beside that, when they said that they will open a new classic server on RU offi, it was obvious that it will be region-locked due to publishing rights.
they're not going to open any other english server as long as skelth doesn't reach full queue times like on RU offi, so that's not going to happen in any case.
as for the region-lock: Japanese L2 Classic is free to play, and guess what happened to foreign people that started to play there? they got banned after few weeks. and over there, even speaking any other language than japanese in normal chat is more than enough to get you banned.
i don't know if they follow the same rules in RU, but i'm pretty sure people playing without proxies won't be able to do shit over there.
and even then, it's not guaranteed that using a proxy and/or changing region language will not get them banned if they get spotted.
right now, the only people that could "benefit" from rerolling over RU offi without negative consequences would be either russians, or bulgarians/people from east-europe countries, given that they can understand and speak RU, off course.
language barriers aside, when competitive russians have the mentality of playing L2 for at least 12~16 hours straight everyday, or even 24/7 if they're paying drivers, i can only laugh at EU/NA people willing to reroll over RU offi.
it will be a matter of not even weeks, but days before they get outleveled and locked out of farming areas.
it will happen what has already happened on Skelth, with the difference that it will be on a way bigger scale.