{"id":4671,"date":"2008-08-06T15:44:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4671"},"modified":"2014-10-28T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T23:41:34","slug":"wow-launches-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wow-launches-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"WoW Launches in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12442\" alt=\"russia icon-L\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/russia-icon-L.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"218\" \/>AUG. 6, 2008 \u2022 World of Warcraft launches in Russia. The game is available with a fully localized version of the MMO, playable on Russian servers, and supported by a Russian-language customer service staff.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><em>Impact: WoW had been localized for English, French, German and Spanish.\u00a0 Other Europeans have been forced to choose one of those languages when playing WoW.\u00a0 The fact that Blizzard picked the difficult task of localizing in Russian, before say Italian, shows the potential untapped growth of that market.\u00a0 Russia is a country that has a fairly strong interest in PC games.\u00a0 The subscription price is 359 rubles a month, which is roughly the equivalent of $15.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 6, 2008 \u2022 World of Warcraft launches in Russia. The game is available with a fully localized version of the MMO, playable on Russian servers, and supported by a Russian-language customer service staff. Impact: WoW had been localized for English, French, German and Spanish.\u00a0 Other Europeans have been forced to choose one of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}