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Korean Version to Begin IP Blocking with NA/EU Release
SBFord
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Korean Version to Begin IP Blocking with NA/EU Release
Daum has announced that IP blocks will be put in place for the Korean version of Black Desert Online with the release of the North American and European version of the game on March 3rd.
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Part of me is glad I haven't.
Just need the vpn to click on the start button to bypass the block, and before you choose a channel, close it and play with your own internet.
Google and Youtube along with fan sites are your friend.
WTFast is now subscription pay. There is a free trial, but I believe it is time limited.
https://www.wtfast.com/Subscription/Index/new
Every MMORPG is AWESOME, until it's released!
I don't want a game so much as I want a WORLD!
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And yea, I agree DirtyDozen, it'll weed out people.
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people knowing this is 100% p2w wopn't help on selling it over here.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Mid-eastern/arab countries are all blocked.
South africa, blocked.
Turkey.
Whole SEA region.
Here's a funny part aka most idiotic, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania all are redirected to RU server despite all of those countries do not speak Russian.
South America....all blocked.
They said they are blocking regions so the game would get published with a different publisher covering those specific regions. Middle east doesn't have any publishers and they're a huge market. I can't help but think someone lacks market knowledge in that department.
Large VPN services like HideMyAss and Avast, have as much traffic as a small internet exchange, that's not free, they pay a ton of money to get that bandwidth by connecting to real internet exchanges, and those exchanges ask money. If you want to get online as an entity without an ISP, you pay an internet exchange for bandwidth, that's what the NSA does, that's how they tap off the internet.
Some VPN that let you browse the internet are free, but they make up for that by spamming you with ads or viruses, they can't do when you play games.
Is it against the ToS to talk about VPNs for the purpose of getting around ip blocks here?
Many games also don't forbid it, it really depends on the game. I play Everquest with a VPN all the time, not because there is an ipblock, there isn't, I just prefer it that way, and there are no rules against it.
As long as it's about VPN in a broad sense, it's no problem I think.
The other reason would be the Korean version if still holds true will have more content,more game,likely to sell DLC's to the NA audience,instead of giving them the actual game as it is in Korea.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
That being said, you start adding quite a bit of latency when you're playing games on the other side of the world through a VPN. If you think the latency is bad without tunneling, then be prepared for a shock.
It also works for games that release on a certain day. I was playing Fallout 4 something like 24 hours before it came out in NA market.