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It looks like World of Warcraft gamers in China have to look for another free time activity, soon.
According to the General Administration of Pres and Publication (GAPP) Natease, the company which is selling World of Warcraft in China, has to stop accepting new accounts and stop charging existing costumers.
Public authorities discordant
It seems like public authorities can’t decide who is responsible. In opposite to the GAPP, the Chinese ministry for culture, has previously decided to allow Netease to sell the game in China.
Almost 4 million Chines WoW players estimated
Online gaming is quite popular in china. Almost 4 million people play World of Warcraft online. Just in China. Just for comparison: That’s almost the whole population of Scotland.
Obviously a lot of money is involved when it comes to online gaming. For a long time now Chines government is giving foreign venture capital companies a hard time investing in the fast growing online gaming market.
Someone may assume that the Chinese government want to make business difficult for the US-based World of Warcraft developer company Activision Blizzard.
