Playing with Chinese?

[Ruisu]

There are chinese people that play this game legitimately.

Just saying.

[Nazrakin]

I remember this was something that was done in Eve. The Chinese were given their own servers for a couple reasons:

1. By law MMO servers must be operated by Chinese companies.
2. Servers must comply with the Chinese internet usage policy, which sets time limits, ect on the gamer.

[Rannie]

Then that raises the question of we know most or all of the RMT's are Chinese... and are probably in China... how the hell are they connecting right now if their ports are blocked....


(if they're not all Chinese sweat shop workers let me know)

[Norack]

Then that raises the question of we know most or all of the RMT's are Chinese... and are probably in China... how the hell are they connecting right now if their ports are blocked....


(if they're not all Chinese sweat shop workers let me know)

A very very large portion of RMT's are Korean, not saying Chinese aren't but when ever I see RMT its always china or korea. and I also saw a documentary about online addiction being studied as an actual illness and stated that it was due to RMT issues over in korea

[Rannie]

Really that I never knew I always heard it was the Chinese that were the real rmt's wow you still have the link to that doc you saw online I'd like to see it ^_^. Not saying you're wrong or want any backing just have an interest in seeing the study. =)

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Uhmm to answer to OP question, answer is no.... .

[Elexia]

There's ways to get around the Great Firewall of China and suffice to say it is mostly the RMT who would deal with getting around it because that's money on the line.

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?

[Rannie]

There's ways to get around the Great Firewall of China and suffice to say it is mostly the RMT who would deal with getting around it because that's money on the line.

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?

*sighs* we floridians always get the bad raps =P jk I didn't even know there was an rmt company here in florida... hmmm interesting they don't even tell you that they're based out of florida.... just was checking their site for shigggles. can't even find a listing for them for a phone number... interesting ah well

@norack ah that sucks I was interesting in watching it. thanks though =)

[Nazrakin]

There's ways to get around the Great Firewall of China and suffice to say it is mostly the RMT who would deal with getting around it because that's money on the line.

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?

As I understand it, companies like IGE are only a broker. They're just a middle man between us and the actual chinese gold farms.

[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.