[DrSprout]

>That’s why your game is region-locked. Got friends in Europe? Too bad. You can’t play with them. Blizzard has international Starcraft tournaments to sell.

You know, even with online-play only I might have been compelled to buy SC2, eventually after the price comes down.

But without international play I will have no choice but to schedule when I play around when other people are playing. I stopped gaming regularly when I entered college, and now it's something I do every once in a while, when I need to disappear from life for a while - it's not scheduled, and I don't want to have to worry about scheduling unless I'm scheduling a LAN party. - also an impossibility.

So no dice. I'd rather hack on 0 A.D. http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/