StarCraft II Brings Its Players Closer Together

11 responses to “StarCraft II Brings Its Players Closer Together”

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   Jake

   July 13, 2011 at 5:22 pm

   No effect on us though, we play on South East Asia servers.

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      Steve0410

      July 14, 2011 at 6:26 pm

      You can also play NA on an Aussie CD Key. Much better for later-night sessions when the population is much larger than SEA’s. The pool’s also easier too, so it’s almost instant Master’s.

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   Reign

   July 13, 2011 at 5:27 pm

   What? Why not link SEA with NA?

   Ever since they allowed SEA players to shift to NA; it takes forever to find a game on SEA.

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      Simon

      July 13, 2011 at 5:40 pm

      Agreed, wish we were linked with NA.

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      Seegrey

      July 13, 2011 at 10:52 pm

      Latency. Ignoring for the moment that our latency in aus to the rest of the SEA is the same, americans tend to cry like babies when faced anyone near them having more than 50ms – team mates, opponents, random chatting three games away.

      I find it amusing that accepting people who don’t speak english generates less complaints than english speakers who are better skilled because of the latency we have to overcome.

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   Le_Gambit

   July 13, 2011 at 5:35 pm

   wish that they also officially went Australia -> NA

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   Cymelion

   July 13, 2011 at 6:06 pm

   Seems to suggest that Starcraft is losing people on its multiplayer aspects.

   Server merging is a sign of a shrinking market – no wonder Blizzard isn’t doing anything in the way of Microtransactions since the market is collapsing. Looks like they do have a brain, watch now as they rush to get Swarm out earlier then usual to a less then tepid response from the playerbase. I played SC2 once and ignored it since probably should uninstall it if I haven’t already.

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   Aidan

   July 13, 2011 at 6:08 pm

   “Provided, that is, you can understand what the hell they’re saying.”

   Yeah, uh, this might be a problem…

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6. 

   m

   July 13, 2011 at 6:24 pm

   Fantastic. In other news: the community brings LAN to the table.
   Good job, Blizzard.

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7. 

   Wesley Franc

   July 13, 2011 at 7:04 pm

   As far as RTS games go, it’s probably the best. I play it semi-regularly, and love it to bits.

   The long term RTS player base is just smaller than, say, the player base for the FPS or MMO genres.

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   Hiero

   July 14, 2011 at 9:46 am

   It’s actually really funny how bad the lower level leagues are in NA compared to SEA (all my friends who are silver/gold in SEA are platinum/diamond in NA). Maybe Blizzard is aware of that skill level disparity.

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