About Vindictus (and other MMO's) IP Block.

[Madz]

Dear Escapist Members, September 15 the Vindictus Open Beta was opened, however it had one little problem, it was IP Blocked to anyone that isn't from USA or Canada.

My question is, what makes a developer take such an decision, is it because of the licensing or is there any other reason for doing such thing?

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Maybe it's because they have no servers outside of North America and don't want us lagging the place up.

Or they're cheap and can only afford North American servers right now.

 

[icyneesan]

No idea what Vindictus is, but usually when a MMO IP blocks other countries its usually because the game is available in other countries.

 

[Keava]

Purely licensing limitation put by the original owner of the IP. Vindictus, like many other of the MMOs was made for Asian market. When a company bought rights to publish it for US they only got license for US, maybe they didn't have enough cash or maybe some other company is trying to buy it for EU market. You would have to ask the company in question.

 

[Korten12]

Dear Escapist Members, September 15 the Vindictus Open Beta was opened, however it had one little problem, it was IP Blocked to anyone that isn't from USA or Canada.

My question is, what makes a developer take such an decision, is it because of the licensing or is there any other reason for doing such thing?

Becuase Vindictus Europe is coming out in a couple of months?

 

[barash]

Go proxy on their ass & have a good time anyway =)

 

[Madz]

Maybe it's because they have no servers outside of North America and don't want us lagging the place up.

Or they're cheap and can only afford North American servers right now.

Hmm, but aren't there many other RPGs with NA servers that can handle worldwide populace?

The thing is, wouldn't they gain from having a server in beta that can handle that by showing it's game to more people? And then for having more people buying stuff at the cash shop when it goes gold?

No idea what Vindictus is, but usually when a MMO IP blocks other countries its usually because the game is available in other countries.

Vindictus used to be Named Mabinogi Heroes, an action mumorpger made with the Source engine, that means "OH LOOK PLAYER PHYSICS!"

Nexon seems to have a problem with the games in other countries, I live in Brazil and the original Mabinogi still hasn't made its way around here.

 

[icyneesan]

s gold?

No idea what Vindictus is, but usually when a MMO IP blocks other countries its usually because the game is available in other countries.

Vindictus used to be Named Mabinogi Heroes, an action mumorpger made with the Source engine, that means "OH LOOK PLAYER PHYSICS!"

Nexon seems to have a problem with the games in other countries, I live in Brazil and the original Mabinogi still hasn't made its way around here.

Oh yeah I saw Mabinogi heroes, it looked really awesome. Guess I better capitalize on your despair and go join this beta

Also can't you just play by using a proxy server?

 

[Korten12]

Maybe it's because they have no servers outside of North America and don't want us lagging the place up.

Or they're cheap and can only afford North American servers right now.

Hmm, but aren't there many other RPGs with NA servers that can handle worldwide populace?

The thing is, wouldn't they gain from having a server in beta that can handle that by showing it's game to more people? And then for having more people buying stuff at the cash shop when it goes gold?

No idea what Vindictus is, but usually when a MMO IP blocks other countries its usually because the game is available in other countries.

Vindictus used to be Named Mabinogi Heroes, an action mumorpger made with the Source engine, that means "OH LOOK PLAYER PHYSICS!"

Nexon seems to have a problem with the games in other countries, I live in Brazil and the original Mabinogi still hasn't made its way around here.

well its probably also becuase ppl don't want to have to bother speaking to ppl who don't speak english on an english game.

 

[Madz]

The IP blocks are there to
1) Simplify currencies. A euro isn't worth a dollar, isn't worth a Yen, isn't worth a german dollar... yada yada.
2) Make sure player-lag isn't caused by them trying to connect halfway across the world, instead of some buggy coding. And of course, prevent servers from being filled up as much.
3) Support can be localized. I don't want to talk to someone from Japan whose being forced to use Babelfish to understand each other.

Vindictus doesn't suffer from the restraints of licensing, as its all being handled by the same publisher/developers. But something like Spellborn had gone through licensing hell because the developers had to find publishing for the game.

I can understand the lag and server capacity but, wouldn't the other two points be resolved by "forcing" people to pay in dollar and to only accept players able to speak english like many others do?

Oh yeah I saw Mabinogi heroes, it looked really awesome. Guess I better capitalize on your despair and go join this beta

Also can't you just play by using a proxy server?

Haha, good luck.

I could but that kills your latency, I'm going to do that to check out the gameplay but, multiplayer will probably be out of question.