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Blizzard Awaits China's Approval For WoW Relaunch
angry tapir writes "The relaunch of World of Warcraft in China, where it has already been offline for six weeks, still faces an indefinite delay as it awaits government approval for its content. Problems for Blizzard Entertainment, the game's creator, started when it switched to a new local operator for World of Warcraft in China, online gaming company NetEase. New operators of foreign games have to submit the games for government approval, and China has objected to some of the content it found in its latest review of the game."
The Chinese Communist party got tired of people taking their candles.
Parent != Troll. If I had mod points I would mod you up funny. Too bad people mod ignorantly... topical jokes are cool. What's slashdot for anyway?
It's pretty clear that the real reason for this delay isn't some minor quibble regarding content. It's that China doesn't want a Western/foreign company to dominate their online gaming market.
Clever, unethical (from certain standpoints), and frustrating for Blizzard, no doubt.
Different cultures have different taboos. Remember Janet Jackson during the Superbowl? I'd be willing to bet that gigantic shitstorm in the US would have been perfectly acceptable for a lot of other cultures.
Is not YOUR candle.
Is OUR candle.
They haven't even tried to block anything. The company running the chinese version of wow and their servers just hasn't got permission to get the servers up. Chinese gold farmers are obviously playing on eu/usa servers and selling gold/powerleveling to them, as you cannot transfer gold and characters across usa/eu/china servers.
There was a kids show where opossums blew up their testicles and fought with them, or something like that
Sounds like it may have been Tanuki