WoW Expansion Still Under Review In China
October 31, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under MMORPG, MMORPG News
It has been almost a year since the worldwide launch of World of Warcraft’s expansion Wrath of the Lich King, but the China hub, hosted by NetEase, has yet to implement it. No surprise there, true, but if the company wishes not to end up the way executives of The9, the game’s previous license holder, did, it is highly recommended they just agree with whatever the Chinese governments wants to implement in the game so it can be patched … asap!
An official of China’s Ministry of Culture told online games portal 17173 recently that they were still reviewing NetEase’s application for Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion of the company’s licensed massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.
This official, however, declined to confirm a release date for the expansion, the interview added.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King wallpaper from Blizzard Entertainment
Earlier this week, it was revealed that shareholders of online games operator The9 sued company executives before a United States court for allegedly violating the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by making inaccurate statements about its finances between November 15th, 2006 and July 15th, 2009.
If I read that class suit right, it seemed that company officials hid the drop in revenues from shareholders. This same decline in income reportedly led to the loss of The9’s license to operate World of Warcraft in China.
My only advice is, “Guys, while you bicker among yourselves, it is your players, loyal customers, who are suffering the most.”
For more information about World of Warcraft, I suggest you hie off to another great b5media EveryJoe blog, WoW Obsessed.
