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Originally Posted by eflow

I rather play with 150 ms in an US server than with 50ms in a horrible version of the game.

Because you don't play for serious, and by that i mean competitive pve or pvp

A few things about WoW in Brazil:

- Blizzard already has a fairly strong presence in Brazil. All it's PC games since at least and Warcraft 2 have been released here, with WoW being the single, glaring, omission. The games were often translated/dubbed also, without any option to play them in the original language (which made me "pirate" the games by buying the local version but downloading and using the original, English, version; I can't stand their translations, specially the voices).

- Support times should not increase. Phone support for Portuguese-speaking WoW players is already handled locally (even though the game has not been officially announced for Brazil), and even for tickets the response time should get better for everyone, since for obvious reasons support in Portuguese will not be handled by the English-speaking support crew.

- Blizzard will probably not provide local servers. AFAIK, "local" Starcraft servers are located in the US, much like WoW servers for Latin America and Oceania.

- I sure hope Blizzard gets the pricing down to at least parity with the US. A few distributors are already dealing with WoW and it's expansions, by providing imported boxes, but for the time being they cost about double the US prices.

- While WoW might get enough local players to justify the local presence, in the short and medium term it will most likely remain under the shadow of a number of other MMOs that were brought here during the last half decade and already have a firm grasp on the market. The cost of WoW, with all it's expansions, should also be a big concern; MMOs that do well here are the ones that don't charge for the game itself, only charging the players for either game time or store cash.

unfortunately, SC2 Expac and D3 delayed to 2012 ?

sigh

Originally Posted by Aleom

I find this news fairly distressing. If there is more evidence that the product calendar is at least SOMEWHAT accurate, that means that the next expansion (WOWx4) will be released in LESS than 12 months. That means that the next TWO to THREE RAIDS are going to be dropped within that timeframe. Is it just me or does that seem like a very small amount of time for most guilds to progress through Hardmode content before the next raid is released?

-- Cheers
Grand Crusader Aleom, Light of the Dawn, Defender of a Shattered Realm.

Well considering how fast people plow through the content I'd say it is fine and highly welcome to get a lot of new content in less then one year. I almost died from boredom when I finished ICC so many times and had nothing to do for more then half a year, the new sanctum didn't help much, so I just canceled my sub, until few weeks before Cataclysm - and I would guess that's how most raiders feel. We get bored real quickly.

I'm pretty much bored with content we have right now, if I'm not raiding, I do a daily heroic, maybe some daily quests (if I need something) and then I hang 1-2 hours in Orgrimmar (like I did in Dalaran) and wait for a raid. On non-raid days I don't even log into the game and the xpac is what... 3 months old.

I hope the shedule is true, waiting for diablo 3 for so long...

Originally Posted by eflow

one thing i think people are missing in the discussion about "wow br x wow port" is that it's not only about language.

Heck .. if it was about language they could just make a translation and call it a day. Its about servers and market. People from portugal play on EU servers, which is closer.

People from brazil play on US servers, since there are no servers nearby. The only ones are Latin America servers which are in spanish (believe or not, no .. we dont speak spanish and for 99% of us it's easier to speak english than spanish)....

Actaully the Latin America servers are located in US, so there is no option of a better server for us, in Brazil...they will do exactly what they did with SC2, translate and put us under the Latin America tab, with servers running in US still...

I'm wondering it the Japanese is to service the huge Japanese population of Brazil or if we'll actually see a Japanese launch.

Also, if that launch timeline is correct, I may need to go to Blizzcon this year!

pretty many kittens have died :S

How is the timing almost perfect? They are about 5-6 months off. That chart shows Brazil in the 3rd quarter not the 3rd month. Also depending on how blizz runs, a lot of people run fiscal years which are beginning in october(the military does for one) which might put that a little closer but i doubt it.

Originally Posted by purebalance

How is the timing almost perfect? They are about 5-6 months off. That chart shows Brazil in the 3rd quarter not the 3rd month. Also depending on how blizz runs, a lot of people run fiscal years which are beginning in october(the military does for one) which might put that a little closer but i doubt it.

Firstly, Blizz's fiscal and calendar years are synced.

