World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC)China says No to Lich King Expansion, for nowJoyStiq - March 11, 2009
Submitted by deftangel (291)
at 10:16AM PST on March 11, 2009
JLM Pacific Epoch reports the Chinese government "has rejected two applications by the second expansion for World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King since China's Spring Festival (January 25 - February 1)." Considering Blizzard has removed "skeleton characters" from WoW in the past and the supposedly gold farmer-free million plus player count for WoW in China, we're willing to bet Blizzard (and its licensing partner in China, The9) will find a way to release Wrath of the Lich King yet.
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Since the issue is not just skeleton characters, but also "city raid", one of the interesting feature of WoW, I think the issue could potentially be very big (removing a characters should be doable and insignificant changes to gameplay, but removing city raid should be much more difficult and possibly gameplay breaking). Since I didn't play WoW, this is my opinion as non-player.
Someone else who played WoW wanted to comment on skeleton characters and city raid ?