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Posted: Mar 6th 2006 1:26PM (Unverified) said

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doesn't sound much different from the us and eu servers :)
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Posted: Mar 6th 2006 1:35PM (Unverified) said

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Hmm. Like the gamers and Internet users of China didn't have enough problems in the first place (with all the censorship)
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Posted: Mar 6th 2006 1:49PM snoogieboogiewoogie said

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pfft let them quit.. less goldfarmers that way
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Posted: Mar 6th 2006 3:05PM (Unverified) said

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This post explains a lot. Now I see a reason for the goldfarming that many chinese players are known for. THey are only trying to make some money back for the money they spend for playing the game.

I think everyone's playing habits would change quite a bit if they had to pay for evey hour they were logged into the servers.
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Posted: Mar 6th 2006 4:29PM (Unverified) said

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Chinese are way to obessed with WOW a little time out would do them good. Though i feel them, nobody likes time delays, long-queue and bad pings. :(
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Posted: Mar 6th 2006 4:39PM (Unverified) said

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Chinese players threaten a boycott, not China. Big difference, especially when referring to a country known for both MMO regulation and Internet censorship.

If you go back and read the interview Joysitq did with The9's boss, and do the math on the game card pay-per-hour system, it costs considerably less to pay by their system, even for hardcore players. A few hours a week undercuts Blizz's subscription model by between half and a third, or more if you're really casual.

Their problems don't sound much different than the US/EU servers, either.
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Posted: Mar 6th 2006 6:01PM (Unverified) said

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What do they say on the US Server forums?

Oh yeah...

Cry more noobs!
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Posted: Mar 6th 2006 8:19PM (Unverified) said

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deaf guy, I don't think you understand the article. They are complaining about The9's servers, which are the chinese servers. This means anyone boycotting those servers are not affecting the NA WoW servers. They are just trying to play the game like everyone else.
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Posted: Mar 8th 2006 3:47AM (Unverified) said

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this is typical for blizzard really, they allow others such as telia (in europe) and The9 in china run their game servers with little support and usually little expansion it would seem. Diablo2 is a classic game which suffers mainly from server problems, I can see WoW going the same way too, people will lose interest in the game and that = lost revenues for blizzard.
its about time someone did something to make the greedy game makers (blizzard et al) and server providers (telia and the9)sit up and provide the level of service they are expecting people to pay for!
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Posted: Mar 8th 2006 8:53AM (Unverified) said

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So they pay by hour to play Sitexplode... we pay by month to play. Just because you have to pay-to-play doesn't mean you have the right to be a goldfarmer and profit by selling someone elses property. And last time I checked all virtual items are owned by Blizz. Oh well, if they want to quit, let em. I've quit a couple times now myself... it's not that big of a deal.
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Posted: Mar 9th 2006 11:34PM (Unverified) said

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The posters going on about gold farming don't understand the article.
Players are complaining about the server stability of servers maintained in China for Chinese to play. You can not farm gold on one of these servers and sell it on a NA or Euro server.
People in the far east farming gold subscribe to NA and Euro servers. These are not "pay by the hour" accounts.
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