A big news in the game circle recently: The domestic server of "World of Warcraft" will be terminated on January 24, 2023, ending its 14-year adventure with players on the World of Warcraft continent. Is there a question about Minecraft: Will "Minecraft " usher in the day when the server is suspended?
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"World of Warcraft" will be suspended?
Recently, NetEase released an important announcement on the expiration of the operation of Blizzard game product": Since the authorization date of "World of Warcraft" will expire on January 23, 2023, the current contract restrictions will be officially suspended from 0:00 on January 24, 2023! At the same time, before the arrival of January 24, the Dragon Age of World of Warcraft will be updated as usual!
In other words, one day before World of Warcraft stopped operating in China, Warcraft will provide various services and updates completely normally. Once 0 points passes, even if the world ushers in the epic dragon era, all this will eventually end tragically after the pointer points to 0. For domestic players, it is not just World of Warcraft that has been affected, but also many classic games such as Hearthstone, Overwatch , StarCraft, Warcraft III: Remake, Dark Destruction III, Heroes of the Storm and other classic games.
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Rumors about "stop service"!
Currently, the server of "World of Warcraft" is suspended on the Internet. NetEase continues to discuss the agency. There are many kinds of rumors:
Rumor 1: Blizzard wants to make money by lying down, in addition to asking for more share, World of Warcraft mobile game development work has also been suspended. Because Blizzard hopes that the development and operation will be handed over to NetEase, and Blizzard's revenue accounts for 90% of the global issuance, and does not bear any development costs. In the end, the two sides completely collapsed due to huge differences.
Rumor 2: Because Blizzard led by CEO Bobby Kotick put forward very strict conditions on NetEase during the contract renewal negotiations, such as paying two years of income in advance, Blizzard suddenly unilaterally announced that the authorization will expire on January 23, 2023.
Rule 3: Blizzard wants control of millions of Chinese players' data, but NetEase regards this as a principle and red line, so the talks are broken. This corresponds to the "For some key terms involving sustainable operations and core interests of players, Blizzard's requirements are unacceptable" revealed by NetEase on November 17.
Rule 4: The Chinese server has harmoniously made the transgender of World of Warcraft 10.0, which means that players will have no gender distinction when creating characters. They can edit the characters at will. A burly man can also have the voice of a cute girl who can be sweet or salty, men can also match the hair color of a woman, and unshaven macho men can also wear the costumes of the original female character, etc. However, such an interesting gameplay was harmonious, which was contrary to Blizzard's mainstream worldview and values, and the talk was broken based on this.
But no matter what, the ending seems to be destined. The most hurt is the millions of gamers in China. In the future, it can be foreseeable that "World of Warcraft" will be difficult to change agents. It is not only the problem of Warcraft's low revenue generation ability, but also the application for game version number will be a long process. So the biggest possibility at the moment is that Microsoft restarts negotiations after completely acquiring Blizzard! Will the Chinese version of "Minecraft" be discontinued?
Minecraft has a precedent for stopping service, and "Minecraft: Earth" is a tragic case.
As we all know, whether it is "Minecraft" or "World of Warcraft", these two world-class games also have unsurpassed achievements in their respective fields. The most interesting thing is that they all have close relationships with Microsoft. Minecraft spent $2.5 billion that year, and now Microsoft is acquiring Blizzard for $68.7 billion.
Microsoft has no right to interfere in Blizzard's operations before officially completing the acquisition. Therefore, this move was not done by Microsoft, and Microsoft will even suffer huge losses due to the expiration of this contract renewal and the damage to the gaming community ecosystem.Because what is lost is no longer just a matter of revenue, the million-level Chinese players are the biggest loss this time!
On the other hand, "Minecraft" is very similar to "World of Warcraft" in the current situation, Microsoft will not interfere too much in the original operation of the game. It is reported that the most classic thing about the current plans of Minecraft World is that Mojoang account is moved to Microsoftml2 account. When everyone is scolding Microsoft, the mainstream voice tells us that all these decisions are made independently by Mojang.
Finally, will NetEase Chinese version of "Minecraft" be discontinued? In fact, we have discussed this issue before, at least not at this stage. Jeb seems to be very satisfied with the Chinese version of the ecosystem. Neither Mojang nor Microsoft is the special nature of Blizzard's current position. However, from another perspective, the impact of the Chinese version of the server discontinuation for Minecraft players is far less than that of World of Warcraft.
To: Players of World of Warcraft, remember to find a beautiful place to settle themselves and silently welcome the day when the server is stopped. It takes several months to several years to look forward to the day when Azeroth wakes up again.
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