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'I cried all night': Millions of Chinese lose access to 'World of Warcraft' and other hit games | CNN Business

Millions of players in China have lost access to the iconic “World of Warcraft” franchise and other popular video games, as Blizzard Entertainment’s servers in the country went offline after two decades.

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“When I woke up, I still didn’t want to accept [it],” one user said on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, on Tuesday. “I cried all night in my sleep because the game went offline. I dreamed that I was crying in the middle of the class.”

They announced this back in November, but didn't find another partner in time so... goodbye China.

 

[Imtjnotu]

Guess you could say, they won't survive this blizzard

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[Tomi]

Diablo IV good reviews and sales can only save Blizzard from total destruction

 

[Stitch]

Blizzard is probably dead before Microsoft are allowed to buy them

 

[Bragr]

To be frank, this might be a good thing, people who still play WoW need to wake up and smell the roses that they are playing an ancient outdated game. This is gonna be good for them.

 

[Kacho]

Guessing Blizz will work things out eventually like Disney did with their Marvel movies.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Fuck it.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

There goes 90% of WoW players.

All hail FF14

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

MS right now:

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

 

[OmegaSupreme]

MS right now:

I like the one where he tries to shove the remote up his ass.

 

[Celcius]

Time for them all to switch to FF14 I guess

 

[DeepEnigma]

I like the one where he tries to shove the remote up his ass.

 

[Sentenza]

MS right now:

A timeless classic.

 

[Flutta]

Blizzard losing that chinese money is a good start

MS and AKB in shambles right now. Love to see it!

 

[Spukc]

MS right now:

Where is the remote?

 

[Herbspiceguy]

I feel for the WoW addicts who got cut off of from their supply so abruptly, that must be harsh.

Other than that: goodbye NetEase, hello Tencent. No way this a not going to be picked up by another Chinese partner publisher.

 

[STARSBarry]

Where is the remote?

 

[jshackles]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

“When I woke up, I still didn’t want to accept [it],” one user said on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, on Tuesday. “I cried all night in my sleep because the game went offline. I dreamed that I was crying in the middle of the class.”

Crying hard due to a video game gong offline. Wow. I wonder what their response would be if their family members died in a car accident.

On one hand it should be worse. Then again, I'm thinking with these kinds of addicts he'd probably be more sad at Warcraft.

 

[The artful mincer]

MS right now:

Was this ever proven to be real or fake?

 

[Spyxos]

Can't they just use Nordvpn?

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Was this ever proven to be real or fake?

I heard it was fake. But not sure.

 

[Ronin_7]

Activision Blizzard is in the shit apart from COD.

King is the saving grace of that company lmao

 

[Kilau]

Was this ever proven to be real or fake?

He admitted it was fake when Tosh threatened to shove another remote up his ass.

 

[Rentahamster]

Was this ever proven to be real or fake?

Like most things good on the internets...

 

[Kurimao]

Microsoft should buy China.

 

[Rykan]

We can make fun of this, but this really sucks.

MMORPGs can become a very important aspect of your daily life, and losing something that you've poured an enormous amount of time and effort in so suddenly is very rough.

 

[Edmund]

Why is he shoving a remote up his ass????!!

 

[Valonquar]

SE Servers in China are about to get SLAMMMMMMMMED like Azmongold just moved to China.

 

[Pejo]

Why is he shoving a remote up his ass????!!

It's a level 70 WoW thing, you wouldn't understand.

 

[Neofire]

Time for them all to switch to FF14 I guess

Heck no, my beloved FFXIV doesn't need those problems

 

[Spukc]

YEEES

 

[reinking]

Wow!

 

[Impotaku]

 

[Kumomeme]

Heck no, my beloved FFXIV doesn't need those problems

well china has their own separate FFXIV server. same with korean. so no need to worry.

 

[Valedix]

A gif you can hear

 

[j0hnnix]

How am I going to get my gold now!

 

[Lasha]

well china has their own separate FFXIV server. same with korean. so no need to worry.

Funnily enough, Japanese players have the exact same reaction when dealing with the rest of Asia who use their servers.

 

[Pop]

The smart ones were already using a vpn to american servers

 

[The artful mincer]

Like most things good on the internets...

Okay. So he never actually got mad for his WOW account being deleted all staged etc.

 

[bender]

Why is he shoving a remote up his ass????!!

Don't knock it until you try it.