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Because Blizzard didn't bother bribing the correct corrupt assholes in those dens of organized crime they call the GAPP and MOC, millions of Chinese citizens are missing out on a product the rest of the world is free to enjoy.
It's all about the money and I'm glad I don't have to deal with that level of bullshit just to play a videogame legally.
No wonder that country is responsible for the vast majority of game/film piracy. What a dump.
10:37 AM
Everyone who wanted to play, that is.
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That theory is quite late and outdated, my friend.
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Now that is over, make pandaren an extra race in cataclism blizzard :P
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Also the fear of "internet addiction" is a really hot topic these days in China. Video games are the number 1 target for the press as the cause. WoW often gets highlighted at a Western video game that was designed to get the youth "addicted" so it plays well for the popularity of ministers to be seen as attacking this problem.
03:41 AM
I figured China would view WoW as a great money-making opportunity, with all their gold farmers and stuff.
04:01 AM
I don't know the full details, or even the slight details really, but the way what I have heard sounds, China want to give Chinese Made MMOs more of a chance, by making it so that their people can't play Anything else.
That's probably a gross generalization or something, but that's how it always seems to sound to me.
10:46 AM
Because it is such a massively popular WESTERN made game (That is, it doesn't step on the toes of any domestic companies, especially since that whole licensing snafu last year.), it makes an easy target that makes the people feel like something is being done about the issue.
There's a lot more going on here than the "WACKY GOVERNMENT DOES WACKY THINGS!!!" that most news sources tend to ignore, one major factor being what most Chinese people think, in this case: That young people play way too many god-damned video games.
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12/28/09
Most of us are just going to go to our local Borders or B&N, tear this mag out of its polythene protector, and just read it on the ground, savoring the artwork, and then promptly forget about it.
UPDATE: Oh snap, it's only available through subscription.
Get ready for pirated scans of these to be available on warez sites everywhere in PDF format!
And "1 year (4 issues) for $39.95"?
Sorry, BlizzFuture, but there's only room for one $39.95 subscription in my book. And that shit's called National Geographic!
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the internet is killing newspapers, im shocked ANY magazine is still around.
12/28/09
I think that variety-type magazines could still be viable, but anything specialized? Probably not. Who would buy a magazine about surfing these days?
12/28/09
up next? World of Warcraft: the themepark.
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That tanking article is well written, but at the same time it's also very surface level. I really don't get anything for my protection paladin out of reading that. And I don't know that a mass market magazine can ever go into the kind of detail that a serious WoW player would need because then it's super niche talking about ways to tweak speciffic rotations and evaluating individual pieces of gear etc.
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You have to really love WoW to be into that.
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'Toilet' factor, maybe you have a point there. :p
12/28/09
Still, since the information is freely available there's really no costs other than physically printing the mags and distribution.
I'd like to see how this mag turns out a year or two from now.
12/09/09
I have missed out on soo much warcraft story because I don't play WoW. I have no idea what happened with Illidan, and now Arthas.
Oh well! Maybe in Warcraft4 they'll explain it. It'll probably be WAY in the future though, so they can continue WoW aaaand have a 4th game.
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Way to go and deflate an epic trailer - be careful with your typefaces, Blizzard!
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12/09/09
If there was some semblance of a story in the majority of the game (though I'll admit that there were times when the Van Cleef thread got compelling, like when you essentially assassinated a noble), then I would be convinced to go back.
12/09/09
Then they patched it out, eventually, and haven't done anything as grand since.
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I'd disagree about "haven't done anything as grand" though. Almost every single zone of Northrend has a storyline woven into the geography that you follow as you progress along, and those stories are as long and grand as any old stories, but play out in events and experiences more than in text... and usually you spend much less of your time traveling to complete them, and best of all they often end with a really satisfying climactic set piece far beyond anything that was possible in the original.
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*cue linked music*
*Camera pans across dark fields*
*Two armies face each other*
*armies charge and clash*
TEXT: Fixes for Incomplete Installation(35) and (16) for Left 4 Dead 2 demo!
*Close-up of battle*
TEXT: Improved reconnect to Steam logic during Steam Cloud synchronization!
*Cut to lonely Princess trapped in a prison overlooking the battle from a tall tower*
TEXT: Increased client side timeouts for Steam Cloud requests to improve reliability for users...
*Close-up of princess. A single tear rolls down her cheek*
TEXT: ...in remote locations!
*cue choir*
*Cut back to battle. Dragons appear in the sky and drop large boulders on the armies*
TEXT: Fixed a case where cloud files would believe they were up-to-date and not sync!
*Evil Dragon King appears in one of the dragons and laughs*
TEXT: Fixed a crash in the in-client web control
*Quick cuts of action scenes*
TEXT: Fixed a rare crash...
*A knight stabs an enemy war elephant. It topples over*
TEXT:...when failing an attempt...
*A boulder from a dragon above kills both with a boulder*
...to create a new account!
*Reveals secret agreement between princess and Evil Dragon King two days prior*
*Cut to present with princess clutching a knight's picture*
PRINCESS: My love....
TEXT: THE STEAM
CLIENT UPDATE!!
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12/09/09
As a tank, raiding is the meat of the game for me. Heading into an instance with 25 other people and becoming a well oiled machine working together is fun. Its challenging in it's own right, and becoming stronger and being able to down bosses that you couldn't before is also very gratifying.
Sure the graphics look a step up from nintendo 64's capabilities but the gameplay and the group cohesion is what draws 11 million others as well.
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Go on, pick up those diamonds.
But no matter how you look at it:
They're made for flies. ;)
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