Should PS2 have a Russian server?

[I SandRock]

Yeah what you consider polite is obviously different from me, which is precisely what I was getting at

Anyway..
Just saw this on Pro7's FAQ:

Which European territories will be included under this new partnership between SOE and ProSiebenSat.1 Games?
SOE has secured a multi-year partnership with ProSiebenSat.1 Games Group to distribute eight online U.S.-based games in more than 40 European territories, including Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Other countries may be added later.

No russia in there, I wonder what that means though.. I mean you can just download Planetside 2 and play it right? Or are they going to block IPs from other countries? Not provide support to them? Just no marketing there?

[Ghoest9]

I play game with Russians(EVE and WOT) - in general they dont play like North Americans and Western Europeans.

Their best players tend to be really good and play in ultra tight unit/guilds usually with a nationalistic chip on their shoulder.

Their average players ten to be more aggressive than other countries.

But they run the whole gamut of personalities like everyone else. Im currently in a mostly Russian corp in EVE that happens to be extremely laid back.

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by I SandRock

Yeah what you consider polite is obviously different from me, which is precisely what I was getting at

Anyway..
Just saw this on Pro7's FAQ:


No russia in there, I wonder what that means though.. I mean you can just download Planetside 2 and play it right? Or are they going to block IPs from other countries? Not provide support to them? Just no marketing there?

Means Russia will get European support instead of its own. Kinda logical, considering that, on this side of the continent, Germany has the most hate towards Russia. Loads of Rus-lock DE servers in BF3 strengthen my point.

Also I think Tarpeda's being presumptuous, not hostile. That's also one big cultural difference that really doesn't help much. (My favorite example to the case is the word "негр", meaning, but bearing no negativity, nor offense at all, "*****", while in quite a number of countries even the word "*****" is considered somewhat impolite)


Also, for I don't know where to put my observation, you have at least 4 Russians in the thread, speaking fluent English.

[I SandRock]

Originally Posted by NewSith

Means Russia will get European support instead of its own. Kinda logical, considering that, on this side of the continent, Germany has the most hate towards Russia. Loads of Rus-lock DE servers in BF3 strengthen my point.

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Don't know, you could be right, but notice that they signed a deal for THOSE countries. Which means that SOE, not Pro7, has the right to the other countries for publishing Planetside 2. I don't know the entire implications of that. But it also means that SOE could sell the publishing rights to planetside 2 to a Russian publisher (like APB:R has recently done and like what was done by SOE with EQ2). Which would mean Russian servers by default

Originally Posted by NewSith

Also, for I don't know where to put my observation, you have at least 4 Russians in the thread, speaking fluent English.

You won't find anyone from any nationality on this site that can't speak a general level of English, since this site is purely English

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by I SandRock

You won't find anyone from any nationality on this site that can't speak a general level of English, since this site is purely English

Flawed logic.
Becose here piple can be who speak english very like i now without syntaks and grammer.


Also I think this thread should die, because the overall is quite clear:

A Russian server(s) will solve a fair share of the lingual (and other) problems and Russian community is, in fact, not against having one.
Everybody here also agrees that despite the pontential presense of the server noone should be locked in it.


Edit: /theend

[Hamma]

Agreed!