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World Of Warcraft Sees Content Changes In China

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By Tom Ivan

August 7, 2009

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Blizzard’s World Of Warcraft has partially re-launched in China with a series of government-enforced content changes.

The game had seen an extended period of downtime following the transition to new local operator NetEase, but has reopened in beta form with a number of content changes following a review by the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), a governmental agency that deals with censorship.

According to MMOSite.com, which has a number of before and after pictures, piles of bones in the title have been replaced by sandbags and the colour of blood has been changed from red to black.

In April NetEase signed a licensing deal with Blizzard to operate World Of Warcraft in mainland China for the next three years, taking over from previous operator The9.


Richie Hogan's picture
On August 9th Richie Hogan said:

mao tse tung,best gamer ever!over 70 million kills online,oh wait,offline?ooooh nevermind....(starvation and torture kills dont count apparently)

Indrema's picture
On August 7th Indrema said:

On the upside, the Chinese version of C.S.I. fits on a single YouTube file.

mentor07825's picture
On August 9th mentor07825 said:

It's extremly important! Think of the convenience the Chinese people are getting because of that.

I don't think China is being hard to its people or anything at all.

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I don't think it's being hard enough.....

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See my profile picture? I quite like their philosiphy. Let me in China and become ruler for a few years, then they'd appreciate the current governement!!!!

Raul23's picture
On August 7th Raul23 said:

The Joker runs China too apparently.

GeeLW's picture
On August 7th GeeLW said:

Black Blood and Sandbags?

I think I just found the names of my two new ponies...

AndyLC's picture
On August 7th AndyLC said:

Whoah

does this mean Undead can wear PANTS and don't have their shoulderblades jutting out of plate armor???

Jack_'s picture
On August 7th Jack_ said:

Turns out you can release gang games in China, as long as you call them "factions."

mentor07825's picture
On August 9th mentor07825 said:

Epic!