Blizzard Switches World of Warcraft Partner in China
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Juggynaut on Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 46 Comments Tags: blizzard, china, diablo iii, location, map, netease, starcraft II, the9, totally rad guild, venturebeat, world
Juggynaut on Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 46 Comments Tags: blizzard, china, diablo iii, location, map, netease, starcraft II, the9, totally rad guild, venturebeat, world 
In press release earlier today, Blizzard announced that, in China, World of Warcraft will be licensed to NetEase.com, who already has the rights to operate both Starcraft II and Diablo III. Once Blizzard's current deal with The9 expires in June, NetEase will take over the operation of WoW in China, with further details to be announced on their website. According to a VentureBeat article, that means Blizzard's cut of revenue from WoW in China will increase from about $50 million per year over $140 million per year, almost purely profit. It will be interesting to see if this means that Wrath of the Lich King will be coming soon for China, because they still have yet to see it released.This is a reminder of how, although WoW is a huge and global game, we aren't even able to interact in game with nearly everyone due to restrictions like different regions, languages, and servers that the game is played on. In the Totally Rad Guild, we have people from all over the United States, Canada, Australia, and probably more that I don't even know about. So how about you guys - where are you gaming from?
Reader Comments (46)
Canada here! :D
playing on Bleeding Hollow!
Latvia reporting in :)
England here =)
I'm playing from Norway :)
Skullcrusher (EU)
I'm from Israel, most of my guild is English. some are from Belguim, and the rest, I haven't bothered asking :P
Kul Tiras EU
I play from England on the EU server - Dragonblight.
For the Horde!
Poland here :D EU FTW! :D
Commenting from Denmark :D
My guild has people from everywhere, i believe we have one other danish person, a damned load of English and some Dutch i think.. Alot of accents on Vent anyway..
Comming from Denmark :P
playing on Zenedar(EU) with my level 80 warlock :P
a lot of Danes play wow... its a shame we dont have our own server : /
I'm a native Chicagoan, playing on the Hydraxis server. Interestingly enough I've met a few people in my guild that I've grown to know really well from the suburbs just like me. This summer when I'm back from college we plan on meeting up at a pub and tossing back a few drinks :-)
Victoria, Australia on US Detheroc
80 hunt, shamie and warr
Denmark and ofc the European version :D
england, but i quit a week ago.
Have a level 80 tauren DK but i got bored so i bought an xbox 360 and quit.
@Drakk: Belgian here too, most of my guildies are English.
Grim Batol EU
Canada playing on Tanaris in some new guild called Project Lore. Go figure. :)
Singapore, playing with my guildmembers (and RL friends) on Bonechewer (US PVP).
My guild has members in the US, Paris and Singapore. Try organizing raids when your members' timezones are up to 16 hour apart!
Tervehdys (hello)
Finland here \o_
Xavius EU
Executus US
in the US on Silvermoon. And we have a couple Candadians in our guild.. we love them! and a couple of people stationed in Japan!
Portugal here :D
Stormrage EU
I'm am from Bulgaria... yes I am screwed... giving the money for my wow game cards from my a*s!
L.A. County, baby! ;D