The subscription of the wow is so large that an article suggests that Blizzard's WoW subscription base has been nearly halved due to Chinese server downtime. StumbleUponRedditFarkEmail An entry on Tobold's MMORPG Blog suggests that Blizzard's worldwide World of Warcraft subscriptions are currently somewhere in the region of five million versus the previous figure of 11 million. In addition, if you want to buy wow gold cheap, you can contact us, too. We have plenty of instock to meet your need for gold with lowest price!
According to the post this is directly linked to the fact the more than half of the game's total subscriptions are based in China. Chinese WoW servers have been offline now for roughly one month and lots of WoW Gold are "stored deep in the box",while Blizzard is attempting to transfer the game's license from The9 to NetEase. The best guess is that the story started by Blizzard transfering their WoW license in China from The9 to NetEase.
Obviously The9 wasn't happy to lose this major earner, and filed several lawsuits. The new operator, NetEase, needs a license to run WoW,and the profits buy selling WoW Gold is very attracktive.But the Chinese authorities didn't give NetEase a license, and "said that in order to protect the interests of domestic gaming enterprises, they would suspend review of all games belonging to foreign companies in the event of lawsuits or arbitration between foreign companies and Chinese companies". This could still go on for months! Now financially this is less of a blow to Blizzard than it sounds.
The Chinese players pay only about 6 cents per hour to play or buy there WoW Gold, and most of that went to the Chinese operator, so in spite of China providing most of the players, it only provided a small part of the revenues and profits of Blizzard. Nevertheless the game being down for a month already certainly isn't good press, which is why Blizzard is keeping mum about it.Though some people say that the situation in China might not be rectified in the near future,in fact it is just rumor.
