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WARNING: THIS MAY NO LONGER WORK.
EDIT: From the responses, 150 pts for 30 day trial seems to be working. if you purchase 1000 pts, it seems to not give you an option to transfer your mycard points to your battle.net account.
Ghetto solution: but 8 150 pt cards and buy the full version and have 50 worthless points to spare.
Alright, since the announcement that KR + TW servers are going to be merged, I'm sure a lot of you are gonna want to get your hands on a TW account.
The benefits of getting a 30 day pass is that it is a relatively cheap way to test out if the TW/KR server is right for you since it only costs $5.75 instead of the ~$70 for the unlimited usage version (the price is dropping to around $40 on the 14th).
1) Acquire the Taiwanese MyCard Currency through: http://www.offgamers.com/starcraft/starcraft-ii-tw-hk/starcraft-ii-cd-key-c-4183-6056-6057.ogm
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/m6OFY.jpg)
Personally, I created an account and used Paypal. They require you to first verify your email address, then verify through your phone (either by calling or texting). Make sure you complete these two steps after you order and it should take them about 10 minutes to deliver your key to your account/email.
2) Converting your MyCard Currency:
https://www.mycard520.com.tw/MyCardStore/Store.aspx
Simply enter your card # and password into the respective fields
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/2lK9C.jpg)
Ok, so here's where it gets a little tricky since you're basically looking at a bunch of chinese characters.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/4ogyA.png)
You're looking to select "戰網卡", the 5th option on the dropdown menu. Make sure you select the right one because this is a one time thing with no refunds.
You'll then be asked to enter your battle.net email. It doesnt matter if its your US or EU account as it will work with any region.
3) You'll get an email from the MyCard website with your bnet compatible point code.
It's now time to log into your battle.net account.
Just go to "Games + Codes" and select "Buy Digital Games"
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/DOVnT.png)
From there, you're gonna want to change the region to Taiwan:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Eeg0D.png)
Once you've changed your region to TW, select the "account balance" dropdown and hit the "recharge account" button. It can be found here:
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Open the email that you got from "mycard" for your converted key. Enter it in the space provided and viola! 150 points will be added to your account.
Now go back to digital games and make sure you're still in the "taiwan" region.Select "Starcraft II" and you should be get a dropdown that allows you to select either the 30 day trial or a permanent version of the game. Select the 30 day trial and you should be golden.
Congrats. You can either now download the TW client or use the relocalizer to get destroyed by koreans on the 19th.
Special thanks to furymonkey and Eleaven!
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I realized that some parts of the guide are pretty idiot proof and theres some parts that are somewhat vague. Sorry about that, I should have taken SS's as I was actually completing the process rather than going from memory at certain places.
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Excellent, thanks for this! I will definitely be getting a copy after the 14th!
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This is awesome! ^__^
Definitely going to share it with friends.
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Nice one, should stop any of that panic when faced with a vague serial and no idea what to do with it ^^
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Thats a nice idea from blizzard, they can earn a bit of cash from this.
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thanks, seemed to of worked so far (waiting on the card to get in my account)... ahh now the hard decisions; to buy 2 of them and stockpile before prices/things change.. and if I should activate it today, so I can start laddering to get my MMR up to masters level ready for the reset on the 18th, and lose ~6 days only playing tw players.. hmmm.
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On July 12 2011 17:21 Skyze wrote:
thanks, seemed to of worked so far (waiting on the card to get in my account)... ahh now the hard decisions; to buy 2 of them and stockpile before prices/things change.. and if I should activate it today, so I can start laddering to get my MMR up to masters level ready for the reset on the 18th, and lose ~6 days only playing tw players.. hmmm.
on the reset your TW mmr will be wiped, this next week is pretty much best used for just getting used to the slight lag.
in 2 days time the full game will be nearly 50% off for the TW version, i'll probably be buying that on top of the 30 day i've got now
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Also high master at NA is around GM at TW, and around mid to high diamond at best at KR
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On July 12 2011 17:33 Eleaven wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2011 17:21 Skyze wrote:
thanks, seemed to of worked so far (waiting on the card to get in my account)... ahh now the hard decisions; to buy 2 of them and stockpile before prices/things change.. and if I should activate it today, so I can start laddering to get my MMR up to masters level ready for the reset on the 18th, and lose ~6 days only playing tw players.. hmmm. on the reset your TW mmr will be wiped, this next week is pretty much best used for just getting used to the slight lag. in 2 days time the full game will be nearly 50% off for the TW version, i'll probably be buying that on top of the 30 day i've got now
Just how laggy is it? I'm deciding whether I want the 30 day pass or the actual game, if the lag isn't that big I might as well buy the full version.
