Free Global servers from illegal users connecting outside the region

[Flightborn]

There are too many players connecting to the global servers illegally using VPN.
These players are usually Koreans who already own more than 6 months of experience and connecting from Korea.

This may not sound like a big issue, but please consider the below and vote up this thread so the devs may do something about it.

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FAIRNESS

As mentioned above, they bring their existing experience of more than 6 months and without a doubt, this gives them a huge advantage among fresh players which is unfair

LEGALITY

We want our servers to be free of illegal activities. It may not be all of them Korean players, but using macros were / are widely accepted in their community. Connecting through VPN being illegal of course goes with out saying.

They even have guides on how to patch the client to have Korean interface and how to avoid getting banned by using VPN and making purchases with Yen currency.

CULTURE

They will not mix in with other players. Most of Korean guilds are here to rule the server not be one of us. They often require the players to do weird things to prolong the conflict. ex) Intentional Field Boss HP reset. These Korean guilds team up with other Korean guilds making an exclusive circle. I know this is a PVP game and what the guilds do in game are usually none of our concern. However, we want genuine players who we can communicate with, and are subject to an adequate legal and moral standard.

Finally, I reveal that I'm a Korean myself living in Australia. I'm not saying that all Koreans are bad, I love my people and I'd love to play with them in games where it's allowed, but there are boundaries and people who do not respect them regardless of their origin are never welcome.

So, if you agree with what I posted here, help me make it reach the devs!

p.s, I have some evidence of these illegal activities but decided not to post them here just yet. I'll be posting one another if I see no action is taken.

[ministrog]

if you believe initial EA impression and numbers, it'd work out to be close to 7 million AUD they made just from EA pre-sales. (50k x 140 aud). then you double that if you want to assume these people bought gold pack too.

lets assume with a team of 200 devs and maybe a handful of amazon personel, you're looking at 14 mill in just staff expenditure. (70k p/a wage). this means they already paid for half a years worth of wages for everyone involved. NOT INCLUDING SALES FROM SHOP AND DISCRETIONARY SPENDING FROM WHALES. no mate, EA sales, from a corpo point of view, is good business practice.

there's also Yen, which i thought was a Japanese currency. doesn't S Korea use Won?

lastly, in australia, afaik doesn't have laws that care about where the person is playing. they care about where they're accessing. so in this loose definition, connections from VPN is as far as their obligations go, still fine. but if things have changed, i guess my bad.

[Flightborn]

Originally posted by ministrog:

if you believe initial EA impression and numbers, it'd work out to be close to 7 million AUD they made just from EA pre-sales. (50k x 140 aud). then you double that if you want to assume these people bought gold pack too.

lets assume with a team of 200 devs and maybe a handful of amazon personel, you're looking at 14 mill in just staff expenditure. (70k p/a wage). this means they already paid for half a years worth of wages for everyone involved. NOT INCLUDING SALES FROM SHOP AND DISCRETIONARY SPENDING FROM WHALES. no mate, EA sales, from a corpo point of view, is good business practice.

there's also Yen, which i thought was a Japanese currency. doesn't S Korea use Won?

lastly, in australia, afaik doesn't have laws that care about where the person is playing. they care about where they're accessing. so in this loose definition, connections from VPN is as far as their obligations go, still fine. but if things have changed, i guess my bad.

Well mate, you have vaild points. Still is it a right thing to allow there connection over VPN? Do the actual intended audience of the server support these players' connection?

[ministrog]

i can speak from my experience in playing mmo's. meeting and befriend people from different cultures is a great and fun experience. they got that auto translator (which barely works from what i've read) which helps. however, problematic people can be found in any country. kinda a myth to think only the bad guys come from xyz country, but that's politics.

the jp/oce thing is kinda tricky to work out. oce countries in my experience are mostly multicultural. i used to be part of a singaporean guild, great people there. i've joined a all aussie valheim server, good peeps there too. i've never joined an all japanese guild before, but stories of the 'glass ceiling' from japanese companies kinda paint my world view on them. not sure im the right person to judge modern japanese players.

[OneNineDeepSilence]

Do you hating on koreans while playing a game made by koreans?

Those "laws" you are speaking of are made just by companies for more profit. Dividing the world into "regions" it's a return to stone age.

One world, one humanity. Only united there is a future.

[Flightborn]

Originally posted by OneNineDeepSilence:

Do you hating on koreans while playing a game made by koreans?

Those "laws" you are speaking of are made just by companies for more profit. Dividing the world into "regions" it's a return to stone age.

One world, one humanity. Only united there is a future.

Yes the very laws I'm speaking of are made by companies which unfortunately we are to follow nonetheless.

A good future I see is where people respect the rules and play fair.

Also I didn't say I hate Koreans, hope you read the post straight.