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The "6th Attempt" Tournament showed how critical the version of the sixth installment of Heroes is. As a reminder, Buka released a game tied to servers isolated from the rest of the world. That is, if I bought the game from Buka, I can only play with other lucky players. This leads to community isolation. The same thing happened with StarCraft II, but there, after a storm of discontent, the players almost completely switched to European servers. All tournaments are held only on European servers (with the exception of a couple of fan tournaments).
But what about Heroes? Few people want to switch to another version. Some have a reputation, others don't want to spend money. There was only one tournament (organized by our portal). Apparently, players have not yet fully understood how isolated they are. And what version should they switch to?
There are many people on the Steam version, but mostly foreign players. They say that the level of play there is quite low. There are fewer people on Buka's servers, but there are still some. Very, very many people bought the Buka version. Here, everyone is from the same country, and, again, if rumors are to be believed, our players play better. Who knows. I also have the Buka version, and at 11 pm Moscow time, I often can't find an opponent. It often happens that there is no one at all in the games. You create your own game, stare at the monitor for 20 minutes, and then go to sleep.
But the problem is not even that. The problem is precisely with the tournaments. As a reminder, owners of the Buka version cannot play with the Steam version. And the lack of a local network game excludes programs like Hamachi. They say that at one time, Heroes 6 was available in GameRanger, but then it was removed. For the next tournaments, it is very important to know which version each player uses. Perhaps it is worth holding tournaments only on the Steam version or only on Buka. Currently, the idea of a shared account is being worked on, but there may also be problems with this. Twice, bad people changed the password on my account, and once this led to the postponement of a tournament match.
In general, let's vote :)