World of Warcraft Returns in China
NetEase has announced that World of Warcraft Retail will return in China on August 1st with the War Within pre-expansion patch, with the expansion going live globally on August 26th. Johanna Faries (President of Blizzard Entertainment) and Chris Metzen (Executive Creative Director) joined the press conference to welcome Chinese players back to the game and provide more details about World of Warcraft's return.


  • Wrath of the Lich King Classic is now live, players can access the game for free for two weeks
  • A new catch-up bundle for WOTLK characters will be available once the free game time promotion is over
  • Retail players will receive several collectibles for free:
  • WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria world event will not be enabled
  • Plunderstorm will return at a later date
  • More info about Hearthstone's relaunch will be shared at ChinaJoy
  • NetEase will reward Chinese players with ¥1,000,000 Yuan ($137,000 USD) if they win the next Race to World First in The War Within

This article was originally published in forum thread: World of Warcraft Returns in China started by Lumy View original post
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  1. Zenjie's Avatar
    Welcome back!
  1. Relapses's Avatar
    lmfao @ the RWF reward.

    It'll be fun to see competitive Chinese RWF guilds again, I don't know if that's enough of a reward to make a difference though.
  1. Sorrowseer's Avatar
    Wheres my bear of good fortune, shuck this fit.
  1. Lodidop's Avatar
    Chinabros keep winning
  1. Jester Joe's Avatar
    Shame they miss out on remix but good otherwise that Blizzard is at least trying to actively make sure they get to have a lot of what they missed out on.

    Probably also meant to encourage the players to come back to the Chinese servers for those who decided to start on EU servers instead.
  1. deenman's Avatar
    nice,the realms will clean up a bit now
  1. Tech614's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Relapses View Post
    lmfao @ the RWF reward.

    It'll be fun to see competitive Chinese RWF guilds again, I don't know if that's enough of a reward to make a difference though.
    Not surprising it's so small, china corps love to make money off esports while keeping the majority of money for themselves and not rewarding it to the players. Their esports industry is a huge scam for the actual players. Netease trying to bring WoW into it probably ain't gonna be any different.

    They should just give that money to the first place chinese guild, if they think that pitiful amount of money will allow them to compete with echo or liquid they are out of their damn minds lmao.
  1. DeltrusDisc's Avatar
    Where tf is my Bear of Good Fortune?
  1. Gorsameth's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tech614 View Post
    Not surprising it's so small, china corps love to make money off esports while keeping the majority of money for themselves and not rewarding it to the players. Their esports industry is a huge scam for the actual players. Netease trying to bring WoW into it probably ain't gonna be any different.

    They should just give that money to the first place chinese guild, if they think that pitiful amount of money will allow them to compete with echo or liquid they are out of their damn minds lmao.
    Making it for first place only just ensures they don't have to pay out at all.
  1. Railander's Avatar
    MoP remix not being live for them is hilariously ironic, considering the expansion was based on chinese culture.
  1. yuyang1shi's Avatar
    Both Blizzard negociate-manager and netease manage did not realized missing MOP remix's consquence.
    why Blizzard launched Mop remix is for some pecefic reasons:
    -wow 11.0 TWW one key feature is War-band, which is free player from endless renown, just enjor the multi-classes' feature.
    -since 8.3 or ever earlier, the class-balance is dead. or, Blizzard give up the Class-Balance goal in general.
    (instead, they choose to adjust in different version. like: x.1, aim hunter\destruction war-lock god; x.2, fire mage, balanced druid, beast hunter god, x.3, others)
    -since 8.3 to now, range DPS always have a lot of advantages, like move less to aviod Traps/earth quake/fire circle, as a melee, u always need to keeping move, but still need to sustain a very comprehensive Damage-Circle. Range DPS, instead, just need to move less than 2 fingers, 1 finger to shoot, the another too clean the snot.
    -now blizzard encourage player to try more class, they encourage player to play "easy class", they did not u "take advanatage from playing easy class"
    (compare to past, they encourage player focus on 1 class and know it deeper as Pro)

    so, no MOP-remix, just cut the 60-70 experience, China player can't get 3-4 60lvl ready to go class for wow 11.0 for the feature of "War-Band"

    when the major line finished, players tired their class so sucks, abroad server players can pick up a best-hot "easy class', while china players only have 2 way: quit or spend a lot of time to Re-roll.

    when AFK wave happens, they will realized, dam, why Blizzard negociate manager don't tell them why MOP-Remix is so important. lol
  1. Eupitor's Avatar
    How does Maldraxxus look over there?
  1. Ereb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sorrowseer View Post
    Wheres my bear of good fortune, shuck this fit.
    Quote Originally Posted by DeltrusDisc View Post
    Where tf is my Bear of Good Fortune?
    Shoulda been born in China lol
  1. Arlette's Avatar
    Gotta tongue-blast that China asshole I suppose.

    I wonder if Johanna or Metzen go to bed thinking about how they spent the day pandering to a fascist authoritarian government.

    That would probably kill a part of my soul.
  1. Stickiler's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Arlette View Post
    Gotta tongue-blast that China asshole I suppose.

    I wonder if Johanna or Metzen go to bed thinking about how they spent the day pandering to a fascist authoritarian government.

    That would probably kill a part of my soul.
    They both worked for Kotick, 'nuff said
  1. Ast1982's Avatar
    Chris Metzen, such passion for WoW; absolute legend
  1. Gurahk's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Arlette View Post
    Gotta tongue-blast that China asshole I suppose.

    I wonder if Johanna or Metzen go to bed thinking about how they spent the day pandering to a fascist authoritarian government.

    That would probably kill a part of my soul.
    How dare they open up WoW to more people.
  1. klaps_05's Avatar
    That reward is a joke - CN guilds buy out entire hotels for RWF and still fail.
  1. rayvio's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Railander View Post
    MoP remix not being live for them is hilariously ironic, considering the expansion was based on chinese culture.
    largely chinese but it also includes other asian cultures as well, something the chinese government are less keen on, although it's complete coincidence that blizz chose to tone down all of those references and keep the focus mostly on china. originally there were supposed to be more samurai inspiration as well as creatures based on japanese folklore
  1. Azerox's Avatar
    WB Chinese friends!

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