{"id":27214,"date":"2011-09-23T12:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T11:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27214"},"modified":"2011-09-23T12:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T11:39:38","slug":"china-fears-of-censorship-of-diablo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27214","title":{"rendered":"China: Fears of censorship of Diablo 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video game fans awaiting the release of Diablo 3 in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a> fear that the game will be <a title=\"Penn Olson - As closed Beta begins, fears of Diablo 3 censorship in china\" href=\"http:\/\/www.penn-olson.com\/2011\/09\/22\/as-closed-beta-begins-fears-of-diablo-3-censorship-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">heavily censored<\/a>. Amid reports that the game has entered the <a title=\"Blizzard - Diablo III enters beta testing\" href=\"http:\/\/eu.blizzard.com\/en-gb\/news\/?d=2011-9#211300\" target=\"_blank\">beta-testing phase<\/a>, rumours that it is quite bloody are making Chinese fans nervous that they will face a toned-down version, as they did with World of Warcraft. The Chinese version of World of Warcraft, made by <a title=\"Blizzard\" href=\"http:\/\/eu.blizzard.com\/en-gb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blizzard<\/a> the same company as Diablo, was changed. Gamers took to Weibo with comments such as &#8220;#Diablo3# We\u2019re not asking for much, just to play the goddamn original version, as long as it\u2019s not censored it\u2019s fine\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game fans awaiting the release of Diablo 3 in China fear that the game will be heavily censored. Amid reports that the game has entered the beta-testing phase, rumours that it is quite bloody are making Chinese fans nervous that they will face a toned-down version, as they did with World of Warcraft. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[3845,7364,3843,3692,3844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27234,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214\/revisions\/27234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}