How do Diablo III regions work?
I live in Australia and was wondering how the Diablo III's regions affect which server I can connect to, and what RMAH I can use. Do I have the choice of South-East Asian servers (I hear pings are lower to them, as they're in Singapore) or are we all on American servers? How is the RMAH limited within a region?
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Australia/NZ etc are limited to the US based RMAH. You can play on Eur/Asian servers (some period of time after launch, once the game has been patched with said capability.) however you are incapable of accessing their RMAH if you decide to play upon them, only the gold based one.
It's possible to purchase an Asian or European specific version of the game to have access to their RMAH, if you are so inclined, however.
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The region you belong to is tied to the country in your account (you can see it on the account management page).
Since you said you're in Australia, that should mean your account is tied to the US region. That setting won't limit the regions you can connect to, so if you want you can play on the Asian servers if the latency is better. However you can only access the RMAH on the region you belong to. To access another AH you have to change your region setting (contacting the Blizzard's Customers assistance), or create a new account tied to that region, but that would mean buying another copy of Diablo III.
Answer 3
Just to add a small detail: when changing the region (as soon as it is aviable) you will not be able to access your old characters on the new server. This means that you'd have to start over when playing with friends in a different region.
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