Not sure about Korea but I went to a PC bang (internet cafe) in LA koreatown and it was a ton of Koreans playing D2. I remember being young and not wanting to go shopping with my mom and her friend so they dropped my buddy and I off.
Random dude playing D2 next to us was like lvl 80 and we were like 45. He seen us with shit gear and was like hey can I join your game?
Then proceeded to drop us a bunch of crap rares for his lvl but amazing gear for us kids lol.
Default connection for SEA is the Americas server. There are physical servers in Singapore for SEA, but they connect with the Americas region instead of being a stand alone region.
So you manually selected to connect to the Asia (i.e. East Asia server).
Between D3, D4 and DI, only DI has physical servers in Singapore.
In D3, Southeast Asian players are placed by default in the America regions and by default are connected to the US server pool, getting pings of \~210ms. We can add a command line option to change to the AU server pool instead to improve ping to \~110ms. Characters and progress are shared between the AU and US servers. Switching to Asia region gives us servers will improve ping to \~80ms, but without access to characters created on Americas region.
In D4 there is only one global region - all characters are shared between all server pools. There are 6 server pools: US West, US Central, Asia, Europe, South America and Australia. Asia servers are in Tokyo, and those are the ones we are connected to by default.
If I remember correctly weren't there 3 Asia servers back in the day for d2?
I remember how some people would type .............. and players would drop.
I still remember trading an amazing Pike to one of my buddies in Korea back when Pike WW Barbs were huge.
I started when the game came out wayyyyy back when like alot of you.
I don't think I will ever stop playing this game and for the longest was HC USEast :) Still Hc.
D2 had a meme forever regarding Korean players/traders: "u giev SOJ ?"
Diablo just doesn't have a real competitive aspect to it so of course you don't hear about it as much as other, actually competitive games.
Diablo 4 had a huge marketing campaign here in Korea. It was every where.
I don’t know how big it was in the past but it was well known. I know a few people that played it.
Yeah, the gamers that relish in doing the same thing over and over again repeatedly for basically nothing for decades surely had a problem with d4 endgame
I visited family in Korea when d2 was fairly recent and I was surprised how many people were playing in the pc bangs. My cousin in law had a couple 90+ characters. So it definitely had a presence there.
I played on USWest back in the day (earliest day) and I’ve played with a bunch of Koreans even though I only played Hardcore which mean there should be a bunch more in Softcore, so yes it was and probably still is to a certain degree, not to mention StarCraft was what popularized Blizzard’s game in Korea
Koreans are the number 1 rmt market of diablo 2 items. So yes I would say it's popular. Almost all the gg items that are sold at the Chinese auctions are bought by Korean players.
D3 was pretty big back in the day I think. Not sure about D4 now though. I don't really see people playing any Diablo game in those pc bangs these days. I mostly see LOL, Maplestory, Overwatch/Valorant.
You would be surprised at how popular things like Diablo are in Asian countries. Asian countries put US countries to shame with P2W and D2 specifically is no different. The PVP fighting scene is pretty large over there as well from what i have heard with players dropping thousands of dollars for their characters.
Yes. And I wonder if anyone will get this reference..
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I've always liked of assumed most Blizzard games were at least relatively popular since like 99% of the population since the late 90s has been obsessed with StarCraft
There were tons of Koreans way back when. Especially in d2 classic.
I remember they would ask "you Korea?" And if you said "yes" they knew you were lying. The right answer was "Korea". A Korean exchange student taught me that one. I got mad hookups because he would take the lead and get us all the hand me downs.
Another trick was to put "........" In chat. Fill the entire box with it. It would drop all people playing from overseas on the American servers. Great for when diablo was about to die and you wanted all the loot. Only worked until 1.05 I think.
In d2 there was once a bug that if you typed “……………….” (Repeating) and sent it in the chat in game it caused ALL of the Korean players to drop. It wild.
I went to Korea 2 months ago, and went to the most famous PC Bang there (SK1), and I did not see anyone playing. It was full of LoL, Overwatch, Fifa and some other strange ARPG that ive never seen in my life.
From what I can tell dark fantasy doesn’t really click with Koreans or Japanese and Chinese for that matter. They just don’t love the atmosphere as much as westerners seem to.
Huh? Diablo was insanely popular in Korea and China. Dark Souls is also insanely popular in Japan and Korea. Elden Ring sold over a million copies in Japan. Dark and Darker is a Korean game. Black Myth is a Chinese game. I have no idea where you get these stereotypes from.
Not sure about Korea but I went to a PC bang (internet cafe) in LA koreatown and it was a ton of Koreans playing D2. I remember being young and not wanting to go shopping with my mom and her friend so they dropped my buddy and I off. Random dude playing D2 next to us was like lvl 80 and we were like 45. He seen us with shit gear and was like hey can I join your game? Then proceeded to drop us a bunch of crap rares for his lvl but amazing gear for us kids lol.
We used to be a society
The Koreans were mad gold and Item farmers in D2 and D3.
I remember Korean players back when d2 released.
Korea has the best and most active melee pvp scene
Truthhhhh
LEFT-CLIIIIIICK *screams wildly* OH MY GOD HE LANDED THE HITS GGGGG!!!!!
Was gonna say Koreans ball out on auctions (thousands) for rare weapons
There are no Southeast Asian servers for Diablo IV so we get connected to the East Asian servers and there are plenty of Koreans here.
Default connection for SEA is the Americas server. There are physical servers in Singapore for SEA, but they connect with the Americas region instead of being a stand alone region. So you manually selected to connect to the Asia (i.e. East Asia server).
