Wednesday, March 8, 2006

WoW problems in China

Gamasutra reports players in China threatening to boycott World of Warcraft, because of technical problems. It takes over an hour to log in, and another half hour to get to your list of characters. And in China WoW is payed for by the hour, and billing starts the second you enter your password. Thus the Chinese players are paying for having to wait in the login queue, which understandably upsets them.

It seems WoW China has 530,000 users, of which up to 270,000 are online simultaneously, a surprisingly high rate of active to total users. But as these players are paying only 5 US cents per hour, maybe Blizzard didn't give them as much hardware as to the better paying American and European players.

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