blizzard Blizzard Reportedly Reuniting with NetEase to Bring Back WoW in China

[Staff 1,502]

Blizzard games like World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and Overwatch 2 might soon make a comeback in China, thanks to Blizzard reportedly teaming up again with NetEase.

The news comes from Core Esports, which suggests Blizzard's game services could be back by the end of March or the beginning of April.

After 14 years of partnership, Blizzard and NetEase hit a rough patch in 2022, leading to failed negotiations. Consequently, when the licensing agreement concluded on January 23, 2023, Blizzard's game services were suspended across mainland China.

For more details, you can check out the article in Chinese or find an English translation by Amy Chen on esports.gg.

[Prophet001 599]

Guess they shouldn't have taken a hammer to that statue like man children.

Ooops

[Arcling 898]

So them quitting China was pointless after all, they will have to take the same deal.

Insert that Thanos meme.

[Calysia 229]

Last week it was servers in Korea.

[KYA 2]

In China, every a couple of days, there would be a “reliable source” claim “WoW’s return”, either with Microsoft, or NetEase, or even Tencent.

Merely clickbait created by those MCN organizations or streamers.

On 3/15/2024 at 11:23 PM, Arcling said:

So them quitting China was pointless after all, they will have to take the same deal.

Insert that Thanos meme.

Nah, anyway it’s blizzard developed  WoW, you never surrender your hard earned fruit to some ungrateful shameless compulsive liars who don’t even respect their own promise.

Oh, btw, thank you for turning Asian realms into a RMT cesspool.

[Guz 24]

Was only a matter of time