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Saw this on WorldofRaids. Seems China may never see Lich King at all. At the very least, they won't ever get to use Death Knights.
While many of us are churning through the content of Wrath of the Lich King, anxiously awaiting Ulduar and everything else that patch 3.1 has to offer, a fair portion of the global playerbase hasn't even touched the expansion yet. They haven't been able to experience the starting area for Death Knights -- and probably never will -- and now the company that publishes World of Warcraft in China -- The9 -- is facing bankruptcy.
You see, the Chinese government instituted policies to forbid negative content in video games and on the internet. And, well, the entire basis for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion is something China has forced alteration of in the past -- the undead and the Scourge. What this means for The9 is that they secured a license to publish the expansion, and thus far have failed to get it approved twice, including the most recent version that doesn't even have the Death Knight Hero class. What's going to happen to The9 and Wrath of the Lich King in China is still up in the air, but one thing's for certain -- this will likely be a long process of iterating, if it's even worth it for Blizzard to go through the process.
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