In the last publication quarterly Blizzard, filed last may, Blizzard announced that the number of subscribers of World of Warcraft had waned, largely in the Asian market. Some Chinese players, have begun defecting from the official servers in pursuit of private servers. This has been indicated by NetEase, Chinese Word of Warcraft operator. After many months of research, the study has closed several illegal private servers that are being operated by players, but today they have been arrested and prosecuted by local authorities, including charges for fraud and use of intellectual property.
In accordance with the Chinese portal 17,173, the defendants operated several private servers called "Shanda World of Warcraft" confusing the larger players with "Shanda", one of the operators local, whose games we can find the Chinese version of Aion. More than 50,000 players were attracted to these servers, making NetEase lost several tens of millions of Yuan.
The closure of these servers private World of Wacraft, part no doubt a long operation of the authorities Chinese, launched last year to fight against the cybercrimen.
Operational groups have been trained in Shanghai and Zheijang, Guangdong to fight against all the servers that are illegal, as well as several illegal virtual casinos or distributing pirated software online.
It is not clear if the number of subscribers of World of Warcraft will rise after the actions of the authorities you Chinese, but what is clear is that the private servers is waning considerably in the country.
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