China bars WoW expansion for showing bone Stupendously popular online game World of Warcraft's second expansion, "Wrath of the Lich King" is being blocked by Chinese censors for showing too much bone. According JLM Pacific Epoch, China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) has twice rejected applications from Blizzard Entertainment and its …
That was my first reaction, would have been nice.
But I think the Chinese edition is played on completely different servers - the gold farmers/scammers/spammers use the US or Euro edition and play on those servers.
Now, if the Chinese think skeletons are pornographic (or osmethne), it puts a whole new spin on "getting a boner"...
Mine's the epic one from Heroic Naxxramas...
China seems to look on WoW as an alien influence to be controlled whereas it would be closer to the truth to say China is the home of WoW. In much the same way as BeBo is Canadian but for some reason is full of Irish types. A network of WoW capable machines is a resource worth having in any country. The actual players at worst are addicted to a harmless enough drug compared to the alternatives. China should be hosting international WoW conferences rather than dicking around with a bunch of semi-skilled tax paying voters.
I think thats actually the exact opposite. By giving China it's own server, part of the idea was to get them off the western servers and on their own to try and reduce gold farming, as well as increase the gold farming for the companies involved. A few of the MMOGs seem to do it, Blizzard, Turbine, etc all are on the attempts to keep the gold farmers home. Isn't working totally, but even a slight help is better than nothing. And if you get licensing fee's, all the better for the companies.
Just imagine it without local servers, a shedload of extra players from China showing up on the western servers.
So if a skeleton is an 'extreme' nude according to Chinese censorship, wouldn't that mean, by extension, that the UK's IWF would have to then censor / block 'any' website that contains a child image since a UK male might inadvertently see it and turn him into a paedophile?
Australia will just have to turn off the internet since it is full of drug, violence and sexual references, whilst France and Italy will simply make peer to peer completely illegal.
Divide and conquer baby.
Well they want to put minimum prices on Alchole (coz it's bad mm'kay)
Use tax to disuade you from doing anything they or their sponsors don't like (smoke,drink,drive,fly)
(look to) Make things illegal based on no evidence what so ever (extreme porn, cartoons)
Ignore science when their dogma says otherwise (drugs)
Blindly enact law that devistates our global reputation (much of the anti terror legislation)
Place child offenders with foster families that have children (it's too hard to check these things mmm'kay)
the list goes on and on,
however back to WoW,
I can see our puritan overlords wanting to "deal" with it on several levels.
1) There are children and adults in the same location, therefore everyone should be vetted.
2) It is possible to send communications to people all over the world, this means it should be monitored becouse you it could be used to form underground networks terrorist/peadophiles/bdsm/train spotters.
3) At least one "scientist/guy" has said that it's a dangerous addiction like crack, that means it should probably be banned, controlled, taxed or/and have a minimum fee.
Anyway, yeah the UK wont let China be ahead for long.
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