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Chinese television reuses WoW maps in military document

News | Jan. 28, 2008 (7 months, 1 week ago) | by Teza | via www.worldofraids.com | Filed in World of Warcraft

China Military TV Channel broadcasted a military documentary about war exercises that took place around the world last year. One of the maps they used showed Turkey, Iraq and Iran (from left to right on the map below).

Now compare it to Arathi Highlands as seen in WoW:

Did they really think this would go unnoticed with so many WoW players around the world?

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

If you look good at the map you will miss Stormgarde Keep,
they just planted some mountains there...
they prolly don't have permission to show the military bases rofl

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

All i can say is china go get some real maps and quit letting the geeks do your maping you might end up at the dark portal :)lol

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7 months, 1 week ago

Are there any Rare spawns on the map to farm?

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7 months, 1 week ago

i won't pretend i know how the real life map actually looks, but blizzard has a long history of ripping off existing games/real life names/locations so is it really that hard for you fanboys to consider the fact that maybe they based arathi off something else?

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7 months, 1 week ago

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

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7 months, 1 week ago

Just thought I'd point out that Turkey has quite a large coast on the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. A quick google search for a map of Turkey would point that out, so all those mountains... are really just symbols for waves in the water... right?

What was China thinking? Pulling all the wow users to watch more military tv?

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7 months, 1 week ago

ftw!!! how can they even call themselves a true news provider?:)>

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7 months, 1 week ago

ftw!!! how can they even call themselves a true news provider?:)>

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7 months, 1 week ago

Un-Bee-Looody-lievable!

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7 months, 1 week ago

Why the hell didn't they use a real map? Its not like they don't have the money to buy an atlas. Even the mountains are exactly the same, I don't think Turkey, Iran and Iraq even have that many mountains lol.

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7 months, 1 week ago

ahahahah that's rather funny hehe

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7 months, 1 week ago

That is hilarious!

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7 months, 1 week ago

psshhh whehehe! xD
i'll just lol at this =|]

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7 months, 1 week ago

Is it just me, or is refuge point right where Baghdad should be? Not only that, but they put the great wall of china in turkey!! I'm glad these guys didn't make cartographer addon.

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7 months, 1 week ago

lol

well why not, they rip off everything else...

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7 months, 1 week ago

omfg haha, that's just fucking hilarious! Stupid Chinese! It might be so all the chinese goldfarmers would understand? =]

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7 months, 1 week ago

Jeezus...with as many WoW players around the world AND especially in China...that's incredibly stupid.

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7 months, 1 week ago

Wow lol.

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7 months, 1 week ago

HAHA! That's funny. I had no idea Arathi Highlands was in Turkey...

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7 months, 1 week ago

Lol I can't believe this xD!

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