Guild Wars 2

Hello all, I’m just wondering with the Chinese release if anybody knows if the trading post will be connected worldwide. I know the precedent is set already from Europe to America, but China is a different beast.

Thanks guys.

Also if you feel like posting any speculations let me know haha. I’m happy to discuss

Will be different TP.

Really? Thanks for the reply. Could I trouble you to link your source?

Mbelch.9028:

Really? Thanks for the reply. Could I trouble you to link your source?

Its Chinese law. Its a whole different client anyways. Has been confirmed many times by devs.

Gotcha. I didn’t know that. I haven’t seen a Dev confirm.

Not to mention that it’s impossible to have the same TP since both clients have exclusive content, such as the lack of necro in China and the crafting backpieces.

Wha?? No Necro in China? O.o

Undead thing bad there. Blizzard had to redo an entire add-on for China. I wouldn’t be surprised they rewrote what’s crawling around Orr to be not-undead.

Wow. If that’s true, I really wonder how they’re going to present Orr in China. They are “infected” creatures?

Well I think it is okay to KILL undead things, as well as them to be evil or villians, just not to play as evil (Like the necro). I do not want to start argument about if necro good or bad or anything just little clarification haha.

No Lankybird, I think you can’t even depict bones in Chinese games. So Orr might be explained as a monster fest, rather than an undead army.

One more reason to avoid living in China. Their laws are stupid.

Not laws as much as cultural.

Not cultural as much as stupid government.

If it helps, a lot of Chinese netizens think their own laws are utter nonsense and find ways to get around their censorship.

Undead is a bad thing in China?

Hmm, the Chinese MOBA game I used to play (Tian Yi Jue) has some undead heroes, and some of them are pretty OP….
The game still exists now, so you can take a look at them as proofs.

I don’t think Chinese/mainland people are against undead.

Further investigation indicates it was seeing bones in the undead. As long as you don’t expose bone, you’re OK.

Behellagh.1468:

Further investigation indicates it was seeing bones in the undead. As long as you don’t expose bone, you’re OK.

lol….
One of the undead Tian Yi Jue heroes is Wang gu, which means Deathbone.

This hero is a living skeleton…..
http://images.17173.com/2011/tyj//2011/03/24/20110324165935930.jpg

http://www.warcry.com/news/view/73583-The9-alters-WoW-to-appease-Chinese-censors

The censor is pretty much giving western game companies/developers a hard time.
Not because undead thing is bad there nor because it exposes bones.

For all their own games, none of undead things, including living skeleton character, get censored.

The censorship issue is overstated. They could have edited the graphics in the Chinese client and that problem would be solved.

The fact that they are separating the game service in China from the rest of the world is more likely due to the regional F2P market. The gem store and RMT pricing is likely going to be very different in China.

Word from the Chinese beta-testers is that the Kongzhong version is drastically different from the Western version of GW2. That VIP item that got datamined a while back? That’s in the Chinese version. Trait point allocation has been changed a lot (apparently you only get 52 at level 80 as opposed to 70. Someone claimed the remainder has to be bought via gems, but I don’t know if that’s true), elite skills are unlocked at level 50 rather than 30, and weapon skills take a lot longer to be unlocked.

With all that in mind, I think it’s safe to say that the Chinese and Western GW2 player bases will never, ever meet. They’re literally playing two different games.