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Latest World of Warcraft Expansion Blocked In China

Posted by Soulskill on from the mourn-the-farmers dept.

The Opposable Thumbs blog reports that World of Warcraft's most recent expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, is not being allowed into the Chinese market. The Escapist brings further details, saying, "According to an insider, two specific shortcomings included the presence of skeleton characters and a 'city raid.' Nor did the submitted version contain the starting area for the game's new Death Knight class." The Chinese version of World of Warcraft has been modified in the past to remove skeletons and zombies.

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  1. WTF? by Moraelin · · Score: 4, Funny

    WTF? So what did they replace the whole plaguelands, undercity, Tirisfal, and Silverpine with? Evil Tibetans? ;)

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    1. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If we combine chinese and US censorship, will there be anything left?

    2. Re:WTF? by Yvanhoe · · Score: 3, Funny

      So you mean that gothic kids are taken seriously there ?

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    3. Re:WTF? by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

      If we combine chinese and US censorship, will there be anything left?

      There goes my concept of a game with devil worshiping big breasted skeletons... Back to the drawing board.

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    4. Re:WTF? by bsane · · Score: 4, Funny

      There goes my concept of a game with devil worshiping big breasted skeletons... Back to the drawing board.

      I know you've probably never felt any breasts (this being slashdot and all), but to the best of my knowledge they don't have bones.

    5. Re:WTF? by Fred_A · · Score: 4, Funny

      There goes my concept of a game with devil worshiping big breasted skeletons... Back to the drawing board.

      I know you've probably never felt any breasts (this being slashdot and all), but to the best of my knowledge they don't have bones.

      Given my target customers, you can trust me, this is completely irrelevant.

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    6. Re:WTF? by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 2, Funny

      Though I must say that if I had to choose between blood and tits, I'd rather take the second :-)

      I'm from Hallmark, a leading world-wide manufacturer of greeting cards. Could I speak to you about perhaps doing some copywriting for our Valentine's Day collection?

    7. Re:WTF? by Zebedeu · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sure man. I'm a veritable fountain of romantic sayings.

      Here's another freebie: If I had to choose between yogurt and tits, I'd take the second.

    8. Re:WTF? by lordtoran · · Score: 3, Funny

      Must feel sort of uncomfortable there, with the lakes etc. slowly starting to boil and vaporize during midday, as the temperature goes past 100 degrees. So far I thought 42 degrees in southern Spain were really hot...

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    9. Re:WTF? by khellendros1984 · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Egyptians found out that da Nile doesn't make it go away, either.

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    10. Re:WTF? by Dhrakar · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Yes, they are real. They are not mine, but they are real."

  2. This is it... by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    The one liberty that they shouldn't have messed with.
    There will be a real life city raid (bloody revolution in Beijing), and China will be a democracy by May.

    1. Re:This is it... by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

      There will be a real life city raid (bloody revolution in Beijing), and China will be a democracy by May.

      Never happen. Gold farmers can't go into the sunlight, they'll burst into flames.

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  3. Great! by Talla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now my gold will be much more valuable in the future.

  4. This is the least of your problems. by jack2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cartoony skeletons with poorly chosen color palettes? Really china? THIS is what you're going to worry about?

    1. Re:This is the least of your problems. by Dread_ed · · Score: 4, Funny

      As someone who has, in the interests of science only I might add, studied those 4 frames you mention quite intensely for hours and hours and hours on end, I can officially state that was not a "small nipple."

      Based on my extensive measurements, it is soundly in the upper 84th percentile of the "humongous" category. Sadly, it doesn't quite reach the rarafied heights of "gargantuan" (except possibly on my 60" TV), but she isn't hungarian either so that wasn't to be expected.

      In the future please leave the classification of nipple sizes to qualified experts. It is already hard enough for the average layman to get back the results he wants from Google when searching between "large," "big," "huge," "giant," "GIANT," "humongous," and the aforementioned "gargantuan" without you hacks muddying these oft-motorboated waters with your slipshod appraisals.

      If you are so inclined, I do have quite a few reference documents (867 gigs) that will help you with your future attempts at nipple classification. Alas, the accompanying certification classes have been cancelled due to lack of attendance. For some reason no one shows up after the first day when we distribute the resource materials.

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  5. Re:Lobby price too low by gzipped_tar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, probably I forgot to explain myself. In the Chinese login screen the frost wyrm is just missing. "Harmonize" is a sarcastic term used by Chinese people to mean "censor", as a pun on the government's self-proclaimed goal of "developing a harmonious society" ;)

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  6. I'M CHINESE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    i'm chinese

    son of a bitch skeleton

    skeleton is pig

    do you want rotten flesh?

    do you want no eyeballs?

    skeleton is pig disgusting

    zombie is an evil

    FUCKING SKELETON!

    1. Re:I'M CHINESE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Burma Shave

  7. confused by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    i saw chinese ghost story recently and there was a scene where clearly rotting corpses were trying to drag the main character into the cellar

    there was even a transvestite tree spirit pimp of dead ghost whores

    so no skeletons... but transvestite tree spirit pimp of dead ghost whores is ok?

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    1. Re:confused by Desiderius · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nerf transvestite tree spirit pimps of dead ghost whores.

  8. Re:Reminds me of my childhood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What if a nazi died on the can? Can we talk about that?