The Scope of the Korean Problem
The Koreans have caused or greatly contributed to the following major problems on the Battle.net Western realms:
(NOTE: "Western Realms refers to Battle.net- US West, US East, and Europe)
Connective instability
There have been many problems with Battle.net server splits, game disconnections, and general network disruption. The Koreans have contributed to this in two major ways: overloading, and hacking.
The problem of overloading can be attirbuted to them, as they have two complete realms in Asia, yet still refuse to use them and would rather disturb Western realm users. The overload situation is obviously at least due in part to Koreans when well over 40% of the games and characters online are Korean generated. [SCREENSHOTS OF THIS]
For some strange reason, the Koreans think it is perfectly ethical to attempt to hack the Battle.net site to alter characters, or simply piss off the Western realm users (including other Koreans).
Server splits
See "Connective instability". Server splits usually have to do with either hack attacks or overload situations, both of which have been due, at least in part, to the Korean presence outside of Asia.
Excessive game creation que length
To observe the reason for this, just take a look at how many of the games are Korean generated in the public section. Koreans are also well-known for starting one-player private games on Battle.net and jumping in and out of those games. This all adds extra load to the Battle.net servers that would not exist if the Koreans were simply not present.
Excessive paranoia in hardcore games
It is all too common for bands of Koreans working together to enter hardcore public games and PK mid-level players without provocation. PKing is part of the game, of course, and just one of the many extra hazards which HC players take upon themselves, but there is a rational limit to the level of unfairness that should be present in any given game. Traditional tricks such as staying away from waypoints, not leaving open town portals, etc. don't always work, as some of the Koreans have been hard at work writing hack programs to locate other players.
Public chatrooms being filled with nonsense and numbers
It is also all too common for a normal, peaceful, public chatroom to be instantly filled with meaningless dribble by Koreans who desire only to piss off the Western realm users. They are not writing to each other in Korean code (that is totally understandable, and is comparable to the Germans and Italians writing each other in their mother tongues), they are really disrupting the chat room with the intent to annoy via message spamming using chat macros.
Koreans also tend to publicly count down the numbers of their personal game creation que, and thus fill up the public chat rooms with numbers which are otherwise meaningless to the public. This is quite an intense annoyance when it occurs in the middle of a hot chatroom with a lively discussion.
Driving Blizzard crazy
Blizzard, recognizing the need for a larger Asia.net opened Asia2. Unfortunately, the Koreans simply ignore that realm and continue to abuse the Western realms. Blizzard and DaCom went to all of that trouble for what? We can thank the Koreans for cheapening the investment that Blizzard and DaCom didn't have to make, but did anyway.
Contributing in a major way to the Diablo II pirate industry
Korea, China, Malaysia and (sadly) Thailand are some of the most well-known nerve-centers for pirated software. Recently, the Malaysian and Korean software pirates were selling copies of a new MicroSoft tools kit before it was even released by MS.
In this kind of environment, it is no suprise to discover that Diablo II has been a hot pirate item all over Korea of late. Many of the Korean players are using shared or cracked CD keys to play on Battle.net, and the majority of those players wind up in the Western realms some time or another.
It is absolutely horrible to think that thousands of paying Western realms customers have been completely turned off of Battle.net by hordes of idiotic and rude Korean pirates. Being rude and obnoxious on Battle.net is one thing, if you paid to be there; but being rude and obnoxious as a pirate is simply unpermissable.
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