WoW China servers down while transferring

Well, It has been old news that The9 would loose the rights over WoW and that they would be transferred to Netease.

However, it was only recently that the servers shutdown, june 7, and they will be down for 3-6 weeks.

Now the downtime in itself will make them lose some players, but at the same time Aion is gaining momentum in Asia, so it will be very interesting to see what will happen and how many players will return after their 1 month break, or if they decide to try Aion and stick ...

Here are some links to the news articles :

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23230

http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=149114_0_5_0_M