Isn’t the portrayal of homosexuality illegal in China ?
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It is, in fact, illegal in China.
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In russian WoW centaur quest makes them blood brothers.
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They’re putting chemicals in the water that make the dragon isles gay.
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The two centaurs quest in China was actually two prominent centaur businessmen secretly working very hard, 90 hours a week without extra pay to take over an orc business to prosper the glorious future of the centaur people.
CCP Approval Stamp.
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isn’t china-wow going going gone?
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Blood brothers. Roommates. Cousins. We get it.
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Blizz and their Chinese publisher could not come to an agreement so there is no WoW in China going forward.
People saying Blizz pulled out of China? Saying they couldn’t come to an agreement means just that - they both want something different and couldn’t agree on terms. Some have speculated it is due to new rules limiting game time for those under 16 - so maybe the publisher needed more money to account for sub losses? Who knows, but it wasn’t an act of Blizz standing up for any group’s values (unless you count their stock value).
No, they don’t. Because WOW China is gone.
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I think the deal fell through cuz it’s hard to profit when China is restricting playtime to like only an hour a day.
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Is it because they refused to remove the homosexual quests ?
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It’s still going until Jan 23rd.
Good honestly. I’m sick of the folks going “hur hur no lgbt in china wow” like its some big gotcha.
Blizz has no control over what China does with their version of the game.
No, this is why…
“In August last year, Beijing imposed a crackdown on games that made already strict limits even tougher. Those rules barred Chinese children and teenagers from online gaming on school days, and limited them to one hour a day on weekend and holiday evenings. China also placed tougher restrictions on gaming licenses.
Those rules were part of a wider government crackdown that has pulled some of China’s most valuable technology companies including NetEase closer to central government priorities such as antitrust and data security.”
-New York times
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WoW is a sub based game , why would they care if someone plays 1 hour a day or no hours a day as long as they have the sub.
Ask the Chinese government. Maybe they wanted a reduction in sub cost that would make releasing the game there pointless from a money making stand point.
Who knows
Metrics? Also, if I recall correctly Chinese players pay per hour, instead of per month.
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If that is indeed the case, then the “traditional” players can move to China and/or Russia.
I think so, but the blur out the private parts.
Found this from 6 years ago.
75RMB($11) for 30 days gametime,
198RMB($30) for 90 days gametime,
360RMB($54) for 270 days gametime.
The playtime system will be canceled on Aug 4th
Previous playtime can be converted by a rate of 150 minutes = 1 day, or be used in 2 years.
Also FYI, the playtime used to be 30RMB ($5) for 2700 minutes.