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[draco1234]

But it's a free-to-play game, so that makes no sense.  Unless they are planning of region-locking it on principle, which to be fair is stupid.

[Girlinhat]

I can sorta understand region-locking for action games.  World of Tanks, Vindictus, Tribes, and Planetside 2 would all have such ping requirements as to make out-of-country play impractical.  But... it seems like people with poor connections would naturally not play.  They don't need someone to tell them what country they live in, they can risk playing poorly on their own.  So I have no idea why you would actively restrict your target audience.  Seems like the best way to make less money is to appeal to less people.

[palsch]

The region locking was abandoned pretty quickly back in February. No mentions of that or the European group in more recent news. It's something you would do if there was high risk of failure (European producer takes the risk for that region while you charge them a license fee, using that to cover the risks in the US) so before the hype got going I could sort of understand it. A fair few weaker generic Korean MMO grind fests do the same. Wouldn't have made sense for PS2 though.

IRC geeks interested in my opening a room on Freenode, or do you have a server you prefer?

[draco1234]

If it's been scrapped, thats alright then.  And the ping difference playing on US servers for me isn't too bad, because there tends to be quite a large difference on ping on EU servers anyway. 

[Aptus]

Anyone have a source that region locking has been scrapped? I kind of want to stop sobbing now.

[Dariush]

Yes Dariush, we know you enjoy living in an older time when IRC dominates and region locking is considered a valid business venture.  The rest of us will resume living in 2012 where we can use our house phone to send a message into space, bounce of 3 satellites and a massive tower and transmit realtime data signals so that our cell phone will ring and we can find where we left it in our other pants.  Technology man.  Get with the times.

Wait what? What relation does your post have to anything?

Freenode would be best, yes.

[timferius]

That does sound rather archaic... hope it is scrapped, I'd hate to see us all split!

[palsch]

Anyone have a source that region locking has been scrapped? I kind of want to stop sobbing now.

http://forums.station.sony.com/dcuopc/posts/list.m?topic_id=47694

[Aptus]

Anyone have a source that region locking has been scrapped? I kind of want to stop sobbing now.

http://forums.station.sony.com/dcuopc/posts/list.m?topic_id=47694

Aaahhh thank you Palsch.

[jocan2003]

Well i saw that i dont know if i understand right o.O.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Importantly, we want to address up front the most common concern that players have had, which is server accessibility. SOE and ProSiebenSat.1 Games have determined that it is in the best interest of the players and the Community to allow players to continue to play on any server regardless of where they live.  That means that European players will be able to play on U.S. servers and vice versa.

Additionally ProSiebenSat.1 Games will offer its own version of an All Access subscription that will be available to all European customers once details have been finalized.  As of March 29th Sony Online Entertainment will no longer offer the All Access subscription to European customers. In the meantime, All Access players who have running subscriptions can continue playing SOE games as usual. All current European All Access subscribers with accounts in good standing can continue to play games offered by SOE until the ProSiebenSat.1 Games version of the All Access subscription becomes available.

[Metalax]

The one thing I'm concerned with is that ProSiebenSat.1 Games is a german company and many games get heavily censored for german release. I'm hoping this doesn't mean we European players are going to be getting a censored version of the game.

[ScriptWolf]

Wow way to go Sony what a massive fuck up, well I don't really give a shit I refuse to make another account with some shitty company.

And I don't Like the sound of a subscription, sounds like we are going to have to pay for this service

[timferius]

the All Access pass is just a super subscription to all their subscription based games, Planetside 2 should still be Free

[jocan2003]

Funny how the game are taking a Free-to-play approach but the account service has to be paid by month, isnt it hidden cost thing? If you have to pay for your account and the game is free, i think they cannot advertise it as free without incurring legal stuff dont they?

Edit: So basicly there is a new company in the accoutning and publishing system, but the player can still join any freacking server they want. I dont mind then as long i can play with fellow b12er

[timferius]

I really don't think the all access pass is related at all to Planetside 2