Hi everyone, I heard that shadowbane is having a server reboot. I would like to try it but i dont know if theres an IP ban against South East Asia. Does anyone know if i can play?
Reputation: 25Hi everyone, I heard that shadowbane is having a server reboot. I would like to try it but i dont know if theres an IP ban against South East Asia. Does anyone know if i can play?
Reputation: 14try to use poxy to change your ip to other country ip![]()
Reputation: 15Why would there be an IP ban? Have you read about it? Then search for it on their forum, it shouldnt be hard to find. Perhaps even google it. If you havent read about it this thread makes no sense.
I hope they do
this thread makes perfect sense
if you've ever played shadowbane, some servers are completely DOMINATED by asian players, and completely ruin the experience for EVERYONE NOT asian, trust me.
They mass ban Japanese , Korean , Chinese (most Asians), and some Aussie IPs, even South American IPs were banned during the time.
Simply put , they closed down the servers for other regions then allowed those regions to play on one servers. American SB players are all about zerger , and gangbangs , the other countries , totally ***** them , and roll them like a pie dough.
The boards were filled with anti asian slurs , hate and stuff , they decided to ban the other countries. Which was junk because the Americans and most (I d say 99% of the Euros) couldnt come up with a tactic other "Ok everyone rush this hole in the wall"
They didnt even get the slurs right , the best PVP guild was Japanese , most who got banned IPs had paid accounts at the times.
PKer.org , and some big names like Warrior Nation , were throwing around alot of threats , including hacking and racist words.
Most of the big name players left during the time , it took UBI about 3 months to refund the paid accounts. There was a huge thread over on Playforums (korean/asian boards) about it a few years back.
Its kinda sad because UBI took no action against any of the people throwing racist remarks , or even the stupid kid who posted the IP of the cafe the Japanese kids were playing from.
So the moral of the story is , if Americans cant win , ban the better players.
Reputation: 31How stupid is that, lmfao they should ban each user's ip if they continously win a pvp match![]()
Reputation: 10i played shadowbane 1 year ago and I would i like say:' ya, its a good game, although its all about pvp.' However, racist exist in everywhere, in shadowbane, its all about countries or region, like EU+American vs Asian. But lets image what will happen if there is no Asians on shadowbane? It would be EU vs American? or maybe english vs other language? Since the game is only about pvp, then lets just enjoy itI lost yesterday and all I need to do is find some friend to join shadowbane and fight back tomorrow.
Shadowbane is one of the best mmo i have played, it has the best pvp system, although its graphic sux, and i think its the first game that players play together all over the world, u can find players from many different countries and this is impossible in other games
FOR THE WAR!!!!!
..........First of all, if the game is restricted to NA/EU then banning IP from other countries is sad but logical.
Secondly, i m sorry for all others Asian countries but Japan but the best to do for the moment is to send e-mails to the compagny that own the licence of SB to ask for a localised version of this game if there is none in China, Vietnam, Philippine or any other country outside NA/EU.
PS : even if 100% of them aren't racist, Japanese culture is a racist one. Not only about a specific country but about all that doesn't come from Japan. So i m a bit... let say "suprised" if any Japanese player feel unconfortable about people acting the same with them in return. Even if it isn't the smartest way of acting. But as the idiomatic expression says, this is "a given" for "a returned".
Reputation: 26Yeah, because the Americans personally banned them. No, UBI did, it was their decision and their action that banned the asian nations. Did you ever once think that the Euros and Americans teamed up against the asian nations because they were capable of TALKING TO EACH OTHER since they um SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE for the most part. It's kind of hard to ally with a nation you can't hold a conversation with.
You're probably talking out of your ass and don't even know the whole story to the banning so stop acting like Americans were bitching and moaning and thats the ONLY reason the asian nations were banned. It was UBIs dumb decision to make it an international server in the first place. The time zones are completely different, hello? When it's night time in America it's daytime in Asian countries. Do you realize how inconvenient that is for banes? It's an extremely dumb idea to have an international server for that game.
Euros are cowards , expect maybe the Germans. In American PVP the mindset is gankfest , overwhelm , or solo, Americans dont work well together , and 9 out of 10 of them, cant even found instructions well enough to make Kool-Aid let alone take a tactically held place.
