China Internet Technology Co., Ltd. Netease and Blizzard Entertainment Company announced in November last year that it will end 14 years of cooperative relations in January this year.The original agreement was six months old, but it was rejected. Therefore, it will stop gaming services in mainland China on January 23 in accordance with the previous announcement.
According to the official Weibo of "Blizzard China", Blizzard once again contacted and sought assistance with Netease last week to discuss the existing agreement, which has agreed with the established clauses in 2019 to postpone the extension of the established clauses and postponed it.Six months, the player continues to the game and allows Blizzard to continue to explore the reasonable and long -term development path in the mainland in the future.
Blizzard said that this is based on the personal experience as a game player, and the negotiations received by the players received after the announcement of the announcement, and described NetEase's rejection with "unfortunate results".
Blizzard also introduced the related matters of the suspension in the article, including the launch of the World of Warcraft progress preservation function on January 18, so that players can download their own game progress to prepare for future use, and they will be slightly a little bit.Later, open application channels for virtual currency and game time that have been recharged but not consumed.
Blizzard also revealed in the article that at present, talks with a number of potential partners say that they will still work hard to find partners who have a common belief and will share related progress with players in the future.
Blizzard has appeared on the Sina Weibo hot search list after its release, but most of the netizens have criticized Blizzard.One of the praise comments wrote, "The team of others has been dissolved. You wait until the two worship of the two worships to negotiate with others? Do you really want to act early for players?"After the two companies announced the end of the cooperation, the Blizzard game operation department of Netease has been dissolved, most employees have left, and a small number of people have been transferred to other teams in Shanghai.At present, there are about 10 people left in the original department to deal with logistics work and customer service, but their work industry will only last six months.
The current authorization agreement between Blizzard and Netease will expire on January 23, the year, and will be suspended in most of the Blizzard game services in mainland China, including World of Warcraft Hearthstone Legend World of Warcraft III: Rebirth Overwatch PioneerStarCraft series Diablo III and storm hero.
