User:Michfho

About Me
I'm a Chinese in Hong Kong, and have 2 accounts (one American and one Taiwan region). Most of the time I play in the American account.

Confusion in GW's Region (or Territory) regarding China

 * The "Taiwan Region" is actually, officially "Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong Region". For convenience GW uses the short form "Taiwan Region" most of the time. The GW officials put these 3 places into the same region because we all use Traditional Chinese characters in communication.

(The above is not valid anymore as GW removed the territories setting)


 * Macao = Macau (at least the Macau Government use both of them in many different official documents).


 * In fact, Hong Kong and Macao are part of China (PRC). The relation of Taiwan and China (PRC) is just similar to the North and South Korea -- result of a civil war.


 * The mainland China (PRC) is using Simplified Chinese characters, and GW had it's China (PRC) version in open beta from 7 March 2007 to 31 March 2008. The beta ended due to some commercial conflicts between NCSoft and The 9 (GW's operator in China), and didn't go alive. Some of those die-hard PRC players restarted they adventures in American version and keep playing till now.


 * If you don't understand what I'm talking, you can just ignore all the above.


 * If you want to know more details regarding the seems-so-complicated relationships of these places, you can go to check them in Wikipedia.org


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan