July 31st, 2009
World of Warcraft is finally getting back up on its feet in China, but it seems that it didn’t do so without making some concessions to China’s censorship. We know that when The9 was still in charge, they had to make multiple graphical edits to the game to avoid showing off exposed bones, such as altering the Forsaken models and turning player corpses into gravestones, rather than a skeleton heap.
Now that NetEase is in charge, they’ve had to make some changes to the game as well, though perhaps not as substantial. Potentially funnier, though. According to this Chinese website, severed heads and skulls have been covered up. Literally. Item icons that would show heads or skulls in other regions of the world are now bags, chests and crates in China. This includes things like Van Cleef’s Head, and even spell icons like the ones used by Ruin and Improved Corruption have been replaced by bags.
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