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The scheduled exhibition matches of Starcraft 2 for ChinaJoy 2009 on July 23rd would have become the first starcraft 2 open event around the world, predating the ones to be held in South Korea on July 24th, featuring the much-anticipated face-off between Moon and Nada.
However, at the moment when all Chinese fans were cheering the upcoming opportunity to get a closer look at the masterpiece by Blizzard, there came a sad news, saying, Starcraft 2 was banned by authorities from being exhibited on this year’s ChinaJoy.
Again, Blizzard failed when facing Chinese goverment.
The detailed cause of ban remains unkown. Up till now, Two accounts were given unofficially by online media.
The former said that The State Bureau Of Culture called a halt to Starcraft 2 on ChinaJoy, for “Starcraft 2 is much too bloody, which will severely effect the mental as well as physical health of adolescents”.
The latter is in a more institutional tone, saying, according to the lastest regulation released on July 1st,2009, “Any activity related to foreign games, including their showing, demostrating, trading and marketing promotion, shall also abide by the censorship laws aming at imported online games”, meaning any foreign game, if it wanna put in an appearence in any public event inside China, “shall be subject to censorship and approval by the State Admimistartion Of News And Press.”, or it will no doubt be banned, and “all promoters, sponsors, and companies related shall held their respective legal responsibilities.”
PLU, the official partner of OGN in China had planned to broadcast the exhibition matches live via online TV, with its best narrators =XD=love, Sanpao, etc. commentating . But they cancelled the plan yesterday, issuing an terse official statement, saying they had to change their plan for some nontechnical reason.
BTW, both Blizzard and its Chinese partner NetEase have never officially announced anything about Starcraft2 on ChinaJoy, nonetheless, several news are leaked by some insiders, including the photos below, showing Blizzard and NetEase’s booths on this year's ChinaJoy, with large Starcraft 2 posters hanging.
source: (in Chinese)
http://www.wfbrood.com/xingji/xjnews/xingji_39977.html
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wtf....
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On July 23 2009 19:16 skypacer wrote:
The former said The Sate Bureau Of Culture called a halt to Starcraft 2 on ChinaJoy, for “Starcraft 2 is much too bloody, which will severely effect the mental as well as physical health of adolescents”.
They know what they are talking about ;d
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Come on just bring SC2 Beta here in the Philippines! no bans and all happy pinoys!
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Interesting that Blizzard's woes began (severely) once they changed their operating company in China. Makes you think the old company has connections they are using to make Blizzard's life rough.
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Chinese government sounds smart.
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Blizzard should put Pandarens in WoW now just to piss them off even more.
Not serious.
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Canada428 Posts
Another log on the back's of the Chinese gamer. I'm glad I hadn't heard that it was going to be broad casted or else I might have just been let down. Censorship makes alot of sence for some things, like Live popular sporting events (Olympics for example) but this sort of thing really smacks you in the face. I would be so angry if my government decided I was unable to determine what me or my children could view.
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konadora
Singapore66365 Posts
The former said that The Sate Bureau Of Culture called a halt to Starcraft 2 on ChinaJoy, for “Starcraft 2 is much too bloody, which will severely effect the mental as well as physical health of adolescents”.
Sounds plausible.
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On July 23 2009 19:47 konadora wrote:Show nested quote +The former said that The Sate Bureau Of Culture called a halt to Starcraft 2 on ChinaJoy, for “Starcraft 2 is much too bloody, which will severely effect the mental as well as physical health of adolescents”. Sounds plausible.
On July 23 2009 19:31 Shindrah wrote:
Chinese government sounds smart.
These must be levels, right? This kind of censorship never helped anyone and acceptance simply demonstrates a high level of indoctrination.
Anyway, ridiculous, ensuring government control at the expense of the population -- unrelated to SC2. Makes me think China has it worse than the United States.
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It's China, they do 2 things there. Kill people for all kinds of reasons and censor everything, and that too is for all kinds of reasons.
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On July 23 2009 20:17 Oxygen wrote:
These must be levels, right?
you must be some kinda genius or somethin'
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2 billion people, so there should be at least millions of fools.
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Chinese gamers have it kind of rough. The Great Firewall of China makes online gaming so laggy... + censorship stuff like this
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It smells dictature, and it smells bad.
I feel bad for the chinese who have to cope with such a gov...
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Lol
That seriously sucks though..I would hate to have to put up with this
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On July 23 2009 19:29 Licmyobelisk wrote:
Come on just bring SC2 Beta here in the Philippines! no bans and all happy pinoys!
QFT
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Great firewall of china... hahaha
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That sucks maybe we'll see a Chinese immigration of gamers to South Korea or something for a better life.
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