WoW's Subscribers Drop To 5 Millions
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Wow, that must've been quite a blow for them. Oh, well. It may help the MMO to evolve to something more once WoW is gone.
I wonder if the problem is related to China's government outlawing "gold farming". Guess there is an opportunity for people out of work in the US to do it now instead...any job beats no job.
Hate to break it to everyone but even with this blow WoW is way to ingrained in the public to just die it's going to be around for a long time.
I find this disturbing to be honest, especially if you follow some of the links on that page to other articles about how WoW is being reviewed like other "Foreign influances" I already have some serious concerns about the Chineses's belief in their racial superiority, combined with their increasing aggressiveness and ignorance. But the goverment there is also shutting down any pipelines into the outside world, we saw this with Google (which should never have folded) and the internet in general.
MMOs have been identified as a while as a virtually unpolicable communication channel, I remember articles with the goverment (US Goverment) testing things out to see if a group of terrorists could meet and coordinate though things like WoW, and it's actually possible
HOWEVER from the Chinese perspective something like WoW let's information, views, and attitudes they might not approve of through. They can't really police an international game like WoW the way they can domesticly produced and located MMOs.
Let's just say that when you have a racist culture building up it's military and rattling it's sabers while gradually closing off all outside communication and informatio so they goverment can carefully control the people's information, it's very worrying.
That's just my opinion though, I expect many to disagree. Normally this wouldn't be so bad but it seems like part of a definate trend given what has happened with things like Google.
MMOs have been identified as a while as a virtually unpolicable communication channel, I remember articles with the goverment (US Goverment) testing things out to see if a group of terrorists could meet and coordinate though things like WoW, and it's actually possible
HOWEVER from the Chinese perspective something like WoW let's information, views, and attitudes they might not approve of through. They can't really police an international game like WoW the way they can domesticly produced and located MMOs.
Let's just say that when you have a racist culture building up it's military and rattling it's sabers while gradually closing off all outside communication and informatio so they goverment can carefully control the people's information, it's very worrying.
That's just my opinion though, I expect many to disagree. Normally this wouldn't be so bad but it seems like part of a definate trend given what has happened with things like Google.