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A good portion of Wow's client base (and a large contingent of MMO'ers) seems to be edging towards a cliff. Nothing is final yet or even likely as far as Wow is concerned but... "China has banned foreign investment in its online gaming industry in a tightening of its censorship regime and an effort to protect local gaming companies. Foreigners would be banned from operating online gaming within China through wholly foreign-owned investments, joint ventures or any other forms of co-operation with local companies, the country’s publishing regulator said." .... "However, many of them (Chinese game companies) still make a large part of their revenues from foreign-developed games, for which they have to pay royalties. World of Warcraft is China’s most popular game on the web." "GAPP said updates and new versions of already-approved games would need additional approval. It also said games that were already on the market in China would need new approval if they changed distributors.
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10/12/09 1:16:09 PM#2
Bloody communists. This is just going to the extreme. |
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10/12/09 1:19:45 PM#3
so will this stop (Chinese) gold sellers?, since 'western' MMO's wont be allowed to operate over there |
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10/12/09 1:22:32 PM#4
Originally posted by Antipopealan If you think it's only the Chinese that are gold sellers you are deluding yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OugSd7moMNE |
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10/12/09 1:24:14 PM#5
Originally posted by Antipopealan
Not to my knowledge as they are using western client versions, obtained illegally anyways. |
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10/12/09 1:24:53 PM#6
Hurray for communism. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. |
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10/12/09 1:26:05 PM#7
What i wonder is why western countries dont impose similar measures on chinese operators as a matter of reciprocity? That could actually have more of an impact in gold trading... Just to make things clear... |
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10/12/09 1:31:04 PM#8
Simple, fact is these communist monkeys have become to big for their boots, you give them abit of lee way, and then they bite then hands thta feed them. Time to crush them like the west did with soviet russia.
They telling people they cant play online game lol, bloody communism has gone beyond a joke now. |
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10/12/09 1:52:23 PM#9
I think they've passed the line, seriously this is going way too far. |
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10/12/09 1:59:18 PM#10
Originally posted by Demz2 I think you're taking this too far, and a war with China would probably start the end of humanity as we know it. |
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10/12/09 2:05:08 PM#11
Originally posted by billynomates If you think it's only the Chinese that are gold sellers you are deluding yourself. A good portion of them are Chinese, this is a great thing |
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10/12/09 2:11:47 PM#12
Originally posted by Sarbocabras A good portion of them are Chinese, this is a great thing I don't see how. The obvious fact is that the farmers aren't playing on chinese servers; they're playing on western servers via western clients. Probably via corporate intarwebz connections owned by "commercial" gold seller sites. How will China scrapping the chinese servers alleviate the problem? If anything, you might see more chinese players on western servers for the simple reason that .. it's the only place they can play.  Playing: EVE, Final Fantasy 13, Uncharted 2, Need for Speed: Shift |
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10/12/09 2:25:17 PM#13
LOL, this is too funny... NOW, they've crossed the line? Guy's China's government has been doing thing alot worse to people then stopping them from playing Warlock's in Strangelthorne Vale for a long time. |
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10/12/09 2:28:01 PM#14
They would flood the Taiwanese servers first and foremost. The real players and the gold farmers. |
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10/12/09 5:06:43 PM#15
Originally posted by Caleveira
Not for games necessarily, but the US does impose restrictions on chinese trade. Its nothing new. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=aPn5l7KHLc5Q |
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Lansid
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Joined: 8/21/03
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10/12/09 5:10:11 PM#16
Chinese people have known the terms "Aggro", and "Train INC!", and "Tank", and "Raid" long before we started to use them in game... Though I can admit that most "farmers" I ran into on WoW were in fact Chinese. They would out of the blue, open trade windows with my Mage and say things like "food". I woud then demand "Money pls". If denied then I tried many insults that involved "sex with their mothers" and the ones that got immediate responses were insults in given in Mandarin. Many times I would just give them first level summoned food and make it seem like I was summoning high tier stuff. While I don't know what effect this whole ordeal will have on the in-game economies, I can bank on the farmers, Chinese or otherwise, coming up with work-around solutions... "There is only one thing of which I am certain, and that's nothing is certain." |
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10/12/09 5:12:34 PM#17
Originally posted by Demz2
The West never "crushed" Soviet Russia. They crushed themselves by being involved in pointless and costly wars, spending far too much money and running deficits year after year. Eventually, the entire thing collapsed on them. China, on the other hand, is not even bragging about Communism anymore, they run SURPLUSES every year, they are world's number one creditor, and own over trillion dollars worth of treasuries. Theya ren't involved in wars anywhere in the world but within insurrections in their own country. China is hardly anything like the Soviet Union.. matter-of-fact.. I'd say America has many of the same problems that the Soviet Union did...
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10/12/09 5:18:18 PM#18
China has been trying to censor and control a lot more things lately, in the end it will bite them in the ass, always does. "The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand." |
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10/12/09 5:18:28 PM#19
Originally posted by Lansid
XD Funny stuff 1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical. 2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself. 3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose. |
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10/12/09 6:15:34 PM#20
The first MMORPG Virtual Economy Crash! Gold Farmers are no more. Prices will start to drop and out of nowhere, skyrocket later on. |
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