Blizzard and NetEase join forces to fight again, and the national server of "World of Warcraft" is resurrected

News from this site on December 25, according to 36 Krypton News, we learned from multiple independent sources that in the past period of time, Blizzard has negotiated with many domestic game manufacturers about the "return of the national server", The final choice Re-join hands with NetEase.

At the time of publication, NetEase has not yet made any response

The report also stated that after the cooperation is confirmed, NetEase and Blizzard need to re-establish a national server operation team and test servers and related systems. , so players may have to wait half a year or more for the game they are looking forward to to come back online. This site attaches a summary of the previous information:

On August 13, 2008, Blizzard and NetEase announced a cooperation and began to operate "World of Warcraft" and Battle.net in mainland China. In the next 14 years, they brought countless happiness and memories to domestic game players

On November 17, 2022, Blizzard issued a unilateral statement announcing that due to the current agreement with NetEase There is a licensing agreement that will expire on January 23, 2023, and Blizzard will suspend most game services in mainland China

After that, NetEase responded that they have been negotiating with Activision Blizzard and are trying their best. Promote contract renewal. After long negotiations, they still cannot reach an agreement with Activision Blizzard on some key terms of cooperation

Starting from 0:00 on January 24, 2023, the operation of all Blizzard games in mainland China will officially cease, including Games such as "World of Warcraft", "Warcraft III: Reforged", "StarCraft" series, "Hearthstone", "Heroes of the Storm", "Overwatch" and "Diablo III" will not be able to log in and play

On October 13, 2023, Microsoft announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Activision Blizzard for US$68.7 billion. This news has attracted widespread attention from players. Widely regarded as the hope for the restart of Blizzard’s national server

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