Bad feelings about online for Dark Souls 2

Sloth9230 wrote:I've run out of things to say already

Stevesweed: if thaw law wont take steps to enforce their rules, then why shouldn't developers/publishers? it's what that whole thing about PS4 maybe not playing used games is about.

I don't think you've grasped what I've just said. The European court ruled that we are allowed legally to sell our used digital games because it's our consumer right to do so. Game companies are a law to themselves and will make up sh!t just to milk as much money out of you as possible, even if it potentially cripples the final product. How many games are out there that have real world stuff bundled with it for free if you buy new from a retailer, or grant beta playthroughs if you purchase early. Not many. These are the ideas that should be used, not locking off features to just maximize profits. In the music industry, CD distributors put an additional cost on top of a CD to compensate the overall theft that a store has. Game companies already compensate the online cost by putting it on the price of the disc so they have already made sure that they don't suffer a loss in the long run, because it would be stupid to expect the online pass system to fully support online. This online pass is nothing but greed and companies have only followed suit because they know that they can get away with it.

Serious_Much wrote:Okay, so i'll ask you a question.

Is region locking really justifiable when it only reduces lag but it severly diminishes the online population?

As I've said already, I think not, but i wanna hear more perspectives on the matter really

I think you already know my answer. NO!

I want more than just a one word answer, this is a forum not an election slip

Steveswede: Who are you to decide whether a game is legitimately worth 60? Of course some/most games aren't(games that suck tend to have their prices plummet pretty fast), but I would honestly pay 60 or even more for Dark Souls. You can't just say the game is worth 30 and that they raised the price to 60 to protect themselves from theft, you have no way of knowing that. At least not until you've already played the game.

Your options are buy new on release, wait for the price to drop, or not buy the game at all. Games are a luxury, they can charge whatever they want for them.

If i physically own something i sell it as i please . Nothings going to stop me from doing that .
Except if the Game is bound to an Account or something, then it is impossible anyway .

Also, one Pirated Game doesnt mean one less selled copy .
Many Gamers wont buy the Game at full price if they cant get it Pirated .
Its faulty thinking .

Anyway i would be all for regional Servers if you can choose which Server you want to join each Time you play Online . It would solve everything

Please guys, get the thread on track or it's gonna get reported. There's a perfectly good thread for your discussion right here, or in PM would also be fine

https://soulswiki.forumotion.com/t16522-money-grubbing-sony

apologies to marino leaving your post bottom, here's the relevant part copied for you;

Marino. wrote:Anyway i would be all for regional Servers if you can choose which Server you want to join each Time you play Online . It would solve everything

I wanna ask you marino, what do you mean by it would solve everything? How would being able to choose a server help the online when your online population has been crippled by limiting the online play to regions?

Surely i'd simply choose to play on the american server with the most people. which would completely derail the whole point of having region locking in the first place?

Goddamnit bottom paged :|

So.. I don't know much about servers... but, does "dedicated servers" automatically mean "region locked"?

Oh god, I feel like such a noob

Oh, and all these failed invasions/summonings suck hard!

Apologies to marino leaving your post bottom, here's the relevant part copied for you;

Marino. wrote:Anyway i would be all for regional Servers if you can choose which Server you want to join each Time you play Online . It would solve everything

I wanna ask you marino, what do you mean by it would solve everything? How would being able to choose a server help the online when your online population has been crippled by limiting the online play to regions?

Surely i'd simply choose to play on the american server with the most people. which would completely derail the whole point of having region locking in the first place? (I'm in europe just to say, the region that would get royally screwed by region locking if it does happen)

Serious_Much wrote:Apologies to marino leaving your post bottom, here's the relevant part copied for you;

Marino. wrote:Anyway i would be all for regional Servers if you can choose which Server you want to join each Time you play Online . It would solve everything

I wanna ask you marino, what do you mean by it would solve everything? How would being able to choose a server help the online when your online population has been crippled by limiting the online play to regions?

Surely i'd simply choose to play on the american server with the most people. which would completely derail the whole point of having region locking in the first place? (I'm in europe just to say, the region that would get royally screwed by region locking if it does happen)

Thats my question, why does "dedicated servers" translate to "region locked"? Does it have to be that way?

