Blizzard has noticed that, and so they decided to release World of Warcraft here... Now. Seven years after the game's release, in 2004. The game has been promised to be released later this year.
And the fun continues. The game has been entirely translated to Portuguese, and Brazilian people will have an exclusive server, to which current players can transfer their characters to for free.
Oh, and new players don't get a choice.
You HAVE to make your character in one of those exclusive servers, and you HAVE to play the game in Portuguese. For some odd reason, there is no option to actually play the game in English. And let's just say that the quality of translation and voice acting likely weren't the foremost concern from Blizzard in this whole thing.
It was the same thing with StarCraft 2. It was released completely translated here, at a cheaper price than at the USA... But it had limited access for both online AND offline modes. If you wanted to continue playing even the single player campaign after 6 months, you had to either begin paying a monthly fee (!!!) or pay significantly more (more than two times the original cost of the game) in an one-time fee. And there was no option to play in English, or to play with people from outside Brazil.
If you people think you have it rough up there... You haven't seen a thing.
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And yes, localisation is a *****, rest could be special/absurd laws from your government I don't know about.|||I think it's the nature of high piracy markets, unfortunately. The few Brazilians I know are really nice folk, but that has no bearing on what games they get... unfortunately.|||To be fair, this money-grabbing issue prolly comes from Activision and not from Blizzard itself. Still, it's incredible they would resort to such tactics to get more money.
But as a fellow portuguese to one of his brothers at the other side of the sea, melhores ventos aproximam-se! (better winds are approaching, in case you're wondering)|||Quote:
To be fair, this money-grabbing issue prolly comes from Activision and not from Blizzard itself. Still, it's incredible they would resort to such tactics to get more money.
Explain to me how this makes them more money than releasing it when it was new and without the rather significant drawbacks of non-existent server and language choices.|||Wouldn't it still be possible to get an english version of the game and play with the english client and on international/english servers?
It would really suck if they filtered by IP, gaming behind a proxy is no fun.|||How bizarre. A population of nearly 200 million, currently the seventh largest economy in the world and growing, and this is the treatment you get from Blizzard? I'd love to hear an explanation for all of this because Brazil seems like a market a company like Blizzard would have wanted to get into much sooner. With a better quality of service. Is Brazil in some kind of quarantine? Have you got cooties?|||Server locking isn't that new, I'm pretty sure EU players can't play on US servers and vice versa. Only a few international ones. I'm not sure why they do that, probably to save money or something? It's pretty silly though.|||Maybe Blizzard feared the "Free monies plx BR BR hue hue" thing that I see on the 'net.
(Never experienced that myself though)|||Hmmm...Brazil has for 7 years, managed to escape the addiction of WoW. I don't really see that as a bad thing.
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