Since the Blizzard national server has been officially announced, players have focused their attention on the game itself, so when will the national server be launched after the official announcement?
1. When will the Blizzard national server be launched?
According to the announcement of NetEase and Microsoft, Blizzard games will return to the Chinese mainland market from this summer, so what month does this summer refer to?
According to Zhang Dong's explanation, according to European and American customs, the summer of game release generally refers to 678 months. So the question is, do we have to wait until July and August to wait for the national server to be launched? This is too long!
Why does it take so long, 36Kr specifically reported on this. According to the division of labor, NetEase will get the hardware, build an operation team, and complete the migration of account data, while Blizzard will be mainly responsible for software, including Battle.net channels and other technical work.
NetEase has made good progress, and most of the work was completed in March, but the work that Blizzard is responsible for has been delayed again and again, which has affected the launch time.
From the report of 36 Krypton, we can see that the delay in Blizzard has affected the service opening time, but since NetEase has solved the hardware problem at present, and the national server has been officially announced, I believe that the relevant pressure has been given to Blizzard, and Blizzard is bound to speed up the progress, so the start of the service in June at the beginning of summer is relatively stable.
According to reliable sources, World of Warcraft will be the first to return, and no later than the end of June, so Warcraft players can rest assured that there will be no problem catching up with the P4 stage of the World of Warcraft Exploration Server and the Battle of the Center of the World of Warcraft 11.0, but the World of Warcraft CTM Nostalgia (the eve version will be launched on May 20) will miss a little bit.
Of course, if Blizzard moves fast enough, everyone will have no problem playing World of Warcraft in May. Other games will return a little later, but not too late.
2. World of Warcraft may have a special version of the national server
The World of Warcraft WLK Nostalgia will begin to transition to the Cataclysm version at the end of May, which is unacceptable to many Chinese Nostalgia players, so this is the second time that our Chinese players have missed the "Wrath of the Lich King: Ulduar" version due to Blizzard's proxy contract breaking problem, which is undoubtedly a huge blow to many players.
The detective learned that there may be a special version of the national server, and players of the nostalgic server will have two choices, one is to go to the CTM version, and the other is to continue to play Wrath of the Lich King, starting from the launch of Ulduar, restarting the Norside journey, and after the content of Wrath of the Lich King ends, there may even be a WLK permanent server.
Although the matter is still inconclusive, the urgent needs of the players in the national server World of Warcraft nostalgic service are there, and Xiao Tan believes that NetEase and Blizzard cannot ignore them.
3. How much is the suspension/regression compensation?
After the official announcement of the return of Blizzard's national server, NetEase Thunderfire has begun large-scale recruitment, and there is a recruitment requirement for the World of Warcraft planning position that has attracted the attention of the majority of players.
This requirement is to "arrange a bona fide compensation for the server reboot". Obviously, NetEase will not let everyone wait for a year and a half, there will definitely be heavyweight subsidies for everyone, Xiaotan "brain supplemented" the compensation content we need:
1. The World of Warcraft nostalgia suit compensates for a ghost tiger-level mount.
2. The 16-month trade stack missed by the Dragon version of the World of Warcraft official server returns to the market, provides exclusive discounts, and gives 500+ merchant stack currencies every month.
3. The official server of World of Warcraft compensates for a top mount (Brontosaurus, Blizzard Giant Bear level).
4. Each version of Hearthstone compensates 50 card packs, then at least 200 card packs need to be compensated.
5. Overwatch will send a mythical skin (optional), and the missed Battle Pass and skin will return.
Xiao Tan believes that if NetEase and Blizzard plan to compensate the national server players according to this list, everyone will definitely feel their sincerity!
Well, about the start time of the Blizzard national server, the World of Warcraft special version and game compensation content are talked about here, and I believe that we will be able to log back into the game soon!