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Well, you're probably considering companies that "lend" their games to brazilian companies, which is not the purpose of the topic. On this topic/petition we are asking for NCSoft to host a server here, having themselves as responsibles, employing some south americans for translation/support/administration in-game and forum. Indeed MMORPGs are really good for socialization with people around the world, It surely helped me alot, as I learned my english all by myself playing MMORPGs, but that's not the main point of it. Blade and Soul is, by its nature, a competitive game, made and constantly updated for being competitive and with that said, we, the South American players can't get equal opportunity on the competitive scene, as we have pings around 150~300 and playing against people with 15~100 all the time.

Bom, inicialmente, acho difícil a versão de que você continuaria no NA depois de testar o jogo com ping baixo, eu mesmo tive essa experiência ao jogar por alguns dias um servidor privado de Aion, a diferença no ping simplesmente tornou Aion outro jogo, e Aion nem depende tanto de ping quanto BnS. A comunidade hostil de que você fala existe em qualquer país, é sim bem comum esse tipo de comportamento pelos brasileiros, por isso a má fama, mas ao invés de virar as costas como você sugere, eu sou mais o tipo que busca a resolução do problema, entender o porquê da hostilidade e tentar sanar, não obstante, sempre que encontrei pessoas que não sabiam como fazer algo ou claramente não estavam entendendo as instruções, procurei saber se este entendia português ou mesmo espanhol, para que eu pudesse ensiná-lo/auxiliá-lo na medida do possível. Sim, o jogo (e chat) possuem a língua inglesa como oficial, mas como eu disse lá em cima no tópico, os brasileiros estão, de certa forma, fadados a jogar em servidores com língua diferente da nossa. Essa seria também uma das razões para a criação do server aqui, conforme já dito.

I have actually tried out all the ping reductors I could find around. None of them gets me lower than 180, I used WTFast as an example, which doesn't affect me much and I can't pay it also. This PingZapper lowers my ping to 180 but everytime goes 230 and back again at 180, unstable. Anyway this is not something any player would enjoy to do, having to reconnect every 30 minutes.

Well, the ping reductors doesn't work for everyone. I'm playing with 220ms and I can't pay WTFast, because I can't use my paypal brazilian wallet to pay stuff from outside of Brazil, and I don't have a credit card.

Actually, the ping on Brazil for the other south americans are way too low compared to NA, and since you said about a MOBA, I tell you something, on DotA2, there is only one server for South America, which is on Brazil, however, you can choose "language preference", which could also easily be implemented on Blade&Soul, like they already do making NA and EU servers separately. Nonetheless, I think a single server for south americans wouldn't have this big language barrier, after all our languages are very similar and we can understand each other easily.

