The9 changes WoW in China to appease censors

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7-03-2007 @ 8:03PM

Coherent said...

I don't think it's a matter of the models being "too scary". I think it has more to do with fitting the preconceptions of the censors.

The9 is eager to get a quick rubber-stamp approval so that the censors won't have an excuse to nitpick this or that, delay the game and 'investigate' it further, which would keep it in front of the censor board that much longer.

Any delay before the censor board could be very costly in terms of additional bribes and market opportunity lost. The longer the censors look at it, the more fault they could find, necessitating extraordinary effort (serious money bribes) to get it off of the censor docket and back on the market.

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