The timing of this is very interesting
Possibly a try to artificially boost numbers for the shareholders benefit, to distract people from something negative whether it be the current negativity or something else to come or maybe even because they are considering pulling the plug on the SEA server.
Regardless of their reasons its good for use SEA players who can now play KR without the need for extra accounts with similar ping as to SEA maybe
Though I expect there will be some kind of additional restrictions otherwise blizzard won't be able to price gouge effectively on hots release. If not though double win! get to import hots for half the price
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