Xiong Di, 22, a junior in management at Beijing Union University understands a soldier's thirst for the battlefield. This veteran World of Warcraft (WoW) gamer used to stay in the game for more than four hours a day. Now, with the Mainland's server halted for administration's reapproval since June 7, Xiong and the 5 million other WoWers find themselves in a vacuum, a boring, empty void.