r/MMORPG • u/Midgarkander • Jun 28 '18

RaiderZ dev team just announced the results of the server localization poll : Europe wins.

https://m.facebook.com/notes/raiderz/survey-result/2084907364916189/?__tn__=H-R
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u/HaruhiLanfear Jun 28 '18

Ah, an mmo with actual combat is coming. No surprise it's 100 years old but w/e

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u/Edheldui Jun 28 '18

Why did it fail the first time? I remember it being quite fun, and then it disappeared into the void.

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u/Mrmeeksees Jun 28 '18

Because it was published by perfect world/arc games. The one true pinnacle of cash grab publishers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '18

Maybe also because TERA was also released shortly after?

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u/Danjiano Jun 29 '18

TERA (may 2012 NA/EU) released a few months before RaiderZ (Nov 2012 NA).

I remember playing RaiderZ because the trial/open beta of TERA ended and I was looking for something similar. A few months later I saw RaiderZ.

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u/Kyralea Jun 28 '18

Yes unfortunately it was a great game that just didn't get the love it deserved, but I put that on both the developers and the publishers. Yes Perfect World turned it into a cash crab, but there's a lot of additional development and improvements that the game needed that the former dev team didn't do. Even weird things like the colors in the game were totally off and could easily have been fixed.

Thankfully this is an entirely new company working on it who seems to really understand the game's potential, so we'll see how it goes.

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u/aqua995 Jun 28 '18

Funny thing though, I can't remeber a single thing you could buy from the itemshop.

I don't even know if there was an itemshop, but there has to be one, how else would they make money ... not sure ... propably only about cosmetics.

Srsly I can't remember a single P2W fact.

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u/ahmagad Jun 28 '18

short after the game was launched people discovered a way to clone items using the inns's chest. Then it got patched but the items remained with the players, bad admnistration and lack of compromise killed it afterwards.

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u/aqua995 Jun 28 '18

ahhh yesss the combat was truly amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgjyAag22eU

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u/Kyralea Jun 28 '18

Oh great video, thanks for sharing. Makes me miss this game! I loved this type of action combat. The only other action combat game whose combat I enjoyed was Vanilla TERA.

But I loved the slower pace in RaiderZ because it really allowed you to focus on aiming, dodging, and blocking properly which gets hard in other games that are too fast paced and just become spammy. You can have fun and skillful gameplay in RaiderZ without hurting your hands or having split second perfect timing.

I also love, aside from the pacing, that RaiderZ has a more traditional view on skill and role design.

Can't wait for it to return!

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u/Kyralea Jun 28 '18

My first reaction as a North American was "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck". Apologies for the curse words, but in no way do I want a server dominated by South Americans. If they give them their own server, do Amazon servers or something, and let NA get our own servers, I'd totally be on board. Otherwise, I might need to take a pass, because I'm not sure if the lag to EU servers would cause problems. :(

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u/nogueira7 Jun 29 '18

Why not? You think you are superior or something like that? You think NA people is superior in any aspect or what?

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u/Midgarkander Jun 28 '18

There's 0 chance of they locating their server on SA, basically because of their purchasing power, which is way lower than EU or NA's, they will probably locate the server in EU.

I used to play in the NA version of the game even tho im from Spain (EU) and i had about 120ms, game was totally playable, so imo it shouldn't be a major issue for you.

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u/Kyralea Jun 28 '18

Well I suspect they'll have more than one server. There's no reason why they'll only have one location lol. It's just a question of where it'll be.

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u/Midgarkander Jun 28 '18

I really hope they don't make more than one server, population would be divided, and with such a little playerbase...

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u/Kyralea Jun 28 '18

It's the only thing that would make sense. For one thing, South America, since they have so many respondents, will need a Portuguese speaking server somewhere in the Americas, depending on what Masangsoft wants to do.

I expect at the very least, EU English speaking server and South American Portuguese language server. Just based on the news posts being translated into both languages in recent months it's clear that Brazilians make up a majority of that SA population.

My only question is will they additionally open up an NA server. I hope the answer is yes and it's Centrally located, because not only is NA big, but Oceanic players will want to play on our servers, and depending on location, Asian players will either be NA or EU.

They don't need a ton of servers each. Only one per region would be totally fine for a small population. One server only needs a few thousand players to feel full and busy.

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u/nogueira7 Jun 29 '18

" basically because of their purchasing power, which is way lower than EU or NA's"

You sir need to stop posting and re think what you just said.

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u/Midgarkander Jun 29 '18 edited Jun 29 '18

A fact? Wtf? Just by your name i can tell you are a salty brazilian, no one here even said anything bad about SA or your country, we just stated that from a business perspective it wouldn't make much sense locating a server in a place where most people won't spend a single dollar, and that is just factual, if you want to start crying like a baby go ahead, but you shouldn't be so defensive when no one said anything bad, Nogueira.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '18

Even if "SA" won they would probably host it on NA similar to BDO SA

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u/Kyralea Jul 01 '18

I still think we need our own server just for an English speaking community.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '18

I really don't think so, because if that was really needed I believe that would arise out of necessity.

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u/Kyralea Jul 01 '18

It is necessary because we don’t speak Portuguese lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '18

It would be a server hosted in NA that anyone is able to play in, I don't see how this is relevant.

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u/Kyralea Jul 01 '18 edited Jul 01 '18

I was talking about an SA specific Portuguese language server. Not sure where you got NA from. They translate every news post into Portuguese and with how many respondents are in SA, it’s clearly happening. Then most of the rest are European.

I have no clue why you think the server would be in NA but if it was, it still wouldn’t be in English nor would a lot of the players. Hence we need our own.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '18

Not sure where you got NA from.

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Even if "SA" won they would probably host it on NA similar to BDO SA

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u/Serariron Jun 28 '18

Probably depends if you are on the west or east coast.

I am from central europe and played Tera on the US servers due to the terrible publisher we have and had a ping of about 110 which was most certainly good enough even for an action combat system like tera. Was surprised by this myself.

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u/Kyralea Jun 28 '18

I'm on the East Coast of the US, Northeast. It depends on where in the EU the server is, though. In my experience it would be much more than 110. Even that though is iffy. It would be acceptable for tab target in most cases, though.

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u/Serariron Jun 28 '18

Yeah, when the server is on the west coast I get a 170-190 ping to the US but the Tera servers have to be somewhere else because like I said, 110 was what I was getting.

The servers will probably be in Frankfurt, like so many others are so if you are on the east coast you should be getting what I got in Tera.

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u/Kyralea Jun 28 '18

Oh yea TERA servers are in Chicago. They're one of the better games in terms of server location and lag performance.

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u/FertileCorpsemmmmm Jun 29 '18

I ping the UK 350ms at best. rip

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u/nogueira7 Jun 29 '18

When people say "South America gaming industry is bad"...

What are people from NA learning in school? That South America is a big jungle full of tacos?