Back when I was in America, my brother got me into the game World of Warcraft. So during the course of my stay I picked up a copy of the game and registered to play.
I returned to Korea a week later, and installed the game on my home computer. The game installed, and works, though due to the fact that my computer is almost 2 years old now, tends to run a little on the slow side.
“No problem,” I think to myself, “when I play at low traffic times the lag isn’t that bad, and if I want to play at high traffic times, I can just head to the local PC 방.”
I’ve seen countless ads for the game on the sides of buses, so I know they had the game here, and if a game exists here they have it at the PC 방. So I headed over to my local PC 방 to test it out today. And to my delight I learned that it doesn’t work.
Since I have an American account, the computer at the PC 방 wouldn’t recognize it. As apparently accounts in America and accounts in Korea are stored in different data bases that have no way of interacting with each other. None of the pasty faced chain smoking PC 방 overseers could get it to work either. So for the time being it looks like I have to deal with lag. That’s what I get for being a geek.
