![]() ![]() ![]() This is because COHO:C is Relic's attempt to overcome the piracy problems that afflict a lot of Western games in China: the double-whammy of a login to a persistent server and the sporadic cash-trickle of folk buying new in-game gizmos. It's currently in open beta, and free to all comers, but is supported by boo! hiss! micropayment units, upgrades et al. Seeing as the sign-up process and game itself is in Chinese, there's some faffery necessary to get most of it running in English, and even then you'll be dealing with the lag inherent with connecting to servers on the other side of the world. They've just revealed a way for us Western-types to have a crack at it, and for free too. ![]() Relic are meanies! Meanies! They go and make an exciting-sounding MMO-esque follow-up to Company of Heroes, complete with persistent online characters and ranks, and then they only go and restrict it to China. ![]()
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