Original Title: Blizzard National Service Officially Suspends NetEase Announcement: Looking forward to seeing you again
Cover of news reporter Fu Wenchao
On January 23, NetEase released the announcement “NetEase’s Farewell Letter to Blizzard National Server Players: Thank You for 14 Years”, officially announcing the suspension of Blizzard games. At 0:00 on January 24, 2023, “World of Warcraft”, “Hearthstone”, “Watching Pioneer”, “Diablo III”, “Warcraft III: Remastered Edition”, “Heroes of the Storm” and “StarCraft” are represented by NetEase series of products, all operations in the Chinese mainland market will be officially terminated. Blizzard will close Battle.net logins and all game servers, and close the download client at the same time.
At the same time, Netease also said that for players and all Netease staff, the role of the player, account number, equipment and friend list is just a series of codes, but each one is My own youth, passion and life. NetEase will not forget its commitment to players, and will do its best to serve the players of Blizzard’s national server until the last moment, and walk the last mile with players. The company expects to officially announce the refund arrangements for Blizzard game products after the suspension of the service. Players are requested to pay close attention to the official account “Blizzard Game Service Center” for information related to reimbursement in a timely manner.
In addition, Netease remembered the 14 years with the players in the farewell letter. For this beautiful memory of co-choice and co-creation, Netease said that it will not disappear due to the suspension of the server and a shining presence in days ordinary At the end of the farewell letter, Netease once again reiterated that he hopes the suspension of the server is not the end of the players of the national server, but only a helpless suspension. NetEase sincerely expects that all Blizzard players can return to the national server one day.
On November 17, 2022, Blizzard announced that cooperation with NetEase would end for the first time, with the 14-year cooperation between the two parties parting ways, which attracted great attention from national server players and the media. Subsequently, NetEase issued a statement stating that it had to “accept Blizzard’s decision” and that the two parties “could not reach an agreement on some key cooperation terms related to sustainable operations, the Chinese market and the core interests of players. “
On January 17, 2023, Blizzard issued another announcement, attributing the termination of the transitional agreement cooperation negotiations to Netease, and then Netease refuted the rumors in Blizzard’s announcement about “Netease Blizzard refused to suspend the service for six months”, “want control IP “, etc. Fake news caused criticism.
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