Yo folks, another thread about regional servers! I know how eager all of you are! That’s why I felt the urge to get you some realization about how you REALLY get your own server, without getting toxic and annoying the hell out of anyone.
Ugh… well, sorry, I’m a bit annoyed. Most people seem unable to understand how a developer like IMC works and whats constructive and what not. Ok, ok, I know what you’re here for, you want your own regional server!
But first, you need to understand some basics. As developing company, IMC is highly dependent to 3rd party investors, providing them money for future revenue. And now, after years of developing and not gaining a single cent with the game, the investors are getting impatient and forcing IMC to rush things, running low on money. Not being able to actually host the game in Korea by themselves, they sold the licence to Nexon and released an unfinished game. Thats that.
Having steam, the comfortable Amazon Web Service and the fact they don’t have to host the game in Korea, IMC now got the opportunity to be able to publish their own game outside of Korea without needing to spent too much money! (no extra infrastructure, no need for expensive servers)
Thats a big deal for such a small company and the investors seem to gave their OK as well. But sadly, IMC doesn’t have a clue how western gaming communities are actually working and didn’t expect us to rant THAT much, expecting us to actually eat everything they’re delivering, obediently. So naive. On top, they lack a skilled public relation agent, telling the executive that doing “that” will eventually lead to “that” and thus, commit blunders over and over. Avoidable, but can’t get helped.
Back to topic. Right now IMC is unable to fund another server location. Why? Basically because the investors say NO! Provide proper data first!
Until IMC provides the numbers promising new servers are going to bring profit, the investors wont spent anything. Right now the only data IMC is able to provide are the EA sales, which are useless since most people outside of NA are waiting for news about regional servers before buying anything. (besides, a skilled PR agent would have told them that giving out that data/chart MIGHT lead to unnecessary speculating about justifying *sigh)
Thats a serious dilemma. Without regional servers, no sales. Without sales, no regional servers.
Back then IMC declined to actually make server/world transfers possible. But having AWS as architecture (probably) it’s not that complicated to transfer a team from world A to world B or to sent some data around the world to another AWS serverfarm.
So IMC compromised and finally announced a servertransfer not only for founders to new openbeta servers in may, they even announced a servertransfer to POSSIBLE regional servers in the future (not only for EA people, its for everyone).
It’s obvious they’re hoping that would solve the dilemma, raising the sales for anyone outside the NA, inviting non-NA players to the free openbeta, having proper data for the investors, raising the possibility for probable regional servers. (and hopefully learning that we’re NOT Korea, we actually revolt when we’re getting treated badly!)
(btw, as German I’d benefit from an EU server as well, so don’t get me wrong, I’m just trying to be constructive. I do know nothing actually, thats just common sense, mixed with a bit of healthy insight)
So, to get finally back to the topic, how to get your regional server? (tl;dr)
.
.
.
He wasn’t asking you to pay money, just to spend some time in the game.