Chinese Bureaucrats Duel Over Right To Regulate WoW

[Schlup]

"Chinese bureaucrats are battling each other for the right to regulate World of Warcraft. They hope to gain the political clout and the revenue that comes along with controlling a new industry with potential for explosive growth. 'They see this pie is getting bigger and bigger, so it is no wonder different administrations are fighting over pieces of that territory.' It's absurd how orcs and elves (and Moonkin) can affect so many different faraway places."

Full Story:  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/04/ap/tech/main5520325.shtml

[corytate]

Its no different than with any other fortune500 game that has gone over seas or came to us. Think about Grand thief auto. hundreds of millions of dollars was thrown on the table with Microsoft and Sony. If people love it business men well fight for it....no mater if there an Elf or not all they see is money.

[Schlup]

Well said, a lesson in life for sure!

[CoCoCountyKiller]

someone should bring this to IW attention and bring back the MP
choice of dedicated servers

co.co.

[Schlup]

someone should bring this to IW attention and bring back the MP
choice of dedicated servers

co.co.

I guess I don't see how this would influence them at all?

[AmoonRei]

Babe! You're so smart! I love it! ^^! It makes me melt when you get political ^^!

[Deagroth]

He's probably thinking that if an IW game got as large as WoW is, then even politicians would be trying to get a piece of the action.  Which would mean more publicity and, potentially, customers / profit.  And as we all know, IW is only out for the money.

By having IW allow dedicated servers, popularity would spread even more thus increasing the number of games sold.  Not to mention whatever revenues from groups having to get the software in order to host their own servers, but then again IW is stubborn and it's still unlikely they'd care even with something like this.