SEA region SC2 accounts to be merged into Americas
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ThePastor
New Zealand380 Posts
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NomaKasd
Scotland65 Posts
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WarreNSC2
United States28 Posts
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PuroYO
Norway163 Posts
I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments. Not being able to choose region is so outdated. | ||
SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote: Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway? I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments. Not being able to choose region is so outdated. You've been able to choose your region with one account in SC2 for many many years. | ||
Meepman
Canada610 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:30 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: You've been able to choose your region with one account in SC2 for many many years. have you considered just overlooking that fact to complain about blizz's handling of sc2 though? | ||
DieuCure
France3713 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote: Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway? I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments. Not being able to choose region is so outdated. But you can in 5 sc, i dont get your point | ||
looknohands119
United States815 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5465 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:40 Meepman wrote: have you considered just overlooking that fact to complain about blizz's handling of sc2 though? Hahaha well played. | ||
hexhaven
Finland854 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:40 Meepman wrote: have you considered just overlooking that fact to complain about blizz's handling of sc2 though? Post of the year right here. | ||
IMSupervisor
Australia138 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:40 Meepman wrote: have you considered just overlooking that fact to complain about blizz's handling of sc2 though? TL would lose half of its traffic | ||
BigRedDog
461 Posts
When I lived in Singapore, I tried to play in SEA server and will wait for a long time to find a player for 1v1. I ended up playing in NA servers. | ||
Clbull
United Kingdom1436 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:28 PuroYO wrote: Remind me, why is there a regional lock to SC2 anyway? I am so used to Dota2, being able to choose region, anything else just restricts competitive play and forces people to purchase multiple accounts to play with their friend or family from a different region or enter online tournaments. Not being able to choose region is so outdated. There was a regional lock back in Wings of Liberty, likely because people higher up at Blizzard - or with their parent company Activision Blizzard - wanted to milk as much money out of the player-base as possible. It was a pretty unpopular move and a huge departure to the global play system we saw in previous Blizzard multiplayer games. Anybody who was serious about competing across regions essentially had to purchase a new copy of the game for each region they wanted to play in. You also had to install separate versions of the game as well and had to play SC2 in the region's native language, which meant that anybody playing on the prestigious KR version either had to use a South Korean SSN to obtain a Korean account and then download the Korean client or purchase a Taiwanese game license and play using the Taiwanese client, which had access to the same region. By Heart of the Swarm, Blizzard abandoned this philosophy and introduced global play with truly global language support, allowing players to select a different region and create a separate character on that region and most importantly use the same client. I think the only region that you can't play on globally right now is China, but that's understandably due to how closed off it is. | ||
digmouse
China6270 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51298 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States15561 Posts
On June 24 2017 08:07 NomaKasd wrote: Interesting. Sounds like the swarm is coming to the US. Huge % gonna increase in the zergs It'd be impossible to notice really, NA is already flooded with Zerg as is. | ||
Kingsky
Singapore298 Posts
What happens to my account now? Do i have 2 starcrafts? | ||
ThunderBum
Australia192 Posts
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Dingodile
4121 Posts
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esReveR
United States560 Posts
On June 28 2017 18:23 Dingodile wrote: "merged" is wrong. SEA accounts just "moved" to NA. Which would be a merge... More players means shorter queue times. Good news for all I suppose? | ||
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