Sorry if this has been asked before. I did try to look it up myself, but either I have deficient Googling skills or the information is simply buried — I can’t seem to get a straight answer from the internet at large, which seems to be more interested in the differences between the Chinese/Western clients, rather than how available each of those clients are to various people.
The issue is that I have an English-speaking friend in China who would like to play with me. She doesn’t yet have GW2. I am on a North American server.
I know that at ONE stage it was possible for Chinese players to have and use the normal client, and play on NA/EU servers — presumably before the Chinese client came out. Now, I’m not sure whether or not that’s still the case, and she doesn’t know which game type (digital/boxed) to get in order to allow her to play with me. Neither of us have any idea whether she can, in fact, even get a non-Chinese client now.
If it helps, she’s somewhat savvy with VPNs (naturally), so if any twiddling is necessary in that regard, she might be able to pull it off.
Any help is appreciated! :)
