{"id":8717,"date":"2023-01-23T13:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/world-of-warcraft-to-go-offline-in-china-leaving-millions-of-gamers-bereft\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:37:54","slug":"world-of-warcraft-to-go-offline-in-china-leaving-millions-of-gamers-bereft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/world-of-warcraft-to-go-offline-in-china-leaving-millions-of-gamers-bereft\/","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><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3a6c1c47a7186d3175fd9144083c08c690f09f2c\/0_98_2646_1587\/master\/2646.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ec3808a4c2e3caa30f5022f10bd508b1\" title=\"World of Warcraft to go offline in China, leaving millions of gamers bereft\" \/>Popular role-playing game is being cut off due to a dispute between US developer and its Chinese partner<br \/>\nMillions 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 offline after a dispute between the US developer Blizzard and its local partner NetEase.<br \/>\nMassively 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. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/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 partner Millions 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 offline after a dispute between the US developer Blizzard &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/world-of-warcraft-to-go-offline-in-china-leaving-millions-of-gamers-bereft\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World of Warcraft to go offline in China, leaving millions of gamers bereft<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}