You heard it right, Level Up! Games is the local partner of IAHGames subsidiary Monsoon Online, for the distribution of the local prepaid cards for Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. By November 18, select i-cafes, convenience stores and game retail shops will be finally releasing the prepaid cards for the Southeast Asia server of StarCraft II at Battle.net.
Here’s the official Press Release:
THE PHILIPPINES, 17 November 2010 | Following the recent announcement of alternative pricing options for Blizzard Entertainment’s Starcraft II: Wings of Libetery in Southeast Asia, Level Up!, Inc. – the Philippine’s first and leading online game publisher – is delighted to be appointed as one fo the prepaid card distribution partners in the Philippines for IAHGames subsidiary Monsoon Online, the Southeast Asia Distributor of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.
Starting November 18, StraCraft II: Wings of Liberty prepaid cards will be available locally at select internet gaming cafes, convenience stores and gaming retail shops nationwide. The 3-day, 7-day and 30-day passes can be used to connect to Blizzard Entertainment’s Southeast Asian Battle.net servers for single-player and multiplayer play of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.
IAHGames CEO, Roland Ong stated, “Our partnership with Level Up! is an important one for us to fulfill our promise of bringing world class games to everyone in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia. We are confident that this partnership will allow every Pinoy gamer to have the opportunity to enjoy the game.”
“It is a great honor for us to be chosen as one of the local partners of Monsoon Online for the distribution of prepaid cards for Blizzard Entertainment’s Starcraft II in the Philippines,” added Jake San Diego, General Manager of Level Up! Inc. “With the introduction of prepaid cards as a eans to purchase game time, StarCraft II has become even more accessible. With Pinoy gamers’ penchant for playing competitively, it won’t be a surprise to see local internet cafe gamers rise up the Southeast Asia Battle.net rankings soon.”
Along with the additional affordable and convenient payment options, StarCraft II gamers in the Philippines have more to look forward to, including the chance to compete against players throughout Souteast Asia in regional StarCraft II tournaments.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the critically acclaimed sequel to Blizzard Entertainment’s 1998 hit StarCraft, which has been regarded by gamers and critics worldwide as one of the best real-time strategy games of all time. Launched globally on July 27, Starcraft II achieveed a remarkable day one sales milestone of more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, making it the bestselling PC game of 2010 within 24 hours of availability. With 1.5 million copies sold in its first 48 hours, StarCraft II became the fastest-selling strategy game of all time – an achievement that was further secured when the game went on to sell more than 3 million copies in its first month alone.
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Not sure how to feel about being segregated into our own little lump of the globe and not being given the ability to compete against other countries. I’m lookin’ at you, South Korea. Anyway, my SC days are long behind me, you guys can sort this out on your own.
I personally would’ve liked to be connected to the whole world but you have to see that Blizzard had to segregate by region bec. of latency issues…. As long as there’s that there won’t be any “good” sc2 matches across the world.
Don’t worry though I was told yesterday that koreans have their own server aside from the SEA so that’d kinda remove the koreans from the SEA server battles *evilsmirk*
Actually there’s only 2 servers. the “Australia,new Zealand, Asia” and there’s the “North America & Latin America”. You can Pick between the two servers before you log-in because they already allowed it. You can pretty much play with anyone in the whole world except in the Korean Server.
thanks for the info 😀