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

Thank CTOnews.com netizens Mengyu Qianyu for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, January 9 (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.

The well-known World of Warcraft player @ Lao Dao 99, who often broke the news of Warcraft, once revealed that it was almost impossible for Blizzard NetEase to get back together, and Blizzard was also talking to the new agent. Today, he released more details about the progress of negotiations between Blizzard and domestic agents.

First of all, he mentioned that Blizzard will not lower the terms of negotiation and renegotiate with NetEase. Shanghai net Zhiyi, a joint venture between NetEase and Blizzard, which runs Blizzard games, has laid off most of its employees, leaving only a few in charge of dealing with the aftermath. If the two sides can still talk, NetEase will not lay off these people.

The second is the progress of the negotiations that many people are concerned about: progress is still very fast, and it has reached the critical stage of choosing one of the two. Some bosses have revealed that domestic agents are actively talking to Blizzard and have gone to the United States many times to communicate details with Blizzard. Rumored to be one of the four, Tencent perfect byte Ali, in fact, it seems that the company that meets Blizzard's conditions can only "choose one from two".

He also said that the existing Blizzard family bucket game is not the core of the negotiations between Activision or the new agent. The only core is the development of Blizzard authorized mobile game rights, because this mobile game attracts too much money in terms of Dark Immortal global income, far exceeding the ability of the existing family buckets to attract money.

Therefore, the new agent must be rich, have very successful mobile game research and development cases, and be able to accept the benefits of Blizzard's mobile game development, not as strong as NetEase. At present, only two companies seem to be qualified.

On the question of how long the service will last, he said it depends on the progress of the negotiations, which may take a long time or only a month or two.

On the issue of the version number, he said that the game content NetEase era has been reviewed, the game version number can continue to be used, but the operator information needs to be changed.

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