News: Resolved - PS2 Region

[Skitrel]

Hmm, interesting. Most people tend to end up with tonnes of crossover due to playing with various guilds/clans or in Planetside's case, outfits. I find it a rarity that people don't at least know 1 person in their community that's out of country.

Take this forum for example, I'm damn sure many people here would love to play with one another, I'd be happy to shoot some heads off with you for example Coreldan, and I'd like to have the option to shoot anyone's head off given the choice too.

There's also another fundamental issue here. The PS team clearly have intentions of making a go of PS2 in the esports field. Someone mentioned it being impossible over on reddit and Higby's response was "Says you", clearly indicating their intentions. Region locking when you want to do esports is absolutely ludicrous, you basically disallow euros from competing with Americans? That splits the competitive community in half and never ever allows the two from truly discovering or proving who the best is. Worse if you further cut it up into even more communities. The best BF team worldwide right now for example happens to be a euro team.

Region locking limits the game, limiting the game is a bad thing. If SOE have intentions of the game being AAA then they should be staying away from absolutely anything that does that. Even more so - they should be doing absolutely everything they can to maintain THEIR control over the game, not passing off server control to other companies. When other companies have a different motivation it'll be a recipe for disaster.

I probably speak from a slightly biased position, but I at least fill the esports experience category, having had tonnes of fun playing competitively in loads of games over the years.