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World of Warcraft: Chinese Servers Shut Down Again

Posted November 3rd, 2009 by Medawky

Chinese gamers in store for a long period of Tuesday morning blues.

In the continuing on again-off again saga that has come to define Blizzards operations in China, the games servers have once again gone dark. The perpetual tuesday morning that Chinese gamers endured for most of 2009 has been extended indefinitely as NetEase, the company tasked with the localization of the game, was found to have commited "gross violations" of Chinese law. But don't cry too much for Blizzard, according to a Reuters report, Chinese operations only account for about 10% of their annual earnings.

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That has to be really frustrating. Not just for Blizzard, but the Chinese people who keep getting sidelined.

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Originally Posted by Martuk

That has to be really frustrating. Not just for Blizzard, but the Chinese people who keep getting sidelined.

Ain't communism just grand. People should appreciate the freedom they have here in the USA.

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was found to have commited "gross violations" of Chinese law.

So translating this from "corrupt Chinese bureaucratic" speak means they were not paying enough in bribe money... silly Blizzard.

Not really, its a capitalist law that is the problem, or was. China's government does everything it can to protect Chinese businesses and ensure money in China, stays in China, as it doesn't benefit China if it ends up in some American's back pocket.

So when Blizzard signed their new contract with NetEase there were issues that they were not only taking too much money, but providing technical services that legally should've been provided by a Chinese company, not a foreign company.

If B...

Well business free will is at stake here. Governments period shouldn't be allowed to tell it's people what they can legally do with their earnings. Well Bob you live here in the US? If you do you should be backing the free will of people period. Screw government. Red, black, yellow who gives two cents. People are what is important.

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