Blizzard games wil🐻l depart China after the developer and Ne𒆙tEase failed to reach a new licensing agreement.

As announced by Blizzard yesterday on November 16 in a , the company announced that many Blizzar༒d-developed games will depart China at the end of January 2023. 🔥This includes games from series such as Diablo, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Starcraft, and Heroes of the Storm.

"We will suspend new sales in the coming days and Chinese players will be receiving details of how this will work soon," the release from Blizzard reads. "⭕Upcoming releases for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Hearthstone: March of the Lich King, and season 2 🌠of Overwatch 2 will proceed later this year."

A news outlet based in Shanghai claims to shed more light on the proceedings. As ൩posted on (and later translated via ), an outlet called The Observer claims Blizzard wanted NetEase to "work for nothing," and the former also wanted to revise the 50/50 profit split between the ꦺtwo companies, granting Blizzard more profit revenue than NetEase.

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This ultimately means Blizzard won't be releasing any games in China going forward, likely meaning a significantly missed opportunity for added revenue for games like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4. Whether Blizzard rectifies this with a new licen𒐪sing agreement with another Chinese developer or publisher rem🐲ains to be seen.

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