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Hi, all. I'm new here, and I come from China.
I'm not just complaining about policy by our goverment here and I'm not come here for keys, but I just want to share something with everyone from TL.net which is I seen the best SC/SC2 community.
As you all know, that China was NOT invited as beta test for SC2. Because of that CERTAIN DIVISION which nobody knows the exact name about and its ASSESSMENT for all imported games.
I work in a chinese game website as website editor for the precinct of sc2, but I didn't got any beta key from US or TW server. I'm a starcraft fan for many years too, I may not play good in match games, but I just love this game with the gameplay and the storyline. I can't wait for the squel of the best RTS game ever, in my homeland.
So, as many similar game info websites in china or maybe most region of the world, each precinct has its own forum for fans to talk about the game and meet new partners for game. And in my precinct I see something that gets me, something made me run to here and cry this out loud. We are sc fans.
Some people in the forum luckly got a beta key for US server or TW server, however most people still have to use some tools to play melee game with AI or RPG maps. Althought SC2 may finally become another WC3 that the minigames dominions in China, but most of us would like to logon to b.net and play with ppl around the world, so this is what happened.
Some people start to share their account with these they never meet before on the forum. Yes, thats what exactly happened. Most of these accounts been shared more than 10 times a day. People logon to b.net, look around what it is looks like, and with such high latency play some matchup games and been defeated. But yes, everyone still happy about. Those have 1 or more accounts with beta key, share their account selflessly, and these who got the chance to play with these accounts, they are grateful to these who was been kind. And later, he or she could run to his friend and says,"Yes, I'm lucky and proud to play online!"
This is what exact happened in my precinct, and with the beta goes on, this will last till the beta is over. Even now, there are many people sharing their account to others with limited time, and many people is keep pressing F5 and waits for the previous player logoff, its owner change password and share to him/her, or wait for the previous player lend the account to them.
In China, especially for MMO games, there are many hackers steals other's account for its own benefit. But this time, no one take the account and change password then keep it for themselve. No one would and everyone keep the rule well. I never see anyone complain lost of his account or someone took the account and disappear. We love this game, from the bottom of our heart. Just like what we had in 2008 Olympic games. This is what they done and get me, into the bottom of my heart - One world, one starcraft 
Well, this post is just share what I saw here, I'm not complain about my country or whatever they are. I just want to say thanks to these guys (even I didnt ever to ask ) for their kindness to share account and everyone would have a chance to experience online gaming. And, thanks to all who read this wall of text. I love TL.net and so the game of starcrafts.
BTW : as b.net can invite a friend, they also invite people to in the forum too. And many people ordered the collector edition from Amazon is also sharing their account. Afterward they are still sharing accounts to ppl
EDIT : To all those ppl who donate keys or encourage us, please read this
http://bbs.duowan.com/thread-16618055-1-1.html
your keys shall be shared to these chinese SC fans
we love you all TLers for your kindness and encouragement, as much as we love starcrafts
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Sweden33719 Posts
That's pretty amazing, you'd think someone would be the "rotten apple" and ruin everyones fun, but I'm glad there hasn't been one so far 
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im glad to hear, hey if I get an extra beta key, ill pm it to you so you could use it and ease up on the sharing.
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Yeah, really amazing how people work together for SC2 in China. Hope everything will sort out with Blizzard so the Chinese Esports scene can grow well.
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i think many people in china play at pc pubs. if someone tried to change the password on an account, his friends at the pc pub will hurt him
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On May 06 2010 20:25 dicember wrote:
i think many people in china play at pc pubs. if someone tried to change the password on an account, his friends at the pc pub will hurt him
Probably put a knife through his head D:
Really happy that people are willing to share keys, everyone should have the right to play the beta
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On May 06 2010 20:25 dicember wrote:
i think many people in china play at pc pubs. if someone tried to change the password on an account, his friends at the pc pub will hurt him
yes, you mentioned it. and most the pc pub is not "clean"
sometimes the pub owner working on stealing account or something like that
but in china, some city like Beijing, the pc in pc pub is being monitoring and they blocked all p2p downloading tools, websites (and u guys may know that p2p is very common in China now) and you can't even download anything to the pc. and the pc shall reset extra data after restart the computer or system crash ( in the puc this is common tool due their unclean os)
so for large sized game such as SC2 and play it in the puc is much more difficult
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Thats really cool to hear, communist gaming for the whole village
Thanks for sharing this uplifting story Saintmek.
