Japan:semi-isolated district

SPURLUXE

SPURLUXE

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Japan

Taiwanese dist was integrated to US dist few weeks ago.
Districts other than Japan can be accessed each other.
Now Japan is the only dist that not allowed to access other dist.
Edit:China and Thailand are also isolated.
Edit2:China server is already closed down.

http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Game...t_U I_Changes
Although "Open Travel" feature was annouced during January 17 update, not available yet.

There is not so much players in Japanese dist. Many Outposts are like ghost town. (only #1 dist, even in seasonal event)
It's hard to trade items, find parties, or play alliance battles.

Anet, we Japanese players want to access other dist and play with many foreign players. Give us "Open Travel" feature please.

SirSausage

SirSausage

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Poland

Architects of Forgotten Truths [AoFT]

W/Mo

/signed

Sure, why not.
More players = more fun.

Moloch Vein

Moloch Vein

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Reactive Hexing Sucks

[Thay]

N/

Yes, this is not acceptable. /signed

Pleikki

Pleikki

WTB q8 15^50 Weapons!

Join Date: Nov 2006

???oo ???ugs ???lan [?????????]

Yeah i sign it for sure.. how come japanese cant travel O.o

Mystica

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Germany

[金金金金]

Me/W

Wow this is horrible.

/signed !

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

/signed

I'm sure it's a work-in-progress, though. There's no reason why they'd leave Japan as the only isolated server.

Lilith St Cyr

Lilith St Cyr

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

/signed of course

Aussie Boy

Aussie Boy

Alcoholic

Join Date: Mar 2007

Australia

W/

/signed
That stinks you guys shouldn't be isolated they should fix it asap.

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

I'll sign this to help out the great Japanese populous. Help 'em out, ANet!

Liam016

Liam016

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

England,UK

R/Me

/signed.....

Magikarp

Magikarp

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2007

[HAWK]

/signed you all payed damn good money for your games too

EPO Bot

EPO Bot

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Mo/N

Why is it that MMO's are huge in Korea wile Japan generally remains "meh" towards them?

afya

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/Me

/signed
It isn't fair to keep you guys there. Hope we can play together soon~

Xunlai Guru Agent

Xunlai Guru Agent

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Join Date: Jun 2006

/signed
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Shai Lee

Shai Lee

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Somewhere

/signed

I don't think anyone should be isolated.

By the way, is it really Anet refusing to give 'open travel' or does it have to do more with laws from the country?

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

Japan isn't the only district that's still isolated.

Dono

Dono

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Join Date: Feb 2008

Cleethorpes

We Like To Spank Your [Mum]

Mo/

Might have something to do with all the gold farmers/bots/sellers and stoping them from trading with other countries? As alot of them are from Japan are they not?

Warriorsrmint

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

W/

/signed, this sucks for you

Kusandaa

Kusandaa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/Mo

/signed

Sucks for Japanese players >_<.

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by KamikazeChicken
Japan isn't the only district that's still isolated.
Then unisolate all of them!

Ctb

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dono
Might have something to do with all the gold farmers/bots/sellers and stoping them from trading with other countries? As alot of them are from Japan are they not?
No, it's predominantly China, where it's easy to run a sweatshop full of employed gold farmers due to the lack of human rights oversight and prevalence of local government corruption, and South Korea where MMOs are very popular and there's a high incidence of "addiction" among players.

/signed

Ekelon

Ekelon

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Rebel Rising [rawr]

A/W

Anet needs to combine all of them. The Guild Wars player base is so small now we should just make it all universal! (Divide by continents now, like North America, Europe, Asia) As much as country special districts are, I hardly ever see more than 1 districts worth of french/german, and usually the russian/polish districts are empty.

Lykan

Lykan

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Join Date: May 2005

StP

R/

/signed for more peeps

kenard

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2006

Are you saying the Japanese cannot access the International District?

MarlinBackna

MarlinBackna

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2007

[TAM]

W/

I wonder if this has to do with the fact that Japanese pay for Guild Wars monthly...*ponders*
But yeah, hopefully they can join the rest of the world.

