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2K Games and 1C are aware that digital distribution pages for the Russian, CIS and Baltic States versions of Borderlands 2 contained incorrect information regarding the language and cross territory compatibility support. We apologize that this information was incorrect during the pre-sale and pre-order period for these territories. We are working with our partners to update those pages, and offer any customers who pre-ordered or pre-purchased the game the opportunity to cancel their order and receive a refund.

Additionally, we are working with our product development teams to investigate potential support for additional languages and options for our customers in these territories. While this was and is not possible for launch, we will provide an update this week on our progress.

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я из России ))) мне похрену))

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Дибил.ты тоже страдаешь от этого

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школота

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Похрену ему. А кривая локализация от 1ass и мультиплеерная резервация тебе тоже похрену?

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не забудь про отсутствие каких-либо длс. И 100% бесполезность Season pass.

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I hate Russians in my games.

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Russians hate you in their games too.

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XD

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touche.

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Wheres the problem in that case?

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^

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THIS.

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According to latest statistics, french and russians have the lowest overall performance in games. Ofc, some of them are quite pro, but most of them are failures.

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Russians hates in your games too nya =^.^=

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This is not racism, russians pirate every fucking game that comes out that's why they get such cheap game prices. Also 90% of cheats/trainers/cracks/hacks are made by russians.

From my personal experience, I always see people complaining about russians ripping them off in trades or trying to scam their accounts. And they cheat or micspam on EVERY game I play.

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"russians pirate every fucking game that comes out"
And that's exactly why we should give them more reasons to pirate even more games, right?

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Games are cheap as hell in russia to prevent piracy (and I'm not talking just about games) they have no excuses at all.

They still won't buy AAA titles even if it's just for 10$? Maybe they feel more comfy by stealing them for free as usual, and then go online and ruin everyone's else experience.

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I'm sorry, but first - AAA titles are not 10$ in Russia, second - it's not that cheap considering the wages.

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"I'm not a racist, BUT"

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I always hated two things in my life: racism and niggers.

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Know what? Shut up. I don't give a Puck where do you live - average sallary in your country is BY DEFAULT much bigger than ours. What, you really think that games costing even 20$ would be bought in country with average sallary level equalling 300-400$ and for the worst flat rent somewhere in suburbs you must pay 600$? We, russians, live in the big asshole. I admit, there's god damn lot of idiots here, that behaving themselves as at home, but ain't that concernes EVERY single nation? Every nation and country have idiots and crapy people. But how could you be normal guy if you live in such enviroment?..

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So technically what you're saying is that every moscovian earns 300 bucks spending 600 bucks for flat rent? Russian mathematics is so russian.

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Too long; didn't do.

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This is petition to 2K and Steam.

We want to be able to play Borderlands 2 in any language and with gamers from any region and country.

1) Remove language restrictions;

2) Remove regional multiplayer restrictions;

3) Allow CIS gamers to buy and play in DLC.

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Some add. All pre-orders from Eastern Europe have been modified to be restricted to Russia and Russian language only. Without warning. Season pass was canceled (due to nonexistent DLC support of this version), but to refund those money you need to contact support.

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Ok i signed the petition XD just for help you, i'm from italy and i don't have this problems, but this is not correct, i think is racist against russia and other nations...

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Why would they create restrictions based on race??? You have to consider a realistic reason why those restrictions are in place before you sign that petition.

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imagine you had to pay 60 bucks or equivalent in pounds for a version that doesn't have english language, only russian that you don't understand. Also, you would be restricted to play on russian servers only. That's exactly what happened to Baltic and CIS states except Russia.

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i signed, and i will never again buy from this company and i am very disapointed, even if i have no problems with the restriction, its like racism... and i wich i hadn't pre-order the game...

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If you explain in five reasons or more how this benefits me you'll have my signature.

Edit as of 13 hours later: I was kidding you twats.

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What a... oh, there is no need to finish this sentence.
I signed btw, good luck!

