NetEase and Blizzard plan to end their 14-year partnership after January 2023, leaving Chinese players' access to games like Warcraft and Overwatch in question
NetEase Inc. and Blizzard Entertainment Inc. plan to end their 14-year partnership after January, depriving the Chinese firm …
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Discussion
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Gameranx
Ryan Parreno
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Blizzard Is Suspending Business In China - Except For Diablo Immortal
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@byron_wan
Byron Wan
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Activision Blizzard would suspend most Blizzard game services in China once its current licensing agreements with 🇨🇳 NetEase expire on Jan 23, 2023. The games to be suspended include World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Warcraft III: Reforged, Overwatch, 1/n https://www.reuters.com/..…
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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NetEase's head of partnerships appears to be calling Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick “a jerk” over on LinkedIn 🫢 https://www.linkedin.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@wario64
@wario64
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Blizzard Entertainment And Netease Suspending Game Services In China on Jan 23rd (World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Warcraft III: Reforged, Overwatch, the StarCraft series, Diablo III, and Heroes of the Storm) https://investor.activision.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@sino_market
@sino_market
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#Netease said it has been doing its best to negotiate with Blizzard and hopes to push ahead with the renewal. After lengthy negotiations, we were unable to reach an agreement with $ATVI on some of the key terms of our partnership. $NETS tumbles 14% in HK https://twitter.com/... h…
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@jeffgrubb
Grubb
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Blizzard breaking up with Netease. https://investor.activision.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@ritacyliao
Rita Liao
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The licensing talk between NetEase and Blizzard clearly didn't go well. A NetEase exec posted this bitter message in response to the end of the deal. For more details: https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@overwatchcaval
@overwatchcaval
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Blizzard will be suspending #Overwatch2, WoW, and other game services in China early next year 🇨🇳 The company is looking for alternatives to bring their games back to players in mainland China though, with their current agreements ending January 23, 2023. https://twitter.com/...
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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Blizzard will suspend games in China because it can't reach an agreement with its licensing and publishing partner NetEase. World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Diablo III, and more won't be available in China after January 23, 2023 https://www.theverge.com/...
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@therealjoshye
Josh Ye
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New sales would be suspended in the coming days and Chinese players would soon receive further details, but it added that upcoming releases for ‘World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’, ‘Hearthstone: March of the Lich King’, and season 2 of ‘Overwatch 2’ will proceed later this year.2/
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@lmatsakis
Louise Matsakis
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This is really wild (and sad). Blizzard failed to reach a deal with NetEase to keep its games available in China. Chinese users make up a significant portion of World of Warcraft players https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@6d6f636869
Takashi Mochizuki
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Bloomberg: NetEase and Blizzard plan to end their 14-year partnership, leaving Chinese players' access to popular games like Diablo and Overwatch in question https://www.bloomberg.com/...