mmogamer.com - 11/3/2009
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Fans of World of Warcraft residing in China may be in for a rough week.
The General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), a regulatory body of the Chinese government, suspended their approval of Activision Blizzard’s The Burning Crusade (the latest version available in China) today, ...
WoW: reopened in China
examiner.com 9/21/2009 — World of Warcraft has seen some downtime in China for quite a while now. Thankfully, for all Chinese WoW lovers the game is back up. The Chinese website is up and taking account information.Gamasutra has a little backstory on the su...
World of Warcraft China Transition
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Made in China
wowfailblog.com 5/23/2009 — Everyone enjoys having a good ‘lol’ at China - their lax copyright laws, unparalleled gold farming abilities, and their inate skill to generate a cheap knock-off of everything they can get their hands on. World of Warcraft, it seems, is not immune to.. well.. any of these things.
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Wherever I go, trouble follows.
qqpewpew.com 7/16/2009 — Perhaps I am cursed. Be wary! Lately my guild has once again run into attendance problems among other things. Those of you who have been reading for a while will know that this is definitely not the first post I have written regarding my current guild running into problems.
The interesting ...
News - World Of Warcraft Restarts Commercial Operation In China
gamasutra.com 9/21/2009 — After over two months' downtime and a long closed beta, World of Warcraft has finally resumed full operations in China over the weekend, opening the doors of Azeroth once again to millions of users who've been waiting since the beginning of Summer. ...
China Gets Stricter on Foreign Games
jlmpacificepoch.com 3/16/2009 — The General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) intends to tighten approval criteria for online game imports in an effort to protect the development of domestic online game enterprises and avoid the excessive penetration of foreign ...
Blizzard plays down talk of China issues // News
gamesindustry.biz 3/19/2009 — Blizzard has responded to the news that the Chinese government is set to crack down on foreign online games by playing down its significance and insisting that everything working towards the launch of the Lich King expansion to World of Warcraft in ...
WoW China transition begins this month, will be down for weeks
wow.com 6/2/2009 —
JLM Pacific Epoch, the source that revealed this whole WoW China debacle to us in the first place, has continued their ongoing coverage of the World of Warcraft situation in China. As reported previously, The9 is no longer in charge of WoW China. The whole thing has been handed over to ...
With the game offline in China, others aim to step in
wow.com 7/8/2009 — As you may or may not have heard, the World of Warcraft is currently offline in China, thanks to a fight between the game's former licensee, The9, and its current licensee, Netease . Yes, if you think a day or so of downtime is bad here in the US and ...