2 BR/SA servers were announced.
one by LUG – current status unknown, but it sounded like it was gonna be a ways away. no transfers, because different company.
one by IMC – very soon, transfers allowed, but only from Orsha/Klaipeda.
Hey everyone,
First of all, we apologize for the delay in addressing this issue.
We’ve been discussing this and we thought we should let you know some of our reasoning behind our service in South America.
To start, by opening a new server in SA, we would face the problem of having to support two entirely different platforms in the same country (Steam’s and Level Up’s), which is something we would like to avoid.
Some players have also hoped or suggested that we allow server transfers from Steam to Level Up but, as it turns out, this would be a rather complicated and risky procedure, one of which we have no prior experience.
We would also like to note that, as a big part of our South American audience is Brazilian, we opted to open the SA server in Brazil. With the support of Level Up, our hope is that this will have the added advantage of providing a more convenient platform for users with localized billing and support, things which IMC cannot offer.
Meanwhile, what we can and will be responsible for are things like server updates, patches, balance adjustments, pricing, account restrictions, service infrastructure maintenance, etc.: the most basic aspects of the game itself, which we can guarantee will not be treated with any less attention than our Steam version.
Now, we hope you can understand why we have faith that our Level Up server will not be in a disadvantageous position in comparison with other servers, and why this is discouraging us from opening another server in South America.
We know this may not be the response many of you hoped for, but we wanted to communicate our thoughts on this and share the reasons behind our plan of action with you. We are still aware of your opinions and we do value the feedback we receive from you.
Sincerely,
IMC Games
If you read this you’ll see that there’ll be no off-steam brazilian server anymore.
They definitely aren’t going to allow transfers for a thee main reasons.
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It would be a MAJOR pain. You’d have to transfer a lot of sensitive information, including everyone’s login name and password. This is just a bad idea already.
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Why would they? Some people won’t want to start fresh. Those people, if allowed to transfer, would do so and stop paying IMC money. That’s bad for IMC. People who DO want to be on a Brazilian server, however, would just transfer in. This means less money for LUG since they would already be potentially max level and have cash shop items.
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Cash shop items and currency would be very, very hard to transfer ‘fairly’ unless there were identical items at identical pricing on LUG servers, which is highly unlikely.
Opening the server with transfer after they announce that there wouldnt be transfer is unfair with people that opted to wait the brazilian server to start playing.
dude. that’s old news, related to the LUG server. did you even read it yourself?
it says WHY THERE WILL BE NO STEAM SERVER IN SA.
EXCEPT
now they’ve said: We are opening a steam server in SA.
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they said it like 4 days ago. Its not old lol
Yes, and the SA server announcement was made 2 days ago which was after that one you just read.
Either way, there’s no solid confirmed proof yet that there won’t be a LUG server.
And ever if there was one, you would stay here and play on this one, since the LUG server would be low-populated in comparison to the SA server here.
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dude. that’s old news, related to the LUG server. did you even read it yourself?
it says WHY THERE WILL BE NO STEAM SERVER IN SA.
EXCEPT
now they’ve said: We are opening a steam server in SA.
[/quote]Let’s step back a bit.
Does SA means not Brazil?
Info’s coming too fast without enough detail (again, even though it’s already written like an essay Dx)
last i checked, Brazil was in South America…
unless it moved recently?
…somehow i think that would have been on the news.
oh you~
I meant the SA server could have been in Brazil, where they previously planned the LUG server is right? 
oh, yea, i have no idea. IMC didn’t say yet where it will be physically located. just “South America”.
presumably, they’ll try to locate it wherever it can best serve the most players.