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Keep in people, and do keep this in mind, that at any given moment, Chinese officials, the owners of the Chinese license of SRO can block foreign IP's.

Now this hasn't happened in kSRO, doubt it would happen in the future also, but they are more and more games coming out who blocks foreign IP's, just take Cabal for example.

Now that may never, ever, happen in cSRO, but for those who are investing time there, keep this in mind that you may lose these accounts at any time in the future. After the, the license is bought by Chinese entrepreneurs and I seriously doubt they like to see a huge spike in services by foreign IP's. Now , this said, I'm playing there right now, but what I know is, what ever I create there is a trash account, I will be returning to iSRO the moment the patch comes out.

And again, I want to stress that they may NEVER block IP's but the possibility is very much there and once foreign IP's are blocked, that's it, that's all.

Cabal just opened up its doors to N. American players and went F2P. lol Bad example.

I thought the great fire wall of china only blocked domains because of censorship. What purpose would they serve by blocking foreign gamers? The spreading of radical political messages in game? I don't know, I could be wrong.

lol, to prevent foreign gamers from playing b/c they have their version. isro already blocked chinese ips.

What the heck are you talking about? Cabal is restricted to Europe only, we had talks about this with Kru (Cabal mod) only days ago, and the fact it went F2P has no relation with the topic. I only used Cabal to talk about the fact that IP's can easily be blocked at any given time.

"Please note: This game and these downloads are provided for EUROPEAN players ONLY. The game will not work if you attempt to play outside of Europe. "

Taken 2 seconds ago from Cabal's site. You must smoke really good weed.

yea thnx for the warning, but i kinda have the idea we were all pretty aware
of the fact that we could get kicked out of something that was meant for
chinese players only

I know, and you are right, many are aware of this but many seems to be taken with this fever of "They are few people on those servers". The last thing I'd want to see is someone working their butt's off on a character just to see themselves unable to access the game anymore not knowing that this could very well be a possibility to come.

But like I also said... it may NEVER also happened.

im not trying to start up anything here but if there is a slight possibilty of this happeinig, y are u telling ppl this? just to say i told u so?
and for some reason i feel u are against these foreign sro versions, wat do u have against them. I personally would like to play them, but cant due to technical difficulties.

It's a good warning for players who may not have considered it. I haven't seen any explicit warnings of this possibility so I think it's a good topic.

That being said, I'll bet many international (non-asian) cSRO players move back to iSRO when the euro update is released. I think many players are getting their feet wet with the euro builds so that they can hit the ground running when iSRO is updated. They can be ahead of the game, so to speak.

Many american chinese play csro, are silk buyers. I dont think the would want to cut a source of income out.

why be passive and guess, ask them directly like a man.

i asked "其实国外的朋友可以玩丝路吗？会不会给GM封IP?" [Can foreigners play cSRO? will GMs banned ips?"

GM02 replied "玩家您好：

我们欢迎任何地区的玩家加入丝路，祝您在丝路中游戏愉快，谢谢！


感谢您对丝路的支持！" [Dear player: we welcome players from any region to play cSRO, hope you have a nice time in cSRO, thank you. Thank you for your support.]


source:http://bbs.srocn.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=4&id=320010&star=#1965128

case closed?

well if i ever get csro working i would like to try it out when they get updates before we do, so i can check them out

cSRO

yay! good customer support ftw!

lol...and then again, maybe they won't come back...

You need to type corean letters to get to kSRO -.-'
손로슝
(Do that after me!)
(Ok, there's lots of guides of how to do that in here)
(But you can't use kSRO with english anymore, so majority of ppl quit it.)

Then again, speaking from a Chinese's perspective, the Chinese are known be very hypocritical and deceiving. So don't take the words for granted.

nations and races dont get along

america dont like turks, viet
brits sometimes dont like germans and french ( i personally dont but some do)


its fact of life racism happens thats why to keep a calm good gaming community they dont just have one big server for the whole world

rofl...they aren't going to do that for this game. Of course they COULD...but it's not going to happen. The only time I could see them doing that was if the server was packed with chinese players (it's not by far) and they started getting all these foreigners playing to the point it was causing server problems.

And even if they did that...you can get around it with a certain proxy program. I used to use it for the jp version of this game http://www.laghaim.com which blocked foreign ips. The program worked great but I stopped playing there to move to the thai version which was open to all.

There's always the proxys >_>

haha yeah they did...but I see chinese players all the time in Jangan.