Most of the “expat” Chinese players have been playing on Japanese servers. In most cases, this involved providing a fake address (for a location outside of China), which is also against the ToS. However, a lot of players in China wanted to play Endwalker now, and thus made new accounts on the global client shortly before EW’s launch. I can’t find a good answer as to who is responsible for this lag (some say SE, others put the blame more on China), but given that the CN/KR clients are localized specifically for those markets (voice acting and all), and the CN version especially has to be modified to pass media regulations in that country, it’s easy to see why there would be a delay to begin with.Ī highly-anticipated expansion just dropped - an expansion that is not available on the CN client yet.
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The CN client is roughly a patch or two (4-6 months, I think?) behind the global client. Players in (mainland) China are prohibited from playing on the global game client, which is in the game’s ToS. BTW, South Korea also has an exclusive FFXIV client, although in their case it has mainly to do with the subscription structure being completely different there, for example you can buy game time by the hour (think Internet cafes and such).
Having an exclusive CN client allows the game to be sold in that market while also lessening the impact of China-specific media restrictions on the global version of the game. One classic example of this is that depictions of things like skeletons and the undead are prohibited in most media in China, among other things that would be permitted in other markets. So, from what I can tell, here’s what’s been happening (I’ll add some context here for those who are not familiar with the game):įinal Fantasy XIV has an entirely separate game client for China, due mainly to having to adhere to certain content regulations/censorship mandated by the Chinese government (WoW has a CN-only client as well, FWIW). Last week's Hobby Scuffles thread can be found here.
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