Playing with Chinese?

[Lusavari]

A lot of my friends in Grad school are Chinese. Actually, I was seeing one of the Chinese girls in my cohort... That aside to demonstrate I have some clue what I'm talking about...

China bans Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and several other things. They have government sanctioned versions which look VERY similar to their counterparts (renren looks 100% ripped from Facebook, and Baidu functions just like Google.)

A lot of it has to do with not wanting the outside world to influence people. Essentially, China doesn't want anyone to get any ideas about protesting or government overthrowing like the Arab Spring. So it's highly unlikely the legitimate Chinese players (Not talking about RMT farmers, we're talking about people who actually play for fun) will be on the same servers. They do not want Europeans, Americans, and Japanese people influencing the thinking of their people. Essentially laws and politics will prevent them from playing with us. It's a shame too. But anything that threatens the governments grip on the people isn't allowed. Which makes it a pain in the ass when you want to talk to a girlfriend in China during summer vacation, because her American phone is disconnected, she can't use Facebook, so you have to rely on school e-mail or I think skype works...

[Jynx]

Which makes it a pain in the ass when you want to talk to a girlfriend in China during summer vacation

Skype eh?

I better report this lest a revolution be started.

[Avirex]

Lots of games doesn't officially get localized to chinese there.

No shit, that has to suck for people living there that actually like to play alot of those games.

A lot of my friends in Grad school are Chinese. Actually, I was seeing one of the Chinese girls in my cohort... That aside to demonstrate I have some clue what I'm talking about...

China bans Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and several other things. They have government sanctioned versions which look VERY similar to their counterparts (renren looks 100% ripped from Facebook, and Baidu functions just like Google.)

A lot of it has to do with not wanting the outside world to influence people. Essentially, China doesn't want anyone to get any ideas about protesting or government overthrowing like the Arab Spring. So it's highly unlikely the legitimate Chinese players (Not talking about RMT farmers, we're talking about people who actually play for fun) will be on the same servers. They do not want Europeans, Americans, and Japanese people influencing the thinking of their people. Essentially laws and politics will prevent them from playing with us. It's a shame too. But anything that threatens the governments grip on the people isn't allowed. Which makes it a pain in the ass when you want to talk to a girlfriend in China during summer vacation, because her American phone is disconnected, she can't use Facebook, so you have to rely on school e-mail or I think skype works...

Wow, China is a strict place to live. O.o

[Colino]

Wow, China is a strict place to live. O.o

Yeah, but you wouldn't know that if you hadn't grown up in a country that doesn't have all those restrictions.

[Awdogsgo2heaven]

No shit, that has to suck for people living there that actually like to play alot of those games.



Wow, China is a strict place to live. O.o

China isn't that strict of a place to live. You have to go to China to understand I lived in China And can tell you China is not a country of law. There are laws but do people follow them? Not really. Chinese for the most part ignore there government and the government ignores that you ignore if you don't mess with the government in an organized way.