Wow-europe.com redirects to us website, why not to en-gb?

[Anataz-burning-legion]

That’s the question, can you guys fix it?

[Kiyouraah-twisting-nether]

Wow-europe sounds like a super shady RMT link…

[Adpiaha-silvermoon]

Yeah, but check on wikipedia for wow, those website/aliases are run by Blizzard

[Athreus-argent-dawn]

Actually it redirects correctly to en-gb but then it hits world of warcraft official website which is en-us… for whatever reason.

ubuntu@zerg:/tmp$ wget Wow-europe
–2022-11-22 13:41:30-- ://wow-europe/
Resolving wow-europe (wow-europe)… 37.244.28.104
Connecting to wow-europe (wow-europe)|37.244.28.104|:80… connected.
request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently
Location: ://eu.battle/wow [following]
–2022-11-22 13:41:30-- ://eu.battle/wow
Resolving eu.battle (eu.battle)… 37.244.28.102
Connecting to eu.battle (eu.battle)|37.244.28.102|:80… connected.
request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently
Location: //worldofwarcraft/ [following]
–2022-11-22 13:41:31-- //worldofwarcraft/
Resolving worldofwarcraft (worldofwarcraft)… 63.32.205.126, 52.208.61.223
Connecting to worldofwarcraft (worldofwarcraft)|63.32.205.126|:443… connected.
request sent, awaiting response… 302 Found
Location: /en-gb/ [following]
–2022-11-22 13:41:31-- //worldofwarcraft/en-gb/
Reusing existing connection to worldofwarcraft:443.
request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK

I have removed the protocols and domain indicators cuz I cannot post it.

[Grelier-sporeggar (Grelier)]

My old reply from 2020 seems to be still accurate.

US website as a default for Europe?!

For whatever reason Blizzard tries to guess location of the user based on the browser’s language preferences (while many other sites try to guess users preferred language by their location). If you set en-gb (british english) as your preferred language in your browser it should direct automatically to en-gb site. In Firefox this is done by opening Options -> Browse down until Language, click “Choose” button next to “Choose your preferred language for displaying pages” and move en-gb to top. Ad…

I tested the behaviour just now:

1. Firefox set to prefer generic “en” as the language. Redirects to US site.
2. Firefox set to prefer “en-gb”. Redirects to en-gb site.
3. No language preference. Redirects to en-gb.

[Adpiaha-silvermoon]

thanks, it helped me. I set my language to english / united kingdom and it redirected me to the en-gb website.

Still, it works really weird as my default language is Polish and by default it should redirect me to en-gb website but instead it redirected me to en-us…

[Trovlak-aggramar (Trovlak)]

Blizzard are just too “scrooge” to pay for commercial access to a geolocation database. So they tried to roll their own alternative solution.