2K18 - Unable to join Team Pro Am arena (Region Lock?)

[UncleKyrie]

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comme...erver_problem/

[bbqwing]

Please make this thread pinned at the top. Let 2k knows about and address this issue. People around the world want to enjoy this game at most. Thanks.

[bbqwing]

One thing I need to emphasize is I can play walk on and park with my east coast friends if we are in the same neighborhood. I just can't join team pro am arena at all.

[UncleKyrie]

I feel like this issue will be ignored since not a lot of people are looking to play out of their region. Also 2K is dealing with a lot of deleted MyPlayers on Xbox One, I'm guessing that will be their priority.

[bbqwing]

I really don't know why 2K set the region lock to prevent the gameplay from different region.. They had learned the lesson last year.. I really don't understand.. smh

[UncleKyrie]

Update: It's not based on your IP address or your location. I used VPN to test and it didn't work. Basically you need to buy the US version of NBA 2K18 using US PSN to play in the US server and a European version using EU PSN to join Europe server.

I also found out that the save files from US version is not compatible with EU version even though you're both using them on the same account (through PSN sub accounts).

PSA: Buy the game in the region you want to play.

[CyberOps]

There goes my plan down the drain of playing with my friends from the US in a ProAm team, Im from the Netherlands so i gues i cant play with them now on the same team which simply blows. I hope this gets fixed guys

[Itsco]

Why the **** are they keep doing this **** every ****ing year? It's 2017 for **** sake, what game has a region lock? I mean at least make it based on my actual ****ing location but no