Poor Australians...

You probably already know that SC2 is, and will still be at release, region-locked.
US vs US, EU vs EU, ... Australia vs Asia!

The official theory says "for lag reasons".
Previously, Australia played on north American servers. Makes sense.
Ever tried talking English in Asia or reading what they come up with?

If I want to verse a friend in America at a custom map, they had best provide a way before a hacker obliges instead. :thup:

Man, I really feel sorry for you Australians ... I once joined the asian WC3 server and tried to communicate, but nobody seemed to understand even a single word of english.

i think only the Philippines uses english as a secondary language in Asia.

Then again...You rarely see Fillipinos on Bnet due to either them hosting games over lan Via programs like Garena or pirated games.

Zwiebelchen said:

Man, I really feel sorry for you Australians ... I once joined the asian WC3 server and tried to communicate, but nobody seemed to understand even a single word of english.

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Not to mention the fact that they'll have to play with all the pro Koreans... sucks for them.

What the hell man. Starcraft II is pissing me off! How the hell can they say it's for lag reasons when I've been playing in US East, probably the farthest region from the Philippines without any lag?

I think Battle.Net 2 uses dedicated servers? If so, then it still won't make sense, I've seen hosts from US with crappy internet, yet they managed to keep the game clean of lag. I have no idea where the hell they came up with the idea that it should be region locked. Out of everything people begged for in this game, this is surely not one of them.

I'm gonna play along side with Koreans? Do any of you know the ratio of how much Koreans are annoying and how much they're okay? 2 annoying Koreans out of 1. Also, they're probably like Germans when they host. They will kick you if you're not a Korean. Mo Koreans in my school sorta don't have any other groups other than their own ethnicity. You know when was the last time I played in the Asia server? NEVER. I said play, and I truly never played there.

Poor Australians? Don't you mean, poor, who ever can't understand any other major languages other than English? I'm going to expect game names with characters unrecognizable from my computer.

i think only the Philippines uses english as a secondary language in Asia.

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Singaporeans are also good at speaking English. (I think it's because, now that they're business oriented, they teach English to their students to hopefully have more business relations in other nations.) Maybe they will speak English in Battle.Net instead of their own native language. (Hopefully)

Then again...You rarely see Fillipinos on Bnet due to either them hosting games over lan Via programs like Garena or pirated games.

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Piracy is very common in the Philippines, that even I'll admit I've bought about a hundred pirated discs without worrying some FBI people will barge in my house one day. There will be people who will only buy pirated version of this game. Only a very few will buy the original but I doubt that our "middle-class" or lower will buy an original copy of this game. Prices are very costly nowadays. I do agree when you say they only play LAN games even if they have Battle.Net to play on. I guess some people prefer that.

Summary of my Post = The most frustrating and what I find useless feature of Battle.Net2 would be this.

No one read that Australia gets Thailand and Malaysia and stuff, and not Korea.
There should be no English problem.

More like poor everyone, region lock is pathetic. How does that fit into their latest "we want our community to grow together" philosophy?

At least I'm doing the best i can to mix it up with the Aussies. Yay Beta.

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Piracy is very common in the Philippines, that even I'll admit I've bought about a hundred pirated discs without worrying some FBI people will barge in my house one day. There will be people who will only buy pirated version of this game. Only a very few will buy the original but I doubt that our "middle-class" or lower will buy an original copy of this game. Prices are very costly nowadays. I do agree when you say they only play LAN games even if they have Battle.Net to play on. I guess some people prefer that.

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buying pirated discs? lol
Why dont you just download games? In germany buying pirated discs is in fact way more risky

or do you mean like original copys that are way too cheap to be legal?

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more like poor everyone, region lock is pathetic. How does that fit into their latest "we want our community to grow together" philosophy?

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QTF.

hmmm, that illegal cracked version is looking more and more appealing.

Region lock my ass.I can play with US people and I'm in asia.

it says "at release".

wow, it's like blizzard just keeps finding new ways to piss people off

Wait, what? Is this just for ladder games or does it apply to custom games as well?

most likely all games including custom ones

I've become a bit vary of SC2.
Any map that you submit automatically becomes blizzards property, iirc, which won't matter for most of us anyway, but I dislike the idea.

Take DOTA, if that map would have been made in the SC2 map editor, it would have been owned by blizzard, and the thought appals me.

Hurray for 90% of Australian custom games with Asian tooltips... Starcraft 2 is looking better and better

Wtf...
To prevent lag :S

I've been playing HoN on USW servers and can play that fine.
Is bad enough in that game when you used to get pinoys who couldn't speak english
(Until they got shoved on Garena)


I like this game, but Blizzard keep giving me more and more reasons not to buy it.

I take back my previous comment then.