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China has driven masses of players there to the Taiwanese server or to other games while a new operator takes the reins of the Blizzard Entertainment blockbuster in China. NetEase and Blizzard are testing their snapshot of the former operator's game data and have completed installation of the entirely new hardware bought to run the game, a statement on the official Web site for the transition said Wednesday. The game is likely to lose more players the longer it is down, and other Chinese game companies have raised their advertising budgets in a scramble to win over idle World of Warcraft players, said Zhao. Many World of Warcraft players in mainland China have also migrated to the Taiwan server during the transition, even though that means a slower connection and having to start a new account, the Blizzard representative said. The transition Web site earlier said the servers NetEase uses to run World of Warcraft would have twice the computing power of "past servers," an apparent reference to those owned by The9. read more
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