World of Warcraft Languishes Offline in China


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A weeks-long World of Warcraft server outage in China has driven masses of players there to the Taiwanese server or to other games while a new operator takes the reins of the Blizzard Entertainment blockbuster in China.

A Blizzard representative Wednesday declined to estimate when World of Warcraft would come back online in China.

World of Warcraft's Chinese servers have been offline since just after midnight on June 7, when the operating license ended for Blizzard's former Chinese partner, The9.

Blizzard had already chosen Chinese portal and online game company NetEase.com to take over the game in China, but NetEase was not ready by the hand-off date. The game has since remained down while NetEase and Blizzard engineers work "around the clock" to bring it back up, according to the official transition Web site.

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read about this earlier, i dont think NetEase will be holding that contract longer then they have already signed, if not shorter.

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and yet there are still tons of people spamming trade chat trying to sell gold.

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WoW in China is such a joke. It's not even worth keeping it up.

For instance, everything referenced to undead had to be changed due to Chinese laws. They couldn't even release WotLK over there.

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and yet there are still tons of people spamming trade chat trying to sell gold.

Because people on the Chinese servers are not the main target for gold sellers?

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I think he means because most farmed gold is from china.

Yeah, but would they not have to be playing on US/EU servers to sell them? I.e. the Chinese server outages won't have much effect on the gold selling businesses?

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