News: Resolved - PS2 Region

[Hermes]

Can't play with any old US friends?

Can't choose a server which is at peak time if I'm working odd hours?

I can 100% see us on the EU side getting boned with delays over this. I'd swept it to the back of my mind until now, but it's getting a bit clearer to see how big the separation is in this partnership.

I'm wearing a hat right now. I promise to eat at least some part of it if feature/rollout dates maintain parity across EU and US with this set up. Even having this separation in the first place encourages staged releases to become an acceptable thing when the pressure is on.

This sucks more than moderate amounts.

Yours sincerely,

Outraged from England

[Mister101]

All the people that complained about the Chinese deserved to be region locked.

[Mastachief]

Well this is some high grade faggotry.

Just when you begin to trust SOE again you get screwed in the ass.

Higby we <3 you man, but the business guys at SOE are a bunch of...............

This will destroy outfits.

Made Euro player 2nd rate with no development direction at all.

Bad customer service, a german company ffs?

Crappy forums

And once they cut off planetside 2 for not making them enough money we get to be screwed again and transferred to U.S servers or simply put in the bin.

Cant wait for the kick in the teeth that comes when euro player aren't allowed to participate in beta as we are irrelevant.

[UnknownDT]

RadarX, Higby, for christs sake anyone at SOE. Find out if it will be IP locked at least it would probably take a phone call to get that information and let us know ASAP. This is so frustrating at the moment to know we may be saying 'goodbye' to our friends outside of the US and vice-versa. Something official needs to be said.

[ThGlump]

Originally Posted by basti

What? That doesnt even make sense. Why would we log into our Pro7 accounts through servers from SOE, to then end up on Pro7 servers?


Truth is, the game servers are hosted by SOE, just as always. But to access them, you need to go through the Pro7 account thingy.

Simple no pro7 accounts. That redundant and not needed. Im all for exter companies providing servers etc so soe doesnt have to care about them overseas that much, but im against having pro7 account.

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by RadarX

I cannot clarify more at this time as details are still being worked out. Even though this isn't an official SOE forum, I am reading the feedback (except for the insults because we have a special brain filter). We want to know your thoughts and I'm glad many of you are expressing them.

I just want to say, if this decision can't be undone, then this is the most insulting, patronizing thing you could professionally say.

That said, I don't think you're that kind of lowlife, so I have ever so slightly higher hopes that this mistake can still be rectified.

[Shogun]

so we europeans cannot use our soe accounts to enter ps2?
i guess that means we will not be rekognised as ps1 veterans...

lot of shit flying around here.
i don´t like being seperated as well!
love to play with and against us outfits

[Sardwyn]

I did wonder if SOE were truly that patient to release a AAA title as f2p and be content for longterm gain through a cash shop. I actually thought the f2p model would be good for that reason alone - keep SOE as interested in the game as us and almost guarantees new, regular devlopement after release for a long time. This is shit news though :/ SOE clearly just wanting to recoup as much cost upfront by licensing it out to foreign companies.

[Sirisian]

If the game is 100% server-side I'm okay with Europeans playing with us. The problem is if it's a hybrid model I'm a little more suspicious. I don't like playing with people that have over a 70 ms latency in multiplayer games. I played PS1 with 33 ms latency throughout the years and the client-side hit detection was annoying with some players essentially shooting at extrapolated players.

Also that warrock video is a worst case scenario. It's 100% CSHD like PS1. I doubt PS2 will be that bad especially with a hybrid system.

Maybe the Europeans will find it refreshing to play with a lower latency especially if a higher one stops giving them an advantage.

[Trolltaxi]

What's the big deal for pro7 in publishing (and marketing and supporting and-and-and...) a free MMO (without too much ads)? How does this whole thing work?

[Figment]

Soooo... since us Euros wouldn't be able to play on US (or rather, SOE) servers...



What does that mean for... Beta?

[basti]

Originally Posted by RadarX

Good because it wasn't personal. Honestly if I hadn't nabbed it, someone else would have.

I cannot clarify more at this time as details are still being worked out. Even though this isn't an official SOE forum, I am reading the feedback (except for the insults because we have a special brain filter). We want to know your thoughts and I'm glad many of you are expressing them.

Details not worked out?

Wow, just, wow.

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by Mister101

All the people that complained about the Chinese deserved to be region locked.

I feel everyone's pain, but this man drives a very good point. Some people complained about them and it came around.

[Mastachief]

as for latency? if it is hosted in germany i will not getting any better ping from the uk than i do to gemini

[DaddyTickles]

Originally Posted by basti

Details not worked out?

Wow, just, wow.

Yeah that FAQ isn't looking quite so authorative now, is it?