Recently, the dispute between NetEase and Blizzard has been on the cusp, and in addition to verbal confrontation, NetEase is also secretly carrying out a new layout.
It is reported that NetEase's self-developed PC game "Against the Water and Cold" has opened a set of "NetEase Warcraft Veteran Suit" on January 13, intending to continue to provide MMO services for Warcraft veteran players in the absence of the World of Warcraft national service.
According to NetEase officials, more than 800,000 players logged in 3 days after the veteran uniform was opened, and PDD and other well-known players settled in some popular servers, once queued up to more than 10,000 people, and the official had to urgently circuit off some popular servers and temporarily shut down its newly created character function.
At the same time, the mobile game of the same name of "Against the Water and Cold" has obtained a version number on January 17, and has exceeded 11.5 million reservations before it is online, and the server will be equally overcrowded by then.
Now a suspected server provider has posted pictures in the circle of friends, saying that it has obtained a super large order from NetEase's "Against the Water and Cold" mobile game, and it can be safely celebrated for the New Year.
According to the posted orders, NetEase spent 83.84 million yuan to purchase customized servers for the "Against the Water and Cold" mobile game, a total of 800 sets were purchased, with a unit price of 104,800 yuan, and the delivery time was February 21, 2023.
At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit in November last year, NetEase official technical personnel introduced that when the development progress of the mobile game "Against the Water and Cold" reached 80%, the R&D budget had exceeded 700 million yuan, considering the follow-up R&D investment, coupled with the deployment of servers and other online preparations, the initial total cost is expected to exceed 1 billion yuan, which is expected to break a new record for the cost before the launch of domestic games.
In addition, "Against the Water and Cold" mobile game is one of the first games to support hardware ray tracing, optimized for Qualcomm II Snapdragon 8.
The "Against the Water and Cold" mobile game is expected to be officially launched in 2023, but it has not yet begun testing, and the official has not announced a specific timetable.
On the official website h.163.com, NetEase has opened the "Cloud Pinch Face" cloud game function, allowing players to pinch their faces in advance, including "upload photos to pinch face", "text pinch face", and "mosquito pinch face" introduced for the first time, and there is no restriction on login.
According to official data, only 10 minutes after the opening of Yunpinch's face, it reached the upper limit of the server, setting a record for NetEase Thunder Fire internal beta players to be online at the same time, and the official follow-up also carried out emergency server expansion.