Still struggling with Chinese authorities, Reuters is reporting that NetEase.com, the company operating the World of Warcraft servers in China, suspend new user registrations and ceased charging current users.
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NetEase said the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) halted and returned its application to operate the latest version of Activision Blizzard's popular World of Warcraft game due to "gross violations" of regulations.
The agency posted a statement on its Web site demanding that NetEase suspend charging users to play the game, and disallow new account registrations, NetEase said on Monday. The move put the recently-relaunched popular title's future into question in China, and sent NetEase and Activision Blizzard shares down 2.4 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively.
Observers said GAPP's move was the result of a recent turf war between the agency and the Ministry of Culture, which also oversees the online gaming sector.
I'll bet anti-communists were plotting the overthrow of communist rule via party chat while instancing ;P All communication was coded in WoW-speak.
A: "The 'Horde' must be overthrown."
B: "Yes, but the guards are elites, man."
A: "We need to gather epic weapons and armor, man."
B: "Right, and for that we need money."
A: "Exactly, so let's keep gold farming."
B: "Good plan."
Support Gold Farmers and support the revolution ^_~
You're kidding, right? Elric? I can't stand Moorcock. Even his name is ridiculous. And he's a pretentious jerk who's never had a hit half as good as some of the people he claims are terrible writers.
Wasn't Aion or w/e created by the former Chinese middleman of WoW? Or something like that?
I'm quite sure all of this is government sponsored by the Chinese because they consider WoW an imperialist game which will result in a net outflow of Chinese wealth to the West. So they've encouraged and created situations that make it difficult for WoW, while allowing them in long enough to learn enough tricks to duplicate WoW for themselves.
