Originally Posted by SpottyGekko
I'm afraid support does count as a reason. By allocating all euro players to PSS1 support, it lightens the load for SOE's US customer support, which will no doubt reduce their operating costs.
The other reason is that euro players will have to use PSS1's "version" of the Cash Shop, which gives PSS1 exclusivity over CS sales to euro players. That would most probably have been an important clause of the deal between SOE and PSS1.
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Its all about numbers. There arent that much EU PS players compared to how many new players will play this. We are insignificant from both support and money view, compared to new players.
New players wont go creating SOE account. They would not know thats the possibility when they respond to Pro7 advertisement.
So why piss people off by forcing them to do something they dont want to?
(I know it goes both ways. As we are minority they can easily just enforce that region lock, and if we dont play because of that, nobody will notice those few players)