Stable! The opening time of Blizzard’s national server has been revealed! World of Warcraft players are ecstatic

On April 10, both Blizzard and NetEase officially announced their re-collaboration, which gave Chinese players who had been waiting for more than a year a shot in the arm. However, there is still no word on when and how the game will be launched. NetEase said in a letter to players that "the agreement has been signed, but it will still take time to make technical preparations for the launch of the server." This shows that it will take a long time to launch the server.

The most important thing is that "each game will be launched in sequence, and the first returning game will reunite with everyone in the summer."

Why can’t the server be launched soon after the official announcement, and the game has to be launched sequentially?

The technical preparation mentioned by NetEase is the most important reason, because Blizzard's games are owned by Blizzard, so Blizzard still needs a lot of technical access between NetEase and the launch of the server. However, we know that the work efficiency of Lao Mei cannot be expected to be as fast as they can, and each game has to queue up for technical access, which leads to the problem that the games need to be opened in sequence.

So what is the first returning Blizzard game? Little O thinks it must be World of Warcraft. Let’s first explain the reasons and then analyze the obvious signals released by the official.

First of all, World of Warcraft is the most profitable Blizzard game in the Chinese server. Although for a period of time, "Hearthstone" was the most profitable game in the Chinese server, after the opening of the Classic server, World of Warcraft has again A comeback.

Moreover, World of Warcraft has the largest player base in the Chinese server and is also the most popular Blizzard game.

So whether in terms of commercial interests or player tendencies, World of Warcraft is the most suitable Blizzard game to be the first to return.

After explaining the reasons, let’s analyze a lot of evidence from yesterday’s official announcement content and activities, which can also prove that “World of Warcraft” will be the first to return.

First, Blizzard Announcement

In the announcement released yesterday, the games were ranked. Among them, "World of Warcraft" and "Hearthstone" ranked first and were the focus, and the following Several games follow "and others." This means that World of Warcraft and Hearthstone will be the first games to return, with World of Warcraft bearing the brunt.

##Second, the official website of World of Warcraft is opened

Among all Blizzard games, only the official website of World of Warcraft has been opened. Players can only reserve games through World of Warcraft Go to the official World of Warcraft website, and we can see after making a reservation that the system will prompt the player for all Blizzard game products that have been activated, which is enough to prove that World of Warcraft will be the first.

Third, Recast Bloodroar Activity

NetEase officially launched the activity of recasting Bloodroar, and Bloodroar is a classic legend in World of Warcraft The weapon is Grom Hellscream's weapon. This recasting event is to make up for the old Bloodhowl that was dismantled after the previous breakup, and players who participate in the event will have the opportunity to have their names engraved on the newly cast Bloodhowl.

We will make the new Bloodhowl a new token for players, NetEase and Blizzard. This drop will never wear out.

Fourth, a reminder from the Blizzard Game Service Center

The Blizzard Game Service Center released news yesterday, and the pictures also used World of Warcraft pictures. This painting was created by Milo, with Orgrimmar and the orcs on the left, and Stormwind and humans on the right, representing the two major camps of Azeroth, celebrating the return of World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft server opening time has been revealed, June is the most likely time point

As for the server opening time, we can also learn from some current news Find clues.

First of all, in December last year, when 36 Krypton revealed that NetEase and Blizzard were re-cooperating, they mentioned, "It is understood that after the cooperation is confirmed, NetEase and Blizzard need to re-establish the national server operation team and test the server and related system, so players may have to wait half a year or more for the game they are looking forward to to come back online.” A returning World of Warcraft, and longer term, other remaining Blizzard games.

36Kr also explained the server opening time in its latest article published yesterday. It said that the earliest server opening time was originally scheduled for April, but due to technical development issues, this time has been delayed. Put it off again. Although NetEase's domestic computer rooms and servers and other hardware have already been prepared, Blizzard's channel website technology development progress has been slow, resulting in that it can only be postponed to June.

In addition, Jinghe mentioned in the national server news released on March 12 that Blizzard game servers will be launched in "April-June." The first report by Jinghe, "an official announcement will be made within a month" has been confirmed, so the second statement can basically be considered correct.

By combining the above two pieces of information and adding the official word "summer", we can easily determine that the opening time of World of Warcraft should be in June. And if Blizzard speeds up, it may be possible to go online as early as May.

Let us look forward to the arrival of the server opening time! For the alliance! For the tribe! For Azeroth!

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