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CTOnews.com, January 3 (Xinhua)-- Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft, hearthstone Legend, Diablo 3, and Watchman: return, will be discontinued in China after January 24, 2023, due to the expiration of the license agreement with NetEase.

Today (January 3) the well-known Warcraft player @ Lao Dao 99, who often broke the news of Warcraft, said that Blizzard is negotiating with four domestic agents, and the negotiations have entered a critical second stage. According to the revelation, it is not clear which of the four agents are. It is rumored that they are Tencent, perfect, byte and Ali, because these four meet Blizzard's requirements both in terms of financial strength and government relations. But these companies have successively denied the news of acting national service.

The player also said that some analysts believe that the four companies will not talk as the main company, but as subsidiaries or investment companies to participate in the negotiations. In addition, as for the possibility of a reunion between Blizzard and NetEase, the source said that the joint venture between the two sides has begun to lay off staff, leaving only a small number of people to clean up, which is basically impossible.

CTOnews.com learned that Activision Blizzard and NetEase successively issued statements announcing the end of the partnership on November 17, after which NetEase posted an announcement on the World of Warcraft website that Blizzard games, including "World of Warcraft", "hearthstone Legend", "Watchman Vanguard", "Diablo III", "StarCraft II", "Warcraft III: remake" and "Storm Hero" will be terminated at 0: 00 on January 24, 2023.

Blizzard said that after the server is shut down, all account data will be temporarily sealed and will be properly handled in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations to protect the legitimate rights and interests of users.

Last month, Blizzard Chinese officials released a video saying that this was a message recorded by Nathan Lyons-Smith, the executive producer of Blizzard's hearthstone Legend, to players in the national service of Blizzard. "the producer said that he was in talks with potential new distributors of national service, looking forward to the day of the reunion.

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