SOE and Pro7 has begun - Page 2

Shogun · 2012-08-01, 05:07 AM

the only concern left for me is the german violence-censorship policy

we were told the game will have no gore features at all, so i hope there will be no problem, but as seen in the cgi trailer, a little blood and gore belongs into the game to look authentic. and if the game gets a little blood and pro7 forces me to use a german client that censors anything, i will rant and rage.

it will not hold me off the game completely, but i would try every single workaround like using proxy servers or replacing game client files with the us versions.

the stupid german censorship is the thing that annoys me the most in german games.
our games are even censored when they are labeled as 18+
so what´s the point of selling only to adults if even for them the games are censored.

Emperor Newt · 2012-08-01, 05:18 AM

Originally Posted by Shogun

the only concern left for me is the german violence-censorship policy

we were told the game will have no gore features at all, so i hope there will be no problem, but as seen in the cgi trailer, a little blood and gore belongs into the game to look authentic. and if the game gets a little blood and pro7 forces me to use a german client that censors anything, i will rant and rage.

it will not hold me off the game completely, but i would try every single workaround like using proxy servers or replacing game client files with the us versions.

the stupid german censorship is the thing that annoys me the most in german games.
our games are even censored when they are labeled as 18+
so what´s the point of selling only to adults if even for them the games are censored.

Borderlands 2 is being released uncut in Germany. A game where humans are tied to shields to act as meat shields, heads are exploding every second and people burn to death screaming, only leaving their pitch black burned skeleton on the ground.
So I really, really, really would not be concerned about that.

On the matter: Will I use my SOE nickname ingame or the Pro7 one when I link a SOE account? I really don't get that part. My SOE nickname is already taken with Pro7 so I wonder how that will turn out...

Coreldan · 2012-08-01, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by HartnerX

Bye!

I probably won't leave, PS2 is to awesome for that. I just don't want to be screw up by some thirdparty company all over again, like every other MMO which gone this way. We always get the patches late, and when you actually need this localized support you always get it in french or german.

I can't see how spliting up the community is a good idea, but we just have to wait and see how it pans out I guess..

Just play with SOE then. Nothing at all is stopping you except latency.

GhundiPI · 2012-08-01, 05:56 AM

Originally Posted by Coreldan

Just play with SOE then. Nothing at all is stopping you except latency.

That depends. From what I've seen so far, at the moment only those DCOU and EQ2 players from Europe who already have been playing on the SOE servers are allowed to keep playing there with their SOE account, new players are forced to migrate to the pro7 system. As an example, I have never played DCOU and when I take a look in my SOE account, the only option I have to start playing that game is to create an account with pro7. How this will work with a new game like PS2 is still unknown. But so far it is starting to look like that even if EU players are able to play on SOE servers, we will have to go through the pro7 (alaplaya) system to do that. I sincerely hope that clarification on this will be issued very quickly.

Coreldan · 2012-08-01, 05:57 AM

Hmh, thanks for the heads up.

Dubious · 2012-08-01, 06:00 AM

Well, im not transferring my account

Ill just make a new pro7 account to play on euro servers and keep my current soe account for PS2 US servers and PS1 "Global"

Golanthe · 2012-08-01, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by Dubious

Well, im not transferring my account

Ill just make a new pro7 account to play on euro servers and keep my current soe account for PS2 US servers and PS1 "Global"

If you have set europe in your SOE account then there is no choice.
Once the game you play becomes available from Pro7, you can only play it with a Pro7 account.
The game blanks out in your SOE acc.

Sturmhardt · 2012-08-01, 06:34 AM

Nice that's a confirmation that our station cash transfers to the pro7 account. That's good bc I already bought 10000 station cash on this double-cash-day a while ago. Now I just need ps2....

Sinilaid · 2012-08-01, 07:09 AM

You can select between EU and US servers in the Pro7 DCUO launcher

megamold · 2012-08-01, 09:04 AM

it has already been confirmed that you can still play on US servers if you so desire.

and i dont really get all the hate about pro7, from what ive read they will just be hosting the servers, providing support and act as the middleman for the transactions.
they will not have control over game content or patches.
" i am not going to give pro7 any of my money! to hell with this game!" so they host and maintain the server and support and you expect them to not get paid for it? it's not like if you pay 5€ for something in the store that pro7 will get the full 5€, they just take their fair share and pass the rest on to SOE.

maybe its just me but i consider having the operators of a server in my time zone to actually BE in my time zone a good thing.

if i need some support at 8 in the evening i do not want to be told "we are sorry but everyone in the US is still asleep"
and to be perfectly honest, in my 20 years of playing videogames, i can still count the amount of times i needed support on 1 hand.

Marinealver · 2012-08-01, 09:15 AM

Will I need a Pro 7 account to play planetside 2 beta?

FastAndFree · 2012-08-01, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by megamold

it has already been confirmed that you can still play on US servers if you so desire.

and i dont really get all the hate about pro7, from what ive read they will just be hosting the servers, providing support and act as the middleman for the transactions.
they will not have control over game content or patches.
" i am not going to give pro7 any of my money! to hell with this game!" so they host and maintain the server and support and you expect them to not get paid for it? it's not like if you pay 5€ for something in the store that pro7 will get the full 5€, they just take their fair share and pass the rest on to SOE.

No they are not, SOE will be hosting all the servers

Sturmhardt · 2012-08-01, 09:23 AM

Well even better, then they just take care of the support and advertising...I don't see it being a problem as well.

megamold · 2012-08-01, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by FastAndFree

No they are not, SOE will be hosting all the servers

well thats a piece of information that i did not know.
if they are not even hosting the servers then the whole pro7 debate is completely moot in my opinion.

FastAndFree · 2012-08-01, 09:32 AM

But you will still have to deal with Pro7's account system to use those SOE-run servers.
And it's unclear how support will work. If you contact Pro7 tech support will they have to contact SOE before they can help you? Because they are the ones who run the servers

DCUO players, do you know?