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Post by Browncoats4ever on Apr 18, 2020 4:13:05 GMT -5
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Post by 乃ㄥ卂乙 on Apr 18, 2020 5:11:56 GMT -5
This article... is this for real?
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Post by Browncoats4ever on Apr 18, 2020 5:36:46 GMT -5
This article... is this for real? There are a couple I've found. If you search "China bans online gaming with foreigners", you can read a lot of articles from different sources. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2020 8:23:47 GMT -5
Interesting articles. Looks like lag will drop on the Asian server soon  I also notice words that will be like poison to Pix - "capping the amount of money that can be spent in games." TBH I don't see the large numbers of Chinese players that I used to see (particularly over the last 18 months) so I am assuming a lot have already moved on. |
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Post by Pulse Hadron on Apr 18, 2020 18:42:48 GMT -5
Wow, China is turning into a real North Korea. I don’t think the numbers will drop but we’ll be segregated. Or maybe China will continue on to ban foreign games entirely.
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Post by Koko Bop on Apr 18, 2020 23:04:28 GMT -5
Funny: North Korea is like China, in fact, only moreso...but China has been willing to buy all the tech and industries we were willing to sell them, so we overlook that
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Post by WattTron on Apr 19, 2020 5:03:59 GMT -5
It won't make much of a difference.
Still lots of Russians and loads of others from the Americas and a good amount of Europeans and some Australians too.
No more Chinese Whales???
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Post by elcheapo on Apr 19, 2020 17:57:13 GMT -5
China has very strict online gaming laws including no micro transactions .
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Post by T34 on Apr 19, 2020 20:21:40 GMT -5
I reckon this will make a considerable difference. If i remember correctly, Chinese players made up about 15% of the players before Pix pushed into China. There are currently 7 S ranked chinese clans on ios.
Also Pix will be hit hard again when the economic slow down due to the COVID19 issue will start impacting on revenue. US players make up some 40% of the revenue base and the situation there seems lamentable and probably will be prolonged longer than it should be.
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Post by SwitcherLP on Apr 29, 2020 14:08:26 GMT -5
I personally don't see this as a problem, considering the vast majority of my experiences with the aforementioned clans. No offense intended to any of the legit players, or course. I am an advocate for a level, skill-based playing field. Anyone else remember the Mag Gepard clans which existed to club them seals? |
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Post by SwitcherLP on Apr 29, 2020 14:10:46 GMT -5
This article... is this for real? You may be VERY surprised to the depth of what really happens over there...and how those things affect us directly. \digression |
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Post by anjian on Apr 30, 2020 11:17:34 GMT -5
I don't think you are seeing a lot of clans from China. War Robots is said to be already licensed to operate there with a partner and they should have exclusive servers in the mainland just for PRC players.
The "Chinese" players you tend to see are those from Hongkong, Singapore and Taiwan, as well as Japanese players because so many people can't tell the difference between a Chinese vs. a Japanese name. Or even Korean, and there are plenty of Korean players. Also, many Asian players use cryptic English names, which makes it difficult to identify nationality.
