Anybody know where to find Warcraft III in English these days?
I’m looking for a ligit copy, but I’ve only seen Chinese versions.
[quote=“CaliBorn”]Anybody know where to find Warcraft III in English these days?
I’m looking for a ligit copy, but I’ve only seen Chinese versions.[/quote]I know where (from me), and I have some in stock so you can have it in 2 days (or tomorrow if you want me meet me in Taipei somewhere), and prepaid cards so you don’t need a credit card.
[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”][quote=“CaliBorn”]Anybody know where to find Warcraft III in English these days?
I’m looking for a ligit copy, but I’ve only seen Chinese versions.[/quote]I know where (from me), and I have some in stock so you can have it in 2 days (or tomorrow if you want me meet me in Taipei somewhere), and prepaid cards so you don’t need a credit card.
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Wrong Warcraft, man. Warcraft 3, not WoW.
Oops, got over excited there 
Ignore what I said before, I don’t have it after all.
Great! Would you also happen to have the Warcraft III “Battlechest” that packages the Frozen Throne together with classic WCIII?
edit: Oh wait. D’oh.
[quote=“CaliBorn”]Great! Would you also happen to have the Warcraft III “Battlechest” that packages the Frozen Throne together with classic WCIII?[/quote]I don’t have it but I can get it
Gonghua computer market.
[quote=“Tetsuo”][quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”][quote=“CaliBorn”]Anybody know where to find Warcraft III in English these days?
I’m looking for a ligit copy, but I’ve only seen Chinese versions.[/quote]I know where (from me), and I have some in stock so you can have it in 2 days (or tomorrow if you want me meet me in Taipei somewhere), and prepaid cards so you don’t need a credit card.
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Wrong Warcraft, man. Warcraft 3, not WoW.[/quote]
Nerds all of oyu rooting your brains
For WoW, don’t you have to play the chinese version if you are in Taiwan. Something about regionalized servers. I emailed Blizzard a couple of months ago, and they told me something to that extent. Is there a way to get around that, or were you referring to selling the Chinese version?
[quote=“jason242”]For WoW, don’t you have to play the Chinese version if you are in Taiwan. Something about regionalized servers. I emailed Blizzard a couple of months ago, and they told me something to that extent. Is there a way to get around that, or were you referring to selling the Chinese version?[/quote]If you use a credit card to register you need to give them a USA address (for the USA version), but the credit card companies don’t seem to check the country, so you can fill your address in, but leave the country set to USA. Or if you use prepaid cards, you don’t need to give an address at all. I sell English versions, and other things you can’t get here.
[quote=“jason242”]For WoW, don’t you have to play the Chinese version if you are in Taiwan. Something about regionalized servers. I emailed Blizzard a couple of months ago, and they told me something to that extent. [/quote]No. You can replace the server lists - I know of a few people playing the European client on US servers - but I think if you pay by credit card your address has to match the version of the game client you’re using, regardless of what server list you’re using.
I just want to know if anyone has done it. Has anyone logged onto the US Worldcraft Servers from Taiwan? I just remember in the US that I could play the English version of Maple Story, but once I moved to Taiwan; I couldn’t log onto the English Version anymore, because I was in Taiwan, and Taiwan has a regionalized server set up. So that means the only server possible to log in to was the Taiwanese server.
I was under the impression that WoW worked the same way, but if you have tried and done it recently, since Taiwan began having WoW servers, then that’ll be good news.
[quote=“jason242”]I just want to know if anyone has done it. Has anyone logged onto the US Worldcraft Servers from Taiwan?[/quote]Okami does, although I think he’s using a US client. I’m playing on the European servers, with the Europe client bought from Big Fluffy Matthew.
If you’re using the Taiwanese client, you’ll need to find the file that lists the servers and replace it with the US file. The game will still be in Chinese, but the server list will be the US one. I’m not sure if all the content - quests and the like - will change language though.
Cool, I have a US version, but its cough cough missing the CD Key. I’ve been playing on private servers, but if there is a way to play on US servers that would be great. What kind of ping do you guys get on the official servers from here? If its around 500 or better, I’m definitely up for buying a Key or if needbe the full boxed edition. I already have bank credit cards from the US, so don’t really need too much in the way of prepaid cards.
