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.

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.

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.

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.

Cobalt · 2012-06-16, 07:38 AM

It's a sad truth though, all the MMOs i've played where i've shared a server with the RUSCORP or Red Army or one of the other 3 names 'that' group of them uses it's never a good experience. Russia is a big enough place to warrant it's own server.

Don't mistake me for saying everyone from Russia is like that, but there are enough to make it a problem for other EU players.

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?

I SandRock · 2012-06-16, 07:40 AM

Here is the quote from APB: Reloaded beta:

Of course even though a low percentage of players cheat, they also ironically are also frequent players, which means they show up in matches slightly more often than non-cheaters. The net result is that usually a cheater is able to play a series of matches before we catch him/her (our name-and-shame log has this data as well), and there are large differences in cheating percentages by country. For example, a Russian player is nearly 2X as likely to attempt to cheat as an American player. Also paid players are slightly less likely to attempt to cheat (though some paid players ALSO try it, which does boggle the mind).

By the main dev guy

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。

Timey · 2012-06-16, 07:47 AM

I don't mind them tbh.

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???

Pella · 2012-06-16, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by I SandRock

Here is the quote from APB: Reloaded beta:

By the main dev guy

Ahh right. Thats just for APB. I assumed you was talking about in general.

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.

sumo · 2012-06-16, 08:01 AM

russians are indeed a problem in general. not all of them, but many of them. they tend to cheat and exploit