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

personaly.. and i realise i may be mirroring parts of other peoples posts here...personaly i support the idea of the seperated servers.
blizz have every right to do it as well. quite simply, if you dont like it.. dont play.
id like it if people dont take that last phrase out of context though. as that is their right to decide on that.

i would like a few servers to be under a "global" setting, so you can Rp, PvP or PvE with people across the world, and meet friends whom you know in other countrys..

but i support blizz's descision because of one main factor..
it makes it harder for sweatshops, farmers, and people like IGE to ***** up a game like this..
in a game called lineage 2, there are spesfic chinese, japanese and korean servers, ones the rest of the world are not allowed into.
and then there are the north america servers which not only allow players from china and korea to play but everyone from the entire globe. while the differnt cultures playing on one server is a good thing.. what isnt a good thing is the people who cant speak english going into a dungeon, camping it like gang turf and farming the monsters for real life financial gain, and if you step on their turf, they kill steal you and even train monsteers on you to get you to leave.
dungeons that you need to enter to compleate quests that are integral to the developement of your charicter.
i NEVER want WoW to turn out like L2.. because lineage 2 is a good game. if it had a server filter like WoW plans to have.. it would be an amazeing game.

all of the "problems" with L2 were caused due to farming, such as insanely high prices and stupidly low drop rates.

its a similar case with FF11, anyone notice how Square enix "method" to stop bots was to make it impossible to fish? that ruined a part of the game for everyone and a huge factor that motivated square to make such a move was to stop people profiting from their game, in the case of selling money online over ebay or similar mediums.
with WoW's methods, Bind on pickup items, easy gameing, no grind just smooth gameplay and every so often "oh!.. cool! i leveld, i didnt even notice hehe" and the server segregation.
all this means, that places like IGE will have such a hard time trying to "make a buck" in WoW they may just very well give up on trying to wreck this game.

and that i view as a very very good thing. because i think WoW has some intense potential, further than we have experanced in just the open beta.. and that kinda potential is kinda exciteing, dont you think? ^_^

It has nothing to do with races or languages, it has to do with customer service and latency...
THAT IS ALL
I'm sure if enough Copies sell in those areas to warrant it, blizzard will set up localized servers for that area of the world. How many copies will they sell in say Austalia? Is it enough people to warrant another support staff?
I've played several MMO's and have to say i agree with this choice 100%, I'm for anything that reduces lag. Heck, i'd pay more for even a state specific server. I live in florida, I bet more copies will be sold in Florida than in Australia and New Zealand combined and we wont get our own server.I have experience latency "black holes" around friends on dial -up that live in the states. Play any shooter with a friend you know is on dial-up, watch your framerate drop as you near him/her.What will it be like with thousands of dial-ups from across the planet? WoW's quality depends on a smooth running game and localized servers are a big step in acheiving this. At least Blizzard is one of the few companies that actually care about their quality.
It's a sound business choice. They know they will get the money in their core market, North America. This is a game that has been in development for 5 years, 5 years of blizzard throwing millions of dollars into a project that has yet to produce one dime. let em make some money, get more investors, and then I'm sure they will try to take advantage of more markets.
That being said,
THIS IS A GAME. THIS IS NOT THE U.N. IF YOU MADE A PLEA OR PETITION THAT DIDN'T FALSELY ACCUSE THE COMPANY OF RACISM THEY MIGHT HAVE LISTENED AND MADE INTERNATIONAL SERVERS YOU DOLT!!!
No one likes being accused of something like that , and no you wont scare them by leveling that charge.
and dont fool yourself, 95% of the players will choose reduced latency and better customer service for wide open servers anyday.

Yeah, you're right, I am being selfish. I admit that. I also could care less. That's one of the great things about being selfish.

I'm one of a large number of FF players that got burned repeatedly because servers were not localized or region specific. Hell, I don't care if they do open a few servers in the US to other nations, but I sure as hell won't be playing on them. As long as I have the option to play on NA or NA/EU onlys servers, I'll be pleased. Once bitten, twice shy.

Edited, Sun Nov 21 16:25:58 2004 by Smilingshade