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by Lesley Smith 
May 3rd 2009 at 4:00PM
The teaser site went up earlier in the week and reeks of WoW in a way that only Chinese knock-offs can. At the moment we know next to nothing about the game but we can certainly guess. The domain name (www.wofchina.com) is suspiciously similar to the one for World of Warcraft (www.wowchina.com) but with one letter changed. Just look at that font, remind you of anything?
It's not a stretch to bet that The9 are hoping to attract people who associated them with WoW, but I'm pretty sure Blizzard won't be too happy to see their former publisher in Asia trying to promote a game so similar. We'll certainly keep you updated as I'm quite keen to see what World of Fight looks like.
Filed under: Odds and ends, News items
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 4)
Janaa May 5th 2009 10:11PM
Being a software developer and seeing my (and other) company's products being re-packaged/hex edited and sold by Chinese companies to Chinese consumers, I can tell you what this game will look like -
A reverse-engineered, recompiled WoW client with some different graphics, connecting to 2.x-esque WoW servers.
murpes May 3rd 2009 4:41PM
We already have a WoW clone - Runes of Magic. Maybe The9 is launching that.
Sythius May 3rd 2009 6:48PM
To Clint Eastwood:
Gooks? They're Chinese, not Korean you ignorant ass.
Pyornthe May 3rd 2009 8:41PM
Go see the movie Gran Turino. You'll understand.
Virusz May 3rd 2009 4:55PM
CHINA QUALITY ROFL LOL
Aaron1570 May 3rd 2009 5:01PM
It reminds me of another cheap ripoff called the iphoe.
Elsie May 3rd 2009 5:06PM
The Chinese text of the ad (three sentences that flash up in an animated sequence) reads:
"A world at war...
Do what you've been doing all along
The9 Presents: World of Fight"
Then below it: "You are the (Nth) person waiting at the gates."
Lesley Smith May 3rd 2009 5:39PM
So that's what it says ... thanks!
Kakistocracy May 3rd 2009 5:45PM
In that case, can you please tell them that I am not, in fact waiting at the gate, I simply passed by after seeing a link, so reduce that number by one, and I won't take any gain saying.
Which reminds me, "A man from the countryside comes up to a door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him into the Law right now..."
wofftw May 3rd 2009 5:12PM
Welcome to World of Fight,
if doing goldfarming you like, see forum for tips and guides, enter code for pirated version of game
wordsofivory May 3rd 2009 5:37PM
Ignorance is bliss.
People in China who play WoW (which makes up for almost 50% of the game's playerbase, have absolutely nothing to do with goldfarmers.
slimj091 May 3rd 2009 9:09PM
"Ignorance is bliss.
People in China who play WoW (which makes up for almost 50% of the game's playerbase, have absolutely nothing to do with goldfarmers."
but. there are gold farming sweatshop's in china. and the majority of gold farmers on NA servers are chinese people.. living in china. so it is a very fair assesment to equate chinese with gold farming. there is nothing ignorant or racist about it.
it's the same as stating that almost all hip-hop artists/rappers are black. a fact is a fact is a fact.
now being racist would be saying that there are no gold farmers on chinese server's because no one in china can afford to buy gold because they are all rice farming peasant's. ironically that's not far off the mark for most of the chinese population either.
Kakistocracy May 3rd 2009 9:23PM
slimj091, let us look at what you said reasonably...
You seem to be saying that saying
"Most Gold farmers are Chinese
Therefore if a person is Chinese, then the person is (most likely) a gold farmer."
Is equivalent to saying
"Most Hip Hop artists are Black
Therefore if a person is a Hip Hop artist, then the person is (most likely) Black."
Looks like you need to mind your p's and q's (if you'll pardon the pun). You seem to affirm what should be consequent and from that claim to derive what should be the antecedent, which, I shouldn't have to say, is a BIG no no.
Shulkman May 3rd 2009 5:30PM
On the other hand, maybe their developers will be able to figure out how to make an achievement goal mesh with the overall goal of the BG, instead of the whole BG being nothing but a 80 person throat cutting festival.
Matt May 3rd 2009 5:36PM
Just another sign that China don't respect our copy right laws. I expect this to go forward and get the blessing of Chinas' government to add the "wrath" content to it as well. If you remember one of the main complains about wow was it wasn't owned in China now that they have there "own" game that concerns goes away. Part of the reason china can make things so cheap is they have been stealing US and other international patents for years this is just more of same.
wordsofivory May 3rd 2009 5:39PM
Yes, because the centre of the universe that so many consider the United States of America has *never* done such things! UNTHINKABLE!
*rolls eyes*
matt May 3rd 2009 6:08PM
Well I guess you don't like America much but doesn't make what I'm saying less true.
wordsofivory May 3rd 2009 6:11PM
"Well I guess you don't like America much but doesn't make what I'm saying less true."
When they act holier than thou, like they're the saints of the world, and that it's everyone else who is at fault and not them?
No, not really.
Welcome to the rest of the world outside the USA. It's a big place.
There's no actual copyrights being broken on that site, unless using a similar font is copyright infringement. If it *does* turn out to be Warhammer Online, an *American* game, that'll just be even funnier.
SuckItTrebek May 3rd 2009 8:13PM
Matt, do YOU respect other countries' laws?
Kakistocracy May 3rd 2009 8:23PM
Or your own countries Copyright laws for that matter.
But wordsofivory, that brand of In Group Bias you display is truly off putting, let us have less of this "Us" and "Them" talk so reminiscent of the very ethnocentrism so, shall we say, central, to many of the more troubling events of that portion of history both in our life time and in the recorded past.