Diablo III - Official Discussion Thread - Who will beat Inferno first?

[TruckOSaurus]

lestatdark said:

TruckOSaurus said:

I still have hope that it won't be the case because there's many European VGChartzers that I'd like to play with. In Starcraft II being placed with people of your region made sense because of the matchmaking but that's not really an issue for Diablo games. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I also hope that they don't use region lock for Diablo III, as there are quite a few people from overseas that I'd like to play with as well, but i'd rather not expect much than to be dissapointed later on. I've had enough dissapointment with the lack of PVP from day one.

Well rejoice my friend! Here's what I've found:

"Region lock" refers to video games that can only be played in certain areas of the world. Though no final announcement has been made, Blizzard has indicated that Diablo III will not be region locked, and that players anywhere on Earth will be play with anyone else anywhere on Earth. [1]

Players will have to connect to the local region and create a character on it. For instance, a player in Europe would normally create characters on the European Realm. If that player wanted to play in a game with a friend from North America, he would have to create a new character on a North American Realm, or else his Canadian friend would have to create a character on the European Realm.[2]

http://www.diablowiki.net/Region_lock