World of Warcraft : china

WoW the biggest seller for The9 in China

Zyuu — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:03:07 GMT

The Chinese video game publisher The9 was very happy to announce positive sales reports according to the recently released 2nd quarter financial statement. The majority of these numbers is thanks to the flagship title in China, Blizzard's World of Warcraft.

The9's record income and revenue was approx $66.3 million, where $60.7 came from World of Warcraft and everything related to it. Remember how they reported over 1 million concurrent users at one point? Crazy!

Who knows how it will go when Wrath of the Lich King launches. Time will tell.

Limited WoW Operations in China, Blue Posts

Zyuu — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:57:05 GMT

The9 Limited Suspends Game Operations for 3 Days of Mourning for the Earthquake Tragedy in Southwest China

Shanghai, China – May 19, 2008. The9 Limited (NASDAQ: NCTY)(“The9”), a leading online game operator in China, announced today that it will suspend the operations of World of Warcraft®, Soul of The Ultimate NationTM, Granado Espada, Joyful Journey WestTM, and MU® from May 19, 2008 to May 21, 2008, in response to the government's calling for three days of mourning for the earthquake tragedy in Southwest China. The operations of the foregoing games will be reestablished starting from the calendar day of May 22, 2008.

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Daily Blue Posts

These are via World of Raids

Clarification about the Arena Rating Calculations

There has been some confusion regarding the changes to Arena Team and Personal rating calculations in patch 2.4.2 for those players with 100% participation on their team so we’d like to clarify how the system works now.

The adjustment to a team’s personal rating can vary based on the average personal rating of the other team while team ratings will always adjust based directly on the team rating of the other team. If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating. Adjustments to your personal rating are based on the ratings by which the opposing team was queued.

If the opposing team was queued based on their team rating, your personal rating will be adjusted based on their team rating.
If the opposing team was queued based on their average personal rating, your personal rating will be adjusted based on their average personal rating.

Example:

Team A has a rating of 1550. Team B has a rating of 1750.
Team A has an average personal rating of 1520 for the members participating in the match. Team B has an average personal rating of 1490 for the members participating in the match.
Team A wins. Team A’s team rating is adjusted based off of a win over Team B’s team rating of 1750.
All members of Team A have their personal ratings adjusted based off of a win over Team B’s average personal rating of 1490 but it will be a smaller gain when compared to the rating their team got.

This change promotes having teams compete against players who’s ratings statistically match up best against them. In turn this will help provide the most competitive environment possible in the Arena.

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Character Slots & Death Knights

We don’t plan to add another character slot with the introduction of the Death Knight, which means that you would have to either delete or transfer a character, if you wish to roll a Death Knight on a realm that already has 10 characters on it.

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Death Knight making other classes obsolete? No, not really

It would be rather silly to think that the Death Knight will make other classes obsolete, because that is really not the case. The Death Knight will bring its own flavour and style to the game, but at the same time it will be able to share roles with some of the existing classes. We have seen quite a few posts recently saying that there are too few tanks to go around, posts that claim that it takes forever to find a tank for PUGs or that guild progression is being slowed down due to shortage of tanks. By adding another potential tank to the mix, the Death Knight should most surely be considered a helpful addition to the game instead of a threatening one. I don't think Warriors will have anything to worry about in WotLK, because they will not be replaced by the Death Knight. Warriors will still be needed in groups and guilds, as they have always been, and they will still be great tanks. This also holds true for Druids and Paladins by the way.

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China: M'uru beaten in the 1st timer

pherio — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:03:32 GMT

Stars (The horde guild which done naxx firstly in CWOW - Chinese WOW) killed M'uru just now on21:27pm (GMT+8:00), 12th May, here is their official link of the kill: http://www.starshorde.com/thread-5505-1-1.html

It's the 1st timer of CWOW with M'uru available (Chinese servers always get patched a week later than US & EU, including contents like naxx and the last 3 doors of sunwell of course). Stars is the 7th guild to down M'uru right now worldwide, and 3rd guild who killed it in 1st timer.

1、SK Gaming (Horde/Vek'nilash,EU)
2、Exodus (Horde/Kel'Thuzad ,US)
3、Premonition (Alliance/Alleria,US)
4、Deus Vox (Alliance/Laughing Skull,US)
5、Inner Sanctum (Alliance/Silvermoon,EU)
6、For the horde (Horde/Destromath,EU)
7、Stars (Horde/Anvilmar,CN)

Killing shot:
http://www.curse.com/images/full/127891/

Loots were:
http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34216
http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34233
http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=34212
http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=35284

Impressive, my opinion is even consider of the help that brought by videos of Exodus and SK Gaming, the effort and success in this fight proved they are not worse than other top guilds in this game.

Stars wiped on last try yesterday with M'uru had only 2000 hp left, one of the raid members dropped on that try due to the shitty ISP. And they finally managed to kill this boss on the 2nd attempt tonight.

Another Chinese guild "The 7" (The Seventh Heaven, Alliance, achieved FD of Illidan in CWOW) has also brought M'uru to very low health, but affected by the earthquake disaster today (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008ryan.php) some members couldn't go on with the raiding, bless and wish all guys would be safe, FD/loot is so meaningless in the presence of such threat to lifes.

These two guilds have been leading the pve race in CWOW since TBC released. And there are only 12 guilds known that had downed Eredar Twins in CWOW so far.

While EU & US uber guilds like Nihilum/SK/Dnt are widely admired, I think there are also some guilds out of our visual field deserve cheers too, at least mine :)

GJ guys, enjoy this game.

WoW hits 1 million concurrent users in China.

Zyuu — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:19:35 GMT

World of Warcraft's Chinese operator, The9 Limited, announced today that concurrent users had recently peaked at one million. Whichever way you look at this statistic, it's interesting. How many of those "players" are farmers? How many are legit fans?

Since WoW's launch in China in June 2005 the concurrent user count hasn't peaked like this. Why now? Burning Crusade launched In September 2007 in China. We'll leave the wondering to you, dear reader. We just post the news.

Chinese television reuses WoW maps in military document

Teza — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:43:08 GMT

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?

China: Phoenix Mount bought for 190k gold

Teza — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:11:00 GMT

On December 26th, 2007 (Beijing Time), the legendary phoenix mount Ashes of Al'ar appaeared for the first time on the Molten Core server in China; this phoenix mount has been acquired for 190,000 gold by a rich player.

Scourge Race Censored In China?

Kody — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:40:19 GMT

Apparently it has been. According to recent news posted on Pacific Epoch, the company which runs the Chinese Localized World of Warcraft - The9 - has done some modifications to the "Scourge" race to no longer show bones protruding through flesh; even going as far as changing the corpses from skeletons to tombs. A bit much I'd say, but it sounds as if the company is looking to appease a new censorship review with the changes.

The9 (Nasdaq: NCTY) changed the looks of the Scourge race in its licensed MMORPG World of Warcraft (WoW) on June 26, reports Southern Metropolitan News. Scourge are an undead race that in previous versions showed part flesh and part skeleton. The9 modified the look to show no skeleton, and changed scourge corpses from bones to tombs. The9 claimed that it made the change because the original look of the Scourge race was too scary and thus unlikely to pass new Chinese censorship review.