More problems for China's World of Warcraft operations?

Posted Nov 3rd 2009 10:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: MMO, World of Warcraft

After weeks of waiting, Blizzard's MMO World of Warcraft finally came back online in mid-September in China after reported issues with that country's government kept the transition to a new provider, NetEase, from, moving as planned. Now our sister site WoW.com reports that there could be problems in China yet again.

According to the article, China's General Administration of Press and Publications have ordered NetEase to suspend taking new accounts and stop taking money from current subscribers. This is apparently at odds with another government entity, the Ministry of Culture, who have called their fellow government division's action's "not appropriate." Sounds like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Tags: blizzard, blizzard-entertainment, netease, world-of-warcraft

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