[Poll] Region Locked Servers; Good or Bad?

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by Kaotc

its a free 2 play game, not going to even be a drop in the ocean compared to the people that will play it.

do you not remember the 500,000+ people who petitioned Infinity Ward about Modern Warfare2 on the PC? The business(not the dev team, the fat cats in suits who make the decisions) doesnt care, because they KNOW people will play the game regardless, even those bitching and moaning, will actually still play the game.

I won't.

I don't think you can compare PS2 to MW2. PS2 doesn't have the guaranteed playerbase that CoD games have.

Maybe you're right, but I still refuse to let it go quietly. There's no reason to.

Edit: There are people lining up to not play this game because they see SOE still hasn't learnt anything. This is already losing them customers. Maybe they will just be a drop in the ocean, but I've learnt not to underestimate the gaming community.

[Kaotc]

Originally Posted by Vancha

I won't.

I don't think you can compare PS2 to MW2. PS2 doesn't have the guaranteed playerbase that CoD games have.

Maybe you're right, but I still refuse to let it go quietly. There's no reason to.

i think PS2 has the potential to have a goliath of a playerbase, a F2P model and a Unique Selling Point that no other game can even come close to.

Dont get me wrong, im properly gutted about it. My heart sank when reading that FAQ (as sad as that may be, it did.)

But what REALLY grinds my gears, and i find it insulting that they are now trying to mollycoddle the community by asking for Feedback, to a decision that is now set in stone.

They dont care(lol there is a shock), so i wont bother providing my feedback, its a waste of my time.

[sylphaen]

There will be tons of new players who won't care for server location and choose based on ping.

Why lock the veterans to their region if they want to play with their buddies ?


I voted for regional servers without any IP block. It worked fine in PS1, no need to change it in PS2.

[Gortha]

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[CidHighwind]

Originally Posted by SpLiTNuTz

Regional servers unlocked. Let people have the choice.

[CuddlyChud]

What's the point of this thread? No one is gonna say that its a good thing to region lock the servers. But we have no idea whether it was necessary or not, since we don't know why SOE made the decision to license out the publishing rights. Of course ideally people would be able to choose wherever they wanted to play, but i'm sure there are mitigating circumstances that we as consumers are not privy to that made them choose a seperate European publisher.

[Mastachief]

Originally Posted by CuddlyChud

What's the point of this thread? No one is gonna say that its a good thing to region lock the servers. But we have no idea whether it was necessary or not, since we don't know why SOE made the decision to license out the publishing rights. Of course ideally people would be able to choose wherever they wanted to play, but i'm sure there are mitigating circumstances that we as consumers are not privy to that made them choose a seperate European publisher.

Of course there are, we know these reasons as Dollars $.

[Tamas]

There should be regional servers, but they should not be locked.

[NCLynx]

Woops. I put one server (2nd choice), I meant to put the third one :/.

[Figment]

Originally Posted by NCLynx

Woops. I put one server (2nd choice), I meant to put the third one :/.

Always knew you needed more aiming practice.

[sylphaen]

Originally Posted by Figment

Always knew you needed more aiming practice.

Did NC players ever need to aim with noobhammers ?

[Geist]

This is the Digital Age. The Boundaries between people of different nationalities is disappearing(I do not support a One World Government) and someone from Europe can be friends with someone from the U.S. and talk to them on a daily basis playing a game they both enjoy immensely. SOE even encouraged this with Planetside 1 when they merged all servers into Gemini and Europeans have friends in America, Americans have rivals in Europe, and all combinations in between.

Just doesn't seem right to put up this artificial boundary when they caused this in the first place. Region servers unlocked is the only way to go.

[Mirror]

as long as the 4th option remains as it is, dead last it shows that we are not happy about this decision and that we are pushing for a change/re-think.

[Sta]

Originally Posted by Geist

This is the Digital Age. The Boundaries between people of different nationalities is disappearing(I do not support a One World Government) and someone from Europe can be friends with someone from the U.S. and talk to them on a daily basis playing a game they both enjoy immensely. SOE even encouraged this with Planetside 1 when they merged all servers into Gemini and Europeans have friends in America, Americans have rivals in Europe, and all combinations in between.

Just doesn't seem right to put up this artificial boundary when they caused this in the first place. Region servers unlocked is the only way to go.

Let me try to find some appropriate words to fully agree with your statement about interfering with the ppl's liberty in 2012...
Oh right, " SiEG HEiL SOE!"

[Dart]

Originally Posted by CuddlyChud

What's the point of this thread? No one is gonna say that its a good thing to region lock the servers. But we have no idea whether it was necessary or not, since we don't know why SOE made the decision to license out the publishing rights. Of course ideally people would be able to choose wherever they wanted to play, but i'm sure there are mitigating circumstances that we as consumers are not privy to that made them choose a seperate European publisher.

An injection of cash for SOE from Pro7Sat.1 and less overheads running the EU Servers. It's pretty simple.