Oh, to hell with that localisation crap!
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AegisWolf,
Posted on: 2010-01-27 07:35 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Even better, just merge all games. My Dark/Elec brute has soloed gods with ease. I'm sure that somebody's WoW character will barely slow her down.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Merge all the websites, forums, and game servers into one giant site/server.
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Ok. lets try to end this here and now...will anyone with more then half a brain be able to list:
the advantages and disadvantages of merging the game (besides the dam number of players)..what Ncsoft needs to do etc...because i doubt it is as easy as people make it out to be...sure it would be nice..but does ANYONE know what has to be done inorder to do it.??????
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You are very obviously not a programmer. Anyway, merging games would be monumental effort. Even if you could get the various companies and development teams to agree to doing it it would still be a task worthy of Sisyphus since you would have to reconcile vastly different database structures and game mechanics since no game would be willing to give up the mechanics that their players have come to know and expect. It would be as difficult to balance as the conversion systems that have been used by pen and paper RPGs, but it would have to be done constantly, in real time. Amusing gedankenexperiment, but not actually practical. |
Originally Posted by Dr_HR
Ok. lets try to end this here and now...will anyone with more then half a brain be able to list:
the advantages and disadvantages of merging the game (besides the dam number of players)..what Ncsoft needs to do etc...because i doubt it is as easy as people make it out to be...sure it would be nice..but does ANYONE know what has to be done inorder to do it.?????? |
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Assuming there are no legal international laws blocking this...
* Merging the accounts of NCSOFT NA and NCSOFT EU
+ Easy access to the forums (no selection where you are)
+ Access to EU and access to US game
+ Easy administration on the Account site of NCSOFT
+ All bought expansions available on EU and US
+ If done right all vet rewards on both games
- Lesser subs. As EU subs and NA subs seperate will give twice the money if both accounts are active.
- Possible that a big part (prob. EU) will have to change their global name.
If this is done then it would be technical absolutly no problem to merge the list of servers in the game and make transfers between EU and NA simple and possible. Meaning everyone can play with everyone and choose which community he/she likes best. One global makes global tells possible between all players of the whole game.
* Merging the websites...
+ Easier administration and updates. All data has to be only added once.
+ One list of servers in the server check. Incl all servers with COX on it.
+ One URL www.cityofheroes.com. Easy access all over the world.
+ One look and feel. Better and proffesional publishity.
- Harder administration and updates. All data entered has to be translated to german and french.
- More data to browse through incl. events. This will make it harder to find the data relevant to EU or US.
- No auto help to get to EU version or US version of the game. if the accounts are merged as option 1 suggests then that would be the same game and irrelevant though.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Merge all the websites, forums, and game servers into one giant site/server.
We'll call it Pangea. |
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
All these bits and piece were originally one, and then split up. If we return to the "one" concept, the proper scientific neologism is "Neo-Pangea."
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Originally Posted by Westley
Perhaps.... Pandora?
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
You'll find your many of your modern pop-culture references are lost on me.
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*looks around*
Not it!
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We're looking into this, apologies for the inconvenience. I'll update this thread as soon as I get more info to share with you.
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AWESOME good to know that you guys are on the ball.
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Ok... that was [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS] funny. |
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And I'm American.
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Aaaand.. so was that. |
Originally Posted by Supafunkadunka
I will start accepting criticism about my country from Americans when they can consistantly find us on a map.
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Though, in truth, most uf us have a 25% chance of finding you. Those that realize you're not in the ocean have a 50/50 chance.
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But you don't. |
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Well, that would be one way of solving the problem, yes, and a much more elegant one than scolding me into the corner because I don't have the same IP as all the cool kids.
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In all seriousness, I hope they fix this, if for no other reason than it will affect at least one of my SG mates.
This should now be fixed. Please let me know if there is further issue accessing the North American website from Europe.
Many thanks for your patience with this!
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This should now be fixed. Please let me know if there is further issue accessing the North American website from Europe.
Many thanks for your patience with this!
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Excellent customer service! *pats Avatea on the back* Well done to you for responding and the techies for correcting the issue. We like that sort of thing here. Sam and all others in his situation will be very happy.
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Excellent customer service! *pats Avatea on the back* Well done to you for responding and the techies for correcting the issue. We like that sort of thing here. Sam and all others in his situation will be very happy.
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Originally Posted by Avatea
This should now be fixed. Please let me know if there is further issue accessing the North American website from Europe.
Many thanks for your patience with this! |
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Originally Posted by Avatea
This should now be fixed. Please let me know if there is further issue accessing the North American website from Europe.
Many thanks for your patience with this! |
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Rock on, you guys are the best.|
Originally Posted by Avatea
We're looking into this, apologies for the inconvenience. I'll update this thread as soon as I get more info to share with you.
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Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Rock on, you guys are the best.
Cheers, bAss_ackwards |
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Always happy to help, sorry we didn't catch that sooner!
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Thanks! |
Originally Posted by Avatea
This should now be fixed. Please let me know if there is further issue accessing the North American website from Europe.
Many thanks for your patience with this! |
I'm curious as to how this happened though? Were you busy selecting me as a beta participant and accidentally broke the website or?...
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Sooner? My dear, you turned this around and fixed it the next day from the original post. Any faster and Sam might have not made the post at all.|
Originally Posted by Avatea
Always happy to help, sorry we didn't catch that sooner!
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Even though this affects me in no way at all, much ♥ to you guys and gals~
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... contrasting the work our dev team does with the dev team of that OTHER game, gives me a lulz fit for that other game.
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Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Sooner? My dear, you turned this around and fixed it the next day from the original post. Any faster and Sam might have not made the post at all.
Even though this affects me in no way at all, much ♥ to you guys and gals~ |
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I think I've met this bug before, actually. Because I messed up a language selection script on a website once. If that happens, it'll always redirect to the default language, which in this case was IP dependent.|
Originally Posted by Orion_Star_EU
Thanks!
I'm curious as to how this happened though? Were you busy selecting me as a beta participant and accidentally broke the website or?... |
Now, I can just click good ol' Stars and Stripes in the top menu and go to the US site. It's one more click than before, but that's not a big deal.
EDIT: A "remember my language preference" checkbox would be nice, though. Cookie me!
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Anyway, i sent Avatea a PM regarding the localisation issue and this thread, but if it is just a case of ongoing technical issues with the site then there may be nothing to do but wait for things to get fixed.
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