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According to the announcement, i d say it is even worse than being in a Non-English european country mate...
Cause if it is, by luck, "English speaking region" and not "English speaking country", Asia will still be on the wrong side...

Let's just wait for further precision on the matter.

QFT - If you all can read and write and post in this forum, in this language, you all should be fine to log in and participate in the beta test.

All this nonsense about Iceland and France residents not being able to participate.....I think is a bit overblown. I think they are just warning us here that the client isn't localized into multiple languages yet, thats all.

Nothing CCP has said gives me the impression they are making an arbitrary list of countries, categorizing them by predominate language, and excluding players who live in a country where a majority speak something other than English.

So does anyone know if ANY beta keys have gone out yet or what the deal is?

thanks for being so optimistic Hans but.....



...... maybe this?



also, I know what is a localized software, but the problem here is not with the localization, rather than with the PSN restrictions, which have been explained right above. So, since the dev has been talking as enigmatically as a shaman but at the same time as misteriously as a well trained politician...... I translate his words as simply as this:

"don't get mad when you non-english speaking ones will not be accepted. And don't say I didn't warn you"

so far, so good. I just hope we will overcome these poor communication syndrome one day and we'll be able to talk about DUST rather than try to interpret CCP's intentions and will

You're absolutely right, I got ahead of myself there and let my wishful thinking cloud judgement and made a hasty retort...

/injects "Patience" skill, trains to level IV

/bumps "Reading Comprehension" to level V to the end of skill queue

They only have the English version available right now as their first build. So PSN stores that use english, which aren't every country, ergo the "english as the first language of the country," will be eligible. Every different country has its own PSN store.

It also wouldn't make sense to have numerous localized versions already since it's at this early phase of consumer interaction, and it also wouldn't make sense to have it available in other countries in english because the majority of people won't be able to access it, this is demonstrated most accurately by the example of releasing a japanese/russian game in North America, with no subtitles/localization, and being okay with it because there is a small japanese speaking population residing there. What some of you are asking for is this very thing. To have an english game, on a Japanese store, because if make exceptions like that, you'll have to do it for all countries, and the ability of the people in the different countries to speak english are varied, and such an unknown that it'll be terribly unwieldy fashion to try to push a beta.

If you think that "It's okay, since it's just the beta and not the full game, a lot of other games open up the beta globally." What you don't understand is that most mmos and online games beta in one language and stick to that one language at launch, but have the added benefit of not even caring about language localization. This is where different companies step in to publish the game in different language zones of the world, ie North America, Europe, Asia. The problem CCP has is that the localization will take place on one server, so there's no chance of other companies stepping in later on, for one, and two, the game distribution itself will take place in the PSN stores of specific countries, the languages of which obviously won't be ready by the beta. So if they release an English beta in Japan, some would be able play, yes, but what would be the point of it being a localized beta, a testing ground, if it cannot access the rest of the playerbase and how they would interact with the game? It is much easier to get vital and accurate, global data by catering to the most widespread language, and therefore the largest sample on the planet, to test the different aspects of the game. That coinciding with the fact that each country has its own PSN store makes the decision to only beta test in English speaking countries, the only real option.

Currently, what matters in Beta is proximity to battle servers. CCP need to do all their initial tests with lowest latency to rule out the possibility of that affecting gameplay.

Expect closest PSN users to hit Beta first. PSN + or otherwise. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony required initial Beta users to be PSN +

Currently the Test server for Battles is set up in CCPs offices in the UK I believe; so that means UK first, then France, Germany, EU, etc.. North America will likely follow, with a server set up here, which will cover continental US initially, then Canada.

Mostly, it's just ranging, and seeing how many servers they'll need and where; but I imagine they'll be testing for required hardware in the game servers to, for best experience and load management.

Ok it seems this is being muddied up by alot of things, and Im sure this is exactly how Darth Vader felt sometimes so Cmdr Wang let me clarifiy what everyone means to say is.

Tell me the location of you hidden beta keys or I will blow up Alderan.

On a side note something Ive been thinking of with alot of the nay sayers weve had in here. It seems very much like the kind of anger you get if capsuleers really where having theyre monopoly on immoratlity challenged. Just an Interesting lore point thats all.

Its illegal but doesnt really harm anyone so Sony never did anything about it.

Regarding an IP adress localization, i never heard anything about that. What are you refering to ?



Nicest idea i heard today

Now THIS is a new and creative approach to dealing with CCP - harnessing the power of the dark side!!

I can't wait to see if it works, could open up a whole new world for those capsuleers willing to let themselves be consumed by anger and fear.....