Asian Account

If I have a friend buy a Guildwars game in Taiwan or Japan and he brings/ships it back to me to the United States, will I be able to use foreign characters for Guild name and chars?

As you create the new account, you get to choose your region. And you also have to type in your address, city, country etc. I tried setting asian region but I typed my western address at which it promptly assigned me european region.

To answer your question, I don't think it really matter where you buy the game. If you set an asian region and enters an asian address, it will let you use some asian characters.

Why would your address matter since you already chosen it as Asian region? This is what I am trying to find answers on...does the game need to be installed oversea? So that it takes on an Asian ip? Would a bogus Asian address work if all that is needed to get asian characters to work?

When you choose an asian region you get notice that in certain countries it's the law (or regulations or something in line with that) saying you have to enter a valid address. Now I didn't and for some reason it decided to bump me into same region as the address I entered.

Why? Ask the programmers, I just relay my experience from when I created a new account and looking into the opportunity to unlock some asian characters. I doubt this will be any different from a game you buy in an asian country as the client itself is downloadable. You could just go to a localized asian guildwars.com, create an account and download the client. And if you don't speak Korean or Chinese, translate with Google Translate and try figure it out. At least it saves you the trouble of getting the game halfway across the world only to find out it didn't work as intended.

Thanks Bristlebane for your feedback, suggestions. I'll work/figure it out with my friend overseas.

goto google maps, find japan, zoom in to a street, type street name into gw, make up number, put postcode in

done

could be that the addresses in japan are total nonsense---I lived there for 2 years. The way the chose the numbers was more when the building was built --nothing to do with sequential order! Also MOST streets in japan have NO NAMES! (yes very hard to tell driver to go to 2-15 chu dori,meito-ku unless you know how to get there or what it is near).

Why not make something up?

Japan: Isoroku Yamamoto square 42, Osaka.
Korea: Yi Sun-sin avenue 8472, Seoul.
China: Grove of Blissful Serenity 1337, Nanjing.


It's not like they're going to waste time checking the address and the worst thing that can happen is your X-mas card will end up being returned to sender. Address unknown. No such number. No such zone.

Very nice quote. Well put.

Just make sure you remember the address, if you ever get in trouble and need to contact support. Easy to say you moved, but when an account is stolen it helps to tell them as much *accurate* information as possible

Finally, you could just ask your friend to send you the keycode by email as it's most likely the code that let's you pick your region properly, not the downloaded client. But just in case also go to http://translate.google.com/translat...wars.plaync.jp and try download the client from there.

Sweet! Thanks
Will the Japan client also allow for Chinese?

I don't think it's the client itself, I think it's where you get your serial number from. But just in case it might be best to use a native client as well.

Clients are the same. It's the serial number, and you need to make an account on the Japanese/Chinese ( w/e country it is ) website. Also, they have a different type of log-in user names. In Korea for example, if you want to play Guild Wars, you need to have a Korean ID. And as far as I know all Asian accounts are bound to the American servers /since 2006 I think/. And no, you can't use Chinese characters within a Japanese account ( as far as character and guild names go ), and vice versa. Well, of course there are some symbols that both of those languages have, but that's another thing.