It took a lot longer than publisher Activision Blizzard wished it did, we are sure. but now it seems that the Chinese version of Blizzard's hit MMO World of Warcraft is back in full (i.e. commercial) operation. Gamasutra reports that the Chinese servers went back up over the past weekend.

Blizzard expected downtime of only a few weeks in China this past June when it decided to transition its World of Warcraft license to another operator, NetEase. However the game took a lot longer to come back online as the Chinese government mandated some content changes to the game. The big question is how many of the millions of Chinese players will return to the game after such a long time