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awesome and cool dude? I get that a lot.

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I'm not really that cool. At least not with everyone, just with a few people who deserves it.

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It doesnt, it just puts a bunch of Russians in your MP game, ill pass

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Racist...
and
"yleensä suomalaiset niitä kusipäitä o netissä joten?"

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thats not racist, they are overflooding every fucking game there is. and i dont give a shit what that says

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You don't do things for others that might not benefit you? Woah.

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The irony of asking for benefits to make a simple task on a gifting site.

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no

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"remove regional multiplayer restrictions" Oh hell nah!!! I am getting tired of every single game I play getting overrun by Russians. You are not Europeans, so stop joining my EU servers and ruining it for everyone else with your massive PING!!!!

Sorry, had to get that off my chest.

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hear hear.
Sry dude

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i'm with you. this only benefits me frankly.

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Many East European countries are now stuck with the Russian version of the game, thanks to 2k. Its not just about Russians.

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nor are we racist against russians. we just don't need a ton of "other countries" joining our games, etc. lagging down our servers with horrible ping. also it's not like you're getting a lesser version, or edited like some games get edited in certain countries (hint:germany) you still get the full game, it's just purely restricting your servers to your area.

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It also restrict language to Russian... and no, not all East-Europeans can speak Russian, so if I had preordered the game I wouldn't be able to play it because I wouldn't understand anything!

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Lucky Romania, who is in Eastern Europe, isn't affected. I will still sign the petition. But just for the language.

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We bought the game with no restrictions what so ever and now we're suddenly stuck in a reservation with a horrible translation. And, I'm sorry, I have a lot of friends in other countries I PLANNED to play with but can't now

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"You are not Europeans"

I'm sorry, what ?? Almost 80% of Russians (~110 million) live in the European part of Russia. How are they not Europeans ?

Europe != EU

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IDC what ppl say
Russia ≠ Europe

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There is a huge difference between saying "Russia ≠ Europe" and "Russians are not Europeans".
No, not all of Russia lies on the European continent; however, 110 million people who happen to be citizens of Russia live within the confines of the European continent and are therefore Europeans.

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Russia is half-european, and most of its population lives in the european part. I don't care what you say, Russia = European (and asian). It's like that since the days of Novgorod, a random internet kid will not change it.

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petitions NEVER work, fact.

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See: Dark Souls.

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What's the status with Dark Souls ?

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Ah okay. Thanks !

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Petition did nothing but bring it on to PC?

It wasn't going to PC in the first place.

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Petition brought the game to PC and tbh, it was always going to use GfWL. From Software din't have enough experienced PC developer's on the team to use to Steamworks or anything else for that matter so they used existing code from the console version. If you've ever worked with XNA, you'll see you can do pretty much a write once, deploy xbox/pc when it concern's the use of the Live/GfWL framework. (Naturally there are exceptions, and this isn't a hard fact).

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One of them brought Dark Souls to PC. Which shows that they are pretty effective.

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If it is one from tens of thousends, the success ratio for a single petition is low and I would not call it effective. Though my numbers are not accurate, I estimate that most of the petitions do nothing and hence are not that useful.

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BS!
I saved 2 seals with a petition
and Dark Souls is now for pc

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the mighty dollar/pound etc brought Dark Souls to pc, all the petition did was illustrate the fact that there was profit to be had. i stand by my op.

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Proof that it would've come to PC without the petition?

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-Presented with a undeniable fact that proves you wrong-

WAAAAAH I'M RIGHT!!!!! WAAAH!

Child.

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You clearly haven't been seeing any good petitions.

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Why would I want to play a co-op game with someone who doesn't speak my language? Not being sarcastic, just asking.

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Why would you assume that someone doesn't speak your language just because he's from another country ? (Hint: I'm not Canadian...)

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So, you expect most Russians to be unable to speak English or any other secondary languages?

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Well, most of them are...

