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BadvokBadvok Member Posts: 22
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

With eager anticipation my mouse glides over to the free 14 day trial offer for CoH and dammit, its USA residents only. This has happened before with other games, why? Am I, being from Blighty, less likely to sign up as result of the trial? Is my £ sterling just not good enough? Or is it racism? (don't hate me because I am pink). Why? WHY? WHYYYYYY????

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  • KaabulkKaabulk Member Posts: 670
    um..i hate you because your...pink..yea..what type of guy dyes his skin and hair pink...
  • xxthecorexxxxthecorexx Member Posts: 1,078
    Originally posted by Badvok


    With eager anticipation my mouse glides over to the free 14 day trial offer for CoH and dammit, its USA residents only. This has happened before with other games, why? Am I, being from Blighty, less likely to sign up as result of the trial? Is my £ sterling just not good enough? Or is it racism? (don't hate me because I am pink). Why? WHY? WHYYYYYY????
    find out if you can use a buddy key for a US player. if ya can pm me your email and i'll get ya one.

    ____________________________
    TheCore

  • SalengerSalenger Member UncommonPosts: 554
    Well all i have to say is wath TEAM AMERICA WORLD POLICE F%^^*& Y%^&%&
  • specter843specter843 Member Posts: 84
    I would guess it has more to do with servers than anything else. But thats just a guess....
  • deathgagedeathgage Member Posts: 28
    COX is divided into US and EU most likely why its US only there was a EU not to long back though might still be going maybe search around?
  • dimmit77dimmit77 Member Posts: 294
    Originally posted by Badvok


    With eager anticipation my mouse glides over to the free 14 day trial offer for CoH and dammit, its USA residents only. This has happened before with other games, why? Am I, being from Blighty, less likely to sign up as result of the trial? Is my £ sterling just not good enough? Or is it racism? (don't hate me because I am pink). Why? WHY? WHYYYYYY????

     

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  • ConleyConley Member Posts: 195

     

    Don't know if it works for COX but i remember FF11 being U.S. only in the beginning. I wasn't able to fill in a dutch adress, only a u.s. adress during signing up, and i kept getting errors that the postal code did not exist. What i did was give up a fake adress, which i just ripped from the internet (just typed adress in google and saw the adress of some american company and copied and pasted it into the application form).

    Strangely, i was still able to use my dutch mastercard as payment option and it worked. Don't know if it works for other games though, but you could try it.

  • Home15Home15 Member Posts: 203
    Its silly we know, maybe try asking a US friend/friends to sign up for you?

    Works for me.
  • SramotaSramota Member Posts: 756

    Originally posted by CaesarsGhost I'd like to bring to the table something nobody has yet mentioned because of their lack of Industry Experience: There are many users out there from Europe and Asia who join the American Servers and break the rules.  After they break them, and complain to the company of their banishment, they state that the EULA and ToS do not apply to them as they are under a seperate ruling body. I'm not saying all users overseas are as such.  But like anything, a few bad apples who are very loud have ruined it for you. Sometimes the seperation of European and American servers are done specifically to help facilitate the correct EULA and ToS for the ruling body for that region. When these bad apple's hit in droves (aka: when the word "Free" is used), sometimes limiting the amount of feedback helps. ...I'm not saying it's you.  But it happens.
    Indeed, because we know every single US resident is a saint and would NEVER do anything of the kind.image
    You're as close to racism as you get there li'l buddy.

    Played so far: 9Dragons, AO, AC, AC2, CoX, DAoC, DF, DnL, DR, DDO, Ent, EvE, EQ, EQ2, FoMK, FFO, Fury, GW, HG:L, HZ, L1, L2, M59, MU, NC1, NC2, PS, PT, R:O, RF:O, RYL, Ryzom, SL, SB, SW:G, TR, TCoS, MX:O, UO, VG, WAR, WoW...
    It all sucked.

  • CaesarsGhostCaesarsGhost Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 2,136
    it's not racism.



    But I can call a American's ISP, it's TONS of work for somebody in Europe.

    - CaesarsGhost

    Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
    "When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."

  • xaussxauss Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 384

    there would be 2 reasons for it...

    1. differentiate US / EU markets so as to make more money off europeans who would otherwise switch to cheaper subs on US servers (apple in court over not allowing european itunes downloads from UK IPs anyone?!)

    2. block asian IPs for fear of the farmer...

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