Secondly, Bibi didn't announce that WoW Brazil is being released today. O.o It was DATAMINED today, it probably won't be released for... you guessed it... 5-6 months.

Every day I see Bobi giving us new information in a cool way.

Thanks, Bobi. Or Bibi. Or Boub.

Originally Posted by Aleom

I find this news fairly distressing. If there is more evidence that the product calendar is at least SOMEWHAT accurate, that means that the next expansion (WOWx4) will be released in LESS than 12 months. That means that the next TWO to THREE RAIDS are going to be dropped within that timeframe. Is it just me or does that seem like a very small amount of time for most guilds to progress through Hardmode content before the next raid is released?

-- Cheers
Grand Crusader Aleom, Light of the Dawn, Defender of a Shattered Realm.

I agree with you. If this is anywhere near accurate, I feel that raid content will be pushed at a pace that few butthe most hardcore of guilds will be able to stay with the highest level of content.

Even Boub hoping for 4.1 on the PTRs soon is causing me concern right now. Has there really been enough guilds beating the current raid content enough to warrent pushing 4.1 so soon? I don't know, doesn't feel like it though.

Originally Posted by Aleom

I find this news fairly distressing. If there is more evidence that the product calendar is at least SOMEWHAT accurate, that means that the next expansion (WOWx4) will be released in LESS than 12 months. That means that the next TWO to THREE RAIDS are going to be dropped within that timeframe. Is it just me or does that seem like a very small amount of time for most guilds to progress through Hardmode content before the next raid is released?

-- Cheers
Grand Crusader Aleom, Light of the Dawn, Defender of a Shattered Realm.

This pacing isn't bad at all, considering that the majority of guilds that are willing to bash their heads against hardmode encounters repeatedly are currently in the process of finishing up their progression - there is probably at least another month before anything new comes out which will probably give these guilds the time they need to finish this stuff up. This is VASTLY preferable to the Fail of the Lich King's HORRIFIC pacing (I really can not stress enough how bad it was) which left a large number of raiding guilds with nothing to do except farm encounters they had already completed for half year+ before being able to commit to anything new (many guilds broke up in this dead time).

More casual 'play more for fun' guilds, while they may not be thrilled with the idea of new content coming out before they can finish *everything* from this tier with current gear levels, probably will not be too upset over it either. Hardcore guilds will have something new to work on rather than farming the same hardmode encounters for like half a year.

Originally Posted by Renascido

Actually you can find in a bookstore (for me that live in Curitiba, we have the Livrarias Curitiba) all the versions of WoW, and the more expensive, that is the Cataclysm, is sold for R$ 95,00, something around US$ 55,00.

You sure? I went to the Livrarias Curitiba website over here and found Cata for 130 BRL.

Right now it's q1 of 2011 so I don't know where this "near perfect timing" is coming from. That is six months in advance of what the chart says. That's a long time in the gaming community.

Originally Posted by purebalance

How is the timing almost perfect? They are about 5-6 months off. That chart shows Brazil in the 3rd quarter not the 3rd month. Also depending on how blizz runs, a lot of people run fiscal years which are beginning in october(the military does for one) which might put that a little closer but i doubt it.

The reading comprehension on these boards is just terrible. This was datamined information. Blizzard hasn´t announced anything yet and it certainly isn´t going live in the next few weeks. They will definitely market it and ... possibly.... even actualy mention it somewhere themselves before it goes live. This is just datamined information... we have no idea when it will be implemented, although it stands to reason that it is somewhere between a few months, to maybe 6 months.

Well they have to target third world nations to get subs since everyone is bailing for Rift.

I thought there are rumors in the internets mention something like they are making abyssal maw into a raid with our old friends neptulon and ozumat.

I also heard that SC2x2 has been delayed, is this graph before the announcement or after?

Originally Posted by Archer

Who was it the other day that said if Blizzard was really starting to feel some pressure from sales they would release it in yet another country to gain more subs? Guess it happened.

Also as per the blue post.

Problem is that list was available for months, so that poster is full of crap.

WoW Brazil was actually there, and the timing is near perfect.

Not even close. It shows up in the 3rd quarter on that list, and we're only in 1st.
But then again, Blizzard never did something on time, so ~6 months difference may be near perfect timing ...