Garena will publish Path of Exile in Southeast Asia

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metal_spider wrote:

Thanks for the confirmation that the Path of Exile worldwide client will not be locked out for users from this affected region. Quite a number of us have spent a considerable amount of effort, time and even money on the "real" version of PoE and would rather not be shoehorned into some regional offshoot.

Here are some concerns I forsee by running 2 separate versions of the game:

-Real-life friends locked away from each other's versions as they might only wish to participate and progress in their own respective chosen versions.

-Existing PoE players unwilling to transition to a fresh start from the regional versions having already accrued ingame progress in the form of gear, characters, achievement, challenges and race event standings.

-Remaining credit/GGG points in the main client that cannot be transferable to the Garena version

-Out of sync (desynced?) patches from main version and regional version where patches of the regional version may come in weeks or months after the official PoE build.

-Regional flavour added to the game in terms of out-of-place cosmetics, events and artwork that don't blend in well with the original vision of the game. Imagine the Witch in a schoolgirl uniform being sold for 200 GGG points simply because the region desires it.

-Possibility of a Singapore gateway shutdown/lockout upon release date of the regional version, forcing existing players to either start anew via Garena or tolerate a downgrade in connectivity performance by opting to play on the remaining America/Euro/Aus gateways.


I can't vouch for Garena's track record here having tried none of the games on their service, but this seems to be a pretty unpopular decision amongst the PoE fans who have already supported your cause from Day 1.

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Karacks wrote:

please publish in south korea. im suffering..ㅜㅜ

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THtan wrote:

So what happens to people of SEA playing on the current realms? Will there be any account conversion? Or will they be creating new to start over?

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Roleplayer wrote:

I've read the title about Garena and PoE (skipped the Asia part -_-) and my heart dropped. As a player from Russia, who is still waiting for PoE on Steam I was devastated by the possibility that it will never come to and instead garena will "handle" our territory. After thouroughly reading I understand that at this time it's unconfirmed if Russia will go to garena this way.

Please tell me you will still make PoE available in Steam for Russia. Please.
Garena is horrible and most of CIS-scene cannot fathom using it ever.

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DeathzStalkerz wrote:

From what I know, accounts in worldwide realms can log into Garena servers. But are the accounts created in Garena server able to access worldwide realm?

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Wisdom wrote:

Why is Steam so important? You still have access to all of the same game content without Steam. Steam was good for introducing new players to the game, but as far as adding actual functionality, it didn't do anything.