Lets get this straight , UBIsoft brought in Asia, Euro and South America into one server. The Americans rioted basically , causing enough trouble UBI turn it to NA & Euro only.
There was still outstanding accounts paid, which were suppose to transfer to the US servers. Instead they got a refund (UBI store credit)
antarek - you d be suprised how many countries outside the United States have high nationism , which is mistaken or maybe is racist. Countries like Poland, Germany, Japan, Czech, and even some Russians have very high nationism which often times to lead them to band and fight together has a unit.
Often times nationism binds a pvp unit better than blood.
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Reputation: 30asians have controlled shadowbane for a long time now. the problem is all asians band together and have a massive force. while na and eu fight themselves and eachother + the asians. it will always be a problem until the na/euros band together to slow them down, which won't happen. egos get in the way. they aren't better they are just treating it as race wars, which severely imbalances the map unless the others band together too. do you honestly expect the na guilds to work with each other towards a common goal? nope, they hate eachother as much as everyone else, which is their weakness.
um..it would be normal like na fighting na + eu. and eu fighting eu + na. turning the game into a racewar is really stupid, which is what the asians did. especially when the na/euros don't work together.
I m not native nor living in America. I m French. And we know about Germans quite well, thanksAnd contrary to what you seem to think Germans are open minded people. They deal with a lot of immigration coming from Turkey for exemple. So do not limit your thinking on a sad period of their history during the 20th century ^^
And nationalism in countries from ex-URSS is way different than the one in Japan. In Japan this is about their culture since what they call "Meiji Ishin". They ve always been closed to all that were coming from the outside. Speak about it to the Dutch for exemple xD
Anyway i m not going to give to anybody a lesson about them. And if someone really want to play this game outside NA/EU then just use a program like hotspot shield ^^
Reputation: 25Like Antarek, im french, but i unlike him live in asia. I think that as the game is open pvp, asians have the right to take over servers. They are maybe better organised and this helps them to be the best. If the rest of us group and unite together, we can beat them but not if we complain and just ban them. I think thats just cowardly. Well the tree thing is kind of nasty.
Anyway, when i registered, there was singapore in the "country" part of the registration, so i guess theres no IP ban, or maybe there is but they forgot to change this part of the registration.
Ya do realize English-speaking players are generally not very united?
Not to mention over 2/3 of the English players lack basic motor function. In siege, there is no tactic coming from them. >_> I'm not biased, but that's the truth. If you think Asian groups made group solely to stop English-speakers from leveling, then you are just purely ignorant.
What do most English-speaking players do when they see another player speaking a different language? They kill. Think it over a little and you'll realize why there's such a negative cycle.
Reputation: 30dude....the asians don't fight together because they're organized. they just plain hate americans. they like the fact they can come on a server based in north america and ruin what they're trying to do. how are you supposed to fight that? you can't expect english players to team up and just fight asians, especially when the timezones are VASTLY different. the bane times are totally screwed that way. imagine a whole country/area baning a guild thats asleep. now the english guild can bane them, but they certainly won't be working with their whole country/area.
Reputation: 25Do you think that the japanese and the chinese and the koreans speak the same language? They are not united as "asians". The chinese are together among themselves, and so are the koreans and japanese.
And dont you think that the english speakers hate asians also? Moreover, i live in Singapore and from what I can see outside, asians do not, I repeat do not hate english speakers at all! heck, one of the national languages of Singapore is English!
And if asians can bane american guilds when they are asleep, so can the americans bane asian guilds when THEY are asleep!
And please, this is not a Asia vs English thread. I think we are all equal and there should be no discrimination. Maybe asians have a different upbringing which promotes community over individualism.
And then again, maybe not.
Reputation: 25No, i admit I have never played shadowbane. At first, the graphics repulsed me but then thanks to another game, i found out that flashy games often dont have awesome gameplay, whereas game which dont have awesome grpahics focus on other things.
Anyway, we as english/french/german speakers should unite and crush the wave of communism/imperialism ( *Cough* USA * cough*)!