Diablo 3 - Check you region!!

Totality

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Mine was set to the US servers by default and not EU. Your characters do not cross regions and you cannot be friends with people on an EU or Asian server!! What a crock of **** for a game in 2012! This means the character I have been levelling up can't be used if my mates are on the EU servers.

I know people all over the world and to be limited to specific regions is just shocking. It isn't an MMO so why the heck are we limited to server regions and why does it default to USA ones?!

Just thought I would make others aware incase they hit the same problem - same as this post here really http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/17/diablo-3-check-in-which-region-youre-playing-before-you-start/

FAQ http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-global-play-faq
 
did u have the beta installed first? I am sure this is a biproduct of that as its servers were US only. Mine defaulted to EU like, hard copy installed that is.
 
There was a bug at the beginning that even though the EU server was selected, the game client was connecting to the US realms.

I'd raise a ticket with Blizz and say since it was their issue you want it transfered. Don't know if it's possible but worth a crack.

As for not having global servers, having run an MMO and other online games I will just tell you now that it is incredibly difficult with current technologies, the network infrastructure just isn't available to allow people from all over the world to play seamlessly together.

Just look at the average ping times to the US servers in the game at the moment and then imagine what that would be like for someone on a crappy connection in a more remote country.

Regionalisation still isn't perfect for everyone, but at least it makes it better for the majority.

The only solution I can think of for globalisation is using massive grid based servers that are constantly mirrored to all locations around the world and you use GSLB to connect to the least congested and closest server to you at the time. However the costs alone make that prohibitive.
 
Silly question, but how do you check ping in game? My character is on US servers which are down for maintenance now lol. Ah well.
 
Totality said:
Silly question, but how do you check ping in game? My character is on US servers which are down for maintenance now lol. Ah well.
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Theres a latency indicator at the bottom right of the interface, it is coloured red/amber/green, if you hover over it then it shows you the value in milliseconds.
 
Totality said:
Mine was set to the US servers by default and not EU. Your characters do not cross regions and you cannot be friends with people on an EU or Asian server!! What a crock of **** for a game in 2012! This means the character I have been levelling up can't be used if my mates are on the EU servers.

I know people all over the world and to be limited to specific regions is just shocking. It isn't an MMO so why the heck are we limited to server regions and why does it default to USA ones?!

Just thought I would make others aware incase they hit the same problem - same as this post here really http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/17/diablo-3-check-in-which-region-youre-playing-before-you-start/

FAQ http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-global-play-faq
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If you read my post in the Diablo 3 multiplayer thread two days ago then you would have already been aware of this issue.
 
djkav said:
Mine was US by default. It was an EU client, downloaded from my EU battle.Net account.
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You sure it was the EU client? I went to download the client and it said it was the NA client through the EU battle net. You can change what version you download regardless of the region you are and all that seems to change is the servers it connects to in the options. I downloaded the NA client and it connected to the NA servers by default where as my brother (i told him where to get it from) changed his to EU and got EU by default in the options.
 
Mine was EU by default, downloaded over Battlenet. My friends was US by default, also downloaded over Battlenet. We couldn't figure out why I couldn't add him as a friend ingame until we figured this out. Go figure!
 
Installed from DVD, US by default but did play during the open beta so assume it is because of that even though I uninstalled it that weekend.

Luckily I noticed immediately - the servers I was trying to connect to were down. Thinking it was the EU servers, I came here to post and discovered someone in the Diablo 3 thread saying EU was fine but US was down. Went to check in the settings and discovered it.
 
You're talking about this like no cross region play is some sort of new thing? Starcraft 2, League of Legends, etc, doesn't let you play with the same account on two different regions. Some games are just too big to allow that many players on one realm.
 
My settings had been saved from the open beta even after uninstalling and my region was still set to US. I made sure i was on Europe after starting the game up for the first time.
 
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