Blizzard Awaits China's Approval For WoW Relaunch

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @04:36AM from the wrath-of-the-happy-smile-king dept.

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."

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Irony by Darkness404 · 2009-07-21 04:40 · Score: 1, Troll

Is it ironic that this news comes from an Australian site which the Australian government has expressed support for filtering of downloaded games ( http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/25/1821235 )?

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