Should PS2 have a Russian server?

I SandRock · 2012-06-16, 07:24 AM

Yea... sensitive topic I guess...
My experience is simply that Russian players cause a lot of bad blood within communities. And I'll say it, they seem to hack a lot more. In fact, APB:R released statistics on it in their game and russians turned out to hack a TON more than any other nationality in their game. APB russians were quite a nuisance.

Now I'm VS and when I look at the recruit center I see VS is highly popular in Russia. Being European... I can see how chat will be spammed with russian language, as the majority seems reluctant or incapable of speaking English. And TR and NC will get frustrated with the increased hacking of VS..

So.. I really hope there will be Russian-only servers... there.. i said it

Praetor · 2012-06-16, 07:26 AM

I think there is a case for English, German, French and Russian speaking servers. On the old Planetside it would never have worked because it simply wasn’t popular enough, but I don’t think that’ll be the case for PS2.

Maarvy · 2012-06-17, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Praetor

I think there is a case for English, German, French and Russian speaking servers. On the old Planetside it would never have worked because it simply wasn’t popular enough, but I don’t think that’ll be the case for PS2.

Theres no case for separate french/english/german servers , EU servers are always less populated than NA servers , spliting EU up even further is beyond dumb .

you sir are talking out of your backside .

Regarding russinas in apb ... Fuck apb it's anti cheat / anti hack team are a joke . They post there "stats" and "ban list" every few month to make it look like there pro active but there basicly not .

P.S Russians are some of my favorite guilds to fight in conquest based mmo's

Respect to HOE + Russ corp

I SandRock · 2012-06-17, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by Maarvy

Theres no case for separate french/english/german servers , EU servers are always less populated than NA servers , spliting EU up even further is beyond dumb .

We are talking PS2 here, not PS1. Recent MMOs show that there is actually a major demand for german and french servers and they get filled up, several of them in fact.

Just because a hack team is inactive or inefficient it doesn't change the difference between Russians or americans in hacking numbers. Or how English-speaking and russian-speaking collide in the game.

Pella · 2012-06-16, 07:30 AM

What gave you the idea to make this complete rubbish up.

Russian players are amongst the words best online gamers next to the Koreans. Big flight e-sports are dominated by Russians.

APB was hacked to hell by all players. Not just Russians.

And more to the point Russians should be welcomed on the European servers with a local client.

I SandRock · 2012-06-16, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by Pella

Russian players are amongst the words best online gamers next to the Koreans. Big flight e-sports are dominated by Russians.

I never said there weren't good Russian gamers

APB was hacked to hell by all players. Not just Russians.

Yes but the way statistics work is that they show you what percentage of what nationality hacks. And it turned out Russian players hacked a ton more than any other nationality and contributed to the majority of hackers in the game.

And more to the point Russians should be welcomed on the European servers with a local client.

Perhaps. But I think a lot of Russians would actually prefer a Russian server. At least when APB introduced russian districts most Russians stuck to that.

Pella · 2012-06-16, 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by I SandRock

I never said there weren't good Russian gamers

Yes but the way statistics work is that they show you what percentage of what nationality hacks. And it turned out Russian players hacked a ton more than any other nationality and contributed to the majority of hackers in the game.

Perhaps. But I think a lot of Russians would actually prefer a Russian server. At least when APB introduced russian districts most Russians stuck to that.

Fair enough. But where are you seeing these National Hack stats?

Blackwolf · 2012-06-17, 04:36 AM

Originally Posted by Pella

What gave you the idea to make this complete rubbish up.

Russian players are amongst the words best online gamers next to the Koreans. Big flight e-sports are dominated by Russians.

APB was hacked to hell by all players. Not just Russians.

And more to the point Russians should be welcomed on the European servers with a local client.

Not to be rude or disrespectful, I happen to like Russians. But I think the language barrier is a bit much to tolerate.

I hate it when people spam chat of any kind with information I can't read. And being an ignorant heathen bastard that I am, I never studied a second language. So having seperate servers based on language would, in my opinion, be awesome.

How Russians play and what they choose to do? I don't care. They are players and players all play the same to me. What they say, however, makes a difference to me.

Galapogos · 2012-06-17, 05:09 AM

I don't think servers should be based on language. Hopefully the mission system will be simple enough to understand that it will help coordinate players regardless of what language they speak. This would not solve the problem of Russian outfits isolating themselves, but the grief system should keep tking to a minimum, and I doubt that Russians will be able to hack and get away with it any easier than anyone else, unless Russians are the best hackers in the world.

metziih · 2012-06-17, 06:03 AM

It would be nice if the servers were language based.

SKYeXile · 2012-06-16, 07:33 AM

I like fighting Russians, kings of the derp rush. (derp rushes inevitably fail)

Fab · 2012-06-16, 07:34 AM

Yeah hope there will be, i'm European too and i really hope there will be a russian server.

Another thing, seeing the VS spamming in Eastern Europe makes me want to support these poor NC that are dramaticly outnumbered in Europe.

SKYeXile · 2012-06-16, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by elfailo

Русские являются удивительными, особенно, когда они отказываются говорить по-английски.

他们可以发挥的红龙。

Zenben · 2012-06-16, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

他们可以发挥的红龙。

¿Donde esta la biblioteca? WHAT LUNCHBOX???

Gandhi · 2012-06-16, 07:52 AM

The only experience I have with large groups of Russians was in EVE. The Russian alliances were always kind of mysterious because they'd only speak Russian and kept to themselves, but when they showed up to crash your party they'd steamroll almost anyone. They were notorious as being "gold farmers" using bots to mine resources, but I don't know how much truth there was to that.

Anyway, I don't care either way. I think with the outfit system they'll tend to segregate themselves from the rest of the community like they did in EVE, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. As long as it doesn't end up like the Chinese in Planetside 1, being totally oblivious to what's going on because none of them speak English.