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World Of Warcraft censored in China?

WoW re-launches with government-enforced changes
Blizzard's mighty World Of Warcraft MMO has been re-launched in China following some serious downtime. We say serious, because the game seems to have re-launched with some government-enforced content changes.

The game was pulled offline following the move to a new online operator called NetEase. And now it's back online in beta form with a number of content changes. These changes are the result of a review by the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), also known as the people who deal with censorship.

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According to MMOSite, which has a number of before and after pictures, bones have been replaced by sandbags and the colour of blood is now black. Go and have a look if you don't believe us.

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Posted by Tonyb
Messed up Dictatorship, great game!!
Posted by Bothanspy
I think I speak for everyone when I say this, the chinese government should just f**k off.
Posted by FinalBillybong
+1
Posted by marktbde
that doesn't particularly make sense to be honest. There will be young kids in China growing up thinking we're made out of sandbags now!. strange, strange country. Germany are just as bad mind you.
Posted by greatno
Wait, you mean we're not made of sandbags?
Posted by Shin_Kojima
I suppose a lot of WoW players resemble sandbags more than they do humans.
Posted by cjw101
:? Can't really remember any blood or gore in WoW...
Posted by sanctoon
so, how was WoW without 5 milion chinese gold miners for a while
Posted by loopy bubbletush
You're not thinking it through man. I think you'll find that a good amount of those gold farmers played on European/American servers, and so were not affected in the slightest by this. :wink:
Posted by El tincheo
Its a bit crazy isn't it? I mean,you wouldn't think wow to be a violent game with limbs flying off people and blood all over the place. Maybe the chinese haven't played fallout or prototype yet? :D
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