Playing with Chinese?

[Jynx]

Wont happen.

Not because of SE but because of Chinese terrible internet laws AKA "The Great Firewall"

[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.

[Lusavari]

No... I think they tolerate Skype for business purposes... Either I haven't seen one of my friends on Skype since she went home, and the Chinese Skype is QQ, so I could be wrong on that one.

However, I do find the lulz in your post amusing.

[Fear]

Some may play if they setup a Proxy server and bypass the Chinese firewalls, but almost all will be on dedicated servers for them which is good.

I don't want millions of them overruling us so 75% of the games pop speaks an unknown language to me.

[Antipika]

RMT is all over, American, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Fillipino etc, you mostly hear about China because hackings also come from China mainly. The largest RMT company iirc was based in Florida, IGE?

IGE never farmed anything however. They just purchase gold from farmers and sell it back. Lot of company selling gold are established outside China to have a better chance reaching the end user. They use that as an advertising argument "transactions are safe, we are based in [country that's not China]".

On top of reasons that would justify China to have separated severs, everyone seems to have forgot about the billing model. The game could be F2P in China, or sub based (way cheaper than ours, to match Chinese's PPP), hourly based, Freemium, etc. Shanda can just use whatever billing model they sit fit to maximize profit. More profit for them means more profit for SE as well in royalties.

[Colino]

No... I think they tolerate Skype for business purposes... Either I haven't seen one of my friends on Skype since she went home, and the Chinese Skype is QQ, so I could be wrong on that one.

However, I do find the lulz in your post amusing.

Your only option is QQ and Weiqin (spelling?) really. I'd also add YouKu to your list of replacements they have, you can go ahead and guess what site it's a copy of.

[Zehira]

No one's said this yet? No one?

Ok, I will.



We already are playing with the Chinese! Ohohohohohoho!

I have heard most of those Chinese (whoever they are) are from the prison.

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=o...w=1100&bih=708

It's saying they can't stay in the prison and do nothing so they are forced to play MMO for cash? It's not the same Chinese we are playing with. Care to share your opinion about this, anyone?

[Thanos]

I know a few ppl who play from China. They just have HK ISPs and they caare good to go.

[Antipika]

I have heard most of those Chinese (whoever they are) are from the prison.

It's saying they can't stay in the prison and do nothing so they are forced to play MMO for cash? It's not the same Chinese we are playing with. Care to share your opinion about this, anyone?

Seriously it's not because there was couple of news regarding this that it automatically become a fact. Lot of RMTs are just normal people like you and me. They farm gold sell it back to a website for cheap and in huge quantity. RMT slaves is more a myth than anything, people being forced to play etc. sure it does happen, but what doesn't happen in a country with 1.4 billion people?

It's just not the majority. Also people tends to forget that a lot of JP players and westerners are farming/selling gold as well. It's not only Chinese players. It can be very profitable even for people living in countries where life is expensive. Many skilled programmers use their own cheats/bots to get a huge amount of money and these aren't always the random Chinese farmer with no programming skills...

Using your own tool often guaranteed that it will remain undetected for a while.

I've got Chinese friends on XIV and it's annoying to often see people /pointing chinese people out and automatically consider them as RMT...