No Cross Realm Support! WTF?
Posted: May 29th, 2010, 3:11 am
There are many Europeans that have loads of American friends, and have a problem finding matches with Americans. I know you've already promised to bridge this divide...
[Bob Colayco: That's not the case.]
No, it'll be structured very similarly to World of Warcraft, where you've got the European region and players matched against the other players within their region.
[BC: We haven't promised anything like that. That's something we'll look into, but I just wanted to jump in and clarify that.]
But you're not excluding the possibility – you're just saying there are no current plans for it?
StarCraft 2There are no current plans for it, and if you're a European player and you've got friends that are in another region that you want to be able to connect with, we definitely want to support that. It might mean that you have to access it through the US client, but those facilities will definitely be available in terms of, if you want the US client, go to the US website, download the US client.
So I can use my same account?
No.
So I need to buy two clients, that's what you're saying?
Yeah.
But I can have two of them in my Battle.net account?
You'd have an EU Battle.net account, and a US Battle.net account.
And that wouldn't be against the Terms of Service or End User License Agreement?
No. I'm pretty sure that's not against the TOS or EULA, but you'd be subject to the terms of the EULA for the region in which you're playing.
Source: http://www.incgamers.com/Interviews/270 ... nterview/2
Old Dev Chat:
Q: How far in the 'long term' are those plans which allow for swapping to U.S. servers on an E.U. account - or a global account?
A: Jumping to the region you want is definitely in the long term plan for Battle.net, although we do have some concerns about communicating properly to the player what's happening if they choose this because it WILL affect the latency of the game. As far as a date on when, I don't have one yet. There are a number of features that we want to make sure get out their first and jumping to different servers is lower on the priority list at the moment.
Seriously Blizzard WTF?
[Bob Colayco: That's not the case.]
No, it'll be structured very similarly to World of Warcraft, where you've got the European region and players matched against the other players within their region.
[BC: We haven't promised anything like that. That's something we'll look into, but I just wanted to jump in and clarify that.]
But you're not excluding the possibility – you're just saying there are no current plans for it?
StarCraft 2There are no current plans for it, and if you're a European player and you've got friends that are in another region that you want to be able to connect with, we definitely want to support that. It might mean that you have to access it through the US client, but those facilities will definitely be available in terms of, if you want the US client, go to the US website, download the US client.
So I can use my same account?
No.
So I need to buy two clients, that's what you're saying?
Yeah.
But I can have two of them in my Battle.net account?
You'd have an EU Battle.net account, and a US Battle.net account.
And that wouldn't be against the Terms of Service or End User License Agreement?
No. I'm pretty sure that's not against the TOS or EULA, but you'd be subject to the terms of the EULA for the region in which you're playing.
Source: http://www.incgamers.com/Interviews/270 ... nterview/2
Old Dev Chat:
Q: How far in the 'long term' are those plans which allow for swapping to U.S. servers on an E.U. account - or a global account?
A: Jumping to the region you want is definitely in the long term plan for Battle.net, although we do have some concerns about communicating properly to the player what's happening if they choose this because it WILL affect the latency of the game. As far as a date on when, I don't have one yet. There are a number of features that we want to make sure get out their first and jumping to different servers is lower on the priority list at the moment.
Seriously Blizzard WTF?