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WoW has been offline for a month in China

by Griffin McElroy on Jul 8th 2009 4:00PM

We all know by now that when stripped of their narcotic/online game, World of Warcraft players tend to react ... adversely. Now, imagine that reaction spread over a nation with 1.3 billion inhabitants. For a month. Sadly, that's the gruesome scene over in China, where WoW has been offline for over 30 days, turning the nation into a veritable ocean of flailin' and wailin'.

The culprit for the lengthy disconnect is NetEase, the company who recently took over the game's server maintenance from former web operator The9. Due to "some factors which are out of our control," the game's servers have been offline for a month -- meanwhile, other MMOs are kicking their Chinese ad campaigns into high gear, attempting to sway the jilted masses. Good luck with that.

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Tags: blizzard, china, mmo, netease, pc, world-of-warcraft, wow

Reader Comments (38)

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I do believe those people played on Taiwanese or other foreign servers. WoW has been offline in China proper since The9 went belly up.

Yeah, those are people playing on foreign servers. There is no WoW in China.

And you thought chineese death rates related to gaming were hard to believe before!

It's down! It's down! Conan, go for the legs! LOTR go for the arms! What about about you, D&D? Me? I'm going FREE!!!!

This is kind of tasteless, but there actually is heavy rioting going on in western China right now. Coincidence?

Now all you have to do if you want China and Korea to go to war is to shut down the Starcraft servers...

Didn't you hear? They're taking away LAN. Shit is going DOWN!

The anal insertion of the remote gets me every time in that video.

Oh my god! That video...is not safe work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-IcUMLoogk

Check out the remix.

"3 Million people want to know why you stuck a remote in your butt"

Wow joystiq, way to stay on the ball. Kotaku dropped this story on June 25th....

Why don't you just get all your news from there then? I'm sure they would love to be graced by your precense.

Fuck Kotaku, I can't stand their awful attempts at snark and their dozens of completely irrelevant barely even game related posts, not to mention all their writers seem to be pretentious assholes, who arent even funny like our own assholes here

Yeah, I don't get that. Why do all the Kotaku lovers feel the need to post about who broke the story first? If they're so fucking great then do us all a favor and stay over there. I don't read Kotaku - their website hurts my eyes. I'm thankful that Joystiq posted this at all.

Thank you Joystiq.

And your point is?

I can't be the only one who finds merit in reading both Joystiq and Kotaku am I?

somewhat unrelated but how can you support a website whose reviewers say things like this (shaun white snowboarding world stage preview which just happens to be a snowboarding game on the wii which features shaun white and the balance board):

"Because I'm a total amateur with Shaun White and not big on the Balance Board..."

"I'm not a fan of the Wii Balance Board, so I wasn't really looking forward to "feet-on time" with the game"

I found that after a search for info about the game that I saw talked about here on joystiq first. After reading journalisim that sounds like it was written by someone in high school, I think I'll avoid that all together and stick with the 'stiq. Go back to the white castle parking lot from whence you came.

Yeah that was really my point. Apparently it was lost in translation.

O_o You actually cared about the review of a snowboarding game...

and their comment system sucks even more than it does here, which really says something.

Agreed, Kotaku royally blows. The writers are elitist nintendo fanboys.

I think he was leaning more towards the fact that the "reviewer" doesn't give a damn about 1. Snowboarding 2. The balance board 3. The Wii. so why the hell is he writing an article on three things he doesn't care about only to bring his own bias into the mix and drag the game down just because he's a complete dick muncher. If kotaku wanted to be considered a reputable source of information for gamers they should have gotten someone who actually even remotely had intrest in any of those three. If they don't have someone like that then don't report the news at all and just go back to stories about the PS360, which is fine, but if you let your bias infiltrate part of your "journalism" then nothing is credible.

I agree with Dark Wayne.. Everytime I'm on kotaco I have to rife thru all this non-gaming garbage to find a hint of useful gaming news. And their mobile website is dreadful! Non of the pics show, half the links don't work, etc.

Joystiq is better by leaps & bounds in every aspect.

The video of that kid freaking out is just plain disturbing....wow.

lol troll-fanboys...

i dont think you know what troll means

lol-person that can't reply to his own comment...

i think you have the definition of troll a bit backwards...

in other news rioting has erupted in western China...

I think that vid has scarred me for life.

"In other news, the suicide rate in China went up by 50%."

I was going to make a comment about the riots, but then I realised hundreds of people had died as a result :(

My thoughts exactly.

Since the goldfarmers have to play on the US servers to sell to US customers, I don't see how the Chinese servers shutting down would affect them at all.

Lame... Way to bring us all down with reality Deterrence.

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