Update - Thursday April 10
Taiwan service update
Taiwan players now play on American servers.
Taiwan players can now access in-game account management.
Taiwan players can now access the in-game store.
Taiwan players can now access other language districts.
Taiwan players can once again play and trade with players from other territories.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused the Spirit summoned by the Ritualist PvE skill Vampirism to take longer than other Spirits to acquire new targets.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Dervishes to appear in avatar form after dying while using an avatar skill.
Miscellaneous
The Xunlai Tournament House NPC now offers prizes for the March tournament and can be found in the Great Temple of Balthazar, Lion's Arch, Kaineng Center, and Kamadan.
Updated the name of the Ceremonial Spear found in Elona to Solemn Spear to reduce confusion between it and the Design-a-Weapon contest winner of the same name.
Update - Thursday April 10
Turtle222
NoXiFy
Welcome back Taiwan.
makosi
Oh noes, GW is dead! It's all Regina's fault! Wahhhhh. (<---mandatory new patch QQ.)
Congratulations to all the Taiwanese people who were upset about their accounts, and I'm pleased about the Ceremonial Spear change. It was a real bummer to discover I'd found the old-style Ceremonial.
Congratulations to all the Taiwanese people who were upset about their accounts, and I'm pleased about the Ceremonial Spear change. It was a real bummer to discover I'd found the old-style Ceremonial.
jiggles
Sucks to be taiwan losing your own district and such and then having to go in with americans (no offense to all of you, just the whining 13yr old bitches)
CyberMesh0
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Sucks to be taiwan losing your own district and such and then having to go in with americans (no offense to all of you, just the whining 13yr old bitches)
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Tarun
So... ...what was the point of splitting Taiwan away in the first place, only to be put back in under two weeks? And why into America? Why not into the Oceania area?
FengShuiDove
Boooooooring.
Zahr Dalsk
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Sucks to be taiwan losing your own district and such and then having to go in with americans (no offense to all of you, just the whining 13yr old bitches)
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1 up and 2 down
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So... ...what was the point of splitting Taiwan away in the first place, only to be put back in under two weeks? And why into America? Why not into the Oceania area?
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Muahahahaha!
cosyfiep
its nice to see they went thru with it and got those loyal PAYING customers back up and running again (now to learn congrats in taiwanese----)
StormDragonZ
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Everything else just tells me America = peace keepers.
cebalrai
Whoa I was chest running yesterday and got 3 gold ceremonial spears on one run and was like, whoa this is weird. Now they're all solemn spears. Weirder...
Kusandaa
Not a bad update, glad Taiwan can now play again. Hurray for bug fixes.
crazybanshee
Awesome, welcome back Taiwan players.
Ekelon
Gooo Taiwan! And yay, 75 reward points.
Soul Saver
Yay for gold farmers!
WarKaster
only reason I can think they put Taiwan on American servers is that now they can ban IP's for botting.
Richardt
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So... ...what was the point of splitting Taiwan away in the first place, only to be put back in under two weeks? And why into America? Why not into the Oceania area?
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However, if they play on an American server, then they fall under ANet's power-so if they break the EULA they can get smacked with the ban hammer.
However as to why they picked America's server I'm not sure-any other server would've done just fine-so long as it's not a Taiwanese server.
leeky baby
free keys!!!! gogogog
Zaris
woohoo 125 reward points 
Carboplatin
nice taiwan with americans. now the districts will never be empty
countesscorpula
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Update - Thursday April 10
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Dervishes to appear in avatar form after dying while using an avatar skill. |
MrSlayer
So they can once again enter districts where nobody can put their name in All Chat, because it contains disallowed characters.
I can see it now..."HELP ME SOMEONE IS SCAMMING ME BUT I CANT SAY HIS NAME!"
<.< Genius >.> real genius
Edit: at above post; go check bug forum. As soon as a PvP bug was discovered, a post for Anet staff asking about it. Now let me just browse through the list of bugs I've posted there, and seen posted there, about PvE and other stuff. Guild Hall Glitch, Avatar Bug, Henchmen and heroes acting retardedly, countless areas with portals you can sneak past, broken terrain and textures...*sigh*
Nevermind.
