Woah, those are some busty drinks bottles...

I jest.

You've gotta think your citizens are quite stupid if you think you need to police how they spend their spare time like that.

Yay, China one step at a time killing itself...this time by banning WoW...it's lose/lose for them...Let WoW in...money and productivity down the drain....Keep WoW out get backlash from the people...muted ofcourse.

I feeling like facepalming in chinas direaction

CantFaketheFunk:
Even in the worst-case scenario - in which WoW is banned in China permanently - Blizzard is unlikely to be severely affected. During the two-month blackout this summer, many Chinese players simply opted to log onto Taiwanese servers and play via that network instead.

So....why not just do that? Why bother with all this stress when there is an alternative that doesn't hurt the consumer?

hansari:

CantFaketheFunk:
Even in the worst-case scenario - in which WoW is banned in China permanently - Blizzard is unlikely to be severely affected. During the two-month blackout this summer, many Chinese players simply opted to log onto Taiwanese servers and play via that network instead.

So....why not just do that? Why bother with all this stress when there is an alternative that doesn't hurt the consumer?

Anything that acknowledges Taiwan hurts China's ego.

One of these days China is going to do something like this to a large enough part of their population to cause a revolution. -crosses fingers-

stonethered:
One of these days China is going to do something like this to a large enough part of their population to cause a revolution. -crosses fingers-

smoking ban lol

This may be the key to bringing down China, we shall use their WoW-obsessed nerds against them!

Gestapo Hunter:

stonethered:
One of these days China is going to do something like this to a large enough part of their population to cause a revolution. -crosses fingers-

smoking ban lol

no,
sex tax

oh silly China doesn't know whats its doing

The only people who play MMO's in China are RMT. Seriously. They work hard and sell money to the Japanese and spoilt Americans.

I think China has had almost as many problems with WoW as they have had with Tienanmen Square.

CantFaketheFunk:

Phoenix Arrow:
The only people who play MMO's in China are RMT. Seriously. They work hard and sell money to the Japanese and spoilt Americans.

Uh... no, not exactly :P

I know. :D
I played FFXI, the game with the most messed up currency ever. No Chinese people played it apart from RMT, someone sent me a documentary about it on youtube back in the day. They used to take people in off the street, give them food and shelter in return for them farming for gil. I still can't decide if it's admirable, pure evil or fake.