When Battle.Net servers go live, will Singapore players be given a choice to play with their friends in the US, and local buddies at the same time?

Kevin Yu: Currently we're building up in Singapore, or South East Asia , it kind of works in a step by step process. We're getting out here, creating our offices, working with IAH, localising customer support, have local servers with lower latency, clearing out all of those issues, all in the process of creating higher levels of support for the players here. And we will continue to move down that direction. While right now, you probably wont be able to connect with players there[US Servers] on day one, but historically, if you look at World of Warcraft, people wanted to be able to connect to different realms and we found different ways to allow players to be able to connect with other people different battlegrounds and such. I can't say specifically what we will do in Starcraft 2, but we definately listen to our player's demands. We will see whats the most logical way to give players the best possible experience. But thats a step-by-step process. We want to start with first making the game a great experience within South East Asia, before moving on to expanding that. We will add on more features, as we see the demand for it. We don't want players to wait another 6 more months for the game, while we add stuff.

Will the best case scenario be that I buy both the US and Asian versions, just to be able to play on both servers?

Mark Yu: Yes, when it releases on day one, if you want to connect with your friends in the US, get the US box or if you want to play with Koreans, then get the Korean box. However if you want to get the best experience out of your game here in South East Asia, you should get the local boxset. The latency, the community, those are the things are going to really define the experience, and you don’t want to miss out on that.

"It'll be structured very similarly to World of Warcraft, where you've got the European region and players matched against the other players within their region,"

"if you're a European player and you've got friends that are in another region that you want to be able to connect with, we definitely want to support that," although "it might mean that you have to access it through the US client."