IT House News on January 18, the "breakup" of NetEase and Blizzard has been making a lot of noise recently, and the national servers of games such as "World of Warcraft" and "Overwatch" will be terminated on January 24, 2023. Yesterday, Blizzard announced that it proposed to extend the game service for six months, but NetEase did not accept it, accusing Blizzard of being "arrogant and indecent".
Today, NetEase officially posted a few photos, the company's new product "Blizzard Green Tea" was put on the coffee bar in the park, and also brought the topic of "NetEase rejected Blizzard's proposal to extend it for 6 months", which seems to allude to Blizzard's "green tea" behavior.
IT House learned that many games cooperated by NetEase and Blizzard will end their services on the 24th, including World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch, StarCraft, Warcraft III: Reset, Diablo III and Heroes of the Storm. All Blizzard games represented by NetEase will stop the service and close the recharge service and user registration entry of Blizzard game products in Battle.net and the client.
NetEase also said, "Some media have received rumors that NetEase wants control of Blizzard's IP." Here, we must seriously point out: as an agency, NetEase has never sought control of the IP of Blizzard Games or other partners, and in the course of the past fourteen years of long-term cooperation, NetEase's use and authorization of any Blizzard IP is in accordance with the terms of the contract and with the consent and approval of Blizzard. IP cooperation with other partners is also based on this principle. ”