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its quite easy to get keys. I managed to get 4 keys total. 1 from cvg, 1 from facebook, 2 more appeared out of nowhere. The facebook trivia competition required me to be in the US to participate.... i just used tor. Win win :D If i get another i'll probably give it away.
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awww, this gets me in a sharing + Show Spoiler +JVYBTH-H92Z-GNPMF4-KJYV-7EWRK6
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Bosnia-Herzegovina983 Posts
the prob is bloodash someone who allready has a beta acc could took that key.
Vultures of the forums ^^
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i think he knows that lol
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On May 06 2010 20:32 Bloodash wrote:
awww, this gets me in a sharing mood aswell ^^
thanks for this
I already activtied an account and share it to the forum friends
later I will post a link here and ppl would know SCers from all around the world loves the same starcraft!
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I'm not doing anything with it so its a waste of just having one lying around :p
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governments are for people. but sometimes they act like people are for governments.
i felt really sad when i read the post. i live in turkey and i know what it is like to have a government like that. i hope chinese people will have more freedom in the near future.
my friends and i have lots of keys. (more than some key contests offer) i will share them.
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Wow, that's pretty cool.
Once again, China gets shafted.
I hope Blizzard would wake up and put a server in China.
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Btw, I have a beta key now, I read that beta key testers gets to invite a friend. How do I do that?
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On May 06 2010 20:31 Kambo_Rambo wrote:
its quite easy to get keys. I managed to get 4 keys total. 1 from cvg, 1 from facebook, 2 more appeared out of nowhere. The facebook trivia competition required me to be in the US to participate.... i just used tor. Win win :D If i get another i'll probably give it away.
well... china blocked website such as twitter, facebook, youtube and many other overseas sites
becoz they found something in these place were distribute something they don't like
thats why google exit from china's market
when you have something they don't want to see, then you must gone...
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On May 06 2010 20:49 haduken wrote:
Btw, I have a beta key now, I read that beta key testers gets to invite a friend. How do I do that?
You have to wait for an email with extra keys asking you to invite a friend.
Nice post though
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On May 06 2010 20:49 haduken wrote:
Btw, I have a beta key now, I read that beta key testers gets to invite a friend. How do I do that?
Every so often, Blizzard emails people currently in the beta a key to share with a friend. No real notice about when it's going to happen ahead of time.
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wow this is very great news in China! I hope they keep up this type of spirit
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Its a good thing we dont make ourselves look like trolling asses by being complete dicks and putting others down about not having beta keys... showing generousity can only attract more people to the game.
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reading this makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside
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On May 06 2010 20:51 Saintmek wrote:Show nested quote +On May 06 2010 20:31 Kambo_Rambo wrote:
its quite easy to get keys. I managed to get 4 keys total. 1 from cvg, 1 from facebook, 2 more appeared out of nowhere. The facebook trivia competition required me to be in the US to participate.... i just used tor. Win win :D If i get another i'll probably give it away. well... china blocked website such as twitter, facebook, youtube and many other overseas sites becoz they found something in these place were distribute something they don't like thats why google exit from china's market when you have something they don't want to see, then you must gone...
can you not use proxys?
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thats cool but really lame how China didn't get any beta keys.
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Yay! This is a wonderful read. Thank you so much for posting it!
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i didnt know the asia server doesnt include china O_O
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Saintmek i just sent you 2 north america beta keys via PM
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Do you still need a key? I've got one I've been looking for a good home for, you sound like one.
Or if you don't and you say you run a chinese gaming site, you might want to give it out there?
edit: looks like you just got some, I've found another home for mine
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glad to find some Chinese here , what you have said is obviously true in China, and many people still try their every effort to find a key. hope the GOV and the Blizzard will finally come to an agreement that the SC2 can come to Chinese mainland ASAP
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On May 06 2010 20:48 haduken wrote:
Wow, that's pretty cool.
Once again, China gets shafted.
I hope Blizzard would wake up and put a server in China. Did you read? It isn't Bliz's doing. Bliz's happens to love money...
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And ppl, please read this http://bbs.duowan.com/thread-16618055-1-1.html
I wrote a thank-note to these ppl who donate keys for us to share account
I promise that im not using proxy, and im not come here to beg for keys
But I touched by all these warmhearted TLers and all these ppl who encouraged us to do this sharing event
please read it, thanks to all
all these donated keys shall share to these sc fans in China!
