Chinese New Year

Considering that Guild Wars is owned by a Korean company and it has lots of Korean, Taiwanese and Japanese players, why was there no special event for Chinese New Year and other Asian festivals?

Maybe there was if you go look at the Korean/Japanese GW site? Lol.

http://www.guildwars.jp/

1) Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are not China, and any Japanese, Korean, or especially Taiwanese person would probably kill you on the spot for even thinking of that >_> (Some REAL hostile feelings there...Taiwan doesn't even want to be mentioned in the same sentence as China).

2) Only the Major holidays that span across the countries are covered.

its only international festivals that they inlcude... you can find christmas right across the globe...

thanks for that link btw josh-now to work out how to get a chinses backround

You mean "Wintersday"

Christmas isn't the only holiday of the season.

The Taiwanese, Koreans and Japanese follow the Chinese calendar. So I guess I am allowed to live.

well when i used to live in hawaii, yes there are some chineese, japanese who live there, i have seen dog on a rotisere,sp? being a cook by trade i asked my boss if that was an option on monday, he got a chuckle but no such luck....

Chinese new year was fun, i got like..a hundred dollars..and it's not really "Chinese" New year, instead it's the beginning of the Lunar Year, but who really uses that anymore..

True but Anet (not NCSoft) was from ex-Blizzard employee's. Not sure how many other area's celebrate Halloween or something else in the world at the same time.

FFXI tends to be more Japanese holdiay (where Square-Enix HQ is) heavy but also makes the same "multi-fuction" holidays to cover several things.

I went with some friends to a nice martial arts demo at a nice chinese place to kick of the the chinese new year

Oh and the Japanese GW site rocks compared to ours and there selling it as a RPG & PvP Game.

This is a link to the new GW Site. I think it looks killer. New GW Site

Nice. Very nice. I like it.

I got 3500 Yuan which is around 450 dollars for New Year ^^ (Lunar that is)

Erm.. the people in Taiwan are chinese too in case you don't know...

There is much tension going on with the CCP at the moment. Recently with their torture of Falun Gong (harmless form of meditation) practitioners and before that due to issues concerning Tibet and Taiwan being considered 'states' of China, which deeply offended said countries.

Therefore it is now wrong to group Taiwan with China as a whole unless you are quite narrow minded.

It's like saying Lebanon and Saudi Arabia being the same countries due to both speaking Arabic for example.

Good points all but I think you'll find the Taiwanese celebrate the lunar new year along with many in singapore and malaysia.

I had to give money for CNY

If you want to have a political discussion about the Asia region, please take it to the Off-Topic and Absurb forums. Since the OP question has been answered and this thread is just becomming a political discussion...

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