Chinese WOW has been offline for a month

Chinese online gamers have been without World of Warcraft for a month now, thanks to a problematic handover to a new operator in the region.

Servers closed on June 7th and the game was due to be relaunched by the end of the month, but NetEase, the company selected by Blizzard to take over from previous operator The9, has said that factors beyond its control have indefinitely delayed the launch.

"We have met with some factors which are out of our control, the servers reopening will be delayed," NetEase posted on its WOW website last week, according to Reuters. "As of now, we don't have a specific reopening timeframe."

[Antar20]

Good news!

[DragonWarrior_4]

Its cause Korea hired all the hackers from china and they all played WOW. LOL!

[koehler83]

Man, I'd love to see that happen here. Heads would roll.

[kazan]

the economy will be back to normal

[Mr Face Creamer]

Where's all the "Chinese kid kills himself" artiles then...?

[farsided]

ironically i was thinking the exact same thing...

[danielle007]

People must be going insaneee over there. Ik I'd be pretty bummed.. Such a crack addiction..

Hmm, but their gold farming businesses must be suffering! I wonder how they will feed their children..

[Raf1k1]

I don't know about the gold farmers but at least the rest have a chance of regaining a social life.

At least till it's back up and running lol

[Dead_Cell]

Just seems to be a limited grindfest with basic PvP and carebear PvE'ing,There is hardly even any skill to it.
Then again,I guess it's why it appeals so broadly.

[danielle007]

It used to be great.. classic WoW was awesome, 40mans took amazing coordination and naxx was nearly impossible to get the rep for, let alone do. BC was a little bit more nerfy, but still the raids were decent, SSC was impossible for a whilee.. but Lich is sort of a joke, everyone clearing all the content within days of the release, in their 70 gear. I guess they put in hard modes for every boss in ulduar for the hardcore crowd, but the game as a whole has been nerfed beyond repair.

It's heartbreaking.

[farsided]

it's probably because of all the noobs wiping on trash mobs, not due to shear difficulty but rather because of their own stupidity, and then they all turn around and whine in the forums. Those people just need to quit. Sure it might hurt WoW's numbers, but it would vastly improve the game for the real players.

[Dead_Cell]

Shadowbane's city seiges sometimes numbered in there hundreds a side,with each person on a character tooled for there specific job (healing,casting,tanking,DPS,s abatuers,seige weapon experts).
All the time being in co-ordination with other squads in your guild plus the higher up's in the guild co-ordinating OUR job around numerous allied guilds doing there job all as a part of the grand strategy penned out beforehand.
Now that was complex.

[danielle007]

But, WoW definately has some complex boss fights. Even in Lich. Take three drake OS. As a pally tank, you would need to keep adds off all of the healers, and dps, and other tanks, and then make it thru a hole in the firewall each time it happens, and the hole can be in two different spots, so you hafta look up and watch. Also, you must strain to see thru your consecration and the adds to see if you're standing in a void zone, and dodge that as well.
Healers need to do all that, minus the tanking, but keep the tanks around them alive, as well as the dps, and then keep the MT alive as well, especially when he runs out of cooldowns, and believe me they're just trying to die.
The DPS need to keep their DPS up above 3k while dodging all the nonsense and switching targets.

It's a disgusting clusterfudge especially when you see everything. Coordination required. Funfunfun

[vx]

those chines sucks big time, they fvcked up every mmo game out there, they should be completely isolated from the rest of da world