I caved in and got it. US server, Beorn / 496. I'm working on the campaign right now, and today I just started playing a few custom games with old warcraft friends. I can't afford to start playing melee for another month at least until my essay is done, but then again that's what I said about buying it in the first place last month ;p

Now we only have to wait for Blizzard to make cross realm playing possible.


My guess is I'll have grandchildren by the time that happens.

Hehe. Most of my online friends from other games are from Ger and Italy and whatnot, so I was tempted to take the french version of the game and roll with it, but MAN HAVE YOU HEARD TRANSLATIONS?!!!! I have had to endure too many awful voiceovers, can't do it anymore. So I went US english.

Picked up the game again and now realy active on the ladders. Sucking but getting a bit better every time I play. I play a lot with Propain and teamwork seems to be the key (though we still lose a lot...) any more CDZ playing SC2? We could make a very good 4vs4 team.

I play mostly diamond league, a few old plat scores still, but I'm on North America. That won't do will it?

Nope, you'd have to immigrate to Europe.

I'm also on the North America server.

I should say "I would be on the North America server" since I have not played the game in the last few months. Not since I finished the campain.

Small Update on progress (and an excuse to invite more people to play!). Me and Propain got a very nice team going at the moment. We started at the bottom of the Bronze league and we are slowly advancing to get to promotionplaces. We have a decent winratio and using Skype we can communicate easily. It's realy a lot of fun!

You could try Mumble instead of Skype. It has a better latency, better sound quality and a stable connection. I also read somewhere that you can play SC2 for free.

Hmm, skype works okay for me!

SC2 does not charge anything after the initial purchase. There is a "free" version available but it severely limits play after the initial fun (only terran race very limited mapchoice). It is however a great way to get to know the game and judge if it's worth the € 49,50.