European importFollow

Me and my FFXI LS have being wondering will this game work if we import it to europe, we have heard rumours that it selects your server frm where your credut card says your from?

yeh that would suck well i spose ill have to wait and see.

pls think of the others..dont just think of NA will you..

there are other asian countries out there who are praying not to play with the koreans, as many asians dont speak korean..

forced servers only benefit the NA in my oppinion..

and to tell you the truth..(completely honest) Blizzard favours NA just like SE favours Japanese..

FFmania no where did I only support NA in fact I said I think it's a mistake I also countered to put reasons it will fix a lot of issues cross country MMO's have. You will have your own GM's your own maintenance time not subject to the convenience of an office in California..

So where did I say I'm only thinking of NA? Please read before jumping to conclusions.

I'd also like to know how in your mind think it will only benefit NA? If you are playing on a Europe server you're playing on a server in Europe with its own team in Europe to correct issues. Now exactly how NA players will benefit from this I'm not quite sure but perhaps you could enlighten me? While I think you should have the choice to play on the server of your choice region wise. As Blizzard says it's for your own best interest to play on servers native to your region. Less lag ect. WoW will be free from 0MG l33t NA b3at me to mob claim!

Also If you would refer to Blizzard they have said numerous times China is going to have its own version and servers, Korea will have their own. And I'm sure various countries in Europe will get the same treatment. In fact I do believe in some articles regions have the freedom to add its own server events! I know China is claiming this already. So what is there to whine about? If anything does that mean if you get some great even we should start whining because you got your own and we didn't?

Edited, Wed Oct 13 12:39:55 2004 by Valeforelacky

Edited, Wed Oct 13 12:48:23 2004 by Valeforelacky

Well apparently you're not reading what I'm saying. So I'll just leave it be you're whining just to whine so I'm wasting my time. If you read any at all you would know Europe is getting their own servers. I do believe there will be French, English and German specific servers if I understand what they are promising.. So I have no idea why you are thinking you're gonna be playing with the Koreans or Chinese but I'm not gonna put any more effort into explaining. Enjoy your gaming experience it's amazing how people are whining about issues that are non exsistant about a game that's not even out yet.

G'day

LOL. I would seriosuly have to say that Blizzard favors Koreans as much as NAs simply because of the amounts of money Koreans sank into Starcraft and Broodwar.

And this thread was about European players to begin with, FFMania, but I do see you point about not all asians speaking Korean. I seem to recall a blizz quote somewhere talking about Chinese and Japanese servers as well as Austrialian ones to boot. I think most people will get their fair share of forced servers but it wont be as bad as everyone in the blizz forums thinks.

You have to realize that most blizz forum posters are ex-b.net idiots. (I am one as well so I have that luxury of calling them that).

I loved that addition of the real day clock. For some reason many are annoyed by it though, but anyways people complain about everything.

Edited, Wed Oct 13 19:09:46 2004 by Gihja

There is a reason why this exists, FFmania. You see, since the game follows an actual 24 hour clock, it is set for each region. For example, US East's 8 pm will actually be 8 pm. US West's 8 pm will not be the same as US East's 8 pm due to time zone differences. Blizzard doesn't really have to follow the times since the clock will be set for each different time zone. When the European version is released, players will be allowed to enter different regions. Once they do, players will not be guaranteed certain services when it comes to dealing with different regions other then the recommended region such as GM services, tech support, events, yata, yata, yata.

Its up to you what you want to give up. Blizzard is just trying to get things organized rather then every being thrown all over the place.


Edited, Thu Oct 14 01:47:21 2004 by Redmoonxl

But blizzard announced that certain fish will only be available certain times a day, so am i gonn have to wake up at 3 in the morn in order to catch a fish???