StarCraft 2 Multiplayer for Aussies

FuryX

Australia495 Posts

April 28 2010 13:06 GMT

'Blizzard Entertainment also announced today that both the standard edition and Collector's Edition of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will give players from Australia and New Zealand access to play on servers based in Southeast Asia, alongside gamers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. This local datacenter will offer players in the region improved latency for a high-quality gameplay and connectivity experience.'

Considering the beta is not restricted...i don't understand why they would restrict it. The ping isn't bad at all, and third party connections like smoothping/battleping/etc will be pointless for SC2.

So we get thrown in with all the worlds most uber starcraft players? Harsh

nataziel

Australia1455 Posts

April 28 2010 13:33 GMT

That's good for us! The better players we play against the better we can become, and tbqh I'd rather less lag and harder opponents than more and easier. Wish they'd have servers actually in australia though, that'd be amazing.

schiznak

Australia258 Posts

April 28 2010 13:35 GMT

so will we still have access to the US servers aswell?

it would be nice to play with english speaking opponents from time to time

snotboogie

Australia3550 Posts

April 28 2010 13:39 GMT

Yeah this sucks. I'd like to be able to speak the language of more than 10% of the people I play online, thanks.

gravity

Australia2330 Posts

April 28 2010 13:40 GMT

On April 28 2010 22:33 nataziel wrote:
That's good for us! The better players we play against the better we can become, and tbqh I'd rather less lag and harder opponents than more and easier. Wish they'd have servers actually in australia though, that'd be amazing.

It's South-East Asia, no Koreans. It's also not clear yet if this will be forced or not.

gravity

Australia2330 Posts

April 28 2010 13:40 GMT

On April 28 2010 22:39 snotboogie wrote:
Yeah this sucks. I'd like to be able to speak the language of more than 10% of the people I play online, thanks.

My guess is that Australians will be a large portion of the server anyway - how many Indonesians even play SC?