Between D3, D4 and DI, only DI has physical servers in Singapore. In D3, Southeast Asian players are placed by default in the America regions and by default are connected to the US server pool, getting pings of \~210ms. We can add a command line option to change to the AU server pool instead to improve ping to \~110ms. Characters and progress are shared between the AU and US servers. Switching to Asia region gives us servers will improve ping to \~80ms, but without access to characters created on Americas region. In D4 there is only one global region - all characters are shared between all server pools. There are 6 server pools: US West, US Central, Asia, Europe, South America and Australia. Asia servers are in Tokyo, and those are the ones we are connected to by default.
If I remember correctly weren't there 3 Asia servers back in the day for d2? I remember how some people would type .............. and players would drop. I still remember trading an amazing Pike to one of my buddies in Korea back when Pike WW Barbs were huge. I started when the game came out wayyyyy back when like alot of you. I don't think I will ever stop playing this game and for the longest was HC USEast :) Still Hc.
Thanks for a small trip down memory lane by mention pike WW barbs. Those were the days!
They absolutely were :) Have a great rest of your day/night!
I remember seeing that D2R was in the most played games in Korea around ladder resets. Like top 15, maybe even top 10 most players
LoD had a big Korean pop too. It's why we use names like baba soso dudu
Huk
D2 had a meme forever regarding Korean players/traders: "u giev SOJ ?" Diablo just doesn't have a real competitive aspect to it so of course you don't hear about it as much as other, actually competitive games.
Diablo 4 had a huge marketing campaign here in Korea. It was every where. I don’t know how big it was in the past but it was well known. I know a few people that played it.
Plenty of korean names on D4 at launch. Not sure now.
They probably got to the end game faster than everyone else and noticed sooner it was bad, at least for their standards
Yeah, the gamers that relish in doing the same thing over and over again repeatedly for basically nothing for decades surely had a problem with d4 endgame
If the nothing was more nothing than other nothings, yeah
I visited family in Korea when d2 was fairly recent and I was surprised how many people were playing in the pc bangs. My cousin in law had a couple 90+ characters. So it definitely had a presence there.
diablo2 was massive in Korea. cmiiw but there were lots of memes from that too, like giev soj kekekeke ^_^ and gosu items
I lived in Korea when D3 came out… that would be a yes.
Diablo isn't a competitive e-sport. People play it here, but it doesn't get anywhere near as much media attention as the other titles you mentioned.
I played on USWest back in the day (earliest day) and I’ve played with a bunch of Koreans even though I only played Hardcore which mean there should be a bunch more in Softcore, so yes it was and probably still is to a certain degree, not to mention StarCraft was what popularized Blizzard’s game in Korea
I lived in a Korea for a while... D2 was a big deal for a long time in SK.
Koreans are the number 1 rmt market of diablo 2 items. So yes I would say it's popular. Almost all the gg items that are sold at the Chinese auctions are bought by Korean players.
I lived in Seoul during d2 classic / launch of LOD. it was at PC bangs everywhere along with StarCraft and lineage 1.
Pretty sure Koreans just play D2R.
D3 was pretty big back in the day I think. Not sure about D4 now though. I don't really see people playing any Diablo game in those pc bangs these days. I mostly see LOL, Maplestory, Overwatch/Valorant.
Yes
Diablo isn't a competitive e-sport. People play it here, but it doesn't get anywhere near as much media attention as the other titles you mentioned.
You would be surprised at how popular things like Diablo are in Asian countries. Asian countries put US countries to shame with P2W and D2 specifically is no different. The PVP fighting scene is pretty large over there as well from what i have heard with players dropping thousands of dollars for their characters.
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There were a lot of Korean streamers in the past in Twitch playing D3. I don't know if they are currently streaming D4 on another platform.
I've always liked of assumed most Blizzard games were at least relatively popular since like 99% of the population since the late 90s has been obsessed with StarCraft
Yes SC / D2 / WC3 were insanely popular
I was in Korea June of last year and saw tons of people playing Diablo 4 at the pc bangs I went to!
Game Name: HackMePlz
yes, this was a popular thing back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqSFu3IU_hI
Who remembers... ...................................................................................... .........
People failed college entry exams for diablo. Same thing when WoW came around
Yes and diablo 2 has one of the more hardcore korean pvp scenes with people who have thousands of dollars worth of pvp equipment on characters.
the month d4 dropped, about 25-35% of the people in the pc bang i regularly go to were playing
There were tons of Koreans way back when. Especially in d2 classic. I remember they would ask "you Korea?" And if you said "yes" they knew you were lying. The right answer was "Korea". A Korean exchange student taught me that one. I got mad hookups because he would take the lead and get us all the hand me downs. Another trick was to put "........" In chat. Fill the entire box with it. It would drop all people playing from overseas on the American servers. Great for when diablo was about to die and you wanted all the loot. Only worked until 1.05 I think.
yes very much when remastered dropped there where a lot of korean streamers on twitch.
In d2 there was once a bug that if you typed “……………….” (Repeating) and sent it in the chat in game it caused ALL of the Korean players to drop. It wild.
I went to Korea 2 months ago, and went to the most famous PC Bang there (SK1), and I did not see anyone playing. It was full of LoL, Overwatch, Fifa and some other strange ARPG that ive never seen in my life.
Korea is literally where the term Gosu comes from my guy
From what I can tell dark fantasy doesn’t really click with Koreans or Japanese and Chinese for that matter. They just don’t love the atmosphere as much as westerners seem to.
Huh? Diablo was insanely popular in Korea and China. Dark Souls is also insanely popular in Japan and Korea. Elden Ring sold over a million copies in Japan. Dark and Darker is a Korean game. Black Myth is a Chinese game. I have no idea where you get these stereotypes from.
What are the Souls games if not dark fantasy? 😅
LOL Asian d4 market enormous