{"id":1048,"date":"2010-08-10T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2010-08-10T23:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T06:28:51","slug":"china-is-finally-getting-wrath-of-the-lich-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/china-is-finally-getting-wrath-of-the-lich-king\/","title":{"rendered":"China is finally getting Wrath of the Lich King"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.wow.com\/media\/2009\/10\/wrathundeadchina.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long, hard, ridiculous road for Blizzard to get the Chinese government&#8217;s approval to make <em>Wrath of the Lich King<\/em> content available to their citizens. So ridiculous, in fact, that it&#8217;s difficult to nail down just which related stories are the most important. We could tell you about: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2009\/02\/11\/the9-may-release-wotlk-to-china-on-february-19th\/\">it was reportedly ready to go in early 2009<\/a>, but Blizzard&#8217;s Chinese then-distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2009\/04\/15\/rumor-the9-loses-license-in-china-to-netease\/\">The9 was released from its duties after poor management<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>How <em>WoW<\/em> China&#8217;s new distributor, NetEase, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2009\/07\/22\/chinas-ministry-of-culture-approves-wow-content\/\">had to get the entire game re-approved<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2009\/07\/30\/wow-china-hit-with-more-censorship-upon-relaunch\/\">upon its relaunch, it faced heavy censorship<\/a> not requested under its previous owners;<\/li>\n<li>How <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2009\/09\/18\/is-chinas-wow-delay-politically-motivated\/\">the entire re-approval process may have been politically motivated<\/a> due to US-China trade relations;<\/li>\n<li>How <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2009\/11\/02\/chinas-gapp-halts-wow-review-calls-collecting-subscriptions-i\/\"><em>Wrath<\/em>&#8216;s content review by the government was halted due to collecting subscription fees being &#8220;illegal&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2010\/02\/08\/no-new-wow-accounts-in-china\/\">creation of new accounts was suspended<\/a> pending investigation;<\/li>\n<li>And how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2010\/02\/12\/burning-crusade-approved-in-china\/\"><em>Burning Crusade<\/em> was only <em>just<\/em> approved a few months ago<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/tags\/china\">a ton more to it<\/a>. But we might finally be nearing the end of this sordid story, according to the Wall Street Journal. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704164904575420873859026684.html?ru=yahoo&amp;mod=yahoo_hs\"><em>Wrath of the Lich King<\/em> is set to launch in China next week<\/a>, barring any more instances of draconian politics, censorship, or mismanagement. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlmpacificepoch.com\/newsstories?id=143005_0_5_0_M\">Let&#8217;s just hope that nobody in China wants to play as a death knight<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/wrath-of-the-lich-king\/\" rel=\"tag\">Wrath of the Lich King<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2010\/08\/10\/china-is-finally-getting-wrath-of-the-lich-king\/\">China is finally getting Wrath of the Lich King<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\">WoW.com<\/a> on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:00:00 EST.  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So ridiculous, in fact, that it&#8217;s difficult to nail down just which related stories are the most important. We could tell you about: How it was reportedly ready to go in early 2009, but Blizzard&#8217;s Chinese then-distributor The9 was released from its duties after poor management; &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/china-is-finally-getting-wrath-of-the-lich-king\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[337,452,979,832,831,830],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}