Hi,

I use Garena too, but I'd say Bnet is fine too. Sure, it has less lag, but you can compensate with LC. Sure, -em/div are annoying, but there is TDA and stuff on Bnet, so you can have every game's level possible. The "level-up your char" system is bad imo, as is ladder's, since it doesn't reward well in pubs (pubstomp team, etc). Plus, I don't see why I would have more friends on Garena than bnet, really :/. GG-TV is the only "plus" I can find for Garena.

Garena wins simply for the fact that it does not require a valid Warcraft III CD key. I'd be playing on Battle.net if it didn't check my CD key.

Owning a pirate version of Warcraft III is officially forbidden. For this reason, I think you can't really use this argument.

Precisely. I didn't want to discuss about pirated Warcraft 3, but that's how most people play Warcraft in Asia.

Interesting post here.

Just dont make your bias too obvious (esp. the -em one) because it will make you less popular with a lot of players.

Anyway GOOD JOB on the blog

IMO, Garena is a bit better tough. Rooms, world-wide gaming, level-up system and the ladder & league rooms (even if I don't use them).

Bad part:
Garena has even more noobs than B.Net!

Personal problem:
I have bigger lag on Garena than on B.Net! At most given times, my countries rooms (Serbian, there are 3)are full... About 15% of them can host 5v5... Yet, about 60% of the total players (like me) can host on B.Net.
Weird.
Awesome blog, hope it lasts!

Well, yeah. Sometimes it so happens that Garena lags. But it's better here on the Indian servers because most of 'em can host 5 vs. 5 and it really isn't hard to find good games, especially when you have a superb host as a friend. Drop in sometime and see how the pings are. Weird, but I get very good pings with Singapore and Malaysia.

Thanks for the praise. =)

@Ralt
It wasn't an argument. Owning a pirated version is illegal, but very, very common. Which is why Garena seems to be more popular than Battle.net.

Garena has more noobs that BNet ?? Are you fucking kidding me ?

Less lag is pretty much the only reason you need if you're playing competitively.

RV

TDA > G-Arena > BNet

G-Arena still has some problems and crashes / disconnects you form the game randomly.

How the fuck is that even fair when you did not list any cons for Garena and any pros/cons for BNet?

Garena is over populated,every second player is noob,hacker or a leaver.B-net is way better,IMO.But yet,on the other hand there is less lag on garena in international games.But every day you can see your garena crashes.That's very bad,IMO.Anyway sistem requirements are higher on garena and only few people can be realy good host.And than those AFK-ers playing garena AFK maps to get lvl.As i said b-net is better if you have CD-key.But its still losing players,i don't know what is wrong with those people.

Garena is great becuz the game links directly to the host thus reducing lag but IMO,that is just singapore.My country is small ,that probably explain why garena is better,i have terrible delay in battlenet even though i join the asia network which is one thing that make me hate it.

On the other hand,yea the lvl up system is lame, becuz i can see some people losing their mind over it and afk map -.-

garena pros:
direct host link(not sure but judging this thing from b.net high ping)

U can play with people in ur same country(reduces lag efficiently)

banlist
cons:
bad thing about banlist, you have to save ur banlist or it might be over written

some minor bugs like garena crashing

buddylist bug

lvlup system(i find this stupid but i dun really care becuz i understand those developer and server maintainance need money too)

255 people per room rule(these gives them profit as they got this (if you get gold membership,you can enter full room immediately)

b.net
pros

more people to play with

virtually lag less if you are near the servers location

correct me if i am wrong about this,i think even if the host dc(blue color) the game still carry on

cons
not even a banlist( there is external softwares,not made by blizzard, to ban people)

little server locations

that's all

Finally , reason being why most of us use pirated warcraft
1) we only use their EXE
2) maps not made by blizzard
3) We dont play their real time strategy game
4) If blizz insist on asking pirated player to go original, ok fine cya blizzard,switching to hero of newerth
but i am die hard fan of icefrog so i support him all the way even though mine was pirated -.-

enough said, i like this blog

pardon my english because i am not a local speaker

@Feynor
I think you probably have great ping due to singapore's network
i am not trying to say that india network not good just that,i believe if a person using singnet host a game,people in india will get a nice ping but if vice versa,i think singapore will not lag too much becuz i have tried CS over steam from singapore to india,great ping. So i dont really know. just my 2% thoughts

Garena - pirate.
90% players on garena are cheaters (mh, client hack etc.)
Bnet - warden WIN!

Hey :)

What are the better as well as most played mmo and role play game games of the year of 2010 and may be played for 2011?
If it is possible inform me the actual number of gamers play in mmorpg's as well as in case of rpg's tell methe system standards and some internet site where there is ratings of these video games may be specified(same goes for mmorpg to).

Thanks !