WOWing in China...Follow

Hi everyone,

As the subject says, I'm WOWing in China. I'm an English teacher in China and am playing WOW on Chinese servers. Problem is, I can't read Chinese. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to sort of bumble your way through figuring out how things work and quests and whatnot, but I thought I'd post this question anyway, since I obviously lack technical know-how about the inner workings of the WOW beast.

I looked for similar posts but I couldn't find any. Is there anyway to switch the language of the program and stay on Chinese servers? In other words, can I... say replace a file and have items displayed in English? Or even further yet, replace quest giving and latter information to English? I don't mind the interface in Chinese, I can work around that. But if I don't have to bumble around any more that would help.

If anyone has a tip for me, please let me know.

Thanks.

I don't think (almost sure) that you can translate the program's interface language unless you're a programmer (against Blizz's policy of course) .

But my suggestion here is : Why did you have to connect through the Chinese servers anyway ? I live in the Middle East (Asian part) and connect to the EU servers . Granted the lag for me is more than the average EU user , but it's still very playable and WoW is a social game ultimately .

You might be able to go through the first 20 lvls on your own , but then when you need to join parties/raids , distribute roles , sell or buy anything ...etc , how will you ever accomplish that if you're noy fluent in chinese/mandarin ?As far as you're concerned it might become an RP game with a lvl cap of 40 or so with no parties. I suggest you transfer your account through the Chinese WoW site to the EU or US servers , and get the game off some p2p sharing program if you don't want to pay for a new CD set (I know I know it's illegal but he has already paid his dues ,all depends on personal cyber-morals)

Hey guys,

Thanks for the suggestions. About having a problem communicating for parties raids and whatnot, it's a non-issue. The strangeness to these people of having a "foreigner" on a Chinese server makes me quite popular actually, and really most Chinese have no problem writing or reading English, so to them, it's an excellent opportunity to practice English. For me, being an English teacher and all, is just one more opportunity to help someone out.

So with the obvious language difference aside, I guess it's not really possible to have the interface changed and still connect to Chinese servers without going through Blizzard. I appreciate those that responded. I'll probably shoot Blizzard an e-mail and give them a headache. =)

Thanks again everyone!

Hey there, nice to see I'm not alone. =)

I'm currently on the Shanghai server (Server 1), on the "Emerald Dragon Team" as they call it. I had bound everything bindable in China to my the9.com account to make sure I stayed on Shanghai server. I haven't checked recently but I was sure that all servers were now open. You need to purchase another card and get a CD-KEY in order to see the servers that are bindable. Get another card and try it, who knows.

At any rate, let me know if anything comes of your request, or let me know if I can somehow assist as well, see if anything can possibly come out of it. BUT, you know some Chinese business... "Mei guan xi!" ;)

Oh, and did you see the SHE / Coca Cola / WoW commercial? Increadibly super cheesy. Of course SHE is already Cheesy as all hell anyway. But who are they marketing too? Are there are lot of 13 year old boys that actually like SHE and will play WoW and therefore drink Coca Cola?