Me and 2 other mates are wanting to play on the BA servers because iccup and us servers are just too laggy for us.

if anyone is kind of enough to lend me an invite, please send the invite to [email protected]

Thanks!
If no one has an invite, i don't mind, im practically going around a lot of australian gaming forums looking for an invite but so far no luck...

I googled it. Some game server i think. I assume they are invite only.

I just checked my account and i have 0 invites. I had 3 in total i suppose from when i first created the account maybe but now i have zero :P

I prefer iCCup because it's easy to get a game. You said it's laggy, but StarCraft is peer-to-peer. I found that I could get decent games happening most of the time if I hosted my own.

Circumventing the Battle.net servers is illegal though, which is frowned upon here fyi.

I prefer iCCup because it's easy to get a game. You said it's laggy, but StarCraft is peer-to-peer. I found that I could get decent games happening most of the time if I hosted my own.

Circumventing the Battle.net servers is illegal though, which is frowned upon here fyi.

Yeah, but SC and Broodwar were really laggy even to players in singapore and most people played on usw. Same with wc3, hosted games were p2p meaning that your latency was based on the owner of the game.

BoredAussies, by factor of it's name, almost guarantee's that you'll be playing with no more than a 50ms ping, and whatever inbuilt latency that the netcode had built in to blizzards other games to help interpolation etc.

Knowing your game will be local is better than sometimes half the people might be local, but only probably 1 in 8 games were actually australian hosted. Although i do remember people tagging locations in the game names for DotA etc.

With your other point i think it should be frowned upon. A service which circumvents the authentication does allow a channel for people to play games online in the full extent without paying for the game. I think that's bad. But much of this was a response to long ago when blizzard refused to give a real australian solution for game hosting. So i feel no pity. These were games that were heavily affected by latency and blizzard considers it a non-issue for overseas smaller clients. So if they think we're not worth the revenue, they won't miss the lack of sales stemmed from piracy of the game which follows a shard server hosting.

Sorry for the late replies!

Thank you Skythra for clearing things for me even tho i was gonna answer them later!
When I play on iccup, i cannot macro at all especially macroing muta to harass economy. It's just too hard to control.

With your other point i think it should be frowned upon. A service which circumvents the authentication does allow a channel for people to play games online in the full extent without paying for the game. I think that's bad. But much of this was a response to long ago when blizzard refused to give a real australian solution for game hosting. So i feel no pity. These were games that were heavily affected by latency and blizzard considers it a non-issue for overseas smaller clients. So if they think we're not worth the revenue, they won't miss the lack of sales stemmed from piracy of the game which follows a shard server hosting.

In a sense I do agree with you but if a company does not lack the interest to support a country like Australia then how is bypassing authentication immoral? If Blizzard decided to drop the plug on Australia (not giving australia gaming hosting) and not care about us anymore, then shouldn't someone do something about it especially players like me that want to play. If they don't care about the revenue so fair enough, circumventing authentication is commensalism, positive affect on gamers and neutral affect on Blizzard. Just my two cents though!

Invite Sent.

I haven't received the invite to my email.