Monster Hunter 3 WiiU has region locked online multiplayer (NA/EU cant play together)
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Same. Sucks being in the UK in a region lockedworldNintendo
Wii U is region locked!?
Goddamnit, this company... When will they learn?
If the alternative is playing alone, is that so crazy?
The Mana Legend
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Doesn't matter to me. I only plan on playing it with a group of friends that live 20 minutes away from me.
It sucks, but oh well.
It sucks, but oh well.
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Deleted member 125677
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Amazing. It has been confirmed and stated several times in this thread that this is a CapCom game and a CapCom decision, yet so many just continues to blindly play the "lol-nintendo suckz for realz"-card.
It's like blaming your computer for the region locked multiplayer in Starcraft II.
It's like blaming your computer for the region locked multiplayer in Starcraft II.
A better argument would be, lets blame Nintendo despite every Monster Hunter's online play being handled like this.
True. finding people will not be an issue. For me the problem is that from time to time I would have liked to play with some GAFers from the US or even Japan.
I agree, it's really silly, but people will still easily find a game. I'd love to know their reasoning behind that decision. But, considering their official excuse for not putting Revelations on the Vita, perhaps it'd be best not to.
That's not the alternative. He can play with random people at any time.
KennyLinder
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So PSO on Dreamcast was better then. FFS Nintendo.
Hold on.. On MK7 I am suuuuurrreee you can play across regions? i.e. UK vs Japan. Is this a Nintendo decision or not?
Hold on.. On MK7 I am suuuuurrreee you can play across regions? i.e. UK vs Japan. Is this a Nintendo decision or not?
Yes. I played a lot of Tri on the Wii while my friends were all in the UK (they've moved away now) and I'm not going to buy an 'enhanced' version that maintains something stupid from the original. Let's see if they change their minds with MH4, if not then I'll skip that one too.
HolyBaikal
Banned
This is one area that Square Enix really did have a genius idea that everyone should have learned from and become market standard.
I'm sick of living in an age where digital service means IP region locks. In Final Fantasy XI, you had Square Enix purposely make an effort to get everyone in the world onto the same servers, and even so much as went to the programming effort of providing translation tools.
The Final Fantasy XI theme of multi-culturalism is really, really under-appreciated, I feel.
I'm sick of living in an age where digital service means IP region locks. In Final Fantasy XI, you had Square Enix purposely make an effort to get everyone in the world onto the same servers, and even so much as went to the programming effort of providing translation tools.
The Final Fantasy XI theme of multi-culturalism is really, really under-appreciated, I feel.
lettermassing
Neo Member
wasn't this also the case with demon's souls/dark souls?
I don't play co-op games with random people, so it seems highly possible to me that he doesn't either.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Dude you figured it out in your own post. >.<
The game itself was region free, if you wanted to play with another server you bought that copy of the game.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Well that sucks all around. I wouldn't be playing with people from other regions but that doesn't excuse their decision.
Silly Capcom.
Silly Capcom.
Herb Alpert
Banned
To have to deal with useless hurdles appearing of nowhere for no reason, this how you play on Nintendo platforms. you think you'll end being accustomed, but another one appears...
Not to repeat things endlessly, but read the thread.
About an enhanced port of a 3 year old game? No, I don't. I'm not such a rabid manchild that I have to buy a game in a series I like, just because it's out there. The region lock on the online is a deal breaker for me so I won't buy it, I will play one of the many other online games that let me play with whoever I want.
Hopefully Capcom will change their minds when MH4 rolls around, it's silly for a game like this, on the most advanced console on the market, to have region-locked online.
The Wii U really is it's own thing, isn't it? So far it has failed to be up to par with Xbox 360 and PS3, and it consistently with it's games and software prove to be disappointing, there's always something missing.
Luckily my acquaintance lives in the country I do, but this is rather awful for a console that came out just a few months ago.
Luckily my acquaintance lives in the country I do, but this is rather awful for a console that came out just a few months ago.
With the rise of the Internet we should be at an era without borders...
I don't think it's a lag problem either. Plenty of fast-action games have region-free multiplayer. I guess the netcode is just rubbish, coming from Capcom they probably haven't changed it since the first release.
I don't think it's a lag problem either. Plenty of fast-action games have region-free multiplayer. I guess the netcode is just rubbish, coming from Capcom they probably haven't changed it since the first release.
Guess us Aussies are stuck with the Germans again. Not that its a bad thing, but, would be good to play with people who speak English more frequently
Whatever.
Come hither German Hunters, let us overcome our communication barriers and slay the great beasts!
It's the same for us Brits. Most Continental Europeans can speak English but they tend to start talking their respective languages when talking with other C.Europeans while you're around... It's not that big of deal with games like MH where you play with friends but it's a major problem with open-world MMOs.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Some situations in this thread are really strange.
In those games you've mentioned, ping matters since players can seldom take more than a few hits and not counting a hit matters. Also, in those game you're generally much more mobile while attacking.
In MH, where boss level monsters and even players tend to be damage sponges, the game can fail to detect hits without much consequence. Launching attacks tends to lock you in place or force you into a trajectory. Bosses either get locked into place or into predictable trajectories when they attack.
The decision to region lock online wasn't about pings.
Diablohead
Member
Region locking online servers is kind of upsetting to hear, outside of a little latency issue for oversea players I prefer a bigger more full world then small portions separate to one another.
Nice metacommentary about MH "zoning", lol.
Do people not read threads? Maybe this will help:
It sucks though. I wonder what's Capcom's reasoning is, since it's been around for quite some time.
It sucks though. I wonder what's Capcom's reasoning is, since it's been around for quite some time.
Companies that pull that kind of garbage need to be aggressively boycotted. God forbid anyone should want to play a game in a language other than the one that the publisher has decided is appropriate for their "region".
Ashler
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fabricated backlash
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That would take a very long time to get drunk though.
Enough to know that this isn't an excuse. It hasn't been in 2006, it's not a valid excuse in 2013.
Please understand that talking in your native tongue is muuuuch more pragmatic and comfortable. Instead of having to think about abstract unestablished descriptors and location cues, you just react by saying what comes naturally.
In German you have to also consider huge (grammar and sentence structure) differences between certain dialects. If I were to use my South Tyrolean dialect to communicate with someone from Berlin, or Frankfurt, they wouldn't understand a single word.
I try to talk english during my online sessions, but comparing those experiences to the ones playing with my brother, talking smack in our native dialect is just no comparison.
They clearly don't give a fuck man. I remember trying to play mon Hun frontier which is Japan only ATM and they would actively ban foreign ips. In tri a lot of people had North American wiis in different regions that were soft hacked. It was a grindThere, fixed that you you.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Reading through the thread to me it looks like the majority of people blaming Nintendo have never played previous MHs online... It's always been like that for MH online multi, I fail to see how this one was gonna be any different or why is Nintendo to blame. It's a community/gameplay decision for the producer to make, hardly Nintendo's call even if they run the servers themselves
Shin Kojima
Banned
As a central european I find that extremely rude. Whenever I run into people from my own country in MH I usually just pretend to only speak English. Unless it's a personal friend I'm playing with but even then we'll only speak our language if there isn't anyone from another country around.
anon_mastermind
Member
Didn't care in Tri, don't care now. *shrug*
now why would anyone want to prevent a lagi session?
Sammy Samusu
Member
Because people don't like to fight underwater.