{"id":52106,"date":"2023-01-23T22:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/world-of-warcraft-offline-china-millions-gamers-bereft"},"modified":"2023-01-23T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:03:54","slug":"world-of-warcraft-to-go-offline-in-china-leaving-millions-of-gamers-bereft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52106","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft to go offline in China, leaving millions of gamers bereft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular role-playing game is being cut off due to a dispute between US developer and its Chinese partner<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Chinese players of the roleplaying epic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2016\/jul\/02\/warcraft-film-china-blockbuster-hollywood-investment\">World of Warcraft<\/a> (WoW) will bid a sad farewell to the land of Azeroth, with the game set to go offline after a dispute between the US developer Blizzard and its local partner NetEase.<\/p>\n<p>Massively popular worldwide, particularly in the 2000s, WoW is an online multiplayer role-playing game set in a fantasy medieval world. It is known for being immersive and addictive, and players can rack up hundreds of hours of game time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/world-of-warcraft-offline-china-millions-gamers-bereft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular role-playing game is being cut off due to a dispute between US developer and its Chinese partnerMillions of Chinese players of the roleplaying epic World of Warcraft (WoW) will bid a sad farewell to the land of Azeroth, with the game set to go &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,1684,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-games","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52107,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52106\/revisions\/52107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}