Chinese Upset Over WoW Ban; Google Leaving, OK

[bin1127]

WoW banned in China last year is actually news to me. Good job Kevin, double feature.

 

[Abrahm]

Of course the Chinese are upset about WoW being banned... Half of them lost their gold farming jobs!

 

[BluntObjection]

Hu Jintao plays WoW with no ping,
Microsoft pays him to use its Bing.
Yeah, Ya feel me?

...I should be a rapper.

 

[phexac]

Honestly, even in the US, where Google has a much larger share of search engine market, I doubt most consumers would miss it if it went away. Bing, yahoo, ask.com, many others. Not like google is this super sometime that is integral to our lives. It's just a glorified ad agency.

 

[kelfen]

WoW is that awesome its magic!!!

 

[hotchrisbfries]

[citation][nom]redkachina[/nom]Now there's two great wall in China lol..[/citation]

One can be seen from space, the other cyberspace!

 

[Guest]

No, Wow is not banned. where did tom's get those bs stories from?
here is site if you want to start playing wow in chinese 😛 http://www.warcraftchina.com/index.html

 

[wiglyworm]

ppl from the states playing on any server other than the chinese accounts can play no problemo. its just the chinese servers that are shut down (which are completely different, incompatible and unrealated to the ones we play on ) so if you happen to live and work overseas like me then no prob, also, hotspotshiled works just fine through to blocked sites. Hooray !

 

[sykozis]

[citation][nom]micky_lund[/nom]who cares about WoW tho?[/citation]

Ummm...Blizzard and the millions of people playing it.

 

[zak_mckraken]

Great Firewall of China

Can you see it from space?

No. But I can see it from Google Earth though! Bazinga!

 

[mitch074]

@asd23123: it is blocked IN CHINA; as in, the game's servers are blocked by Chinese ISPs. Moreover, the website has little to do with in-game experience.

 

[benyanc]

Every time Tom's mentions anything remotely related to China, 100 idiots pop up to offer their 2 cents. I wonder what percentage of these people have even visited the country, or the Asian continent for that matter. Worried about censorship? When was the last time you had anything to say that was worthwhile hearing?

 

[sliem]

I didn't know WoW is banned in China. What was the reason?
As for google exit from China, I wouldn't be upset either. I'd use Bing.

 

[formin]

the country where video games are more loved then porn

 

[fulle]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]I didn't know WoW is banned in China. What was the reason?As for google exit from China, I wouldn't be upset either. I'd use Bing.[/citation]

IIRC, they wanted to censor the blood, and things like bones laying around... and Blizzard tried to appease the censorship by replacing various things with sandbags (seriously, I wouldn't make something that stupid up).

[citation][nom]formin[/nom]the country where video games are more loved then porn[/citation]

No no no. You're thinking of South Korea.

 

[CrashOverride90]

I am glad i don't live in china. However funny thing lot of Chinese people don't really use Google. Just couple days back I was talking to a friend in china and I gave her youtube link and she is like it doesn't work give me the name of the song and i will search it on baidu...

I chuckled inside a bit...I was like really? "search it on baidu?" I was half expecting the usual response....which would be "i will google it"

Basically my point is even if google pulls out of china, it wont be missed for long. Baidu is pretty much the Google for china except Baidu doesn't get used as a verb and a noun...lol

 

[megamanx00]

There is definitely something wrong here.

 

[eccentric909]

[citation][nom]graymen[/nom]I played WoW in China as recently as August 2009 on a business trip. WoW being banned in China is news to me? btw, the great firewall of china is real but also has a lot of holes in it. Oh yeah, and facebook IS blocked in China... that was probably the biggest bummer.[/citation]

Playing WoW on chinese servers is banned. You can still play WoW within China, but you'll either be on a Taiwan, EU, US or Oceanic server.

The article is a bit unclear when it comes to that, unless you know the situation. WoW itself isn't banned in China, just Chinese WoW servers.

 

[eccentric909]

[citation][nom]Abrahm[/nom]Of course the Chinese are upset about WoW being banned... Half of them lost their gold farming jobs!
[/citation]

Unfortunately, the gold farmers play on US, EU and other servers, where it is much easier to sell the gold they are farming. 😉

 

[Guest]

Your just getting what you deserve China.

Stop hacking and being our enemy!!!!!