Playing with Chinese?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Thanos]

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

[Morticous]

i've got korean friends living in shanghai china that play on my server...... i dont know if that makes a difference.

[Awdogsgo2heaven]

A lot of Chinese use VPN to play on servers outside of China. Also hong long and Taiwan don't have these laws. If square is smart (though I doubt they are) the will have a Chinese language version availed internationally. Then they could play with us. But no chinese character support don't expect many

[Lusavari]

Organized way is the key term there. I know some families occasionally have a second child without meeting any of the criteria to have one (minority, child of 2 old children, disabled first child, etc) and don't pay the fine. But that's why all the blocked web sites are blocked; China wants to have the ability to monitor and prevent organization.

Also, for anyone playing right now, they're using international versions of the game, and as a few people have stated, they're using work around methods to get access through Hong Kong (which abides by different rules) and Taiwan.

[Lapulapu]

"As I mentioned via press releases a while back, Square Enix has entered into a strategic partnership with SNDA, a major Chinese video game developer. With their cooperation, we’ll be bringing FFXIV version 2.0 to China, which boasts the largest online gaming community in the world. This is one market that no global online operation can ignore, ours included.

Official service in China is scheduled to commence a while after version 2.0’s global launch, and so I thought it’d be good to check out ChinaJoy, the nation’s largest video game expo. We’re not necessarily timing it with the event, but the new promo site will be unveiled very soon. Between the site’s kickoff, gamescom 2012 in August, and the FINAL FANTASY 25th anniversary event, we’ll be releasing a flood of info." ... Mr. FFXIV Producer

I'm assuming that this is what this thread is about and what it says to me is that the Chinese will be playing the game. I personally know and use to talk to some RMT in FFXI and they were Chinese. The particular RMT I'm talking about didn't impede on peoples play time and they played for fun as well as for money. It's funny because in FFXI Chinese were shunned because of RMT activity and nobody wanted to play with them for that reason. If their government was monitering their game time then they saw no threat because we all knew about the Chinese players on our server. They had a few people including myself that would sit and chat or do some activity with them but we were few and far between. The RMT that bothered me were the ones farming tree cuttings ( Joy Toy too) all the time, made it difficult to farm them but it also made for a little healthy competition which always makes farming more fun. So if Chinese could play with us in FFXI why could they not play with us in FFXIV?