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SC2 is coming out July 27. I cant wait for it. You can get it then.
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Hi guys
Im from South Africa and often when I state where I am from many people are shocked and
cannot believe that people actually play from Africa. This is probably because most haven't
heard of any good players from here and I wanna change that.
I know we wont be able to own Korea just yet, but hopefully if given the chance will give them a good run for their money.
So its simple, TL please give South African players more of a chance and throw some beta keys this way..
Thanks
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WOW SOUTH AFRICANS PLAY STARCRAFT??
... sorry i just had to
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Glad to hear from our counterparts from The Mainland! I have been trying to follow the StarCraft scene in China (such as http://sc2.178.com , http://sc2.17173.com ) and is quite impressed by how active and enthusiastic you guys are despite the difficulties you faced. I'm especially impressed by the big names that was attached to tournaments like StarsWar Reborn. Hopefully the issues that surrounds a regionalized version of StarCraft 2 would be resolved quickly!
PS, this is relevant to the topic:
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For those considering sharing the bounties of keys, you might want to drop in our very own chinese language streamer Sen's channels sometimes. There's many there who will love to get a chance at the beta.
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I bet chinese could be really good. I hope sometime in the next decade you get that firewall torn down so we can play some games sometime.
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Thanks for informing us of the situation! I've been wondering why there weren't many Chinese people in Starcraft 2. If I get my hands on a few more beta keys, I'll donate them to you guys.
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Come on guys, he even said they're cooking up elaborate schemes to obtain more beta keys... and clearly it's working!
.. I'm kidding.. Go eSports! Spread the love people <3 There's certainly plenty of keys to go around!
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I don't think Blizzard is shafting China as much as it's the fact that to release any major game in China, you have to go through the Ministry of Information Technology, which is run by the Department of Propaganda. I know that World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King was delayed for almost a year in China because the censors demanded that various aspects of the game be changed/removed to fit their vision. Blizzard has to work with their Chinese partners whenever they want to release anything there and this is usually a long and arduous process of back-and-forth negotiations.
So yeah, people predict that Starcraft 2 will not be released in China until a year after its release elsewhere. It's gonna be tough on the gamers and they'll probably have to try and smuggle in copies from Taiwan, Korea, etc.
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This is for the fastest Chinese guy!
+ Show Spoiler +ZX4D8D-NRX7-CXCTMH-G8ET-68MR2G
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FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
Great post.
I'm Chinese myself, and I'm going to go hunting for a Beta key to get for you guys now.
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I'll give you guys any more US beta keys that blizzard sends to me.
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does anyone know if my Radeon HD 2600 PRO video card will work for Starcraft II? I want to pre order but want to know if I need a new video card first.
Thanks
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On May 07 2010 03:57 lickyricky wrote:
does anyone know if my Radeon HD 2600 PRO video card will work for Starcraft II? I want to pre order but want to know if I need a new video card first.
Thanks
It will run starcraft, but your settings might be quite low.
How does this relate to the thread though?
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On May 07 2010 01:19 Primadog wrote:Glad to hear from our counterparts from The Mainland! I have been trying to follow the StarCraft scene in China (such as http://sc2.178.com , http://sc2.17173.com ) and is quite impressed by how active and enthusiastic you guys are despite the difficulties you faced. I'm especially impressed by the big names that was attached to tournaments like StarsWar Reborn. Hopefully the issues that surrounds a regionalized version of StarCraft 2 would be resolved quickly! PS, this is relevant to the topic:
rofl, btw for people who don't get it, that pic is basically people from different races begging for beta key. The slogan is one world, one dream (Olympic)
LOL
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Nice to see that there's actually some nice people on the internet!
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glad my key got into good hands. Have fun playing the beta you guys!
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United States10654 Posts
On May 07 2010 01:10 Spinks wrote:
Hi guys
Im from South Africa and often when I state where I am from many people are shocked and
cannot believe that people actually play from Africa. This is probably because most haven't
heard of any good players from here and I wanna change that.
I know we wont be able to own Korea just yet, but hopefully if given the chance will give them a good run for their money.
So its simple, TL please give South African players more of a chance and throw some beta keys this way..
Thanks
Um, I believe Daigomi of TL staff is from South Africa.
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