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China blocks Wrath of the Lich King release

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The Chinese government has rejected two applications to launch Wrath of the Lich King in the country, as the WoW expansion's content did not "meet requirements" thanks to a city raid and skeleton characters -- the submitted version left out the Death Knight class.

Blizzard has now deleted the link to the Chinese version on WoW's North American site.

China apparently has issues with skeletons - for some reason - and undead in the game have had to be "beefed" up in the past so they showed less bone.

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