Hi, my friend and I have came up with the idea for this topic, we're both blade and soul players, we also played another game from NCSOFT, Aion. Well, on this topic I pretend to show/prove why the South American server is something NCSOFT should seriously consider doing as soon as possible. Since I'm a brazilian, I'll present the stats from Brazil, which, nonetheless, are similar with many other south americans from Argentina/Peru/Chile etc. To make the reading easier, I'll put the subjects on topics, which follows: Mmorpgs of everywhere in the world have south americans players Well, I presume that if you're reading this, you do play BnS, and if you play BnS or anyother mmorpg, you've for sure seen a south american player at some point (being in a grind/dungeon/chat). I think it's unnecessary to point out that many south americans players get it hard on the official server mmorpgs, since they're mostly not in our languages (they're mainly english). As a proof that the language implies a big limitation, here I show you two links (in brazilian portuguese): Only 5% of brazilians speak english (this one, from 2014, shows that only 5% of our people speak english) Brasil stands on 41º at english knowledge ranking (this one, from 2015, shows that Brazil is on the 41º global ranking position in english knowledge) Despite this huge limitation, you still see alot of brazilians on every official mmorpg server you go, why? Because we don't have many options, something that will be shown further. Official mmorpg games don't usually come to South America If you're a south american like me, this isn't news, but if you're not, yes, rarely the companies build a server for us, this is one of the reasons we're always at server from other locations. The last big mmorpg that came to Brazil is World of Warcraft on 2012. Still, you may say: "well, you could always play a private server, right?!". Well, indeed many brazilians think like that, but, do you know why some still doesn't go to privates? They usually are bad configurated and have the risk of closing out of nowhere, making us afraid of wasting all our investments and time for nothing after less than a semester. Also, having lower ping equals more people playing, since the high ping makes people angry and/or disappointed, as example, I bring this graphic from League of Legends: (Source: http://imgur.com/g1NeQXv) The ping struggle For those a bit more intimate with mmorpgs, the ping on the game starts to make a tremendous difference. I'll show you my ping as example. When I started playing Aion, it was one of my first mmorpgs, and I had around 380ms, but, since I wasn't yet very familiar with the style, I though it was normal that my skills took almost 2 seconds to cast (back then I played as a sorcerer), furthermore, I wasn't yet a pvp fan. Then, after growing up in the game and also on my english, I learned that this wasn't normal, and not only that, every south american like me had the same issue. This led me to meet the ping reductors, which saved me, oh my god, I started to play at 180~220ms on Aion, I felt like even the game (FPS) was smoother. But then, at high level pvps, even my 180ms wasn't enough to fight against those who live at NA, since every frame of a second starts to make a difference at high ranking pvp (I think this is even more important here on BnS, since it's supposed to be a competitive pvp mmorpg). Following this thought, if you consider that there is even brazilians ping reductor companies, NCSOFT is really losing money here, because instead of buying more Ncoins and supporting NCSOFT, we have to pay just for a little lower ping. I'm also not considering that ping reductor doesn't work for everyone. Here is a video showing the difference between 10ms and 230ms (just a reminder: 230ms is a good ping for a south american): The success of companies that brought official servers for South America On this last topic, I'll show that the games brought to South America actually exceeded the companies expectations (not only mmorpgs), showing that is totally a profitable investment. WoW on Brazil exceeds Blizzard's expectations(this one, also in brazilian portuguese, shows that brazilians exceeded Blizzard expectations on World of Warcraft server, they planned 2 realms and ended up doing 5. It's somehow like what happened with BnS on NA release, having to make other realms because of queue) Neverwinter launches in Brazil (this one is in english, but I put it here because of the quotes from important people on the gaming industry, which I also quote right here) "Brazil is a key and emerging market in the MMORPG space" said Perfect World Entertainment General Manager of Game Publishing, Andrew Brown. "Connecting gamers with the great D&D gaming experiences in their preferred language is always a goal for us, and with the expansion of Neverwinter into Brazil, Perfect World continues to deliver that" said Nathan Stewart, brand director for Wizards of the Coast. "MMOs account for nearly 75 percent of the Brazilian game market right now, and we've seen incredible demand from our player base for Neverwinter in Brazil" said UOL BoaCompra Director of Global Business Development, Julian Migura. Brazil's gaming market (this one, on portuguese, shows that the gaming market on Brazil raises US$ 1 billion per year, being the third fastest growing on the world). Well, that's it. As an initiative, my friend and I made an online petition (link at the end), to show NCSOFT that there's demand for it. We found another petition with similar interest, but you had to put too much information just to sign (like your zip code and address), so we started a new one which you only have to put your name and e-mail, the website recognizes your location automatically. We have been thinking of doing something like this since we met on Aion, because we saw that sending tickets to NCSOFT wasn't really working, we usually just get automatic answers, and with the start of the server Beritra (on Aion), we clearly saw that South Americans made up to almost 50% of the players there, proving us right. I end my topic asking you to sign the petition and colaborate on the topic with constructive ideas, I would love to read and I hope NCSOFT at some point does too. The Petition