Chinese guild heads to Taiwan, kills Mimiron on hard mode
by Daniel Whitcomb 
May 16th 2009 at 10:30AM
In the midst of all this, it has been the players stuck in the middle, their play availability up in the air, stuck killing Kil'jaedan over and over and over as they wait for Northrend with bated breath. That said, there's still been a few players who have taken matters into their own hands.
The Chinese guild Stars decided to make a break for the Taiwanese servers, where Wrath has already been released. They've settled in on the Crystalpine Stinger server very nicely, as they have now defeated Mimiron on 25-man Hard Mode, making them only the second guild worldwide to have accomplished the task.
It's a pretty amazing accomplishment all on it's own, of course, seeing as they beat out almost all of the usual suspects worldwide to get the achievement, but can we extract anything about the future of WoW in China from it? Certainly, not every Chinese player is going to have the energy and patience to switch over to a Taiwanese server and re-level their characters from scratch, but it looks like there's at least some who are doing that. Who knows, there might even be an outside chance that one or two players will try out World of Fight just to have something new to do without Wrath.
Whether or not this Taiwan migration will have a huge impact on WoW in China remains to be seen, but for now what is sure is that the Stars guild is definitely stellar. Congratulations to them!
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, Instances, Expansions, Raiding, Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King, Achievements
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rhodri May 16th 2009 10:43AM
If The9 had got the rights in the first place I bet there would be hundreds of achievments like this in china, I mean to be practicing on TBC for near on a year longer than anyone else must get you somewhere right ? XD
Malkavos May 16th 2009 10:45AM
I love how you guys are still referencing World of Fight like it's some new ripoff and not just Warhammer Online.
maddkoww May 19th 2009 7:59PM
I tried not to respond, I really did, but I hate seeing posts like this because people seem to have some psychotic need to cling to incorrectness.
Malkovonos - "I love how you guys are still referencing World of Fight like it's some new ripoff and not just Warhammer Online."
Warhammer came first. Done. Granted the computer game (the mmo, anyway) came into being after WoW, but the license for Warhammer predates Blizzard's existence by about 20 years, at least. In all honesty, Blizzard wouldn't even exist were it not for Warhammer. They petitioned Games Workshop years and years ago because they wanted to make a Warhammer RTS. At the time, someone else held the license, and Games Workshop told Blizzard it wasn't negotiable at that time. Blizzard, being the enterprising people they are, went off and made their RTS anyway, using the same races as those in Warhammer, but changed the names and a few basic components around in order to make Warhammer.
So, in all honesty, World of Fight is to WoW, what WoW is to Warhammer. A simple, semi-knockoff with enough things changed so as to avoid a lawsuit.
So please, Warhammer is not a rip-off of WoW. The game and its lore has existed since before the average WoW player was even born.
Maddkoww May 19th 2009 8:00PM
Correction - Malkavos. . . sorry, didn't mean to misspell your name.
Rob May 16th 2009 10:47AM
Its kinda funny how taiwan and china have that political history, yet WoW gamers are flocking to taiwanese servers
Balasan May 16th 2009 11:03AM
This may be a generalized statement (and basing from only 1 friend from Taiwan it probably isn't totally reliable), but:
Political friction =/= civilian friction
Codexx May 16th 2009 12:54PM
You'd be surprised how willing people are to ignore political issues. Sure, people who spend all their time dealing with politics will gasp at the idea of someone crossing a line they wouldn't, and often times there's a culture difference, but the whole "Our countries are fighting so I hate you" thing takes a few generations to actually start. Separated countries also make this easier, seeing as how they effectively have the same culture as it is. Keep in mind China isn't the first country to be split into two by Communism, but at least they didn't build a wall.
Besides that, I'm guessing they don't have to deal with China's retarded laws and censorship.
Matchu May 16th 2009 10:59AM
I also like how the screenshot for this world 2nd is from the perspective of someone who's presumably dead.
edward May 17th 2009 8:51PM
What are you, jealous?
Matchu May 17th 2009 8:53PM
Yes, highly. Much like your humour must be now it's been cast away.
Panaçea May 16th 2009 11:05AM
"...but for now what is sure is that the Stars guild is definitely stellar."
/groan
You just couldn't help it, could you?
Trasken May 16th 2009 11:14AM
Honestly, I'm glad to see a Asian guild finally get a decent chance and do well in regards to world firsts / seconds etc.
They always kind of got screwed over in that regard due to that whole mess (The9/Goverment Approval)
It'd be great to see a truely worldwide competition in regards to PvE progression sometime. Hopefully Netease makes it possible.
More competition is always good imo.
Max May 16th 2009 12:21PM
I honestly don't care who gets the first Algalon kill as long as it isn't Ensidia. Those douchers have hogged all the world firsts. It'd be really refreshing to see someone else get some of the spotlight...especially some Chinese guild out of left field.
epsilon343 May 16th 2009 12:48PM
Uh...nice way to throw some mud there Mazul. I think what he's saying is it'd be a nice change of pace if a new guild came around and beat Algalon before Ensidia.
I agree with that statement too. Now that Ensidia is all sponsored and stuff, it's hard to tell if they're still playing the game for the love of it, or just to horde achievements to get paid. Seeing some regular joes (albeit incredibly skilled) beat Algalon first would be nice.
Servetus May 16th 2009 2:35PM
I wouldn't waste too much time worrying about Ensidia.
If enough players around the world decided that Ensidia is made up of professional players now and choose to disregard their achievements for that reason, then it really doesn't MATTER how soon Ensidia does something, as long as we know who comes in second. If the second guild is the FIRST, in the eyes of the world, Ensidia can have all the records they want. They'd just be beating their own time, each time, and no one would care.
I see their name all the time when reading about "world firsts." It has absolutely zero impact on me. You could just as easily tell me that a group of devs wearing Martin Fury went in and touched the mobs in a bad place, making them keel over dead.
I care about which guilds on my server do things first, because I know and like a lot of people in those guilds. That is where the friendly competition is, and I salute their victories. I guess it would suck totally if I played on the same server as Ensidia, but that's one of those Star Trek space-time continuum questions that requires a parallel universe and reversing the flow of some made-up gizmo name to fix.
When your eyes land upon the name "Ensidia," just train your brain to say "next word please" and you'll be fine.
CDave May 16th 2009 1:07PM
Quite an accomplishment. From what I can gather, Chinese guilds get their kills faster than the English guilds do, relative to the content release schedules.
Onatel May 16th 2009 3:54PM
True, but by the time they're able to reach the same content the western servers are on strat guides detailing everything that needs to be done have been made. It's hard to measure guilds against each other in progression unless they both do it when the content is relatively unknown, which is a massive problem when so much testing is done publicly.
uncaringbear May 16th 2009 11:45PM
Here's hoping that WOTLK will arrive in China soon. I know I'd be going out of my mind stuck in TBC knowing that the rest of the world has been playing WOTLK since last year.
Lovecrafter May 17th 2009 11:19AM
Bah, let China loose all of its WoW liscensing. I want Pandaren as a playable race dammit!