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On July 12 2011 17:33 Eleaven wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2011 17:21 Skyze wrote:
thanks, seemed to of worked so far (waiting on the card to get in my account)... ahh now the hard decisions; to buy 2 of them and stockpile before prices/things change.. and if I should activate it today, so I can start laddering to get my MMR up to masters level ready for the reset on the 18th, and lose ~6 days only playing tw players.. hmmm. on the reset your TW mmr will be wiped, this next week is pretty much best used for just getting used to the slight lag. in 2 days time the full game will be nearly 50% off for the TW version, i'll probably be buying that on top of the 30 day i've got now
Do you have confirmation of that?? From what I understand, all the servers merging will have their MMR staying the same (of course, LA grandmaster wont stay GM when merged with US, they will be put down to low master, and same with TW going to low master with KR).. but I find it highly unlikely that if someone played say 1000 games on TW right now, and are GM, to be just dropped down to bronze(new) in MMR without playing a game when the servers merge. They wont be as high as the rankings on TW right now, but they wont be completely reset.
Also, ive been waiting like 20 mins and havent gotten an email from Offgamers.. hm is there something else I have to do after paying in paypal?
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On July 12 2011 17:43 Skyze wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2011 17:33 Eleaven wrote:On July 12 2011 17:21 Skyze wrote:
thanks, seemed to of worked so far (waiting on the card to get in my account)... ahh now the hard decisions; to buy 2 of them and stockpile before prices/things change.. and if I should activate it today, so I can start laddering to get my MMR up to masters level ready for the reset on the 18th, and lose ~6 days only playing tw players.. hmmm. on the reset your TW mmr will be wiped, this next week is pretty much best used for just getting used to the slight lag. in 2 days time the full game will be nearly 50% off for the TW version, i'll probably be buying that on top of the 30 day i've got now Do you have confirmation of that?? From what I understand, all the servers merging will have their MMR staying the same (of course, LA grandmaster wont stay GM when merged with US, they will be put down to low master, and same with TW going to low master with KR).. but I find it highly unlikely that if someone played say 1000 games on TW right now, and are GM, to be just dropped down to bronze(new) in MMR without playing a game when the servers merge. They wont be as high as the rankings on TW right now, but they wont be completely reset. Also, ive been waiting like 20 mins and havent gotten an email from Offgamers.. hm is there something else I have to do after paying in paypal?
You should try calling them as they have 24/7 live support. It took me a little over 10 minutes to get mine.
you verified your phone number + email, right?
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Thank you! This is just ultimately sweet!
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On July 12 2011 17:52 jongzor wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2011 17:43 Skyze wrote:On July 12 2011 17:33 Eleaven wrote:On July 12 2011 17:21 Skyze wrote:
thanks, seemed to of worked so far (waiting on the card to get in my account)... ahh now the hard decisions; to buy 2 of them and stockpile before prices/things change.. and if I should activate it today, so I can start laddering to get my MMR up to masters level ready for the reset on the 18th, and lose ~6 days only playing tw players.. hmmm. on the reset your TW mmr will be wiped, this next week is pretty much best used for just getting used to the slight lag. in 2 days time the full game will be nearly 50% off for the TW version, i'll probably be buying that on top of the 30 day i've got now Do you have confirmation of that?? From what I understand, all the servers merging will have their MMR staying the same (of course, LA grandmaster wont stay GM when merged with US, they will be put down to low master, and same with TW going to low master with KR).. but I find it highly unlikely that if someone played say 1000 games on TW right now, and are GM, to be just dropped down to bronze(new) in MMR without playing a game when the servers merge. They wont be as high as the rankings on TW right now, but they wont be completely reset. Also, ive been waiting like 20 mins and havent gotten an email from Offgamers.. hm is there something else I have to do after paying in paypal? You should try calling them as they have 24/7 live support. It took me a little over 10 minutes to get mine. you verified your phone number + email, right?
Ok it finally got to me, just seemed to take about 25 mins. Now, to decide if I should start it now or wait until the 18th. hmmm.
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so now, i can use my korea client to play tw server right ?
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Boy, if only blizzard didn't make it's customers jump through hoops to play cross region >_>
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On July 12 2011 18:52 nOondn wrote:
so now, i can use my korea client to play tw server right ?
Well.. TW server wont exist, it will just be one bigger Korean server. But yes, you could right NOW, if you used the relocaliser and had a TW account, but im not sure thats what you would want.
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On July 12 2011 18:52 nOondn wrote:
so now, i can use my korea client to play tw server right ?
There will be no TW server, KR and TW will be linked together, meaning any KR/TW account will be converted to a KR-TW account. You will be able to play on the mixed server on the 14th
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