Lycan Nibbler

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

AZ

/signed

Maybe anet has given up on selling their games there....

afya

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by KamikazeChicken
Japan isn't the only district that's still isolated.
who else is???

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

would be nice if everyone got the same treatment----that include promos and districts........
/signed

gambatte!

Rhedd

Rhedd

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

You ever have to clean up after a Moa bird?

True Solunastra [SLA] Profession: Moa Wrangler

I agree. Let the Japanese out to play!

Also, why is Japanese the only spoken language I can't set the game's dialogue to? You're not telling me that the Japanese version of the game doesn't have voice acting, and I can set it to everything else from Spanish to Korean, so why not Japanese, darn it?

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by afya
who else is???
Thailand, at the very least.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

China is the other one left.

It seems that they will never join others. They are separate forever due to Chinese laws. I think that they can't even enter International districts.

But I hope they give us soon the Japanese people, I want to bother them with questions like a child. And tell them the difference between different lands of Spain. When I saw the amusement park set in Spain I almost cried blood. It was all messed up!
We HATE bullfights in Galicia! An we have muñeira and bagpipes! Not flamenco and Spanish guitar!
Like putting Liberty Island in California and Hollywood in New Jersey, or putting Naha in Hokkaido and Sapporo by Kyoto...

It was horrible... T-T...

...

What was I talking about?

ShoGunTheOne

ShoGunTheOne

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2007

Undercity

泰瑞亚联盟

E/

/sighed

not fair keeping the others out

SPURLUXE

SPURLUXE

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Japan

I'm glad that everyone agree. Hope dev team see this thread.

Quote:
Originally Posted by kenard
Are you saying the Japanese cannot access the International District?
Japanese players can access to International dist.

btw is there any other Japanese player here?

nekopowa

nekopowa

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Join Date: Dec 2006

Croatia

A/P

I'm sure that they're working on it, it's been in plan for a while now, and it's announced as well:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Upcom...s_and_features

Gotta be patient.

しんぱいしないで^-^
私は日本人でわありませんでも日本語お勉強します。

anime232

anime232

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

雲のむこう・約束[の場所]

would be nice if they let you make your guild names in jp when they do... otherwise its a fail merg if u ask me.

lol

Foe

Foe

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

i really hope im wrong but i doubt the Japanese will ever be included. Keep this thread running long enough one of the PR people may show up and provide us with some misinformation and a few good laughs.

/signed

think i remember guild wars packaging having large font claims of global epicness plastered all over them.

Medic

Medic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

CA

[DNR]

Mo/

/signed

I belive this is something Anet is working on, but the sooner its implemented the better

Burst Cancel

Burst Cancel

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2006

Domain of Broken Game Mechanics

To the Japanese: I'd say you hold on to a good thing while you have it. The world out here is not pretty. Granted, it might be pretty bad in there also, but at least you won't be adding to the problem. Honestly, integration with the global GW 'community' (hah, right) has absolutely nothing to recommend it.

Especially with people like the above who just want Japanese guild tags, for reasons best left to them.

ZenRgy

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KAWAII DESU NE ^____^;;

/signed

MarlinBackna

MarlinBackna

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Join Date: May 2007

[TAM]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by nekopowa
I'm sure that they're working on it, it's been in plan for a while now, and it's announced as well:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Upcom...s_and_features

Gotta be patient.

しんぱいしないで^-^
私は日本人でわありませんでも日本語お勉強します。
Wow....even after only 2 years of Japanese 3 days a week, I was able to understand that! I am okay at Japanese, but got better as I went to Japan for 2 weeks on a school trip. It was amazing, and I tried to tell my host student about Guild Wars. So I pull up Wikipedia (JP, of course) , type Guild Wars, and lo and behold, I find out that Japan pays monthly for GW. I guess that is the way they operate in Japan....I just don't see how all the people in Japan like the subscription model. That's what made it so popular in the States and elsewhere....

But it would be nice to play in the Japanese district, considering it is the only other language I can understand. /signed

Boku wa nihonjin to issho ni osobitai desu!! (I want to play with Japanese people!)

EDIT: For those who can't understand, nekopowa said don't be impatient and that (s)he is not Japanese, but understands it(?) (I think, not sure about the last part, don't know those characters)