Hearthstone on behalf of Blizzard, maybe? :S:

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I remember that there were Brazilian servers for a while in HoN, don't know what was happening after I've quit the game. The problem with South America was that the countries were not interconnected, all the internet traffic was routed through the USA anyway, providing the local servers with lower ping was impossible.

And as long as so many of Brazilian players are HUEHUEHUEHUE trolls, Brazil needs to stay IP blocked from the rest of the world. I'm am sorry for the good honest players from Brazil that get shafted that way, but things being as they are, I don't want to play with Brazilians.

Now in Europe, we've got Russians. It's not that Russians are totally incompetent by nature, it's that MOBAs are insanely popular in Russia and everyone plays them, even people who are horrendously bad in them and would usually quit in other countries. Add to that that a lot of Russian players won't communicate in English and that they like playing drunk or stoned.

So I tried Strife today again to check the game out and I find out they've merged EU and Russia servers, apparently the game is doing even worse than before. I played 3 rounds, almost all the players were Russian. A guy is blaming me for loss, after the game I see he hasn't bought boots. This game is going nowhere fast. Such a shame, I was quite into it before.

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We'll see if joining Steam will help with player count, right now it's the biggest problem the game has. That and Russians, of course.

I've been a fan of S2 games, Savage 2 was great and HoN kept me playing for years as well. Strife is a nice game and although I don't really like the changes they made recently, I'd say it's worth playing if you're a MOBA fan. I've mostly lost interest in Strife when number of players has dwindled so low that you could hardly find a fair game any more. S2 is also still resisting IP locking Russian players to Russian servers, so over half the players on EU servers are Russian, those who play MOBAs know what that means.

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I was very much into this game until I've seen on Steam that it's a Paradox-style DLC fiesta. I hate developers who keep endlessly nickel-and-diming their customers.

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Bought Spec Ops: The Line. Hopefully the port is not too far away.

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Payday 2 comes to Linux, yey! During Autumn, boo...

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Guys, it's Spore, published in 2008 by EA. I wouldn't mind having that game in my Steam library.

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