Blizzard is annoying Non-North American, Aust, NZ players.Follow

Blizzard is annoying Non-North American, Aust, NZ players

1) Blizzard is strictly practicing Alienation and Regional-Discrimination against all gamers that don't belong to North America, Australia and New Zealand.

2) Blizzard practicing the "OUTSIDERS: STAY OUT and GET OUT" of our American servers policy.

3) You need the North American-release version + North American/Australia/New Zealand Billing Address + North American/Australia/New Zealand IP address. I heard Blizzard enforces IP Address Banning and Filtering.

4) I have seen a large number of unruly North American players in Official Blizzard forums telling "Non-North-American" players not to "pollute" their servers. Although I insist that there are some kind North Americans souls out there.

5) Is it too hard to ask to play on a English Speaking server?

6) Blizzard seems to be contented with making money from "selected customers".

7) Granted that WoW might have better interface, better Newbie integration into gameplay game, improved healing and combat. What's the use if Non-North American/Australia/New Zealand players get alienated?

Pay no attention to the post above, I for one am an american and i dislike the way they handled this. I have man EU and asian friends from other games i wont get to play WoW with...for what? lol supposedly "better lag"...*cough* ok right thats why i didnt lag on EQ with my friends from europe and japan? But it is their company and they are entitled to sell to whom they want unfortunatly. And it wont stop me from playing the wonderful game they have created.

I, for one, am glad they segregated the servers.

Shh, I thought you were suposed to be the idiot here.

Any of you that are complaining about this ever play Final Fantasy XI? Remember how the Japanese didn't release it to North America until it had been out for a year already? Square Soft was Japanese owned, Blizzard is American owned. Same concept, different platform. I personally agree with it.

A game made my Americans for Americans. Same as FFXI was a game made for Japanese by Japanese.

But, then again, people crabbed about that too. I guess it is just North American arrogance that suggests we have to complain about every little thing.

Oh, yes, I am American.

I can see it now... "PlayerRaceX is racist,.. they keep PvPing all us PlayerRaceY!!!" This kind of thing happened sooo much on FFXI...

Just because you don't lag doesn't mean others wont. Dial-up users in the states do not lag. Dial up users in EU DO LAG. I've played with some of them. More power to you if you buy the game, and have it sent across seas, but don't say I didn't warn you when Blizz blocks your ip, as they've done in the past with other games.

"I can see it now... "PlayerRaceX is racist,.. they keep PvPing all us PlayerRaceY!!!" This kind of thing happened sooo much on FFXI... "

I never ran into that issue, however... I have several friends who read Japanese. Did you ever notice that for months there were a lot of Japanese players' bazaars that had text in them essentially saying "Go away foreign devil" or "Will not sell to American" ??

I disagree with the segregation to a degree, but I think that given the different release dates it is the best move. I don't want the EU players to feel like they are entering 'our' servers and recieve backlash from those of us who can't realize that nationality doesn't matter, especially in an online world.

Yup it is their right. And the low blow to americans is kinda dumb...doesnt make me feel bad for you in the least. So please keep politics out of it, our men and women are dieing too :/ and i cant help the electoral college makes my vote in alaska about as usefull as used toilet paper. So bush is NOT my fault.

Hellpup, I totally agree with you.

To Everyone overseas trying to get into the NA servers: Good luck, I hope to see you there. It's nice being able to get players from other areas of the world.

And on that note... Back to:

Edit: Typo in the Quote tags.

Edit2: Response to Whren's Edit...



I diddnt even know they could do that. I learn somthing new every day. Good post Whren.

Edited, Fri Nov 19 09:38:55 2004 by Aacra

Edited, Fri Nov 19 09:40:47 2004 by Aacra

If you really want a comment about farming:

Someone mentioned that the major farming company is based in the US.

I think I know which one you are talking about. They also have overseas offices, and I understand that most of their actual farming is outsourced there.

Ummm... that was my rant. I expect farming to be focussed on the PvP and 'normal' servers, so I don't really worry about it much, being an RPer.

I understand how you feel, I played FFXI and know what it is like to be the red headed stepchild.

I don't really see any reason to say "No, you can't play here" since it doesn't affect me at all... if you want to put up with more latency that is your problem.

In the end, however, Blizzard makes its own policies, and they may have good reason to do what they are doing.

Yes Blizzard is doing this to annoy people and practice racist policies.

Think about it a bit, Blizzard is a business, they want to make money and do so in a way that offers the lest stress.

Blizzard has as a company already been burned by an international market. They have had problems with Diablo II, WarCraft and Starcraft. They understand that if someone out of certain territorial boundaries commits illegal acts against them that harm or ruin the game they will due to said territorial boundaries be unable to go after these people. Ego they wish to limit their risk by creating a system that limits said territorial interruptions of their business.

Also by separating territories it gives them the ability to distribute their product through third party vendors who will be able to distribute the product in their territory of origin without competing with the parent organization. These vendors will have easier time making a profit because they don't have to complete with Blizzards main and heavily populated servers.

Remember even iRO blocked countries that had an existing version of the game and are trying to encourage EU player to move to the EU version of their game.

People are upset, but then changes always upset people. Though to claim that Blizzard is doing this to annoy people is silly. Blizzard is doing this as a classic CYA move. Weather if the policy is strictly enforced or not, just having it gives Blizzard the option to boot non-regional players with no remorse or worry of legal repercussions.

Having played FFXI, iRO, Eve, Lineage 2, I can say that there are good things and bad things that will come from localization and regional restrictions.