Quote Originally Posted by Atoli View Post
In general: no, of course not xD
In terms of games though: yes, they are.

There are 3 major regions for video games, which are Asia (except for China), NA and PAL (Europe, Australia and NZ). Region lock from consoles works with these regions, so I assume Australian players got recommendations to join EU servers based on that concept.
OOOH yeah I frequently forget about region locks.
Thanks