# PN 18.01.23 - Access Restrictions for Mainland China **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290 "2023-01-18T12:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/1 "2023-01-18T12:09:35Z")
> **[Patch Notes - Version 21.01 | EVE Online](https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/patch-notes-version-21-01#2023-01-18.1)** > > Patch Notes released on 2nd of February are now available! > Added access restrictions to Tranquility from mainland China. Interesting tidbit today. What is that about? No announcement, not explanations either. ---
**Author:** ![Ryanna\_Wu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ryanna_wu/32/359186_2.png) [@Ryanna\_Wu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ryanna_Wu)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/2 "2023-01-18T12:10:10Z")
This is a dead game NOW. ---
**Author:** ![Tosadur\_Boloskarl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tosadur_boloskarl/32/415945_2.png) [@Tosadur\_Boloskarl](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tosadur_Boloskarl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/3 "2023-01-18T12:43:05Z")
What in tarnation is going on? The Chinese community is one of the largest here! They are family! RL pressure from the powers-that-be? I pay for two accounts; others pay a manure-cart-load for more. I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/4 "2023-01-18T12:53:36Z")
The new Infinity server is never going to get enough players if Chinese people can connect to TQ. Also, CCP doesn’t want its citizens playing these Western games where people can get silly and foolish little ideas put into their heads, like for example feeling that they should be able to say anything they want without going to a reeducation camp, or not wanting to be given a lethal injection in one of the country’s many (very successful) execution buses for not meeting their social credit quota one year. So they probably kindly asked the _other_ CCP (the one that’s not the world’s biggest economy and doesn’t have a bunch of nuclear ICBMs) to put in this little fix, or their intellectual property would be confiscated and they’d be barred from doing business in China ever again. Them’s the breaks. By the way, you’ve got like an hour or two tops before this thread is locked and unlisted, so better make the most of it while you can. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/5 "2023-01-18T13:04:55Z")
Yay, less bots… ---
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/6 "2023-01-18T13:21:35Z")
We _told_ Fraternity not to poke the bear, man ---
**Author:** ![Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/starlight_glimmer_s_labourer/32/350806_2.png) [@Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Starlight_Glimmer_s_labourer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/7 "2023-01-18T13:52:04Z")
> [@Destiny\_Corrupted](#): > > Infinity 服务器 I have met a lot of people from different professions who play EVE, including government servants, police officers and military personnel, which you call the “powerful sector”. But I just want to tell you the obvious: I and my friends just want to enjoy EVE on the Infinity server. No Chinese player has ever been imprisoned, assassinated, had their credit card confiscated or any other stupid “political persecution” for playing EVE. All I see is that CCP is banning me from its games. ---
**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/8 "2023-01-18T13:55:11Z")
> [@Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](#): > > All I see is that CCP is banning me from its games. Trust me, the CCP you _think_ is banning you isn’t the CCP that actually _is._ _Our_ CCP would never do it because it simply loves money too much. ---
**Author:** ![God\_Emperor\_Kane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/god_emperor_kane/32/399336_2.png) [@God\_Emperor\_Kane](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/God_Emperor_Kane)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/9 "2023-01-18T13:55:42Z")
Frat killed my ship. So I told the company as large share holder to disable access. I joke of course but there goes my turkey shoot. ---
**Author:** ![Zeta\_Prime](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zeta_prime/32/339125_2.png) [@Zeta\_Prime](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zeta_Prime)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/10 "2023-01-18T14:05:29Z")
reeducation camp sounds familiar, you mean the country has only 5% of the earth’s population, but holds 25% of the world’s prisoners? ---
**Author:** ![Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/starlight_glimmer_s_labourer/32/350806_2.png) [@Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Starlight_Glimmer_s_labourer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/11 "2023-01-18T14:08:50Z")
> **[EVE - 欧服华人正面决战十国联军！在绝境中血战到底！\_哔哩哔哩\_bilibili](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rx41147vd/)** > > 这应该是欧服历史上第一场完全由华人挑大梁，以少打多而且最后还打赢的大仗。 > 在结束后一个名为FRT/TRI/SC Delete FCON Fortizar的帖子成为Reddit的首页热帖，无论是敌还是我的外国玩家都对FRT快速成长的战斗素质给予了高度的评价。 > 甚至还有人说：Looking at FRT's numbers, I am just gonna start calling this, 视频播放量 3519880、弹幕量 20904、点赞数 82013、投硬币枚数... One more piece of evidence for you: this video about a Chinese player fighting on the Infinity server was posted to the BILIBILI website - a video site controlled and managed by the Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of China - and it has been on this site for five years and has already had 350w views. If the CCP doesn’t want his people to play on the Infinity server, why didn’t she delete the video? ---
**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/12 "2023-01-18T14:12:57Z")
Just because there was no enforcement in the past, doesn’t mean there won’t be enforcement in the future. For example, Steam was allowed in China just fine, until recently it _wasn’t._ My Chinese friends on Steam weren’t too happy about that, I can tell you that much. ---
**Author:** ![Zeta\_Prime](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zeta_prime/32/339125_2.png) [@Zeta\_Prime](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zeta_Prime)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/13 "2023-01-18T14:13:56Z")
> [@Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](#): > > [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rx41147vd](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rx41147vd) > > One more piece of evidence for you: this video about a Chinese player fighting on the Infinity server was posted to the BILIBILI website - a video site controlled and managed by the Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of China - and it has been on this site for five years and has already had 350w views. > > If the CCP doesn’t want his people to play on the Infinity server, why didn’t she delete the video? That object is just a hater, don’t be so serious with it ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/14 "2023-01-18T14:17:37Z")
FRT is well-known for getting caught botting. If this move reduces that, then good riddance… ---
**Author:** ![Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/starlight_glimmer_s_labourer/32/350806_2.png) [@Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Starlight_Glimmer_s_labourer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/15 "2023-01-18T14:22:41Z")
Your statement is hilarious to me because I’m launching STEAM right now ---
**Author:** ![Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/starlight_glimmer_s_labourer/32/350806_2.png) [@Starlight\_Glimmer\_s\_labourer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Starlight_Glimmer_s_labourer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/16 "2023-01-18T14:23:19Z")
THX (,´•ω•)ノ"(´っω•｀。) ---
**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/17 "2023-01-18T14:34:25Z")
Give another year for the licensing regulations to kick in. We’ll revisit the topic at that time. Until then, you can spend your time rabidly defending your government instead of even considering the possibility that this game’s developers didn’t “ban” their second largest national demographic by choice. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/18 "2023-01-18T14:36:21Z")
Russians down. Chinese down. Canadians, you’re next… 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/19 "2023-01-18T14:53:39Z")
Mais non! **We shall fight them on the bleachers.** **We shall fight them in the Timmies (while waiting calmly in line.)** **We shall fight them in the trendy malls, at the local cafés (here’s your tip, ma’am!), we shall fight them in the traffic snarls (don’t shake your fist dear, it’s not polite.)** **We shall never surrender!** We won’t be rude about it, but we _will_ give you a pretty firm what-for. Best not to push, really. ---
**Author:** ![Chong\_Bong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/chong_bong/32/350850_2.png) [@Chong\_Bong](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Chong_Bong)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290/20 "2023-01-18T17:12:59Z")
Long overdue. Now it is time to remove permissions for VPN connections to finally close the door. [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/pn-18-01-23-access-restrictions-for-mainland-china/392290.md?page=2)