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Harder Access to
Foreign Games
Mainland Chinese players find it difficult to play foreign online games.
By Kamun Lai
niversity student Hu Xi- its publishing license to launch players from China accessing in-
aozhe has to borrow a games in the country. ternational game servers to play
Utelephone number from a with foreign players. Chinese play-
friend in Hong Kong to register a “I play the game less frequently be- ers can only play foreign games by
new account and buy a VPN ser- cause the VPN service is not sta- using a game-only VPN to bypass
vice, in order to play foreign video ble sometimes. When the internet the firewall.
games including those developed connection is poor, I lose the con-
by Blizzard in China. nection with the server when play- “It was hard for me, but there is no
ing. This really kills the fun,” she way apart from getting used to it,”
Blizzard had to shut down all ser- says. she adds.
vices in China in January 2023, as
the American game company lost China’s “Great Firewall” blocks Hu first played the blizzard games
