Day: February 26, 2012

In response to a Change.org Petition which has been making the rounds, and whose 600 signatures were sent to SOE President John Smedley and Mr. Büchtmann at ProSiebenSat.1. In response, SOE President John Smedley had this to say: I think we’ve got it figured out and will announce our plan Monday.

We missed this news on Thursday, but word of Planetside 2 and other SOE games region locking are making it to mainstream media, specifically PCGamer.com: Sony Online Entertainment have announced that the running of many of their games is transferring to German publisher ProSiebenStat.1 Games Group in Europe. Games affected include EverQuest II, DC Universe Online, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, and this year’s Planetside 2. While SOE will continue to manage the European servers for their games, European players will no longer be able to play with friends in the US. The two providers will use...

From EverQuest II’s new Community Manager Eric “Piestro” Cleaver who must surely be having a worse week than many of us: Hey folks, There is something I want to clear up. A lot of people are talking about how the EU servers and players are being “sold off”. And that’s very clearly how many people feel and we can respect that. When we’re discussing feelings that makes total sense. We get that it feels this way to many of you. Unfortunately, as language sometimes does, this has sort of run away with itself. It has all sorts of implications...