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There's no way for you to know that really - if they do speak perfect English, how would you even know they're Russian (unless they say so one way or another) ?

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Stop assuming too much, it makes you look bad.

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According to the census 2010, just 5% of Russians know basic English, so yeah, most of us don't...

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Because everyone understands a gun to the face

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I'm North-African and my third language is English, here I am speaking your language, what's your point?

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What the point is?
There is none, just a bunch of ignorant people.

By the way, english is my 4th language.

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It's my first language, so I beat both of you ^^

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Huh. Never would have guessed. You speak perfectly.

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Well, I don't care about currently you, but most of my Steam friends are not from Russia. And I met with almost every of them in co-op games. Had ping problems only when joined someone from America or Asia. By myself, I never go on servers with ping higher than 100. But from Saint-Petersburg it's large selection of who to connect.

And surprise for you: in Russia second language is in the school curriculum. Mostly english, but there could are also be french or german, for example.

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I have to consider why the restrictions are there in the first place before I make a decision.

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I don't really care about the reasonings. The fact that they exist with nothing saying they do is enough to get my hackles up. When you buy a product, you expect it to work.

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Unfortunatelly this happens to many good game lately.

When i got my SC2 copy really excited, then i realized it was region locked.
Now i'm stuck with 2 accounts. one on NA servers and one on EU servers.

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Sure, I can understand that. I'm still curious as to why they created all this agro :P

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Signed.

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Same in Lithuania

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A lot of ignorants,I wish smth like this will happen in a country like U.S.A or U.K(there are the most ignorants),I would love to see those idiots screaming on the forums,but when its about a "non-important" country...no one cares...there is no problem..

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limit me to my own country. I'd cry out of sheer joy. less brasilians going "hue hue hue" nonstop into the mic at full volume. yea ok, that was a tad racist. but still true. i'd have no problem being limited to my country.

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I partialy agree with you....I hate when they talk or type in their native language..Anyway,I didnt have many problems with russians,but they tend to type in their language(On Engish servers),thy tend to hack whatever they can,every time to break the rules,but hey,not all of them are like that,why half of them suffer for the action of the other half?

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Oh my...the crying that would happen. I would love to see that. Maybe people could learn a bit about sympathy.

Edit: And Russians could defend it saying "I hate when [americans/UKs] talk in their native language so this is great," "they tend to hack whatever they can," and stuff like that. Except in Russian, of course.

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Is it bad that I'm actually happy that I can't play with russian players? I have nothing against russian players in general but they are nr. 1 reason some MPs suck with their: massive ping, talking russian only, a lot of annoying players are russian (teamkilling, griefing, the story goes on).

Not to mention that your petition wont change ANYTHING. The restrictions will stay mainly due to people abusing the cheap prices to sell them to other people. And stop crying about them adding these hints few days/weeks after they started the pre-purchase options. I have to deal with this stuff constantly (pre-order started, 5 weeks afterwards -> low violence version. Thanks a lot for ruining the game for me. Main reason I hardly pre-order any game on Steam and if I do I get it over a friend from abroad).

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+over 9000

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that sounds just like brazilians to me...

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Tl;dr :P

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+1 for you guys.
To avoid bans my comment is there. Search my name: Maciel
GL.

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Isn`t that only restricted to the Steam version to prevent russians from buying the game for like 8$ US then selling the codes?

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Except that even countries that aren't Russia, just close to it, must pay 50 euros for the russian ghetto version. My country has been free from USSR occupation for the last 22 years and it's very insulting to be forced a russian version. Most people here don't even speak russian, let alone like to hear or see it. I for one can only swear in russian. No offense to all the decent people in russia. It's Kreml that's causing the issues.

Also we are a part of the European Union, NATO and we are a very technologically advanced country. Gesh man.. we are even starting to teach kids coding in primary school and you can access internet pretty much everywhere.

Guess that all doesn't matter to publishers.

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Estonia is considered Technologically advanced? LMAO.

