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It seems a patch for the Raven Shield multiplayer demo is on the way. Although it's very obvious that the game is riddled with bugs, such a patch was not expected and has come as a suprise to the rapidly growing community.

Part of the team is working up a patch that will solve the majority of the bugs you've encountered. We still don't have all the required elements to give you guys an official date (which will be in the upcoming days)

As you can see, apparently we'll see the patch within days, however with the number of issues that need to be addressed I assure you nothing is concrete and I don't recommend holding your breath.

On a similar note; for those of you that are still unsure about the situation with the GA RVS servers, they will remain offline until a response is recieved from UBI to confirm that third-party browser support will be offered in the retail version (currently the only way to play is through UBI). UBI dev team members have stated they do not intend to alienate third-party browsers and certain changes will be implemented in the shelf version, however there have been no promises.
With any luck changes will be made in the upcoming patch that give GA the confirmation they need to launch their demo servers again!

News source: AusGamers

Restricted sites fell into some of the following categories:

Dissident or democracy sites, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and "dozens of Falun Gong and Falun Dafa sites"

News sites: BBC News Online was consistently inaccessible, with only partial access to such sites as CNN and Time Magazine

Health sites, including the Aids Healthcare Foundation and Internet Mental Health

Taiwanese and Tibetan sites

Religious sites, including the Atheist Network and the Catholic Civil Rights League

The authors suggest that methods of denying access to certain parts of the web from China have grown more sophisticated, with at least four filtering methods now in operation.

But although "there is some evidence that the [Chinese] government has attempted to prevent the spread of unwanted material by preventing the spread of the internet itself, [there is] a concomitant desire to capture the economic benefits of networked computing," the report says.

This has led to multiple strategies to control access, such as encouraging internet use in cyber cafes "rather than in private spaces so that customers' surfing can be physically monitored by others".