Guild Wars in China

Crispie

Crispie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2005

Michigan

Lords of the Dead

Mo/

26 Apr 2011 at 01:16 - 1
I'm going to China for 4 months and was wondering, will the firewall block Guild Wars? Do I need to use a VPN?

RedDog91

RedDog91

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Farming for Nick gifts

R/

26 Apr 2011 at 01:33 - 2
Well, the game has a big enough impact in China for the game to have Chinese districts...so I would assume you don't.
I doubt the thousands of players in China are all using a program to surpass the firewall.

Crispie

Crispie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2005

Michigan

Lords of the Dead

Mo/

26 Apr 2011 at 01:44 - 3
Quote:
Originally Posted by RedDog91 View Post
Well, the game has a big enough impact in China for the game to have Chinese districts...so I would assume you don't.
I doubt the thousands of players in China are all using a program to surpass the firewall.
Unfortunately those are districts for Traditional Chinese, so only Taiwanese use it. (which sucks because I can't type Chinese in Guild Wars, all the simplified characters are banned)

Kojima

Kojima

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2010

Home

En Caligne Veritas [DARK]

R/Rt

26 Apr 2011 at 01:57 - 4
http://pc.ign.com/articles/700/700335p1.html

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

26 Apr 2011 at 02:34 - 5
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Originally Posted by Kojima View Post
the 3 year contract will have expired appx. 2 years ago

Kojima

Kojima

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2010

Home

En Caligne Veritas [DARK]

R/Rt

26 Apr 2011 at 05:27 - 6
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Originally Posted by Eragon Zarroc View Post
the 3 year contract will have expired appx. 2 years ago
Yar, I know. But I didn't find any updates to the status or if they have extended it. So this was it that I found.

Johny bravo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

[SoS]

N/

26 Apr 2011 at 05:39 - 7
I moved to Shenzhen China 8 months ago and other then the internet being slow as hell I have had only one issue. Issue - I got Dhumm'd because they though I was hacked. It took me about 3 days to explain that I had moved to China and then I had my account back. Was kind of funny was doing a deep run and all of a sudden this big old grim reaper comes and bam I'm banned.

i farm baddies

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2009

26 Apr 2011 at 08:10 - 8
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Originally Posted by Johny bravo View Post
I moved to Shenzhen China 8 months ago and other then the internet being slow as hell I have had only one issue.
basically this, my friend moved to china and it works just fine but horribly slow. dc's often.

stanzhao

stanzhao

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

26 Apr 2011 at 14:00 - 9
i am in china now, i moved here about a year ago. i had the same problem as johny did. but other that... should be ok

Urcscumug

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2011

UNO

W/

26 Apr 2011 at 16:47 - 10
Bottom line, they used to have local servers but after that deal expired you have to connect to servers elsewhere in the world. Hence the slowness. But it works.