From En Masse :-

We block IPs based on region. Asia, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East are included on the block list .



What ever En Masse reason they shouldn't block IPs based on region ..

First, many people in Asia speak neither Japanese or Korean, so telling them its fine to play on those servers is the same as if you were told you had to do so. An MMO isn't much fun if you can't actually communicate with anyone.

Second, there are very few countries in Asia that are havens for goldselling, so there is no need to block half the world. Add in the fact that as you have probably seen from the complaints in these forums, the IP block only managed to block the legitimate players - the goldsellers are alive and well, and in Tera already.

Third, a lot of the people that are blocked are like me - American and would prefer to play with friends and family and cannot because of a nonsensical, discriminatory IP block.

Fourth, the licensing is not the issue - En Masse has already stated their only reason as preventing goldselling, and as I said above, it obviously failed spectacularly.

So, yeah, you can be for the IP block, but I have yet to see a single valid argument for the IP block, just blatant stereotyping and discrimination - both from En Masse and individual posters.

I can see a legitimate reason for a block if En Masse had targeted the countries that have goldselling as an issue, and they are well known. Even then, as I've said, the IP block hasn't done much to help.
The end result of all this is giving En Masse a bit of a bad name for their heavy-handed discrimination, cost them many legitimate subscriptions and done little to nothing to combat goldsellers.




Thank you Phatlewt .

Asian market has KTERA & JTERA, Middle East, Russia & Africa could honestly & usually plays EU versions & the lag, oh lovely lag they will have here.

Good VPNs for games like this cost a nice amount, dont count on it :) every other gaming company has region blocks for various reasons, for example.

They may not have legal rights to license the game & allow it to be accessed by those specific countries, It falls on licensing agreements between BHS, The Engine, Everything.

Not only is OP late to the party - The girl has already jumped out of the cake and everyone has had a slice...

Sheez - stop trolling.

Personally I approve of the blocking of these places.

West European here. Russians are part of the reason I gave up on European servers, so go figure how bad these people actually are. They're SO bad they actually ruin everyone else's online gaming experience.

you approve of the blocking ? because of what ?

I approve of the blocking :) Tell me Op have you never heard of Frgoster you dumb prick :P EnM is the company that is doing a north American client not a European client so. Here you go buddy

http://www.frogster.de/en/index.html

Quote: Macaw on 04/25/2012, 05:37 AM - view but we are not !! lot of another country's are good and doesn't deserve that , the hackers and the bad people should be blocked not the whole World !!

Because just about EVERY single one of those mentioned regions are: Trolls, Hackers, Spammers, Goldsellers and what have you..

Just let this thread die now kkthxbai..

/thread

While i understand the Russia and Africa part, with the latency and stuff.

But for Asia i think thats abit racist, not all of us asian understand each others languages you know just like you english speakers dont understand asian languages, its like saying All americans know how to speak spanish fluently. And being asian languages are more complicate to read i high doubt other asia country can read korean hangul or japanese katakana/hiragana.
I think the only country asia they should block is China.
Other country seriously dont even gold farm, they have stable economic, stable jobs not like china.

I approve of the blocking.

I wish more games blocked by region. They have their own version of the game. If you live in a different country due to circumstance I feel bad for you son but I got 99 problems but blocking isn't one.