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Information Technology, actually.

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Way to be ignorant.

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Estonia's technology is limited by milking goats.

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I can understand CIS countries getting region locked games, well, because they pay 2-3 times less than everyone else and a lot of people take advantage of this by reselling games to others. But this thing concerning Borderlands 2 where people in Baltic countries - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, getting region restricted version of a game by paying a full European price (50€) is ridiculous. These countries are part of EU and not in CIS. If they think Baltic countries are part of CIS then why don't we get the same prices as in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus?

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Remove regional multiplayer restrictions
Remove language restrictions
This to me seems like there trying to stop you guys making money from them fair play tbf

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Thats so gay, i can pre-order this game only in Russian and im not even a ****ing Russian. Also i dont live in Russia, now i have to pre-order this game thru someone else. Only good thing is that i dont have to play with Russians, they speak alot. I hope Russian versions have auto-mute, i hate Russian kids in CoD series.

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Signed for whoever wants this to happen, even though I don't really know how this is useful. Takes 10 minutes :)

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I'll sign as soon as Valve implements an age verification check in the shop, so I can buy uncensored games in my region ;)

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+2147483647

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Valve DOES have an age verification check in the shop. It's more likely your country/region restricts the online sale of certain games.

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You mean the enter-your-date-of-birth 'age verification' ? That one doesn't actually verify your age at all, so it's useless for the EU.
As for sales restrictions - there are a lot of games I can buy games on Amazon.fr, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de, but not on Steam,, so it isn't a problem of the game being restricted from being sold online.

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He meant a working age verification. Not a simple check, if the user is able to calculate 2012-18...

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I checked with Valve, because I wanted to make my censored games uncensored.
Answer "We can not make your games uncensored, even if you are 18+, because of restrictions in your regions, the Bundesprüfstelle does not allow it".

So I checked with the Bundesprüfstelle, and asked them, why they will not allow Valve to sell me uncensored games, even if I'm 18+.
Answer: "Valve does not implement an aknowledged age verification in their shop, so Valve is restricted to sell censored games, because they do have to treat every customer in this region as 12+ (because 13 is the legal age to make limited contracts) until they do so".

So, it's Valve's fault for not implementing a working age verification.
I don't know why I'm allowed then to trade for and activate uncensored games, I just can not buy them. Meh.

tl;dr: Valve shop programmers = lazy, Valve = not always customer friendly

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I'd argue that it would have something to do with privacy, but I dunno. As of yet, you aren't required to associate your age with your Steam account.

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This is just wrong. I don't know how often i said this in these forums, but:
Every game, that is NOT on this list can legally be sold in Germany without beeing censored.

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Signed as soon as I saw it.

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Same happened with Diablo 3. People cried but Blizzard didn't give a fuck

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Part of the problem with Diablo III was they had a pitiful number of servers.
I live in the northern part of the US (close to Boston, MA) and the first month and more I never dropped below 300ms ping. My friend in Florida, much closer to the the one (or two) servers for North America, had consistent 100ms ping.
For reference, my ping to my ISPs hub (out in Boston) is under 32ms. My ping in the majority of TF2 servers I've played on is below 50 (average).

Blizzard definitely needed more servers when Diablo III launched, but it seems they made the right decision since the game was shit and tons of people have quit.

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ksn0va in the Torchlight II Steam forums explained it pretty well:
"In short, Diablo 3 has more money put into it while Torchlight 2 has more heart and soul."

Also, the whole Brevik/Wilson debate explained pretty well why Diablo 3 is shit and nobody should ever buy again a game made by the D3 devs.

However, what i meant with that comment was that Blizzard explicitely said that the russian version of D3 could be played in every language. In the end, the russian version could only be played in russian and the same goes for some other countries like for example Brazil, where a original retail copy bought from a local store for about $60 could only be played in that countries language. I hope Blizzard dies quickly, i will never again buy anything from them

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Closed 12 years ago by MarKo9.