• Australian StarCraft II players to get access to North American servers

    Published on 23-07-10 at 10:38 PM AEST by
    Jay
    Good news everyone! Blizzard had originally planned to lock Australian StarCraft II players to the Southeast Asian servers, making it impossible to play with a larger English speaking community on North American servers. Recently however, they announced via the game's official Facebook page that they won't be region-locking Australian players to Southeast Asian servers after all.

    While going back on their decision, Australian players won't be able to play on North American servers immediately after launch, but will be allowed to do so within 60 days of it. Access to European and Korean servers will still be restricted.

    Unfortunately though, it won't be as simple as 'switching' servers. Players will be required to download the North American StarCraft II client to change the region, and we should also note that players stats are dependent on region, so these won't carry over when players switch between the different servers.

    Blizzard scraps region-lock for Australian StarCraft II players [Gamespot]
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    1. Milenko's Avatar
      Milenko - 23-07-10, 11:14 PM
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 24-07-10, 10:46 AM
      This is great for a couple of reasons. The first being I only speak English, and the second being that Americans generally aren't nearly as good as Asians - considering how bad I am, I'm most excited about that.
    1. Joshuayu101's Avatar
      Joshuayu101 - 24-07-10, 12:24 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by rec View Post
      This is great for a couple of reasons. The first being I only speak English, and the second being that Americans generally aren't nearly as good as Asians - considering how bad I am, I'm most excited about that.
      at least now you will be raged at in English
    1. Jay's Avatar
      Jay - 24-07-10, 01:29 PM
      Or something that used to resemble the English language.
    1. HeReTiC's Avatar
      HeReTiC - 24-07-10, 05:43 PM
      This is the same as starcraft one, we would all connect to american servers but so would asians and koreans for easy prey and the asian servers were overloaded
    1. Chycophy's Avatar
      Chycophy - 25-07-10, 04:43 PM
      Has anyone tried to go to StarCraft II website today? It directs me to the shitty Korean official starcraft 2 site!!!
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 25-07-10, 04:53 PM
      On my mobile atm, so can't be bothered checking, but if there's a 'kr' in the URL, change it to 'us'. That works with Battle.net. If there's not, I'm out of ideas.
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 26-07-10, 04:41 PM
      Game Informer have a 3 page spread on Blizzard's move to introduce the Southeast Asia server farm, if anyone's interested. I'm not sure if it's on stores yet, but if you're heading down to EB Games for the StarCraft II launch you may find it there.
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