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ian20120505
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This thread is a follow-up of a previous thread (Will people live in east Asia be able to play Neverwinter?).
Cryptic, I know it's PWE's intention to block Chinese and Russian, not yours. But are you really feel okay to let things be like that? If you don't, please do something for people who got blocked innocently!
D&D branded games have become world wide games since long ago. There are many Chinese who love Baulder's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights series. And I knew there was also a big Chinese guild in DDO's Argonnessen server. So you will lose a significant player base if you block Chinese.
And once this game is launched and Chinese and Russian find that they are blocked by a racism-like policy, PWE and Cryptic might make a very bad impression on east Asian video gamers. You definitely don't want to see that happens.
Cryptic, I know it's PWE's intention to block Chinese and Russian, not yours. But are you really feel okay to let things be like that? If you don't, please do something for people who got blocked innocently!
D&D branded games have become world wide games since long ago. There are many Chinese who love Baulder's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights series. And I knew there was also a big Chinese guild in DDO's Argonnessen server. So you will lose a significant player base if you block Chinese.
And once this game is launched and Chinese and Russian find that they are blocked by a racism-like policy, PWE and Cryptic might make a very bad impression on east Asian video gamers. You definitely don't want to see that happens.
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As for Russia and any other countries blocked... PWE generally only blocks countries off certain games when there is or may be a different publisher for the same game... and it's not unusual to lift blocks as the games get closer to release - they used to block most of Eastern Europe from RH and Europe from Raiderz, they do not do so anymore... Russia especially often has its own publishers handling many of PWE's games, so I assume they just block it by default until they can sort things out...
Please read the previous thread. The PWE staff did mentioned the block is out of administrative purpose.
I based in Taiwan, not in mainland China. Imo it's not good to separate players by countries. At least players should be able to choose which region of people they want to play with.
And nowadays a mmo shouldn't let Asian players suffer from lag when they log into eu or us server.
They have not disallowed a race. They have only stopped countries.
The reason can be law, different launch schedule, can be that they don't have a way to get any payment from people there for their game, it can be hundred of other reasons not excluding privacy policy and hacking attempts. It may also be that they faced problems with laws-cutting-in-their-profit during their operations.
And it is quite common thing. Also their own information says - administrative reasons.
Any person, even ones traveling there, won't be able to access game from there.
EDIT: Though I do feel it is unfair to some regions, but the decision is not racist. However, I though that they had allowed old Russian cryptic accounts for STO to operate even after merge. But I don't think bans are allowed to be discussed on forums. So you should perhaps ask the support.
I don't think it is a common thing. All other D&D games don't block people, why does this game do? If it is because of a common reason, they can simply let us know. But they didn't.
P.S. I didn't said it is exactly racism. I wasn't sure about that. Hence the word "racism-like".
Ehm... I don't think PWE is the one responsible for separating players... They would happily allow you in if they could, and in the past they actually did, as there are lots of PWE players from Russia and other now banned countries, that made their accounts before the ip blocks, that still have access to the games. But it's quite obvious that they can't opperate in Chinese regions, because 1) the mother company is already there anyway and 2) the Chinese government and its internet cencorship policies would undoubtedly cause legal issues. As for Russia, like I said before, they usually give their games to local publishers, probably because they are not willing to bear the cost of supporting the market of such a vast country, and thus have to block the region off. Now, why do they block South Korea... no idea, but I guess the reasons are simillar to the ones in Russia...
They are still technically China though, and they all ultimately answer to the central Chinese government... and one does not simply walk into China (please excuse the meme, too much 9gag and too little studying lately...)
Actually being a white American with a mixed family this bugs the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> out of me and I will touch it. Learn how to word stuff. The US is the only country in the world with true diversity and maybe it never occured to you that those two countries you mentioned are the ones not allowing such access. China's pretty well known for blocking things that they can't control. Last thing I want to see is the flippin race card pulled on a MMO site.
"Lock thread! Lock thread!"
Passerby A:- Why do you want th thread locked?
... ... ... ... ...
Passerby B(who happens to be psychologist):- Can it be you are craving for attension from the forum devs because you feel abandoned because of lack of conversations? ... ... I see its abandonment issues. Maybe you should keep some pet.
Passerby C(who happens to be psychiatrist):- Or I have some medicine which can make you forget every trauma...
*throws placard*
*runs away*
Jokes aside, please let us all be considerate, forgiving, mature and civil. And all the four qualities would mean to keep personal stuff(like race, ethnicity, nation) and politics(which are perhaps dirty business deals anyways) keep out of the forums.
adminstration reasons sounds like "Because your government is being a poopie head"
no racism here *.*
China =/= Asia.