I don’t know what Blizzard is thinking. Just as the first floor announced that it would suspend the operation activities of Blizzard’s whole family’s national server, the second floor was updated on the foreign server for a wave of 18th anniversary celebrations. It really has a bit of the mentality of players in the national server. On the morning of November 18, Blizzard, which had just caused a storm of contract renewal, launched a celebration event on the foreign server with great fanfare. Not only did it give you three days of fun, but it also created a lot of item discounts. The benefits are the most powerful ones in previous anniversary celebrations!
Old players who often play Warcraft should know that the anniversary celebrations in Warcraft can also be divided into sizes. Generally, more commemorative celebrations such as the fifth and tenth anniversary are more commemorative. Blizzard will prepare many plot activities and prop discounts for players, but more conventional celebrations like the 18th anniversary will only give away some small toys and achievements.
But what is more annoying is that after the contract renewal negotiations broke down, Blizzard created a particularly grand anniversary celebration. The official server will open for free three-day fun, with a 30% discount on the transfer camp, mutant race, name change service, and a luxurious celebration gift package for only $79.99 (about RMB 569) for sale. All the limited edition mounts from 5.0 were given, and a bunch of limited toys for the past anniversary celebrations were included, which filled the commemorative value in one wave.
It’s a pity that this luxurious version of the celebration gift package, free fun and prop discount benefits, has not yet been determined whether it will be synchronized with the Warcraft national server. And even if Blizzard decides to synchronize the national server, how many people will be willing to pay money to buy this commemorative gift package with a validity period of only 2 months?
In the face of such obvious targeted operations by Blizzard, many players on the Chinese server have begun to say that they are not surprised. Anyway, if the national server agent problem is not solved, the Warcraft will "end of life". No matter how many incredible operations Blizzard will do at this last moment, it doesn't matter to us. At worst, just go play a new game.
Some players also said that when Blizzard made a series of weird operations in the past, he had long wanted to give up World of Warcraft to play other games, but he had always been a shortage of opportunity. This time, Blizzard made a series of tricky operations in order to increase the game share and revenue profit , which happened to become the last straw that broke the camel's back. His Azeroth dream was completely awake.
In addition to Warcraft players, it is difficult for a group of players such as Hearthstone, Storm, Watch, and Star, and other players to abandon their youth they devoted to in the Blizzard game. They have already determined to accompany Blizzard's national server and NetEase to complete this last journey, and park the characters in the most beautiful place in their respective games.
Of course, NetEase and Blizzard are not completely broken up. If Blizzard can make some reasonable concessions to the contract terms, I guess this matter needs to be discussed, so please wait and see.
