Ever since, well forever in fact SOE players have had the joy of choosing which region of servers they wanted to game on, well days like that have come to an end.
Recently SOE announced a new multi-year parntership with ProSiebenSat.1 Games Group to license eight of its online games in Europe, including DC Universe Online, EverQuest II, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, Pox Nora, the upcoming PlanetSide 2, and the next installment of the EverQuest franchise.
As part of the deal EU players will be using ProSiebenSat.1's service and thus having to create new accounts with them, sadly this has lead to both US and EU players effectively banned from using their counterpart's servers and forcing to move their characters to their respective regions or face loosing their efforts in game.
Both regions of playerbases are already quite angry at this move, and already questions on subscription deals, such has the founders cut price offer for DCUO have been called into question if they will continue to be held by ProSiebenSat.1 after the account change.
With so many big names coming up in the MMORPG area, was this the best time for SOE to banish it's EU fans?
For more information on the deal goto http://forums.station.sony.com/dcuopc/posts/list.m?topic_id=45890
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