Do they glitter in sunlight?

The “we can’t use the B.net servers due to latencies” is a false argument: All the B.net servers do is act as a matchmaker and firewall tunneling agent for P2P Blizzard games. Neither War3, Starcraft or any of the Diablo games are hosted on the B.net servers, so whether you get the IPs of your fellow local players from a B.net or PvPGN server makes absolutely no difference: The game packets are still routed locally and still fast, that’s TCP/IP’s job.

People think that their “lag indication” to the server is the lag they will experience ingame. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In the end, if all these SA people were playing on B.net or not, they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. They’d all be forced to buy legit copies of their games though… That’d suck, right? You wouldn’t be able to give your nub friend a pirated copy of the game along with the PvPGN launcher and rawl DotA all night, bru!

I don’t agree with Blizzard’s anti-emulation stance and I was peeved with them suing freeware groups that first emulated B.net. But that doesn’t change the fact that a local matchmaking server doesn’t do squat for your lag to local opponents. That should be obvious…

Omfg dislekcia, please make a more retarded argument. If SA players join an intl server, they will have to spend so much time making sure they’re joining another SA player’s game (for lag) or if they’re hosting they have to check everybody in their game comes from SA.

It’s a matchmaking service for South Africans. Yep. Without it, SA people wouldn’t be able to make matches because Bnet has no support for restricting what games you can join or who can join your game. Even stuff like banlist doesn’t help because firewalls block pings.

Again, this was about saying Twilight isn’t newsworthy, which is just a idiotic statement. Next thing, garena won’t be newsworthy either because it also allows for illegal copies of the game. Fact is Blizzard doesn’t care about w3 compared to wow and as a result people have to write things like garena to fill in the gaps (spectating, reducing lag..). That’s a pretty great accomplishment, and should be recognised, not snobbed out just because you think it lets some people cheat R50.

The low down is that ANYTHING which improves my life is GOOD. Twilight gives me plenty of (mostly) lagless DotA. I’m not going to give that up just cus some cheapos don’t wanna pay their cash. Gaming is about gaming, not trying to moneywhore for already rediculously rich companies. The more people trying to make the gamer happier, the better. If Blizzard launched a Bnet server in SA I wouldn’t think twice about which server I’d play on. Twilight actually supports the DotA community, Blizzard doesn’t care about it. Any Bnet server is just full of DotA quitters because Blizzard don’t put the effort in that third parties like garena (level system), Twilight (level system) or banlist do to keep things improving.