World of Warcraft’s China servers have been down for the past six weeks but are now “partially” up and running. The servers went down while Activision moved the game from The9 to NetEase. The Chinese government’s General Administration of Press and Publication decided that more changes needed to be made including the censorship of skeletons and blood.

According to this report on MMORPG News, WOW is currently in closed beta for one week while the changes are applied. Current players have noticed that previous piles of bones have now been replaced by bags of sand. In-game talent tree icons, once appearing as severed heads, bones, and blood, are now represented as boxes. Additionally, blood is no longer red, but appears as black oil instead.

China has actually been playing a different version of WoW than players in the U.S. and EU have for quite some time. Undead characters who we recognize by their rotting flesh revealing bones are displayed with no visible sign of bones at all in China. Rumors have stated this the bones are a red flag to the Chinese because of the cultures high respect for the dead as well as spiritual superstitions, while they Chinese government has stated that the images were simply frightening to young children.