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Why are you going with localized servers?
To provide the absolute best connectivity to our game servers, Blizzard has set up dedicated datacenters for World of Warcraft in multiple regions around the world. These local servers provide low-latency, high-speed access to ensure players have the best possible experience playing the game. In addition to providing local servers, Blizzard has established local teams, including game masters, community team members, and technical support staff, in each region in order to provide players with a high level of customer support in their native language. Because of these local teams, customers will be able to have their game-related concerns addressed promptly and efficiently by knowledgeable and helpful support representatives who understand local issues. All of these factors will contribute to providing players with the best possible gameplay experience when playing World of Warcraft on their regional servers.
Conversely, playing the game on servers in distant regions would significantly detract from the quality of the player?s connection and customer-support experiences. This level of service is inconsistent with Blizzard?s quality standards for World of Warcraft and could result in negative gameplay experiences for players of a subscription-based game service.
Nevertheless, we do recognize that players from different regions will want to play together. Unfortunately, because of the current realities regarding local billing requirements, privacy of information across international boundaries, and the aforementioned issues with connection quality between regions, we will be unable to offer cross-regional services at the time of the North America/Korea launch. However, for those players who still wish to play on servers outside of their region, we will look into providing a specific solution that addresses their concerns after launch.
Per chi ignora l'inglese: questa FAQ in pratica dice che la Blizzard ha deciso di creare vari teams regionali in tutto il mondo per gestire WoW al meglio, supporto incluso. Dicono anche che se vuoi giocare in regioni diverse dalla tua, lo puoi fare, ma non aspettarti, ad esempio, di pingare come se il server fosse sotto casa o che ti venga offerto supporto tecnico nella tua lingua! Dice anche che ovviamente non pu? impedire a una persona di giocare in una regione differente dalla propria (e vorrei ben vedere!), ma che ci possono essere servizi di qualit? ridotta per il fatto che gestire dati personali di stranieri non ? semplicissimo...
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If I live in Europe or Asia and have preordered a US version of the game from an online retailer, will I be able to play the game when I receive it?
Players who do not use a method of payment accepted in North America and who do not have a North American billing address will not be able to play on US servers. Therefore, we highly recommend that players in other regions instead preorder the game for their local region and purchase their World of Warcraft subscription when the game launches locally to them. Doing so will ensure that they have the best possible World of Warcraft gameplay and support experience available.
Quest'altra FAQ invece ? specifica per il nostro caso: in pratica si dice che, se sei europeo o asiatico ma hai ordinato o comprato una copia di WoW USA, puoi benissimo giocare sui servers USA, a patto di avere a disposizione un sistema di pagamento accettato negli USA (PostePay ? VISA, quindi non ci sono problemi, visto che ? accettata su internet in tutto il mondo)