Where should Chinese players go?

[NoDream]

Hello, everyone, I am the administrator of an Imperial Age Forum in China. Recently, the version of wololokingdoms has been promoted with the spread of streamers, and more and more players are beginning to contact the new version. However, due to language problems, many people don’t know how to use the official wk installation software, and because of the need for vpn, registration of the account number has become a very difficult thing.
In this case, some people extracted the contents of wk, so that the wk installation does not need to pass the genuine verification of steam. This way they can freely access the game content of wk and use it on Chinese domestic game platforms. They built some groups and owned the package in the group file. Not only this group, the wk-free version has been spread in China.
In fact, as long as you borrow someone else's steam account, you can also implement wk installation. So how should I avoid this phenomenon, I have several suggestions:
1. Will wololo installation file finished
2. Use more effective genuine verification methods
3. Use some method to make Chinese users register voobly without image verification
4. Update voobly china and join wk mod

 

[NoDream]

 

[Lester(Bigfish)]

没人看吧

 

[iampaulyoung]

没人看

 

[FeAge]

Wow, how come none of the wk staff have seen this? This is massive. Chinese aoc community is huge!

 

[T90Official]

WK doesn’t have staff per say, but my guess is those involved haven’t seen this yet. Hope this gets exposure!

I’ll send a few messages!

 

[Deathcounter]

Microsoft deserves this, great to see that the aoe community still sticks together

 

[dodageka]

I hope WK team (potentially together with Microsoft) finds a way to prevent this; unless Microsoft doesn't care of course

 

[linetyReborn]

告密者

 

[TriRem]

hey @NoDream thanks for reporting on this issue. It's hard to get some feedback from the Chinese community because of obvious language barrer.

Do you know which step of the installation causes the most trouble for people in China ? If we can smooth the installation process hopefully there would be no need for unofficial downloads.

 

[n0brain]

i just made a post on the mentioned chinese forum hawkaoe.net regarding the general communication problem between chinese and international modding scene:

"Greetings to our chinese brothers,

im a german AoE2 Fan / Modder / Programmer. We recently created a big international modding / programming collective called ''Siege Engineers'' where we exchange ideas, help each other, share software code etc. Part of that is also the WololoKingdoms Team as well as over 100 other modders and developers.
To help each other better in the future and solve problems it would be great if we could get in touch and connect some form of live chatrooms. Sadly our used discord server seems not to be accessable directly from china. We would suggest using a bot to connect to whatever you guys are using for live chat? maybe even a chatroom on this website if one exists? or something like an IRC channel?

It would benefit the whole AoE2 community if we could communicate directly on a more regular basis.

kind regards
n_brain

PS: maybe someone can post a translation of this post for everyone below this? sadly i do not know chinese myself "

 

[n0brain]

it would be great to be able to bridge to some form of live chat. maybe one of our chinese friends can tell us a chatsystem they use, an IRC channel, XMPP chatroom, weechat or whatever we can connect to? it would be very easy for us to bridge that into any discord server channel. worst case even a chatroom on one of those videostreamingsites like doyu or pandatv would work.

 

[Deathcounter]

There is a WK team with over 100 developern? vaaat?

 

[Flow]

There is a WK team with over 100 developern? vaaat?

We recently created a big international modding / programming collective called ''Siege Engineers'' where we exchange ideas, help each other, share software code etc. Part of that is also the WololoKingdoms Team as well as over 100 other modders and developers.

No

 

[TriRem]

There is a WK team with over 100 developern? vaaat?

I wish

 

[n0brain]

There is a WK team with over 100 developern? vaaat?

nope, WK is just a tiny part of it.

 

[iViktorius]

I wish

you are worth 100 people