Originally Posted by basti
Looking at it that way, yea, maybe some region lock servers wouldnt hurt.
But that never was the issue. What the issue was is that SOE and Pro7 wanted to split us up completly, to the point that a Euro cant play any SOE game in NA, and that a NA cant play any SOE game managed by Pro7.
That would mean a full split of a whole lot of groups. Most of the outfits that grew since the Werner -> Gemini Merge got people from the other region. They want to stay together, obviously. And community is the most important thing in any MMO. its THE selling point. The reason why WOW got that big was not because it was a brilliant game, but it was because a whole lot of communitys had a few people who went to WOW because they once played Warcraft. Once those few people got into WOW, their friends came along as well. Thats the success of WOW.
A full region lock would completly destroy that potential for Planetside 2.
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Heh, I'm imagining the shitstorm if Bliz went full region lock.
Would make EQ2 guys look freaking tiny.