Well as you know, lag is caused by the distance the connection has to travel. It's not instant. The reason dedicated servers reduce lag is it puts people into servers based on their location to optimise online performance.

Thing is, i'd be all for it if the game shifted as many copies as stuff like COD, but iit doesn't. Not even close, so sadly it means even though we get better connections, we'll end up waited hours for summon signs to appear and will fight the same 2-3 guys over and over in pvp. At least thats the reality for me anyways. For you yanks and japanese players it'll be fine, but gaming isn't the force in Britain that it is in America and Japan

Serious_Much wrote:

Marino. wrote:Anyway i would be all for regional Servers if you can choose which Server you want to join each Time you play Online . It would solve everything

I wanna ask you marino, what do you mean by it would solve everything? How would being able to choose a server help the online when your online population has been crippled by limiting the online play to regions?

Surely i'd simply choose to play on the american server with the most people. which would completely derail the whole point of having region locking in the first place? (I'm in europe just to say, the region that would get royally screwed by region locking if it does happen)

That is your Choice then .

Back in my Demons Days i had pretty good Online Play until everyone decided "let's go to America!" only after that the European servers were abandoned .

So really, its a community thing and if you have the Choice between lagless Server and lag Server you should choose the Lagless server after all we are the community so we have to Populate the servers.

I know this doesnt have to do with anything i wrote earlier . Thats were just the thoughts i had while typing this .

So basically I could just choose to play wiith americans and it would be fine?

I'm down with that. The pros are happy because lag is reduced for the most part, im happy because i can still play online with relative ease.

By the way do you mean by choosing to play on american servers id have to purchase the american game too?

Or the Americans could come over to our EU servers .

Most People are still stuck with the Idea that US servers = more Players and end up going to them and ultimately abandoning everything else which just strenghtens what i said above .

I dont know about you guys but i will stick to the EU servers if i have a choice .

Serious_Much wrote:id have to purchase the american game new too?

FIFY

haha just kidding

Serious_Much wrote:
By the way do you mean by choosing to play on american servers id have to purchase the american game too?

No, i mean choosing the Server in the Game .
Have you ever played a MMO ?

You have a list of various Servers and can choose from them .
In some Games like WoW it costs Money to change the Server you're playing on but i dont think it would be the case in Dark Souls .

Just like this :

Server 1
Server 2
Server

Choose server 2 and you play on server 2 .
Next Day you can choose to play on server .

That was my Idea

I don't play MMO's, i don't have to the time to commit to gaming to be able to really, they're timesinks really.

But i see. That would be fine with me. As long as i could maintain a high online population i'd be happy.

Still though i'd rather have japanese guys available too, for some reason they all seem to play with really random cool builds and weapons. Last time iplayed i summoned a guy who was playing left handed.. and the left hand was demons hammer. I'd hate it if I had to just stick with the general tryhard american population (obviously I'm exaggerating, both countries have their fair share of quirks and unique build people, japan just have far more)

Well, me neither but i kind of know how it works

And they are Japanese, Serious...what else do you expect from them ?

I would recommend you use the "random" option on the Character Planer .
It will give you random Weapons and stats . Just stick with the Weapons and build your stats around them .
Its a good way to shake things up a bit

http://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/

I think though that it's more a mentality of wanting to use something different than just randoming (i've done a couple of fun builds in the past), though if i want random and funny i guess they could make a server for it.

Then it just your creativity that sets the limits .
But the Randomizer may cause a spark that makes you burst with creativity

I IZ 2 BADAZ YH!?!

Might try it out sometime, though my gaming time is reduced at the moment due to work.. *** exams man

What exactly are exams on the uni anyway ?

I only remember them from School and we had to i qoute "Use your own words to explain something" and i wasnt very fond of them .

Edit: No forget that i mistranslated your Post :oops:

Well one I have to go into an anatomy lab and identify whatever they want me to.. and what that thing does etc..

Then i'll get questions on pathways of diseases and stuff...

I guess the closest thing you could get is biology/chemistry exams that you used to have in school

I always hear german Students talk about "Exams" (the english term) and just didnt quite know what it meant
So thanks for clearing that one up .

I only have a Middle School graduation if that makes sense to you .

Ok, I'm confused. If it's region locked, I can't play with other countries?

What a load of crap, that's unfair