HongLan Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 9427916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | HongLan Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | HongLan |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-9262-3113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Grieving World of Warcraft ’s Chinese server shutdown
Twenty years of game scholarship established that players form profound attachments to the virtual worlds and inhabitants of Massively Multiplayer Online [MMO-]games, that are near-indistinguishable from their attachment to offline relationships. However, the shutdown of World of Warcraft ’s Chinese servers on January 24th, 2023, ended those attachments on a massive scale for millions of players, after 18 years. How did Chinese players experience…
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Grieving World of Warcraft ’s Chinese server shutdown
Twenty years of game scholarship established that players form profound attachments to the virtual worlds and inhabitants of Massively Multiplayer Online [MMO-]games, that are near-indistinguishable from their attachment to offline relationships. However, the shutdown of World of Warcraft ’s Chinese servers on January 24th, 2023, ended those attachments on a massive scale for millions of players, after 18 years. How did Chinese players experience…
Computer Science (1 work) · Digital Games and Media (1 work) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (1 work) · Grief (1 work) · Human–computer interaction (1 work) · Internet privacy (1 work) · Metaverse (1 work) · Political science (1 work) · Psychology (1 work) · Scholarship (1 work)