World of Warcraft China Suspended

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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.

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.

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Now if only we could get them to be so quick to act suspending putting poison in everyones food and play things.

[Johan]

I don't know about WoW...I'm just glad Google is standing up for free speech in China.

[Anenome]

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 ^_~

[Orphiuchus]

Sometimes I wonder how would people get by without governments to tell them how to live.

[EvilBob46]

Originally Posted by Johan

I don't know about WoW...I'm just glad Google is standing up for free speech in China.

Yeah, let's not expect our own government to stand up for free speech and instead give that responsibility to the corporations.

[Johan]

Originally Posted by EvilBob46

Yeah, let's not expect our own government to stand up for free speech and instead give that responsibility to the corporations.

When our president panders to China by not meeting with the Dalai Lama, and our secretary of state puts human rights on the backburner, do you seriously expect anything different? I don't.

In fact, the common denominator is money. Our government begs/borrows it from China, and our companies crave it through business with China.

So I'm sure WoW can get back into China if they just grease the appropriate 'wheels' of commerce over there.

[Zeal]

who cares

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[lockwoodx]

It's been this way since last summer when blizz found out they were trying to create their own version of wow called "World of Fight". Old news.

[Anenome]

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.

[Phoenix1985]

Excellent. Now we can finally include a Pandaren without worrying about that oddball goverment bothering the process.

[Anenome]

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.

[Sensei-X]

Originally Posted by Phoenix1985

Excellent. Now we can finally include a Pandaren without worrying about that oddball goverment bothering the process.

Why yes, yes they can.

http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000763