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"Beta is for US residents only"- Getting sick of that!
Richter
Member Posts: 16
It has been too many times I have seen this retarded message pop-up after a full registration:
"Sorry. Beta is open for US & Canada residents only".
Dear publishers,
#1: Europe has 100 Million more residents
#2: Internet penetration is at the same level and Western Europe even exceeds US
So what is this all about?
Can't afford to co-host a server somehwere in Europe 'cause you haven't been out of state before?
Nahhh.., so get moving and make sure you penetrate the largest market of the world from the very start. You bunch of anti-marketeers.
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Well, if the company sends out beta CDs then it costs more to ship it overseas...however since most companies seem to do downloads, I have no idea what the problem is.
Saga of Ryzom is european as is Dark & Light I believe, so maybe you will get to play those before us in the western hemisphere.
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Yeah, I can see their point 100%. My point is to go complain on their forums, not ours
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Well, it is important to think that the point of beta testing is not for the worlds entertainment. The purpose of these tests is to work the bugs out of the game and test server loads, etc. To run a multi-national beta test (at least having servers across the globe) would only add to their headaches and serve no real gain...other than making non-US fans more happy.
I think it makes sense for a game developer to keep the servers local, where they can easily monitor and admister them. It would not supprise me to see games developed in Korea or Europe not allowing US customers to beta...it is just logical.
Some of these companies (like Mutable Realms) are allowing anyone to beta, but they are still not setting up servers in other countries...they just make to connect from afar.
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this game excluded americans until just before christmas except some news guys and site owners.
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this game excluded americans until just before christmas except some news guys and site owners.
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Uhm I have been signed up for that beta even b4 they changed company, never did I see anywhere that they were excluding sign ups by US/Canada so I believe you are wrong.
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actually beta 1 (under GOA) was exclusive to Europe it even said so on their site back then.
I don't think there are that many more americans in beta 2
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Your friend must have slid in on pure luck or something. I also recall the first beta being EU only.
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Also, if the developers get players who are in the same geographical location (US only for instance) then there is more of a chance that those players will be playing at similar times, so they can have the server loading they want. And they will have a better idea of when most of those players will be online so they can monitor the players more closely and be reay for support issues and whatnot.
Under wich stone did you live the last years.
I can play FF XI with perfect latency from here. AUSTRIA
That'S in europe... for the US ones here since i keep explaining this.
Austria is NOT down under.
FF XI is on japanese Servers.
I ping around 90 to 110 to US MMORPG servers wich is WAY more than needed to play smooth.
Stop posting such bullcrap in the future man.
Well Saga of Ryzom is Europe only atm, so you guys end up on top there. Also I believe the reason is partially due to the laws and also about a publisher. Most games don't get European publishers until the game is near release (as they mainly just distribute the product) where as North American publishers prefer to invest in the game at the beginning and own the rights to it (IE EA and UBI).
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Well If you think about it there is also Y's online which is also eu only so I have no idea how many games are eu only but there are a few so its not only the Us who does closed beta open to only its residents It is also in EU the same on some of its games
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This thread is 5 years old, no reason to dig it up, just to comment on it, is there?
Perhaps start a new thread about this, if it is still a problem?
Actually, there are a lot of games, usually not the mainstream ones of course, that are only in europe and/or asia. Probably far more than those games for north america. Believe it or not.
There are a lot of reasons for it, sometimes the company doen't have the rights to whatever property that they are licensing outside of the U.S. and/or Canada, therefore they cannot let people outside of those areas play. Secondly, as someone else has said, the non-disclosure agreement has zero legal weight outside of the U.S. There are always legal reasons why these things are done, just as there are some games that are done specifically for the Asian market.
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