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To some extent this is a problem with Diablo 3 and Battle.net in general too. If you (like I did) travel to Europe, download/play D3 on the EU servers, then co
by acabal 14y ago
To some extent this is a problem with Diablo 3 and Battle.net in general too. If you (like I did) travel to Europe, download/play D3 on the EU servers, then come back home to the US, you'll find that your character is forever trapped in the Europe zone, and you'll have to start a new one in the US zone if you want to play with < 1000ms ping.
I have no idea why companies still region lock things when almost the entire point of the internet was to be a global network.
- mguillemot 14y agoTo be fair with Blizzard, they DO allow you to create characters in any of the 3 zones (Europe/America/Asia) with any valid account, which is an improvement over their previous games. But true, you'd better give some thoughts about which one you really want to use before starting the game. Which is a shame when half of your friends are playing in Europe, the other in Americas, and you yourself live in Japan. Being in the field of online games and payments, I think the main reason they don't allow you to transfer characters between zones is the Real Money Auction House (for legal reasons and not to allow inter-zone speculation).
- Dylan16807 14y agoFor Diablo they do. For starcraft if you want to play with someone on a different continent... well it's supposedly coming soon. I mean the game's only been out for over two years, can't expect them to have the multiplayer working.