Originally posted by guy232

lmao  soon as they  cut out asia.. and russia  I knew they would end up with a hacker free game.   kudos to them 

that shows how little you know, a proxy most of time can bypass that, and hackers most of time don't play the game they made the hack for, if you pay for it that is the reason he made it, if not the reason is because he could. golde seller is not only in china it a plague in all places.

thing is over the internet, a true hacker can and will bypass all security you toss on him, and most of time he will do it just to see if he can, then tell to everyone, most of true hackers, do it for the knowledge and the thinking of everything related to info should be free.

As long as they dont block me ( I'm European, still some american corporations block EU IPs... ) , I dont care :)

Mixed feelings on that I guess.   I kind of think it does get my interest up .. simply due to the issues certain regions have caused to gaming.

Yet at the same time there are gamers in those areas.

Of course in certain regions where there is no legal reciprocation... its not like you can really do anything to the offender... of course from my limited grasp... it would seem "those types" will just use methods to bypass region blocking.

I live in Europe, so I guess this won't affect me anyway.

Me DickLongDong want to sell Mi Gold for 10 dollair.Go to wewe,con and zee our nestle of wht weez cans dooos.Weeez eveens plower levie youu for 15 dollair..Youu noes bui weea hackses..

Well i have to side with the Company...LOL

Being scared of hackers is just like saying .. hey we got shity account security but we do our best ! ... stupid move imo

Well, their game, their rules i suposse. I agree qith some people, this seems racist and a huge generalization, and hackers can bypass IP blocks and all that,.

But i think you all are forgetting one very important thing, and that is: if you restrict how many countries you can give service, you have to pay much less taxes.

And with all this problem of economical crisis and shit, it's natural not giving service to areas/countries which will not give them a big benefit. I can't imagine a lot of, say, africans playing TERA.

They are very busy stitching Nike and Adidas products. (LOL i am racist ban me NAO)

Originally posted by greywolf2002

Well, their game, their rules i suposse. I agree qith some people, this seems racist and a huge generalization, and hackers can bypass IP blocks and all that,.

But i think you all are forgetting one very important thing, and that is: if you restrict how many countries you can give service, you have to pay much less taxes.

 

And with all this problem of economical crisis and shit, it's natural not giving service to areas/countries which will not give them a big benefit. I can't imagine a lot of, say, africans playing TERA.

They are very busy stitching Nike and Adidas products. (LOL i am racist ban me NAO)

Not to mention that most people from these regions would be better off playng the EU version anyway due to better latency.

(Massively? With only NA players? This is not my idea of massively.)

But, really, i can understand IP blocks for fighting RMT. Yes, it's no good for legitimate players (and i really don't understand why they block Africa and Middle East), from China or other asian countries (and Russia), but there are a lot of goldsellers from those regions. We cannot want people from all around the world and, at the same time, no RMT: near to be impossible.

ah yes can't forget that too, they will just make it have even more private servers from games they ip block.

So does this mean all those cybercriminals will then flood the EU servers? How nice...

Good idea on Paper.... but the way people can Mask their IP's .... it wont change a Damn thing

My impression on this is "Damned if you do, Damned if you dont" 

Personally I am happy they are doing this, we will see though if it does have any impact once the game does go live.

Will En Masse IP block based on region?

To keep the quality of service high for players within North America we have decided to disable IP addresses from which fraudulent traffic originates. We encourage players in these regions to participate on servers specifically designated for their area.
We block IP addresses used by hackers

En Masse will block IPs based on region. Asia, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East are included on the block list. While we appreciate that there are players in these regions who would enjoy playing on En Masse servers, it's unfortunate that the vast majority of Internet traffic we see from these regions are from cyber-criminals relating to account theft, gold-farming and other hacking behavior.

What about proxies?

Services that promise to improve your ping and decrease lag may sound promising, but they are frequently used by hackers and criminals who want to remain anonymous. Although we do not block them by default, a proxy or server host will be blocked if it becomes a popular tool for criminal behavior.

Proxies will still be usable to those who want to play on the NA servers. And from the sounds of it EME won't try to filter out proxies as long as they don't traffic in a significant amount of "criminal behavior."

Also there is nothing rasist about what they are doing. I wonder is they hadn't said that they will be blocking Africa, if you would still be calling it racism.  I know some of you are over the age of 18, so lets try and be adult and logical about this.

lol

Now while I do not belong to any countries in that list , I'll be damned on if their official statement did not sound overly racist. 

yes, obviously "everyone in russia and asia" are hackers.

Frankly this solves nothing. The actual "cyber criminals" from scary big asia and scary big mother russia will still get in through proxies and ip masking and millions of other methods. 

En Masse is trying to sidestep the NEED to develop actual anti-hacking tools, but it won't help even a bit.

I hope they dont add latin america to the ip block list....God dam BRs they make the rest of us look bad >.<.

Originally posted by Yuui

Now while I do not belong to any countries in that list , I'll be damned on if their official statement did not sound overly racist. 

 

yes, obviously "everyone in russia and asia" are hackers.

 

Frankly this solves nothing. The actual "cyber criminals" from scary big asia and scary big mother russia will still get in through proxies and ip masking and millions of other methods. 

En Masse is trying to sidestep the NEED to develop actual anti-hacking tools, but it won't help even a bit.

Most traffic is from cyber-criminals =/= most people are cyber-criminals.

How many Russians, Middle Easterners and Africans do you think would play in the NA servers? I think they would be a small amount of people just because playing on EU servers would be better because of the latency. So most traffic from those servers would prbably be cyber-criminals.

It's a great idea. If all companies did this rather than looking at the money first, those countries would be forced to do something about it and the inocent people there and everywhere else could play in peace.