I can see it now..."HELP ME SOMEONE IS SCAMMING ME BUT I CANT SAY HIS NAME!"
<.< Genius >.> real genius
Edit: at above post; go check bug forum. As soon as a PvP bug was discovered, a post for Anet staff asking about it. Now let me just browse through the list of bugs I've posted there, and seen posted there, about PvE and other stuff. Guild Hall Glitch, Avatar Bug, Henchmen and heroes acting retardedly, countless areas with portals you can sneak past, broken terrain and textures...*sigh*
Nevermind.
Andrew Patrick
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Great! How about fixing the bug that causes Dervishes to lose their avatar form whenever a cut scene is triggered? This bug has been around since NF was introduced, and from when I checked last week, it's still there. A Dervish who is in Av form before a cut scene won't be in Av form immediately after. Even if the scene is "skipped". Even if the form was entered just prior to the scene. Worse still, if the form is entered just prior to the scene, the form will be gone, and the skill will be disabled for 2 minutes after the end of the cut scene. Honestly, it's not like it's insignificant. It's an entire line of elite skills taken out of play by piece of window dressing! I know fewer people are working on GW1 atm, but this really deserves being looked at.
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slowerpoke
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This is by design. The Avatar skills cause issues with the cut-scenes so the form has to be removed at the start of the cinematic.
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Ork Pride
letting the bots back into the game i see.
jammerpa
Does this mean that Americans can now use chinese characters in their names and guild tags?
SerenitySilverstar
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letting the bots back into the game i see.
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Lothlorian Sassun
Yep Taiwan is back.. and the WTB GW ACCOUNTS spam is back in Temple of Bathazar once again! 
woot!
woot!
HawkofStorms
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If I remember correctly the original reason is that Taiwan had passed a law saying something to the effect that ANet (and other game companies) can't ban people on servers in Taiwan (if anyone can clarify this more, please do). What this means is that if player A is found breaking the EULA in some way and plays on a Taiwan server, ANet can't do anything about it.
However, if they play on an American server, then they fall under ANet's power-so if they break the EULA they can get smacked with the ban hammer. However as to why they picked America's server I'm not sure-any other server would've done just fine-so long as it's not a Taiwanese server. |
By placing Tawian on US servers, A.net can bipass Tawianize law.
Also, only accounts "in good standing" will be transfered. Bots are presumably still locked out.
skretth
noooooo the gold sellers, their back
FoxBat
Botters could always buy new american accounts anyway, its' not like this makes a difference in the long run on that front.
In RA I can see a "Traditonal Chinese" district under Asia, so presumably they can keep their districts, chinese names etc. They are probably considered "Taiwan" region as far as the game code goes, just the servers they are running from are now in the U.S.
In RA I can see a "Traditonal Chinese" district under Asia, so presumably they can keep their districts, chinese names etc. They are probably considered "Taiwan" region as far as the game code goes, just the servers they are running from are now in the U.S.
TheRaven
Ok, I don't get it. I talked to the Xunlai guy but he didn't give me any reward points. All he does is direct me to the Xunlai house website. I log in there and it correctly displays my picks for March. What am i doing wrong?
Magikarp
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The only thing I'm happy about.
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on the other note, glad to hear tw is back in the mix, hooray!
RPGmaniac
Good for the Taiwanese, glad they can get in the mix again
Molock
GG anet, let all the botters and rmt players back on.. even better, they get to spam up american servers. *sigh*
Why not just block them completely? We all know a lot of the RMT problem comes from countries such as Taiwan.
Why not just block them completely? We all know a lot of the RMT problem comes from countries such as Taiwan.
Draak Calinca
Grats Twaian, welcome back
on a side note
Yay 125 Reward Points
on a side note
Yay 125 Reward Points
I pwnd U
Awesome not a bad update and nothing to for people to QQ about! I call it a success!
NeonXero
Hmm I was wondering why my spear changed name >.< seems uhh cool? And I really should get back to studying... kbai4naow
(100 reward points ^_^)
(100 reward points ^_^)
the Puppeteer
nice to hear about taiwan...
but - no nerfs... strange indeed...
but - no nerfs... strange indeed...