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Getting people online, playing and interacting is obviously the overall goal for the Battle.net platform, and that includes allowing people to play across regional boundaries as they have in the past.
Unfortunately, there are a multitude of challenges we have to overcome due to the unique regional account and billing options that didn't exist in the past. But those hurdles aren't insurmountable, and we are looking into solutions that will allow interested players to obtain access to other regional versions without having to buy another full copy of the game. Those solutions are something we're currently planning to have available through Battle.net Account Management within the first few months of StarCraft II's release.
Before that solution is implemented though, you're correct in that you'd need to purchase a US copy of the game on launch day to play in the US region.
By bashiok 
link: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25171934229&pageNo=3&sid=3000
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Blizz took their sweet time to show the signs of taking the right steps.
Awesome news.
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O wow guess Blizzard is not an evil compagny that only looks for money and ways to screw us over, what a relief.
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Thats good stuff. Finally Blizzard starts talking that will shut up alot of haters
Would have been a bit messed up if you had to buy 2 or 3 version as a "semipro" player.
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Wow, this is great! Seems Blizzard may come through in the end after all.
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finally a honest response.
"yeah we were full of shit when we said its cause of latency"
"yeah its only because of new bnet account system"
"yeah we plan to make you pay more money for a standart feature"
atleast good news for tourneys and international competition.
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I know their exclusion right away was kinda weak, I do however seem kind of confused by people not noticing that there is much more bandwidth needed for SC2 compared to brood war
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Finally. Thank you Blizzard for listening to the community.
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Great news. I doubt Blizzard ever ignored the possibility in the first place (as this was possible for how long? Since the inception of their first online RTS?). People were overreacting.
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Blizzard PR finally comes through. That was a little slow, but every little tidbit is eaten up and appreciated.
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They're still going to charge for it, which is sort of unethical imo.
Of course I would love to be wrong and eat my words.
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Maybe just maybe there is still hope for global ranking then =)
This was besides that really good news to hear.
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oh man its 1 thing after another thats coming true , we should start seeing some thank you blizzard threads =P
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On June 17 2010 16:25 iEchoic wrote:
They're still going to charge for it, which is sort of unethical imo.
Of course I would love to be wrong and eat my words.
have fun eating your words
But seriously, this just confirm what day9 was saying in his dailies (obvious day9 fanboyism showing woot! :D). Blizz WILL implement ALL the stuff we want. Just, not right now. >.>
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The key part is this: "within the first few months of StarCraft II's release." They are trying to assure everyone that they're doing the right by saying that they'll add stuff after release which they are never really forced to add.
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oups, it was burried too far = =;; sry close this plz :3
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Hungary11291 Posts
On June 17 2010 16:28 firebound12 wrote:oups, it was burried too far = =;; sry close this plz :3
Ok!
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