130421-whats-the-point-of-restricting-access-to-a-server-in-different-regions

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			The main issue I have with this specific restriction is that I cannot play with my friend who lives in NA, when I'm situated in EU. I don't understand what the point is regarding the access restriction to different servers.	
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			They claim that Ping is a big preventor of us sharing servers from different regions. Some think it's the legality issues, some EU countries view transactions for games differently (but this doesn't explain WoW and Rift and other MMO's that allow multi regions to play together). At least for the time being, you can contact the support team and ask for a region transfer. Hopefully this will change come Free to Play cause we're all able to play fine together on beta and ptr.	
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"Regarding your other inquiry, there may be changes to how the region-lock currently works when the game hits Free-to-play but rest assured that we'll still be able to accommodate region requests."
 
I stuck a question about it at the end of a support ticket I sent in a couple days ago.
 
The region lock as-is, as much as I understand, is on the key itself instead of the account. I hope if that means since F2P players don't have to buy a key to play they could swap servers at will.	
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"Regarding your other inquiry, there may be changes to how the region-lock currently works when the game hits Free-to-play but rest assured that we'll still be able to accommodate region requests."
 
I stuck a question about it at the end of a support ticket I sent in a couple days ago.
 
The region lock as-is, as much as I understand, is on the key itself instead of the account. I hope if that means since F2P players don't have to buy a key to play they could swap servers at will.
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They claim that Ping is a big preventor of us sharing servers from different regions. Some think it's the legality issues, some EU countries view transactions for games differently (but this doesn't explain WoW and Rift and other MMO's that allow multi regions to play together). At least for the time being, you can contact the support team and ask for a region transfer. Hopefully this will change come Free to Play cause we're all able to play fine together on beta and ptr.
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			Separated voluntarily, you can still go and play on the NA/Oceanic/Etc servers if you so choose. Honestly, I think it would be nice if they somehow combined them into just one big PvE Megaserver and one big PvP Megaserver for both regions. I can't see language being that big of a barrier, really, and it'd help with population appearances, too.	
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Separated voluntarily, you can still go and play on the NA/Oceanic/Etc servers if you so choose. Honestly, I think it would be nice if they somehow combined them into just one big PvE Megaserver and one big PvP Megaserver for both regions. I can't see language being that big of a barrier, really, and it'd help with population appearances, too.
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In other games I have found that the language barrier was an enormous issue.
 
Not so much with people that were nice about things but the bigoted people that would just RAGE about chatter in LFG or global being in anything other than english which in turn made the non-english speakers purposely provoke the bigots. While I agree that you and I wouldn't see this as an issue, we will be dealing with a lot more people which means a lot more trolls. :(
 
Oh and the issue of people unable to read and understand the quests/dungeons. QQ
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Yeah, that's true enough I suppose :unsure: Still though, if you at least had the option to play on the other region, instead of being "locked" to it, it would probably help.
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			Imagine how cool it would be if they used Google's Translate API to automatically translate all chat messages (maybe stick an [ENG] or [sWE] in there) into the user's client language.	
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Imagine how cool it would be if they used Google's Translate API to automatically translate all chat messages (maybe stick an [ENG] or [sWE] in there) into the user's client language.
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Separated voluntarily, you can still go and play on the NA/Oceanic/Etc servers if you so choose. Honestly, I think it would be nice if they somehow combined them into just one big PvE Megaserver and one big PvP Megaserver for both regions. I can't see language being that big of a barrier, really, and it'd help with population appearances, too.
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Imagine how cool it would be if they used Google's Translate API to automatically translate all chat messages (maybe stick an [ENG] or [sWE] in there) into the user's client language.
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Even the big boys started doing this regional separation due to geographic areas....Back in the 90's with Everquest this wasn't the case, but they did have servers all over the globe, but you could choose which one to play from.  With Warcraft there was a definate separation....
 
The network guru's amongst you can probably talk about the cost of network jumps across the globe and the extra cost companies would have to fork out to secure extremely fast gaming traffic and data......
 
Whilst I don't like the separation due to geography, I can understand it may simply be a limiting factor of cost....../shrug  But I don't know for sure.	
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			There are actually two questions at work here:Why do we have servers in two locations?There really is a major difference in game quality when you try to play on NA servers from the EU or Oceanic areas. For the sake of a playable game, they opened EU servers because NCSoft had offices in that region and was willing to invest in the costs based on the amount of interest they thought they had.Why do they force people to buy keys for their closest location?Simple, they want the EU playerbase to be as large as possible. They make you jump through hoops to get an NA copy of the game and play with NA friends as part of that.Setting up a server and account structure that lets you click on server names in other regions and make characters is more complicated legally, technically, and cost wise than most players imagine. WoW could afford it, NCSoft and Carbine can't justify the cost.Bonus question- What will this mean once F2P hits?You will still have to jump through hoops to play on the NA servers from the EU. You will have to convince the website you're in the NA, and create a new account, and download the NA version of the client. You will be starting fresh. You will have an inferior experience unless you have a beast of an internet connection and the transatlantic gods favor you.	
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In other games I have found that the language barrier was an enormous issue.
 
Not so much with people that were nice about things but the bigoted people that would just RAGE about chatter in LFG or global being in anything other than english which in turn made the non-english speakers purposely provoke the bigots. While I agree that you and I wouldn't see this as an issue, we will be dealing with a lot more people which means a lot more trolls. :(
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If the North American servers suffer from that specific issue, then imagine the European servers alone. We too have this problem, even more so because there are barely any English speakers, unlike in the North American servers. This problem has made mostly any kind of communication very difficult and awkward. It is even more noticeable in games with localized versions. It's not fun for either parties, whether they're fluent in the English language or not.
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