Region Lock on Nox server

[BardBun]

Hi,

I've found out about this game from my friends who play on the NA server so I wanted to play along with them.
Being from Germany though, I can only access the german and international EU server.

Is there really such a damn need for the region lock?
All my friends are on the Nox server and I want to play along with them.
Without the possibility to do so, you're missing out on so many players and potential customers, just by forcibly dividing us onto servers rather than just recommending them to us and giving us free choice.

I mean look at other online games like League of Legends for example, there you can freely choose what region to play on, no matter where you live.

And Wakfu looks like a nice MMO, I have been looking for a good one for such a long time but I won't be able to spend time on it because playing it alone is no fun when all my friends are at the Nox server and I'm stuck at some other server with randoms :I

[EolSunder]

Its probably something to do with internet band speed i'm guessing, since someone way outside the region joining the server probably will increase lag, bandwidth and resources much more than someone in the region.

if im on a german server and live in germany, pretty easy to join that server. If im in america and joining a german server, i'm sure much more resources, bandwith, etc to connect with it. I'm also guessing legal issues that its much easier to enforce legal stuff on people within your area then say.. oh, this guy from asia did bad things to the NA server.. how the heck are we going to punish him..

Something like that. Region locks have been in games for a long time and those 2 reasons are the only reasons i can think that such locks exist. I've actually played games on european servers that actually banned me once they found out i lived in NA due to their TOS.

[Nova]

Hiya Zac!

Theres two ways I know of that mean you could access Nox (while not being in NA). You could ask your friends to make you an account, or you could submit a ticket to Ankama Support and ask that your account region be changed. The second option may take a few days for a reply, so if you're happy to wait then thats always there :)