Dear Blizzard gamers: \nDue to the expiration of Activision Blizzard’s license agreement with NetEase on January 23, 2023, Blizzard will discontinue most of its game services in mainland China (including World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Diablo III, StarCraft II, Heroes of the Storm) starting January 24 at 00:00, based on contractual restrictions, while Diablo: Immortals service will not be affected.<\/p>\n
NetEase and Blizzard first partnered in 2008. Over the past 14 years, we have introduced Blizzard’s high-quality games to China step by step, starting with World of Warcraft, and even synchronizing global release. Each time the introduction of the game, we are excited, because these games also carry our passion and youth.<\/p>\n
Within NetEase, there are also several thousand hard-core fans of Blizzard games. Therefore, we are more empathetic to the feelings of players at this moment. Before today, we had been doing our best and negotiating with Blizzard in good faith to seek continued cooperation in mainland China. \nHowever, after long negotiations, we were still unable to reach agreement with Activision Blizzard on some key terms of cooperation. Unfortunately, Activision Blizzard has announced earlier today that they are ceasing its cooperation and we will have to accept this decision. After January 23, 2023, NetEase will lose its distributorship and will no longer be able to continue to manage and operate these games that have carried players‘ memories for 14 years.<\/p>\n
Next, NetEase Games will do its best to fulfill its responsibilities and serve players until the last moment. We promise that we will do our best to negotiate with Activision Blizzard to protect the interests of Chinese players to the greatest extent possible for the issues related to refunds, game data, virtual property, game rights, etc. that everyone is concerned about.<\/p>\n
At the same time, we will work with Activision Blizzard to achieve „business to business, game to game“, pay attention to the voice of players, value all that players have paid for the game, and properly protect everyone’s game assets and memories. We will continue to inform players of the progress of the work through official channels such as the „Blizzard Game Service Center“. \nOnce again, we thank all players for their understanding and support. If possible, we hope that Blizzard’s departure is only temporary. After the shutdown, we will continue to hold on in our own way and not give up lightly. We believe that those who meet can meet again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it will be suspending services in China on January 23, 2023, due to their current licensing agreement expiring with NetEase. World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Hearthstone: March of the Lich King, and season 2 of Overwatch 2 will still release in late 2022 but new sales will be suspended very shortly. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10647,"featured_media":96988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12855,1112,233,8627],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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