Krangel's apparent conviction stemmed from a less sturdy source: a post on the East Asia finance blog JLM Pacific Epoch that doesn't mention a ban at all. That site, in turn, references a news report on the Chinese-language search engine Sohu, which cited "unnamed sources" as saying that "The [Chinese] government has rejected two applications by the second expansion for The9's licensed MMORPG World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King." The9 is Blizzard's localization partner in China, and currently operates World of Warcraft and its first expansion, The Burning Crusade, in the territory.
