hi everyone

[callmeQQ]

i'm new player to ESO
i have played a lot in Chinese platform and my supremacy title is about 2nd lieutenant
that's all

[Aizamk]

hi nice sig

[Gendarme]

This is the most efficient introduction-post I have ever seen. Welcome!

[Ashvin]

hello, hope you enjoy it here :)

[callmeQQ]

by the way
you all can call me "QQ"
all of my friends in AOE3 call me that

[Goodspeed]

There's a Chinese platform?

[j_t_kirk]

Hai

[callmeQQ]

There's a Chinese platform?

yeah
Chinese players have their own platform for this game
i used to play AOE3 in this platform

[Goodspeed]

How many players?
Why don't they play on ESO? Language barrier?

[callmeQQ]

How many players?
Why don't they play on ESO? Language barrier?

well

i'm not sure,the platform shows there are about 100 players everyday,but i think the true number is half or maybe 20% only

the main reason they don't play on ESO may be the Internet,China has Internet Great Wall so that we often cant join the games in ESO
and the language may be the second,i think

[Goodspeed]

Right, that makes sense. Thanks.

[Gendarme]

He doesn't listen to you, GS.

[fei123456]

the lag has nothing to do with the firewall.
also, the main issue is time, not language/lag. china's 8 hour ahead of GMT (and japan is 9 hours ahead).
a few years ago we fight the japanese a lot on ESO. but since most of them left aoe3, it's hard to find games on ESO at proper time now.

[Forjustice]

Those number shows by the platform from Chinese version gameranger around 100 r tyre.but most of them r noob players such as against AI.i consider that the main reason they don't play on eso it's they r not willing to pay for legitimate game and the following vpn. It doesn't mean they r mean.if u think about that u put 100dolloars(the currents in ur country.)into a dead game within extras money for vpn(normally we need a vpn to pass thought the firewall.)it's not worth.

[fei123456]

i didn't get what you're talking about
"good" "competitive" "professional" players are rare on ESO too. there're always hundreds, sometimes 1000+, players online on ESO, but there won't be many quicksearch/1v1 games tho.

also AOE3 on chinese steam is even cheaper: 28 yuan (on sale, black friday) = 5 USD.

and AOE3 isn't banned in china. Lag isn't related to firewall.

[callmeQQ]

i didn't get what you're talking about
"good" "competitive" "professional" players are rare on ESO too. there're always hundreds, sometimes 1000+, players online on ESO, but there won't be many quicksearch/1v1 games tho.

also AOE3 on chinese steam is even cheaper: 28 yuan (on sale, black friday) = 5 USD.

and AOE3 isn't banned in china. Lag isn't related to firewall.

but in fact 28 yuan isn't a large number,even 100 yuan isn't ,too
so "if i really want to compete on ESO" is the main reason?

[Forjustice]

Well,that is under discount.normally the price is up to more than 100yuan.to be fair,when u r doing comparison,it shall be done by living standard not price.it does relate to the firewall."fail to join"links to IP address.when this problem still come out after u restart routes many times.it show that u r blocked by firewall.

[fei123456]

nope. "failed to join" just means heavy lag. if the firewall is working you shouldn't log in to ESO at all.

[musketeer925]

nope. "failed to join" just means heavy lag. if the firewall is working you shouldn't log in to ESO at all.

I don't think this is right.

Establishing a connection to the AoE3 servers and establishing a peer-to-peer connection with another player are very different. When "failed to join" occurs, it means the game was unable to establish a peer-to-peer connection to the other player. I find it very likely that China makes such peer-to-peer connections impossible, resulting in failed to join.

[Forjustice]

Not.My laptop will only appear "fail to join it"when without Vpn. When I get into the room.it show green ping.

[Forjustice]

Firewalls works well on blocking YouTube Facebook ETC.but it doesn't mean it stop working on blocking other app

[fei123456]

there's no reason why government would ban a dead game lol

[musketeer925]

there's no reason why government would ban a dead game lol

There's definitely good reason a government would ban peer-to-peer connections, however: peer-to-peer can be used for circumventing censorship. It's very possible that AoE3's peer-to-peer system gets blocked by accident as it falls into a certain traffic profile that is blocked for other reasons.

Most modern games don't utilize peer-to-peer connections for multiplayer and instead use a client-server architecture.

GameRanger or the aforementioned Chinese client would get around this by effectively using a special VPN to put all players on the same LAN network.

[zoom]

hai

Fuck Goodspeed, indeed.

[jesus3]

Welcome. You may know my name, but I might not be that popular in your country