Hey,

I created a poll to get a general idea of how often you play World of Warcraft.

Do you know the amount of time spent playing WoW by an average user in China?

Most of the research studies put the figure around 4 hours per day, and in some cases 5 hours per day. (Hardcore players would be much higher of course.)

hey mr news man, what blog do you write for?

WoWLaoWai wrote:

hey mr news man, what blog you rag you write for?

It's a small blog (~30-50k visitors per month), but it's still very new and I like to write about interesting subject matter that you can't find anywhere else.

Right now, for example, most information about WoW China on American webpages is very limited and incorrect in some cases.

* Oh right.. I'll post the link once I finalize information from your forums.

Hi Symien,

Could you post the link to your blog? I'd like to take a look at what you write.

lol with 30-50k visitors a month there must be a link no? would be interested to see it as well

lol

bolomas wrote:

lol with 30-50k visitors a month there must be a link no? would be interested to see it as well

I didn't think that was a lot actually. =]

It sometimes depends on the posts (a couple have spiked to 7-8k unique users for example, others are 2-3k each) but I haven't been advertising it much since I'm too busy trying to collect content for it.

I'm curious about why you don't wanna give a link to your "blog"

deadanus wrote:

I'm curious about why you don't wanna give a link to your "blog"

Actually, you would probably be able to find it right now if you put your mind to it.

(Reminder: Google can search based on date/time)

If you can't find by it by your next post, let me know and I'll post it. But I'm 99% confident you'll see it (it's on the top results.)

I still have a ton of information to collect, but I have 2 parts on there so far. I'm trying to make the posts shorter because some of them can get pretty long-winded.

I'm just teasing. I don't play WOW anymore.

Anyways, biggest differences are:
- Guilds are massive 300+ pips and 2 or 3 daily raids.
- Most raids use bugs for fast progress (i'd say 50% of all bosses bugged in vanila and TBC)
- The average level of PVE players is higher than in EU and US (i cant judge PVP, i suck at it).
- Gold Raids is the most used kind of pugging (if not the only).
- Players reputation is important and good/well known players (JY) will get favored spots in high level raids (even on their ungeared alts).
- The trolling and namecalling is minimal compared to some servers i played in US (maybe the population is more mature).
- Economy is fucked by gold sellers.
- Raid leaders have a weird tendency to take too many healers.
- Most players use cookie cutter builds and are not opened to alternate builds.
- Raid mates sing karaoke on raid voice chat.
- Most players lend characters to their friends and it's hard to know who is playing who (IMO, this is the root of most hacking problems).

I'll post later if i see that i forgot stuff