Chinese WoW partial relaunch pics, comparison shots of censorship

Posted by neilkstrong on 08 11th, 2009

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MMOsite.com has nabbed some pictures of the return to the Chinese World of Warcraft . As you know if you’ve been paying attention, the game has been offline over there for a few months now, but the game just recently got approved to go back online, and so they’re in the middle of a “partial relaunch” (which I believe is taking the form of a closed beta) and the servers are crowding up again. As you can see, there’s a stampede ( much like ours ) going on in Thunder Bluff — looks like players are happy to be online again. They also have some comparison images of the censorship found over there . Anything with skulls or bones on it is out, and the offending images have been replaced with piles of dirt and bags and debris. Blood appears as black oil rather than red liquid , and even player corpses are out. As you can see, everywhere players die, there are instead little graves and tombstones around. Very interesting. No idea if this actually “helps” in China (or what the point of the censorship is — seems as though it’s a cultural thing, more like it’s a respect for death and dead bodies rather than worrying about whether people will be disturbed by the mention of violence), but of course the government over there has final say on what goes into the game, and apparently this is what they approved. Hopefully Chinese players will be headed back to Northrend before long. Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Events , Odds and ends , Blizzard , Leveling Chinese WoW partial relaunch pics, comparison shots of censorship originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read