NA or EU?

[Kran De Loy]

NA; East Coast for me. Gonna be playing with my guildmates and a number of them hail from all over EU but the bulk of the guild is still on American soil.

Originally Posted by GhundiPI

I'm from the EU but as it looks now, and SOE keeps their word on free server choice, I will play on a NA server. I'd rather deal with an increase in ping time (within reasonable limits of course) and odd hours, than another outsourced hosting deal with the typical issues every single one of those has had through the years.

I can appreciate the challenges the European continent brings for a publisher when it comes to different countries/languages/support/etc. But if at all possible, I would suggest to SOE to host their own English language servers for Europe. I expect that the gain in paying customers would far outweigh any extra cost of providing the servers.

Kind of already went over this, but by looking at the sequence of events the deal with PSS1 was almost definitely caused by Sony, the parent company of SOE, being in the red with a 2.9 billion dollars loss last year, 2.1 or 2.2 of that was from just the last three months quarter of 2011. To me it's obvious that Sony forced SOE to 'sell' the EU customer base to PSS1 for a very much needed and probably gigantic sum of money upfront to offset that billions of dollars loss for when they had to finally announce it to their investors. What they had to cover for I have no idea nor do I care. I'm not an investor.

Sort of pisses me off that the executives of a company can have their heads stuck so far up their asses that they're willing to let not just one franchise but all of their games fail utterly for anywhere to 30-50% of their playerbase to cover for whatever completely boneheaded mistakes they made in unrelated other areas. This is the ONLY thing that really keeps me cynical about the possible success of PS2, not the PSS1 deal but the people that arranged it.

Now since this was already covered in a bunch of other threads, Get back to Topic! NA or EU?