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The9 changes WoW in China to appease censors

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  • yegnatsyegnats Member Posts: 157
    Originally posted by bonobotheory


    I tracked down a few images linked from another website:
     

    bbs.wowchina.com/wow/download.aspx
    bbs.ngacn.com/attachment/mon_200706/22/7_306694.jpg
     
     

    I guess I'll be the only person to say that I actually like the chinese undead models. It just never made sense how ribs and stuff could stick through platemail. The bones and rotting flesh should've be done texture-wise, not on the models.

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  • bonobotheorybonobotheory Member UncommonPosts: 1,007
    Originally posted by yegnats

    Originally posted by bonobotheory


    I tracked down a few images linked from another website:
     

    bbs.wowchina.com/wow/download.aspx
    bbs.ngacn.com/attachment/mon_200706/22/7_306694.jpg
     
     

    I guess I'll be the only person to say that I actually like the chinese undead models. It just never made sense how ribs and stuff could stick through platemail. The bones and rotting flesh should've be done texture-wise, not on the models.

    I partially agree. I like the skeletal knees and elbows on the standard Forsaken models, but the ribs, spine, and upper arms don't look right sticking through clothing.

  • kmilnerkmilner Member Posts: 35
    Originally posted by yegnats

    Originally posted by bonobotheory


    I tracked down a few images linked from another website:
     

    bbs.wowchina.com/wow/download.aspx
    bbs.ngacn.com/attachment/mon_200706/22/7_306694.jpg
     
     

    I guess I'll be the only person to say that I actually like the chinese undead models. It just never made sense how ribs and stuff could stick through platemail. The bones and rotting flesh should've be done texture-wise, not on the models.


    yeah, well, it never made sense that a gigantic fire-giant named Golomag just HAPPENED to drop a chest piece that my beloved paladin could fit in to and it just HAPPENED to be molded in a way that it acted as a push up bra for her lovely pixelated breasts.
    A plate armor wonder-bra that allowed jiggle no less.
    hmmm. May have to go reactivate my account.
  • ale_jrbale_jrb Member Posts: 30

    I find it quite odd that the bones part of the skeleton has to be censored. Generally, although I disagree with it, the Chinese censor things that could potentially cause offense to their country (things like Wikipedia may discuss issues that they don't want people to know about) but censoring skeletons? Hmm - odd, IMO.

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  • SteakpuncherSteakpuncher Member Posts: 255

    What you really have to remember here is that this entire thing is based on speculation. They only did this because they were concerned it would not pass whatever it was they want it to pass. They have not explicitly been told the change needed to be made.

    As for the entire cencorship arguement thats begining to emerge here I think its all down to levels of interaction and portrayal more than anything else. Manhunt2 deserved to be banned, the first one shouldn't have made it out either, because a game where you suffocate someone with a plastic bag is absolutely vile, and distrubingly twisted. Games like GTA are more acceptable because they have the concept of surrealism and fantasy in them (stealing tanks, helicopters and rocketlaunchers). There are a lot of similarities, but Manhunt set out to be dark, twisted and quite sick at times, and GTA has a lot more humour to its actions.

  • SothageSothage Member Posts: 40

     

    Originally posted by M1sf1t


     
     
    BS ! There are plenty of examples in history of right-wing conservative totalitarian nations that had capitalist economic systems.
    Capitalism is a label used to describe a economic system and not a form of government. Please re-read your civic and econ school books again.
    P.S. Oh and before we all jump on the "I hate China" bandwagon let's realize that recently the video game Man Hunt 2 was just recently banned in the U.K., Canada, USA, Australia and other "Western" nations. So take a chill pill okay folks.

     

    I'm not anti-China. I'm anti censorship.

     

    You can't sit there and tell me Capitalism can exist in a non-free political environment. Either your civics professor had you reading Marx, or you failed all the exams dealing with Adam Smith's writing. Yes, capitalism is at base a form of economy, but it's a form of economy that can only succeed when present with a form of government with very liberal leanings. Yes, I indeed failed my civics and economy classes.  Get back to me when you've taken them post high-school.

     

    Re-read my post. I never said it was a form of government, maybe I needed to spell out for you that I never meant it was. I figured the informed reader could assert from my wording that I understood Capitalism deals with the free-exchange of goods/services/ideas and not the running of a government; but that they are dependently correlated is undeniable.

  • altairzqaltairzq Member Posts: 3,811

    They got to be scary and disgusting, Blizzard did ok.

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