November 17, Activision Blizzard suddenly issued an announcement stating that its contract with NetEase is about to be completed, but it has not completed the renewal. According to the agreement, the contract will expire on January 24, 2023. Any game under its subsidiary except Diablo: Immortal will be withdrawn from the Chinese market as long as NetEase agents.
Fighting between the two sides, the players are naturally the ones who are really injured. After experiencing many emotions after shock and anger, it is obvious that this generation of players are not willing to passively accept this ending as just bystanders, and have opened up their brains to propose the possibility that the Battle.com game may continue to stay in the Chinese market.
At the beginning, the player's brain diameter should be limited. What they thought was that a new game manufacturer took over, just like NetEase took over Jiucheng. As a result, Tencent , Mihayou, Perfect and even Bilibili were named by players, forcing several game manufacturers mentioned above to even specifically deny the rumors that "this is not true."
In fact, this is not groundless. There is news that Activision Blizzard has indeed negotiated several major manufacturers before, but before giving a clear answer, Activision Blizzard directly stung NetEase, and before its 2022 Q3 financial report was released, it was blocked and negative news, and then there was naturally no more. After
, some KOLs in the gaming circle have come out to popularize players. Nowadays, the game replacement agent needs to be reapproved for game version number , and the last time overseas games have obtained version number was in June 2021. In other words, as long as they are normal people, they will not bet on Activision Blizzard at this time.
So a player took a different approach and suddenly said: What if he directly acquired .com Zhiyi and went public through a backdoor listing? It does work in theory, because " World of Tanks " used similar methods to continue to operate it. But don’t forget that the reason why Activision Blizzard and NetEase broke down was because the money was not reached. If you play backdoor listing, the game company you take over must not only meet the harsh conditions proposed by Activision Blizzard, but also give NetEase another sum of money. By the way, you also have to pray that NetEase, whose market value once shrank by 15%, will not be stuck with NetEase's stay or stay. Are the conditions a bit harsh?
Some players believe that since the contradiction between Activision Blizzard and NetEase is actually mainly because Activision Blizzard's senior management is really worried. Just so, if Microsoft successfully acquires Activision Blizzard, then let Microsoft talk directly to NetEase and continue to operate? The possibility of
is also very small. There seems to be no precedent available at the moment. Let’s discuss the issue of “renewing after the sign-off is discontinued, and whether the previous version number is valid” (if it is invalid, NetEase will naturally not consider remarriage). Even if the version number is valid, for Microsoft, among the three game companies under Activision Blizzard, Blizzard is the one who makes the least money and breaks the most. Would he be willing to talk to NetEase specifically for this? Can his own antitrust investigation be settled? Also, is NetEase really willing to chew this backpack?
So, although the starting point of the players is good, we must face the reality that "battlenet game permanently withdraws from China" is the most likely future. If you have left beautiful memories in the Battle.net game, then you might as well stick to the end and say goodbye to him late at night on January 23. This is your best ending for this period of youth.
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