WarCry Choice Posts: 3023 Joined: 3 Mar 2004 | The9 alters WoW to appease Chinese censors
Thankfully we live in the United States where our right to see graphic violence and horrific images is protected under the First Amendment. Showing a hot chick shooting a zombie in the forehead is perfectly acceptable, unless the hot chick or the zombie is in anyway partially nude. If that is the case, then the First Amendment gets thrown out faster than week-old curry chicken. Right, I'm not here to talk about our sexually repressed, oppressive government, I'm here to talk about someone else's:
The9 (Nasdaq: NCTY) changed the looks of the Scourge race in its licensed MMORPG World of Warcraft (WoW) on June 26, reports Southern Metropolitan News. Scourge are an undead race that in previous versions showed part flesh and part skeleton. The9 modified the look to show no skeleton, and changed scourge corpses from bones to tombs. The9 claimed that it made the change because the original look of the Scourge race was too scary and thus unlikely to pass new Chinese censorship review.
I hate it when the Undead are too scary. Maybe if we could show the Chinese government the Olson twins, they would see that the Undead can be cute, too.
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The9 alters WoW to appease Chinese censors
Thankfully we live in the United States where our right to see graphic violence and horrific images is protected under the First Amendment. Showing a hot chick shooting a zombie in the forehead is perfectly acceptable, unless the hot chick or the zombie is in anyway partially nude. If that is the case, then the First Amendment gets thrown out faster than week-old curry chicken. Right, I'm not here to talk about our sexually repressed, oppressive government, I'm here to talk about someone else's:
I hate it when the Undead are too scary. Maybe if we could show the Chinese government the Olson twins, they would see that the Undead can be cute, too.
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