The real threat to War Robots in Asia is from another place. There are so many freaking good mobile games in Asia, and the sheer competition alone threatens War Robots especially when so many high quality games can be played with less investment. War Robots is expensive even for a pay to win game, as even P2W games have various degrees of cost.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2020 11:20:55 GMT -5
I don't think you are seeing a lot of clans from China. War Robots is said to be already licensed to operate there with a partner and they should have exclusive servers in the mainland just for PRC players. The "Chinese" players you tend to see are those from Hongkong, Singapore and Taiwan, as well as Japanese players because so many people can't tell the difference between a Chinese vs. a Japanese name. Or even Korean, and there are plenty of Korean players. Also, many Asian players use cryptic English names, which makes it difficult to identify nationality. The real threat to War Robots in Asia is from another place. There are so many freaking good mobile games in Asia, and the sheer competition alone threatens War Robots especially when so many high quality games can be played with less investment. War Robots is expensive even for a pay to win game, as even P2W games have various degrees of cost. And yet, we celebrate 6 years of overpriced, whale loving fun.......interesting..... |
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Post by anjian on Apr 30, 2020 20:35:53 GMT -5
I don't think you are seeing a lot of clans from China. War Robots is said to be already licensed to operate there with a partner and they should have exclusive servers in the mainland just for PRC players. The "Chinese" players you tend to see are those from Hongkong, Singapore and Taiwan, as well as Japanese players because so many people can't tell the difference between a Chinese vs. a Japanese name. Or even Korean, and there are plenty of Korean players. Also, many Asian players use cryptic English names, which makes it difficult to identify nationality. The real threat to War Robots in Asia is from another place. There are so many freaking good mobile games in Asia, and the sheer competition alone threatens War Robots especially when so many high quality games can be played with less investment. War Robots is expensive even for a pay to win game, as even P2W games have various degrees of cost. And yet, we celebrate 6 years of overpriced, whale loving fun.......interesting..... To Pixo's credit, despite being overpriced, they heavily invested in the game with advertising and new content. I noted its doing very well in certain regions and is on frequently on the top 50. However, War Robots isn't a big thing in Asian top gross revenue lists like it used to be. CN games are rising to the top from places like Japan to the US, adding to the list of JP and KN games that are already dominating. They have mastered anime art styles, and the games are just freaking good, in terms of art, coding, smoothness, music and story telling. Couple that with heavy promotion and waifus, along that it costs less to play these games and you get little reason why new players would go to War Robots. War Robots has to rely heavily on its existing player base and bank on returning players --- I noted how War Robots has been doing its ads on places like Instagram, they are trying to get old players to come back as opposed to getting new players. I would say CN has the best looking mobile games, hands down. |
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Post by anjian on Apr 30, 2020 20:50:00 GMT -5
China has very strict online gaming laws including no micro transactions . Chinese games are infested with gaming laws, but there are no laws forbidding micro transactions unfortunately. CN games are full of them. |
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Post by anjian on Apr 30, 2020 20:52:58 GMT -5
It won't make much of a difference. Still lots of Russians and loads of others from the Americas and a good amount of Europeans and some Australians too. No more Chinese Whales??? With oil prices going down the pit, don't expect a lot of Russians and Arabs whaling. Then you have the virus in NA and EU, and couple that, there are a lot of less expensive games people can throw their time on, like CoD Mobile. |
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Post by anjian on Apr 30, 2020 21:12:24 GMT -5
Interesting articles. Looks like lag will drop on the Asian server soon I also notice words that will be like poison to Pix - "capping the amount of money that can be spent in games." TBH I don't see the large numbers of Chinese players that I used to see (particularly over the last 18 months) so I am assuming a lot have already moved on. There are way too many CN mobile games, literally by the thousands, which means the government body that has to approve each one has to approve each by the hour just to keep up. So like many things in China, 'rules' are more like guidelines and often slip through because they are unenforceable. Asia has been a declining market for Pixo since 2017, which is why the US and the Russian player bases are its bigger sources of income. If you compare the mobile gaming scene in EU, NA and Asia (CN, KR, JP, SEA), the games in the Asian region are collectively much better in my opinion than in the other regions where there is an overemphasis on the hypercasual and the cartoons. So the competition is much tougher, the quality is much higher, and so a game like War Robots may succeed better in the NA and EU regions than in the Asian regions. In fact, I am noticing how many extreme mobile players outside of China are using VPN and fake IDs to access and play the CN editions of games instead of being satisfied with the global edition. The reason for this is global editions lag behind in content compared to CN editions. If a game like War Robots is really truly successful in Asia and China, you are going to see freaking copies of it. |
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Post by elcheapo on May 1, 2020 9:39:10 GMT -5
China has very strict online gaming laws including no micro transactions . Chinese games are infested with gaming laws, but there are no laws forbidding micro transactions unfortunately. CN games are full of them. I know for a fact that Fortnite cannot sell Vbucks for real bucks in China . The Fortnite over there has lots of ways to earn free Vbucks ingame . |
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I also notice words that will be like poison to Pix - "capping the amount of money that can be spent in games." TBH I don't see the large numbers of Chinese players that I used to see (particularly over the last 18 months) so I am assuming a lot have already moved on.
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