The Old Republic will not be region locked at launch

@Peej

True it'll be laggy. But hey, I bet the people in those regions would take that over not playing at all.

@Peej not necessarily.. depends how shitty your isp is. i play lag free on asian servers.

@Zal

I don't think it's the lag for the aussies etc that they're worried about. The lag also hits others around them hard. Imagine trying to group, much less PvP someone across the fracking ocean. This is the reason most competitive games try to region-lock their servers.

@Sponge

Ever heard of Latency?

http://www.numion.com/calculators/Distance.html

@Anticrawl so? it will never hurt those who don't have it. latency is no reason to lock the game. in fact i don't see any reason for mmo with subscription to be locked.

@DokiDokiBawanga

Why would you be against localized servers though? I'm confizzled. They are only region free at launch so they can determine where they need to open servers based on local demand.

@Anticrawl no i'm not against i just don't see reason why people that want to play at launch have to wait localization not to mention it might take a shit load of time to get to my county. so by the time it gets here i'm might be already at endgame on USA or EU servers.

@Anticrawl but anyway EU servers will be in Ireland and just speed tested to them and speed is pretty brisk http://www.speedtest.net/result/1433012471.png

@Anticrawl

Its hard to test local demand if you don't let anyone from the location play.

@Anticrawl

Because I have friends in Europe and I'd like to play an MMO with them? If it's region-locked I can't. Just preface the European servers with EU and a "Recommended" note for Europeans so they know they're better suited to those servers. SWG did it, worked out fine. I like being able to play with my European friends and vice-versa, and was annoying to no end when WoW had arbitrary limits from us playing together even if we didn't care about latency. Giving people a latency warning lets them beware so they don't do it on accident.

So why region-lock once you let people know about latency issues if they do it? The internet has made us a global society, living in the real world together, so why can't we play in our virtual worlds together?

@jsowers That's almost entirely to do with the undead/scourge in WoW. They aren't allowed to have bones showing so they had to redesign the entire Wrath expansion just for China.

@blackangel209

Yeah, beware all the sacks of grain they used to replace skeletons in the base game. I still don't know how they dealt with the skeletons everywhere in WotLK, if it's even released in China yet.

@blackangel209 sayyyy whhaaaaaatttttt 0.o that is strange

@Anticrawl Russian zerg. we are coming.

@Shadowbender
If they give you everything at once, how can they sell you expansion packs? :P