Blizzard's national server has been officially announced, I believe many players want to know what has happened from the return turmoil on December 15 last year to now, the following fat brother will combine the latest revelations of 36 krypton and review the return process of the national server.
On December 25 last year, 36Kr was the first to release the news of the reunion of NetEase and Blizzard, and players were convinced of this news at that time, and then under the rendering of various uncle parties, it evolved into a national service that would be opened before the Spring Festival. The result is obvious, the national service is not open, and even with 36 krypton, it is also counterattacked.
In fact, NetEase and Blizzard were already negotiating with each other at that time. After Microsoft's successful acquisition of Activision Blizzard and Caldecott's overthrow, returning to the national server has become the focus of Blizzard's work.
Although NetEase and Blizzard did not make an official announcement during the Spring Festival in 2024, let alone open the service, the news at that time was that the two parties had signed part of the contract.
Fat Brother shared internal news with everyone on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the content was "The national service has been signed and will return from April to June". However, under the influence of the return of December 15 and the Spring Festival, this kind of revelation is obviously difficult to convince players, but has received a lot of complaints. In fact, it is understandable for players to complain, after all, there are too many times of "wolf", and the revelation of internal news itself must have the consciousness of being sprayed, and then the fat brother is also insisting on sharing the internal information he understands with everyone.
Before the Spring Festival, many old employees rushed to the Guangzhou customer service center, and recruited a group of new employees at that time, and completed the preliminary preparations.
The so-called preliminary preparation work is personnel recruitment, customer service training, player account data recovery, domestic computer rooms and servers and other hardware, etc. After these things are basically ready.
The original start time of the two sides was in April, but as a result, NetEase internally adjusted the new acting person in charge of the national server, and Blizzard also had a major change (large-scale layoffs), and there were still "technical reasons" for Battle.net to reopen the server, so the launch of the server in April also became the official announcement in April.
The "technical reason" of Battle.net came from 36Kr's revelations, but 36Kr did not accurately describe what this technical reason was. In view of Microsoft's plan to promote the merger of Battle.net into XGP, and NetEase also said in the official announcement that it will cooperate with Microsoft for XGP, Fat Brother believes that this technical reason is likely to be related to XGP.
The official announcement said that the first batch of games will be launched in the summer, and the news given by 36Kr is that under the influence of technical reasons, the real opening time of the national server may be later.
The latest news that Fat Brother got is that NetEase has set a time limit for the opening of the server, and the service must be launched in June, and the first batch of games must have World of Warcraft.
In fact, the fundamental problem that affects the opening of the national server is the version number, the national server has been closed for more than 1 year, World of Warcraft has been updated many times, and the 11.0 version is about to be opened, even if NetEase can still use the previous version number, under the original rules, it is difficult not to apply for the version number of 11.0, now it depends on the capabilities of NetEase and Microsoft.
Now that the national server has been officially announced, Fat Brother will focus more on the game strategy in the future, thank you for your continued support, thank you! Comrades in Azeroth, may the Holy Light protect you, Lok tar ogar.
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