World of Warcraft offline in China

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Chinese MMO players have been driven barmy by almost three weeks of World of Warcraft server outage. If that was Mario Kart outage, we'd lose the plot.

The MMO's servers have been offline in the country since midnight on June 7, when the operating license ended for Blizzard's former Chinese partner, The9.

The developer has chosen a new online company to take over, NetEase, but a company spokesperson declined to comment on when WoW would come back online, in a statement given to Yahoo. For goodness sake Blizzard, people will die.

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A mass of Chinese players are taking refuge on Taiwanese servers for the time being, where log-in times are stretching to a several hours due to the massive demand.

Andy Robinson