There are two news today, the first of which is from Douyin @Liushui Changfa from a piece of information inside NetEase. He was previously the official anchor of World of Warcraft, and recently went to work on NetEase, and also determined the problem of the preservation of national server player data.
He asked the internal personnel of NetEase, saying that the data of national server players is still there? The reply was that the previous announcement stated that it would be kept properly, and NetEase did not dare to delete player data, otherwise who would dare to recharge NetEase's game in the future with so many World of Warcraft players?
So what we can confirm is that everyone doesn't need to worry about player data, and it's all right.
Another piece of news is about the Microsoft acquisition. According to Weibo @SnowstormJun, Microsoft and CMA have reached a private agreement that the acquisition will be successfully completed in October.
A few days ago, the CMA broke out to open a new round of investigation, which does not mean that the Microsoft acquisition case is in trouble, on the contrary, it is a good thing. Because the first phase of the review takes eight weeks under the CMA's standard process, the CMA opened a new investigation before the August 29 deadline in order to make a ruling on the new acquisition deadline on October 18.
In fact, the CMA has made a final ruling on the original Microsoft acquisition case as an "organizational acquisition", and the new investigation launched now is aimed at Microsoft's revised acquisition agreement, that is, it is a new case. The new case is the result of huge concessions and drastic changes made by Microsoft and the CMA after a long period of behind-the-scenes discussions. Now the status of the case is a Phase 1 review, and the CMA is deciding whether to give the case fast-track approval. Of course, this is all for the world, because the two sides have already finalized the plan behind the scenes.
From the current situation, Microsoft's acquisition will pass the CMA's investigation as scheduled in October, and Microsoft will achieve the acquisition of Activision Blizzard globally.
After the completion of the acquisition, the new agency negotiations of the national service can continue to open. Originally, Blizzard hoped that NetEase's half-year extension would end in June and July for Microsoft's acquisition, and then it could be smoothly transferred to the next one. I did not expect that the acquisition was delayed for 4 months. It was such a delay that delayed the reopening of the national service a lot.
The road to the return of the national uniform is long, and we can only wait slowly.