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Bad News for EU Players
Darwa
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From their FAQ:
I am a European customer. How can I play EverQuest Next or EverQuest Next Landmark?
Our European players will play EverQuest Next with our partner, ProSiebenSat.1 Games. You can find out more on PSG's website and sign up for the EU beta.
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You can sign up for the NA beta using this direct link:
https://account.station.sony.com/authenticated/beta/betaRegistration.action?betaId=17
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Link to an organised petition for SOE to allow EU players to choose between then and ProsiebenSat.1 (nothing to lose by trying):
http://www.change.org/petitions/sony-online-entertainment-manage-their-own-games-and-customers-in-eu
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I sure hope they will not. I do have an old station account so I hope I can avoid this seperate EU crap..
Hehe. I asked them on Twitter about that, and they directed me to the FAQ again.
I'll play through a proxy if I have to, but I am not dealing with PS1 again. I've been playing with the same group of (NA) people for a very long time and don't intend to stop now.
There was a massive outcry when they tried to force all EU players to switch to PS1 a year or however long ago it was, and SOE dropped the idea.
You'd think they'd learn.....
They did that same crap in EQ1 too. I don't remember what company they gave the servers over to, but there were a few servers they passed off.
actions like this one always puzzled me, why would you need someone else to care for your game ,
arguably it might be reasonable for small company, but for international company and one that is as big as sony, i cant find words to express how puzzled i am, let alone single proper reason
I had the choice too (from the website link) and kept getting looped back to the region choice after logging in. This is why I asked if it was region locked.
I got around this by using the direct link supplied in another thread, and received the confirmation email moments later.
Besides, you're talking about beta, and we're talking about the game when it goes live.
What? Wait a minute does SOE not trust us europeans to build stuff? We are building stuff since 4000 years starting with Stonehenge, and that already was quite awesome!
Europeans have build the Parthenon and St. Peter's and the Eiffel Tower and even the Statue of Liberty, and I could go on with this list for an entire hour. And what did the americans build? A bunch of skyscrapers and four ugly faces carved into a mountain. Its just not fair! And what about asia?
That SOE is teaming up with ProSiebenSat1 is not really a good sign. That is a german TV channel that is not known for its quality.
Oh, I think that EU players will have the same opportunities as NA players (on paper at least), but EU players will have to deal with a third party that none of them want or trust (PS1).
I'm hoping that the region thing is just a preference and not enforced, but I guess we won't know that for a long time.
Strange I had no problem signing up through soe site.
People seem 'upset' about this, and I don't really know what's going on.
Can someone explain in short what this is about?
Playing: TESO (great!)
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Most looking forward for: Everquest Next
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Have Played: World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Vanguard, Everquest Online Adventures, Everquest 1, EverQuest 2, Dungeons & Dragons Online, The Chronical of Spellborn, Warhammer Online, Age of Conan, Aion, CoH, Loong, Dragon nest, LoL, Alods, Diablo 3, NWN, Tera, Poe, Guild Wars 2, Rift
Most favorite; Everquest online Adventures (EQOA, 2003, PS2)
That's because you already have a SOE account so you just need to login using that and the click beta and you will get an email.
I also went to the www.everquest-next.co.uk and then created a brand new account using my other email and still waiting for a respond email on this and it's been about 20 minutes since I signed up. Guess the mail will hit within 24 hours.
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I've now spoken with someone from SOE unofficially that tells me if you're in the EU and your account was created before SOE linked with PS1, then you'll be able to choose which region you play in. If not, then you're stuck
Assuming this proves to be correct, then I'll be ok (as will many others), but I think it's still a very poor show to force anyone to use PS1.
I really loved the way EQnext looked, but I'll ditch it instantly if i have to play with ProSieben, especially since i have a bunch of station cash.
Hope I'll get the same chances as I got with planetside 2.
You're certainly not alone in that statement. I'm hoping that the FAQ sentence isn't as definite as it reads, and they will give us the option.
I have no faith in EQN as 'the saviour of MMORPGs', but I want to give it a try. But signing up I was in that loop as well and no signup was sone after logging on half a dozen times with 2 different browsers. Looks like I either have to signup with EU publisher or just skip the whole thing *picks latter option*
I think the main reason SOE lets PS1 handle the games in EU is that PS1 do the translation to German and French, so SOE can focus on just making games, not translate them.
This is also the reason why I think the EU version often will be older than NA version because PS1 have to translate to all the supported language before they release new version.
This is the case for Aion in EU.
Try this link (I've updated the original post to include it as well).
https://account.station.sony.com/authenticated/beta/betaRegistrationLandingPage!input.action
Good thinking, but why would the non-French/German speaking countries have to use PS1? I'm in the UK, and NA English is just fine for me, even if they do spell a bunch of words incorrectly
I was told that they use PS1 for tax reasons, which would make sense even though I don't like it.
Thx the info, it explains a lot.
I can switch regions in DCUO for example, but a late started buddy of mine can't and I never understood why. (and my account too is sorta "splitted" as if I log in to Vanguard I still got to SOE's page since P7S1 is not handling Vanguard). So there's no IP block if you have an older account, but you can only create a new one at P7S1 from the Eu - at least without using an US proxy
There are a few crappy ones indeed, but Codies was great actually... Customer service was helpful, gm events were nice, and we were spared from the failed patches of Turbine, only the fixed ones got implemented
not to mention we had 50-100ms less ping.
Link doesn´t work. Get an error message on the SOE account page.