Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com, November 21, Activision announced that its existing licensing agreement with NetEase will expire on January 23, 2023, when most of Chinese mainland's Blizzard game services will be suspended (including World of Warcraft, hearthstone Legend, Warcraft III: replica, Watchman, StarCraft series, Diablo III, Storm Hero).

According to Caijing new media, people familiar with the matter said that game makers who are negotiating with Blizzard for agency include Tencent, Byte Lightyear, Skynet, Perfect World, bilibili and so on. According to Mammoth News, Nine cities are also negotiating with Microsoft.

According to the report, a Tencent Games person said that at the beginning of this year, there was news that NetEase and Blizzard had conflicts and possible termination of the contract. Tencent had been in contact with Blizzard for at least a year. The person believes that it is unlikely that Tencent will take over. "it feels like Tencent is running with us. The game industry as a whole is in the doldrums this year, and Tencent is unlikely to come up with a large sum of money to sign a contract."

The person familiar with the matter also believes that NetEase continues to take over the offer is the highest probability: after Microsoft completes the acquisition in March next year (the acquisition is being investigated by the European Union and decides whether to approve it before March next year), a new CEO will be assigned to Activision Blizzard. Now CEO Bobby Kotick is considered to be the main messenger of the above stringent conditions, and the cooperation agreement can maintain the status quo and avoid version number problems.

CTOnews.com learned that Mike Morhaime, founder of Blizzard Entertainment today, replied that "Blizzard NetEase cannot renew his contract" and promised that "Blizzard will do its best to ensure that Chinese players can play our games." "there has been a lot of debate on this topic recently, and a lot of people want to be winners in the conversation, but the partnership is two-way, and I know that very well," he said. We should do our best to ensure that Chinese players can play our games, and we don't care about accusations or other negative actions. "

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