Asian Alliance with Gamania

Farseen

Did anyone read this newsreport? It states that SOE and Gamania will be stiving to promote the game in countries such as Indonesia, China, Malaysia etc. I think thats great, cultural diversity is awesome. Although now im starting to think, does this mean more players will try to log on during launch? And does that also mean that way more players (because of Asia's introduction to the game) will always be on? Higher Pings and such?

I just hope that this won't affect the lag, or the cost which we will be paying per month to make sure there isn't lag..opinions everybody!

-Farseen-
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rathma

 This should be interesting... I don't think this will work out very well, unless they have seperate language servers.

 I'd hate to ask someone if i can join a group and a message of chinese letters appear. It will be FFXI all over again .

 This also means the game will delay longer for changing the languages and whatnot.. Does this mean all the voice actors have to do it in chinese? And then Indian? This all doesn't make very much sense... Looks like SOE just wanted more money.

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Farseen

Yea i hope they don't delay the game to add language filters and what not. I hope its not FFXI all over again. I think if Asia wants to participate in the Everquest 2 world, they should create their entire own servers. Maybe SOE should hand them over the game production so far, and let them develop the languages so that the North American release date won't have to be pushed back...

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zcandymanz

If they don't have seperate servers i dont think i would play i don't wanna play with koreans, over 10 people have been kiled in S. Korea over ingame occurences on MMORPG's they are crazy. They should be able to give them thier own, but there are always those people who wanna play on foriegn servers

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Vakktn

If they allow koreans on the american servers... Kiss the game good bye cuz farmers/botters ruin games...

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Farseen

In no offence to Asians at all, but i have around 3 friends from china/korea. And what they do is they take shifts playing the game. While one is busy working, the other is playing the game. Then if the person playing has to go, the 3rd takes a shift and plays the game. Then again, they continuously rotate so their character practically is never logged off.

This may sound like a joke, but i know the people that do this. They treat the game like more of a race to get to the best, then actually RPing itself. For some reason, the 'grinding level' effect just never kicks in. They could fight for hours, if not an entire day, without stopping for anything. Its insane. If they were to join the North American servers, it would be insane...I just hope they make their own servers for Asia.

The whole language thing is just crazy too. Impossible... in FFXI, convos would go like this:

"Hey man, wanna party? Maybe head over to kill some Orc Pawns?"

Reply: "^^; no english"

cant take it! don't ruin EQ2 SOE! Don't Do It !

-Farseen-
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Vakktn

Haha yeah I remember when I was playing lineage 2 and I was powerleveling a friends twink with my lvl 50 spellhowler using AoE poison on lirens and the korean botters farm in that area. The language barrier was so bad. All theyd say is "You go now"... considering they are lvl 25 and im lvl 50 they need some persuasion to leave me alone... So I soloed the "Trenant" that protects noobs from PKers... Suffice to say they left my mobs alone after that =P. Not to mention I one shotted one once with a hurricane when he shot me with an arrow ROFL.

If I see korean/asia botters/farmers in EQ2 im bolting and never playing it again.

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"Those who brake the ninja code and rules of this world are called trash. But you know what? Those who don't take care of their comrades are even lower than trash." - Hatake Kakashi

nooblet

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Originally posted by Vakktn

. The language barrier was so bad. All theyd say is "You go now"...

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Oh god yes... In dark eden theres alot of people from hong kong that play i belive , and all they would say is ''you go now'' ''ok you die'' ''3'' ''2'' ''1'' *pks me* lol. No offence i dont mean to sound racist but if they let all the asians play on NA servers it will honestly ruin the game. I have nothing against them but for some odd reason it seems they have something against us , Once they get high enough lvl they refuse to group with anyone that isnt of their race(Im not saying all of them , yes there are some nice asian players) but the majority will. Of course i wont be playing on a pvp server on eq2. It will trn out to be another ffxi or lineage2  and who wants that lol. Lets just hope SOE goes about this smartly and makes them their own servers if they are gunna do this. Oh and not to mention the language barrier too which is a pain in the @ss. I would have no problem with them playing on NA servers if they co-operate and can atleast speak some english.

zcandymanz

I really hope they can keep them off our servers, they will have to make thier copy of the game only work on thier won servers, and there should be plenty of asian servers. I will be so mad if SOE justs sellsout and does the easiest thing though.

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vamse

On everquest there were 2 big asian guilds on the server I played on (american tholuxe paells server)with like 60-80 people and first of all they play on different times then europeans and american people, as a european player I had no trouble at all with lag on the american server and neither did they, and I never had any problems with them (besides a few who do not speak english) but they were all skilled people and alot more friendly then a few of the typical american uber guilds.

So posting about you not wanting them seems like alot of BS, then you can just as well ban an foreign player from 'your' server, most replies sound like a bunch of children.

zcandymanz

The hardcore asian guilds that i encountered on everquest were nothing like the korean guilds on lineage 2, you have top experience it to believe how it can really ruin a game. And this alliance thing will bring way more of them on everquest 2, on everquest i never found more than 3 people who didnt speak fluent english, on lineage 2 it was insane. I just hope I don't get on a server with a majoirty of characters that are played over 20 hours a day. Everquest 2 does have a good system to keep the game fun for evertyone though. I am going to play on a roleplay server that should be a safe bet.

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vamse

you probably never found more then 3 non english speaking players because american playtime is way more different then european or asian/australian playtime, on my server there were german, french, korean, chineese speaking guilds, but they will only play when you are asleep...thus not bothering you at all, most of those players were over the age of 20 anyway with jobs. And botting will be way less with the new eq2 rules...so I still havent heard 1 good reason that they shouldnt be on 'your' server.

DeadmanInc

The way to eliminate botters is not to ban foreign people from the U.S. servers, its for the game company to take a stand and ban them.

sparkatb

Asia will most likely get EQ2 sometime in year 2005.

http://www.sonyonline.com/corp/press_releases/051104_square_sony.html

Square Enix Co., Ltd. (Square Enix), an industry-leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content including the world’s most popular franchises FINAL FANTASY® and DRAGON QUEST, and Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online (MMO) gaming, today announced that Square Enix will be publishing SOE’s EVERQUEST® II in Japan in early 2005. Square Enix and SOE will be working together to “culturalize” EVERQUEST II for the Japanese market, and Square Enix will handle distribution, marketing, customer service and hosting of the game.

Its unlikely most of those players will want to play on US servers, considering they will have the game culturalized for their version of EQ2. Internet ping times shouldnt be bad, cause no lag at all. Their internet network infrastructure is by far better than most of what Europe has. Japan alone has fibreoptic 26mb+ minimum connections. Also i think FFXI has over 1million subscribers on PC+PS2 platforms, most of those are from Asia and some from the US, just shows of what a such huge market Asia has to offer.