[quote=“jason242”]What kind of ping do you guys get on the official servers from here? If its around 500 or better, I’m definitely up for buying a Key or if needbe the full boxed edition.[/quote]For me, on the European servers, my ping usually sits around 500-800. It does sometimes spike over 1000, but that’s more to do with the shitty European servers. Okami has told me the US servers have much better pings, so you should be fine.
I looked on your site and only saw the EU version. How much for the US version?
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Does anyone know of a place I can get the legal US version from? I heard of a company in Hong Kong that did free shipping to Taiwan, is that still around?
More than the EU version, my supplier in the US isn’t a games distributor in their own right, they buy them from another distributor (who doesn’t export), marks them up and sells them again. That’s why my games are from the UK. It’s the same game as the US version, just with more Italians shouting in all capitals. The lag would be about the same.
I could just use another distrubutor, but have you seen the paperwork involved ? And $500US minimum orders. Confused
The short answer is $NT2100 (not my fault as explained above)
You can still find Warcraft III and the Expansion in Taipei, WIII says Chinese, but the expansion says English/Chinese, so can at least play the expansion in English, maybe the original bits too.
If you’re proficient in Chinese or have a Chinese friend just get a US version of WoW off Yahoo auctions Taiwan. Boxed retailed versions usually go for 2.2k and serial numbers go for 1.6k so they’re a lot cheaper since you don’t have to pay for shipping and other extras if you order from online retailers outside of Taiwan.
Once you get the game you can use a Taiwanese CC to pay the monthly charge. All this talk about having to use a US addy for the US version of WoW is bull. I’ve been playing on the US Doomhammer server for the past 15 months using a Taiwanese CC (E-Sun Bank) and I’ve got my Taiwanese addy and telephone number in my account details.
It was all a bunch of spin bullshit from Blizzard because WoW was released at different dates throughout the world. Since the English speaking Euros had to wait 3+months for their version a lot of them wanted to play on US servers instead but that would have seriously screwed over Blizzard’s distributors and partners in the UK so they decided to only sell the US version locally and released their BS story to the press about how you can only play on US servers.
As for pings … I average about 400 to 600 ping playing on the Doomhammer server. My server is a very high population server (6th most populous) so ping isn’t that big a deal. The biggest problem you’ll face is not ping, it’s the fact that our prime times don’t match up with US prime times. So when you get home from work and wanna play, around 80% of the server is still asleep. This makes it very tough to get anything done not to mention getting into a raid guild.
I’ve invested around a year into my character and even I’ve finally given up and rerolled on an Oceanic server. These servers are still located in the US so you still get shitty pings except most of the people there are from Australia so this makes for a much more enjoyable gaming experience. Blizzard have recently said that they would be releasing another Oceanic server in the near future (eta around 2months) so you might wanna roll on that server if you wanna fresh start.
[quote=“Qrap”]If you’re proficient in Chinese or have a Chinese friend just get a US version of WoW off Yahoo auctions Taiwan. Boxed retailed versions usually go for 2.2k and serial numbers go for 1.6k so they’re a lot cheaper since you don’t have to pay for shipping and other extras if you order from online retailers outside of Taiwan. [/quote]Even my US version is cheaper than that, EU version cheaper still. And that includes shipping. And I talks the English good. And I’m trustworthy, and just generally fantastic, ask anyone here. So support your local Forumosan 
[quote=“Qrap”]As for pings … I average about 400 to 600 ping playing on the Doomhammer server. My server is a very high population server (6th most populous) so ping isn’t that big a deal. The biggest problem you’ll face is not ping, it’s the fact that our prime times don’t match up with US prime times. So when you get home from work and wanna play, around 80% of the server is still asleep. This makes it very tough to get anything done not to mention getting into a raid guild.[/quote]This is why I like being on a European server; being 8 hours ahead of them means when I get home from work at 6pm-ish, it’s 10am on there. You pay the price a little ping-wise, but it’s the perfect time difference.