Blizzard Awaits China's Approval For WoW Relaunch 75
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."
Re:You No Take Mao's Candle!!! (Score:0, Insightful)
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?
The real reason for the delay (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Worse than Nintendo (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:You No Take Mao's Candle!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Is OUR candle.
Re:So has anyone died? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Worse than Nintendo (Score:3, Insightful)
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 [wikipedia.org]