EPTHoTS free to play in China if you buy WoL - Page 3
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SupLilSon
Malaysia4123 Posts
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JDub
United States976 Posts
On November 30 2012 02:19 ROOTT1 wrote: lucky.. im gonna have to pay 60$x4 :[ HotS has global play and is only $40... right? | ||
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Chloroplaste
France281 Posts
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
On November 30 2012 02:12 Tuczniak wrote: I don't believe it would be that easy. They probably thought about it too. I see. Was there a reason why China is cut off from global play? Probably the chinese government (I think). I am definitely not an expert on international politics (hey... I'm taking a political science course this semester?) but I seem to remember something like the Chinese government having certain aspects of games restricted, i.e. renaming Demons in WoW and Diablo for some reason (don't remember what). It might not be too out of the way for them to want to restrict access to foreign players (and therefore foreign ideas/ideals) | ||
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baldgye
United Kingdom1115 Posts
On November 30 2012 02:04 Tuczniak wrote: So if I would buy chinese WoL, I would get hots? There will be global play, so doesnt really matter where to buy. if it is possible, somebody make a tutorial through chinese pages  why bother, when you can just pre-order it for free? | ||
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Valikyr
Sweden2653 Posts
On November 30 2012 02:12 BronzeKnee wrote: Blizzard would be better off making HOTS a really fun balanced game with a good UI that doing these kind of promotions... Even if hots is even better than BW it won't really take off in China if it isn't very cheap or free. Marketing and game design is not done by the same people yo. | ||
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Taefox
1533 Posts
The great firewall of china obviously? Have you not heard of it? China is pretty much cutoff from the rest of the internet world. On November 30 2012 03:57 Alryk wrote: Probably the chinese government (I think). I am definitely not an expert on international politics (hey... I'm taking a political science course this semester?) but I seem to remember something like the Chinese government having certain aspects of games restricted, i.e. renaming Demons in WoW and Diablo for some reason (don't remember what). It might not be too out of the way for them to want to restrict access to foreign players (and therefore foreign ideas/ideals) It's nothing wrong with Chinese government and political stuff. It is true that great firewall blocked a lot of foreigner websites but not blizzard and battlenet. BWC and WCG were held at China and why would they allow those tournaments if they banned the game and foreigner players ? Simply because there is an internal distributor of Blizzard's games in China ( 163.com ) so that all contents, marketing, PR plans are different compares the rest of the world =S | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On November 30 2012 03:37 JDub wrote: HotS has global play and is only $40... right? That is correct, always glad to see TT1 not knowing what he's talking about not only in price of the game but also not realizing global play will be there to. If he does want to buy 4 accounts it would be 40 dollars each anyway ^^. | ||
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Acritter
Syria7637 Posts
On November 30 2012 04:31 blade55555 wrote: That is correct, always glad to see TT1 not knowing what he's talking about not only in price of the game but also not realizing global play will be there to. If he does want to buy 4 accounts it would be 40 dollars each anyway ^^. Hey! That's really unfair to TT1. He could have a special discount from Blizzard to $4, and is buying 60 accounts: one for each combination of race (including random), match type (including FFA), and whether he plays right-handed, left-handed, or with his feet. | ||
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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
On November 30 2012 02:21 pStar wrote: Presume it has something to do with the Great Firewall. i thought you can play with china in dota 2 and LoL | ||
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LTY
United States223 Posts
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bailando
Germany332 Posts
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kuroshiro
United Kingdom378 Posts
So, yeah. Oh, and It's nice for the Chinese that they get a good deal. Maybe Blizz are trying to increase uptake in that region, it's a pretty important market these days I hear. | ||
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TT1
Canada10104 Posts
On November 30 2012 04:31 blade55555 wrote: That is correct, always glad to see TT1 not knowing what he's talking about not only in price of the game but also not realizing global play will be there to. If he does want to buy 4 accounts it would be 40 dollars each anyway ^^. uhhh yea but global play is irrelevant because i already have 4 accs, i might as well put them to good use and smurf on them.. it kinda feels like a waste if i dont. and when wol came out i paid 60$ for it(or it was 50$, cant remember), so yea u got me there. ggwp bro~ gosu knowitall | ||
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
'Untapped' markets are key to overall growth, until a more mainstream audience is achieved in the west. | ||
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frontliner2
Netherlands844 Posts
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
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iKill
Denmark861 Posts
On November 30 2012 02:12 Tuczniak wrote: I don't believe it would be that easy. They probably thought about it too. I see. Was there a reason why China is cut off from global play? Yes. It's China. They really, really, really, really do not want their people to come into contact with western culture. Let me elaborate. The people who are going "why would they block a game, you can just chat with people" really have no idea what chinese censorship is about. The chinese have turned censorship into an art form. System criticism is illegal, and if you go out on the street and criticise the government, they WILL apprehend you pretty quickly. The chinese govt. is paranoid that people in other countries will disclose things to the chinese masses that are sensitive and / or offensive to the Party. Ever heard of Tiananmen Square? I assure you, Li Xu and Chen Hau certainly haven't. Now, chinese services like Sino Weibo etc are easy, because 1) mostly chinese people sign up there and 2) they're in the govt.'s pockets, so they get censored left and right. Controversial stories are straight up blocked, leading to mass ignorance. Wanna know why Google / Facebook / Youtube / Twitter are unavailable in China? It's because they're western companies unwilling to submit to the draconian censorship measures China requires, so they'd rather block themselves off from 1 billion people. Same thing with games. There are a wide variety of reasons why Blizzard has to partner with domestic chinese businesses to distribute their games in China, but one of them is definitely that the PRC is NOT comfortable with their people gaming on servers that aren't tightly controlled and aren't inhabited only by chinese people. To put it bluntly, they're scared shitless of foreigners preaching the wonders of "Not China" to their people.  | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10167 Posts
On November 30 2012 03:37 JDub wrote: HotS has global play and is only $40... right? Smurfs. | ||
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JDub
United States976 Posts
I mean, he doesn't "have to" buy 3 smurf accounts, and they are $40 each... | ||
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