WoW more important in China than Google

Going off of my last blog post, which highlighted the political activism that gamers were demonstrating in Australia, I would like to bring up the recent conflict that Google faces in China.

Basically, Google threatened to pull out of China because it has been the target of many cyber attacks. 384 million people use Google in china, but there were no complaints from them; nobody cared.

To them, Google is just a search engine, and it is just as good as the other ones available.

What’s really interesting is how this quarrel compares to the WoW fiasco of last year. Sometime around June 2009, WoW went off-line because of some shady government bureaucracy that I don’t really understand, but the important thing is that close to 40,000 gamers were actively protesting until WoW was finally brought back.

Although some may see this behavior as obsessive, Gamers are passionate about their games, and they have learned that working together makes them a force to be reckoned with (pardon the cliché).

If you want to know more about Google’s situation in China, click here.

To catch up on what happened last year with WoW, click here.

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