QUOTE(Abyssio @ Jun 22 2011, 12:41 PM)
After playing online games for all these years, i can safely say in this god forsaken region, only mega block-busters ala CoD, battlefield get to have a healthy player count. Any other games will simply get leftout and do not have the player count to sustain a good online experiance. I never imagined the game will gain popularity as the like of big publisher's AAA title.
But time has changed. I believe with the words of mouth and good indie faith even games like Minecraft will get a local dedicated server. I cannot gauge how well the game will sell and i really looking forward to see the game's popularity after release. I cant wait to see the number of dedicated server on SEA/Asia/Austrailia region. Still i wont be utterly devastated if the game doesnt turned out as popular as i hope.
That said the future of RO2 in this region shouldnt be that bleak. With free dedicated server support (unlike ea's official server rentals), free content updates, mod supports (total convertion mods), bot support and rocking developers the game can easily outdo KF's popularity. With players able to put up with server rentals, paid dlcs and buggy games nowadays it kinda up the chances for RO2. Again i cant wait to see how the game goes.
Im just worried that all the servers are in Australia again, than hosted in Malaysia, as Malaysians probably just go to CoD again, or maybe some to BF. Other than that, we have pretty much nothing at all.
The thing that made it worse is all the SEA ISP are releuctant to host any ISP level servers. Most Australia ISP are pretty fine with providing some servers for the games that people play, than rather depending on someone to host a server. Would be nice if Low Yat could provide some serves.
KF was fun, but im hoping that there is a consistent local community.
Gaming in Malaysia just sucks, IMO.
This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Jun 22 2011, 12:52 PM