luudo_NA

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If we can make it work the way we want to, that will be up to you.

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Even assuming that if we choose to play on both it'll mean two subscriptions, I'm happy with this. Thanks for listening!

As I was typing the original post the UK guys were typing another FAQ answer that said they wouldn't be transferring characters from the US servers to the Euro servers.

Personally, it's not an issue for me as I've missed so much content on the way to my current level that it'll be quite fun to go back and take a different path back to here. I know not everyone agrees, though I can't claim to understand it

Something applicable to various points in this thread from the UK site's FAQs

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If you are playing on the US servers, we are currently working on a solution to ensure you will not have to buy City of Heroes again if you want to begin playing on the European servers.

More information will be available as soon as we have it.

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Thank you Mr Bridger

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I can say, though, that it won't be £15 a month

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thanks

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but I have no problem forseeing double standards.

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Oooh no! I have no problem forseeing double standards! I fully expect US players to be billed at US rates ($15) and Euro players on US servers being billed at Euro rates (hypothetical £15).

What I have trouble envisaging is UK players on UK servers being billed (hypothetical) £15 and UK players on US servers being billed $15 (about £8/£9). I mean we're using the same product as the US customers, so why shouldn't we be paying the same rate as US customers?

Also, if we're playing on US servers at UK times, but paying the UK organisation to nominally get support from local people at local time zones, does this mean that UK support will have access to US servers?

Given my expectations that UK players will be moved to the UK billing plan, I find it difficult to understand why we can't be moved to UK (Euro) servers without having to buy the Euro version of the box.

Sorry to be cynical Mr Bridger (but the information that's come out so far has brought out the Marvin that hides at the back of my head - and sometimes I like to be Old Nick's barrister), but could you let us know if my assumptions are along the right lines?

That's what I'm waiting to hear as well, and my guess is very similar to yours (i.e. almost double what we pay at the moment)

Still it won't have any effect on my choice of whether to move to the Euro servers or not as the implication here: [ QUOTE ]
* Anyone purchasing or activating a Lineage II account or a new City of Heroes account after these titles launch in Europe, that lives in the United Kingdom will be asked to pay in Pounds instead of Dollars. For the time being, existing accounts will continue to pay in Dollars.

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is that we'll be billed in sterling in the near future anyway (and I can't see them billing two different rates for the same product).