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Chinese Bureaucrats Duel Over Right To Regulate WoW

Posted by samzenpus on from the great-wall-of-azeroth dept.

upto0013 writes "Chinese bureaucrats are battling each other for the right to regulate World of Warcraft. They hope to gain the political clout and the revenue that comes along with controlling a new industry with potential for explosive growth. 'If you supervise a more dynamic area with a lot of growth potential, you have more budget and more administrative muscle,' said Edward Yu, president of Analysys International, an Internet research firm in Beijing. 'They see this pie is getting bigger and bigger, so it is no wonder different administrations are fighting over pieces of that territory.' It's absurd how orcs and elves (and Moonkin) can affect so many different faraway places."

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  1. Can we watch? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chinese bureaucrats are battling each other for the right to regulate World of Warcraft.

    Can they fight within the game so we can all watch?

    (So. Would being mod'ed a "troll" be good or bad for this thread?)

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    1. Re:Can we watch? by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's gonna be a big hit.

      Crouching Tauren, Hidden Draenei

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    2. Re:Can we watch? by DeadDecoy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah, it'll probably be boring. The only thing they're gonna do is farm for gold.

    3. Re:Can we watch? by fractoid · · Score: 2, Funny

      We had two bags of Fras Siabi's finest, seventy-five pellets of vision dust, five sheets of high-powered mana residue, a saltshaker half-full of R.O.I.D.S, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of sulfuron slammer, a quart of volatile rum, a case of dark iron ale, a pint of raw embalming fluid, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the embalming fluid. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an embalming binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

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  2. I've been playing WoW too much... by Bookwyrm · · Score: 5, Funny

    My first mental image was a conference room full of bureaucrats and a duel flag dropping down in the middle.

    Or two opposing teams of bureaucrats playing a Warsong Gulch match.

    Hmm. Does anyone else think this could be the next big MMO? "That's not a red health bar on the boss -- that's how much red tape you have to cut through!"

    1. Re:I've been playing WoW too much... by shentino · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's pit them against the IRS!

  3. New race? by Krneki · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean I can play as a Chinese bureaucrat now? And I guess the special spell would be Silence your opponent.

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  4. Re:The first line of the story tells you everythin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The state controlled media has assured us of their lack of bias from of an investigative report they did on themselves assuring us they were unbiased.

  5. Re:A real WoWHead by borizz · · Score: 2, Funny

    How? You're always OOM. There's no boom in oom.