#World of Warcraft#Time has come to the middle of January, and everyone is looking forward to returning home for the Spring Festival reunion, but for World of Warcraft players, their beloved game has entered the countdown to stopping. On January 23, the cooperation between NetEase and Blizzard is about to expire, and on January 24, the national server of a number of NetEase agent games, including "World of Warcraft", will be closed. Many players lamented: Warcraft's best time in China has passed, which is even sadder than the Nine Cities NetEase War many years ago.
However, Blizzard knows how to kill. Blizzard officially announced that a new version of "World of Warcraft" will be launched on January 24, of course, the national server is impossible to enjoy. It is reported that the official "World of Warcraft" will upgrade the 10.0.5 patch, although it is only a routine small upgrade, but it will bring a new gameplay, the newly added "trading post" allows players to spend money to get mounts in the mall, as well as many valuable game loot, it can be said that this upgrade is very attractive.
Many players of the national server expressed indignation at Blizzard's operation: "The update of the version on the day the national server is shut down is simply murderous and condemning." Not only can't play by themselves, but they also have to watch foreign players happily welcome the new version. The same is spent money to recharge, put in a lot of energy, why can national server players only get this treatment? What's even more frustrating is that players also have to save game data locally so that they can one day restart the national server and then activate it.
In this regard, players have ridiculed that this is the "electronic urn". According to the latest news from the media, NetEase is working to dissolve the Shanghai Blizzard game operation team, most of the employees have chosen to leave, and the few remaining employees are also preparing for internal transfers. It can be seen that NetEase and Blizzard basically have no chance of "compounding". At present, the NetEase team has only some technical personnel left, and most of the employees have left.
The reality is that after Blizzard offered NetEase the renewal conditions of "Lion Opening", many netizens supported NetEase, saying that "World of Warcraft" could not be played. In fact, it can also be guessed that if NetEase accepts Blizzard's harsh renewal conditions, it will largely have to "wool out of the sheep" and transfer Blizzard's scythe to its own to players. Moreover, NetEase now has a lot of popular online game IPs, such as "Uncharted Showdown", "Yi Shuihan", "Fantasy Westward Journey", "Yin-Yang Master", etc., it can also be said that NetEase's wings have hardened, and it is no longer only Blizzard.
Moreover, the breakup of NetEase Blizzard is also a major loss for Blizzard itself. The size of China's mobile game market is expanding rapidly, and no one is not blinded by this huge cake. Giants such as Tencent, Netease, and Mihayou share the cake, and Blizzard may not be able to enter the Chinese mobile game market after the collapse of talks with NetEase. Therefore, I am afraid that there will not be a clear answer to who lost and who won hemp in this wave.
As the so-called "immortals fight, mortals suffer", the final payer for the breakup of NetEase Blizzard is still the majority of players, especially hardcore old players who have paid a lot of effort. I still remember the days and nights of fighting in Azeroth, and I remember the painstaking efforts of forming groups to fight copies, I am afraid that these have to be sealed in the "electronic urn" for a long time.