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China’s Strange Alternate World of Warcraft Client



Showing you some interesting censorships with the Chinese client of World of Warcraft.

Thanks to Reddit user “Vahdis” for giving me permission to use his screenshots. Link to post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/49x7m0/chinese_wow_censorship_comparisonlots_of/

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32 Comments

  1. The NA vs China Saph was interesting. I wonder what happens when they enter the bosses room? on NA all the bones twirl around and form Saph, is it just like chunks of dragon of the other server? haha

  2. Chinese goverment is all about fake posing, in reality they dont care about their own values at all it seems if you look at the true history of communist china.

  3. It's mainly due to cultural things especially among the older generation. It's considered ill omen to talk about death, or show remains of any kind especially skeletons. It's why 444 is considered a bad number in China. Most of the actual player doesnt care seeing this kind of things but China's regulation board have very strong opinions about it.

    For a long time people can't even say the word "censorship" 和谐 (he xie) in Chinese so we used the slang River Crab (he xie) in discussions to avoid being flagged.

  4. Be a communist dictatorship responsible for persecuting and murdering millions of people, expect a game developer to remove any references to death. Welcome to PRC.

  5. well, if this was out during the middle ages, those who made it and those who played the game would be burned at the stake so.. haha. cant really blame the chinese all that much xd

  6. A sentence in china:

    "I think wrath of the bread king was the best expansion. The walking people who were made of fabric were really cool. The ice crown citadel raid was good. I liked the second boss for some reason. Lady Loafwhisper. And the bread king. Icecrown zone was full of "htaed" on backwards. Wow."

  7. Ah yes… because the CCP isn’t AT ALL linked the the deaths of dozens of millions of Chinese, it is ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE that nothing that is linked to death be hidden from the poor minds of the “stupid” populous…

  8. the non linear display of replacing skulls with other things probably has to do with not allowing skulls connected to a human figure. all the existing skulls are just detached skulls not connected to something representing being attached to a human figure.

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