[Serious Discussion] Create Asian PvP server

[Niko]

Who's going to pay for another server that's going to house +10,000 or even 30,000 asian players?
That server will grow immensely popular after a while and it won't be free. Why even ask the devs for this, when there's alot more time saving and economical solutions?

[TomDeBaere]

Who's going to pay for another server that's going to house +10,000 or even 30,000 asian players?
That server will grow immensely popular after a while and it won't be free. Why even ask the devs for this, when there's alot more time saving and economical solutions?

Ok, name a few of these solutions then.

[riplip]

Who's going to pay for another server that's going to house +10,000 or even 30,000 asian players?
That server will grow immensely popular after a while and it won't be free. Why even ask the devs for this, when there's alot more time saving and economical solutions?

Ok, name a few of these solutions then.

ban all china ip's, only china

[Glenzig]

Who's going to pay for another server that's going to house +10,000 or even 30,000 asian players?
That server will grow immensely popular after a while and it won't be free. Why even ask the devs for this, when there's alot more time saving and economical solutions?

Ok, name a few of these solutions then.

ban all china ip's, only china

Proxy/VPN. Pretty much all Asian ayers already use them.

[Niko]

Who's going to pay for another server that's going to house +10,000 or even 30,000 asian players?
That server will grow immensely popular after a while and it won't be free. Why even ask the devs for this, when there's alot more time saving and economical solutions?

Ok, name a few of these solutions then.

Niko game master powers.
Niko bann all china.

[galimatias]

Then just ban the ones with "xiao" in their name. that should take care of 95% of them.

[Tis]

Rather than making an 'Asian' PvP server it would be best to just make a new, fresh PvP server.

[Kogmawn]

Then just ban the ones with "xiao" in their name. that should take care of 95% of them.

[Kamisayo]

There is a rule however against using languages other than English in official server chat channels (so general, world, trade, etc; but not guild, party, whisper, etc). And players using character sets other than Latin are the majority of those breaking this rule, whether they are Chinese or not. It shouldn't prove an issue as I said to players who are able to understand basic English and who are willing to interact with the rest of the community, they can simply download an English client (which are plentiful and easy to find, there is even a download link to one on the Nostalrius front page, under "Getting Started") and continue playing.

Plenty of people on this server (even a majority I would wager) speak English non-natively, including most of the staff, who are French, yet they don't have trouble following the "English only" rule. I don't see any reason to make exceptions for one or two specific groups.

Also: even if they do manage to get the server stable at the current population, which I won't say is unlikely because they've done a great job at it so far, there comes a point where there are simply too many players online to have any fun or get anything done. Imagine trying to do the hunter leaf quest or farm blood of heroes or even just level an alt in contested territory once the server population reaches 15k, 20k, or even higher. It's undoable, and it forces the server staff into an awkward situation where non-Blizzlike custom fixes are needed to accommodate the non-Blizzlike population on a server that prides itself on being as Blizzlike as possible.

edit: merged double post

Really glad you decided to share your thoughts on this topic - couldn't have put it any better myself.

[Norjak]

If they really want an English speaking server community, wouldn't it be possible to remove support for other character sets on Nost? I can almost guarantee if they did that, the "other language" participants would fade away fairly quickly.
Likewise, another server with support for "other language" character sets would pretty much guarantee those players would roll there. No need for IP blocks and the like...