[Rumor]The9 Loses WoW to NetEase? --04-16-2009

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Summary: Because of the postponement of the 2nd expansion of World of Warcraft's available, The9 has been the target of public opinion from Chinese WOW fans and its industry for months.

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Because of the postponement of the 2nd expansion of World of Warcraft's available, The9 has been the target of public opinion from Chinese WOW fans and its industry for months. Last August, Netease - operating a leading interactive online and wireless community in China and being a major provider of Chinese language content and services through their online games, wireless value-added services and Internet portal businesses, announced that it would take over the operation of other Blizzard games in China including Warcraft III and Starcraft II. As the WoW license in China is expiring until this June, rumors come again and at this time it is told that The9 will lose WoW to NetEase.

Another rumor about a leaked letter from the president of The9, Xiaowei Chen, to The9 employees apparently states that an unnamed domestic operator, who is already running a joint venture with Blizzard, has requested through Blizzard that The9 transfers WoW servers and hardware over to them at a reduced price of $22 million USD, for which The9 paid $73 million USD. An extra $1 million USD will be paid for the transfer of staff who work on WoW.

It leads the event to the catastrophe! A vote displays most of WoW players in China are taking a wait-and-see attitude. But others are more concerned with their accounts which between the beetle and the block! But maybe, this means that they will get Wotlk expansion a little sooner.



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