Forced Servers Confirmed

[Vollstrecker]

http://wc3.ogresnet.com/html/interviews.php?l=tyren

That's right. Our guild may have to be reorganized.

[Grav]

I'll believe it when I read it on the Blizzard site.. anything can happen at this point.

[Randuin]

Post your locations!

West coast here.

[Sovereign]

Central US....

This fucking blows..

[Grav]

Seems to be real.

http://www.battle.net/forums/wow/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=2005765&p=1#post2005765

This sucks. East Coast..

[slaynish]

Missouri

Wait,.. Whats that?

[Shade]

Central US

Ah I'm glad this happened!

[Randuin]

I guess Volls will only be the leader of US West

[Vollstrecker]

Ok, this is what I've gathered, flying thru about every damned thread over on this:


It appears this will not affect the North American servers. We should be able to go East/West without any trouble, however anyone overseas appears to be fucked. Australia's region is unknown as of this time.
This may or may not be for a limited time after release.
There is an apalling lack of response from Blizzard about this issue, so most of the information that I've gathered seems to be hearsay evidence.


Just in case, I am West Coast.

[Medieval Bob]

(para)
Q: Before the Beta, drinking effects were mentioned as possibly turning all characters into a hot female. Will new effects/consequences be implemented aside from the slurring of text, and swaying when walking?

A: For every 20% drunk you are, creatures appear one level lower than they actually are.

Haha. That's great.

*harkens to a country song*

I let Jim Beam
Tell me I could
Take some guy
Twice my size,
But ol' Jim lied.

[Grav]

This just seems to be for playing (or not playing) internationally. No big deal for us. Mostly just means Europeans can't play on North American servers at launch.

[Randuin]

Right, and we won't have an influx of level 99 Koreans

[Grav]

It's actually beneficial if you think about it.

[Randuin]

You mean massive itamz?

[Grav]

No, the server nonsense.

[Vollstrecker]

I can't think of any WoW people here overseas, we seem to be ok. Beneficial if all the friggin' Guilds that go from Game to Game skip this one for that reason. Less Korean power-gamers to flood the economy and be general jackasses.

Blizzard's lack of comment on this still disturbs me.

[Grav]

Their comment was "we'll discuss it later."

[Randuin]

ask_rabber told me he was Korean in attempt to get my beta account... :(

[Vollstrecker]

LMAO!

He tried the "Azn pride" thing, huh?

[Randuin]

He started with "What's your pet's name"

[Grav]

I think that was me. What's your mother's maiden name?

[Randuin]

You both started with the same comment :p

[Vollstrecker]

VERY nice. lol

[NonGayMan]

http://www.battle.net/forums/wow/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=2005765&p=1#post2005765

[==Nit5u4==]

so what will the official zelaron guild be on?, West Coast or East Coast? Also if you live on east coast but want to play on west will you lagg more or will it not matter like in d2?

[WetWired]

I'm Central US. If they do it by IPs, I just may have to look into setting up some way of bouncing other people off my server.

[Vollstrecker]

It will be done by billing address, it appears.

Also, it seems to be for non-US people connecting to US servers. It makes sense, since International releases will be coming out after the US release, so they don't want to get completely smashed.

Within the US, it looks like we will be able to choose what 'Realm' we wanna play on.

[WetWired]

You mean they're going to force you to pay by CC? I'm so used to paying for RO with PayPal...

[Vollstrecker]

Unsure about the Paypal, and Gamecards are planned for a release a little after the US release.

[ask_rabber]

ask_rabber told me he was Korean in attempt to get my beta account... :(

No way did I tell you I was Korean. You asked if I lived in asia, and I gave the time in Korea.

By the way, Central U.S. here.