Chinese World of Warcraft suffers heavy down-time
News - MMO stays off-line with no word on return
Blizzard are having something of a technical and PR nightmare in China, the local version of World of Warcraft having been off-line for several weeks now; since June 7th to be precise.
According to Yahoo, the world's biggest MMO went off-line when Blizzard's contract with local operator The9 expired.
The game is being moved to rival service NetEase, but it seems they weren't ready to take the game - and presumably still aren't - given the game's off-line status.
Blizzard have yet to comment on when the game is likely to return but it's fair to say this isn't good news for the game's positioning in China.
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