Wow loses half it's playerbase...

[Ancientgamer]

http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2009/07/wow-subscriptions-down-to-5-million.html

Rumors are now circulating That wow's Chinese servers, which have been down for over a month already, have been put on permenent lockdown by the Chinese government. Due to pending lawsuits from The9 and allegedly breaking some of china's commerce laws. At best one could hope the case will be settled in a year, but right now there's no news of a possible timespan.

Thoughts? China's servers host over 6 million players.

 

[Tyrant-of-Badab]

*gasp* not the China servers!

 

[Flap Jack452]

Aren't half of those six million illegal gold and loot farmers? I think TIME magazine did a story on that, or something.

 

[Xan Krieger]

that's a lot of people that are gonna need WoW rehab. I hope they can handle it.

Massive blow to Blizzard though. that's what I figure is 90 million bucks per month. (just done in my head and I already have a headache from beating my head against the wall)

 

[Eatbrainz]

Oh no! what will we ever do without the gold farmers who spam all day long? WHAT WILL WE DO???

 

[Destal]

Firstly, another post on this has already been made.

Secondly, Blizzard doesn't get anywhere near the $15/month that the US players fork out. Besides, if I still played wow, this wouldn't be a bad thing at all...bye bye gold farmers.

 

[Torque669]

Wow your late lad. One of the news reported reported on this aggges ago.

 

[Tehpwnsauce]

You're a bit slow on reporting this.

 

[Ancientgamer]

;_; The news post was made while typing this thread.


Move discussion here:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.125344

And you're correct Destal, Chinese players only pay $0.06/hr.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Oh damn. I've travelled back in time again.

The chinese players tend to pay very little to play.
It also means that we Western players may get bothered less by Goldfarmers.

And maybe Pandaren too.

 

[Tomathy]

Ni HAO! from my chinese friends!

 

[Excelcior]

Oh no! what will we ever do without the gold farmers who spam all day long? WHAT WILL WE DO???

Funny thing, Blizzard doesn't even give a flying... kodo about the goldfarmers. I guy I know used to be a GM on an American server, they were told that, "A goldspammer may say his message three times, and may only be banned after that." In other words, "Just ban some spammers to keep the players happy."

Also, you know how they sometimes spell their website's URL on the ground, and some guy saying "look at the ground!"? they can't do anything about that, either.

I know, I know, "a-guy-I-know"-stories are usually not the most reliable ones, but you'll have to trust me on my honest blue eyes on this one.

Wait, they're brown...