybody playing on the prestigious KR version either had to use a South Korean SSN to obtain a Korean account and then download the Korean client or purchase a Taiwanese game license and play using the Taiwanese client, which had access to the same region.
By Heart of the Swarm, Blizzard abandoned this philosophy and introduced global play with truly global language support, allowing players to select a different region and create a separate character on that region and most importantly use the same client. I think the only region that you can't play on globally right now is China, but that's understandably due to how closed off it is.
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China6330 Posts
I get sub 80ms latency to SG servers which is pretty sweet, guess I'll start play some coop again.
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Yeah how is everyone finding this from the SEA region now?
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On June 24 2017 08:07 NomaKasd wrote:
Interesting. Sounds like the swarm is coming to the US. Huge % gonna increase in the zergs
It'd be impossible to notice really, NA is already flooded with Zerg as is.
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I bought wings for EU and wings for SEA when cross servers did not exist as i wanted to play with my friends in Germany.
What happens to my account now? Do i have 2 starcrafts?
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Sweet now i have two accounts - one for getting good and one for cheesy fun!
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"merged" is wrong. SEA accounts just "moved" to NA.
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