Talk:Showdown Update/@comment-27403942-20190903004940/@comment-31458611-20190903200131

Yep, Laowailong, I knew that changing country would probably be the first workaround you'd have tried; I asked just in case.

Anyway, I was wondering... given that there are gazillions of mainland Chinese A8 players out there, isn't it odd that no word on the issue has been heard from them?

Either they've all sheepishly accepted that nanny state-ish blackmail by GL as "normal" —which I deeply doubt— or your account was drawn from thousands in a punishing lottery like,"the injunction goes to every 11st player ID whose checksum is FF".

For prizewinners on iOS (I'm just a loser on Android), what if you do the let's-go-west dance only once, then start the game and leave it running in the background while you switch your location back to deal with your local chores? The game will notice the change only when and if you restart it, right?

Maybe it's too early for farewells...