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00:00 Intro
00:48 The Story – Blizzard Driven From The East?!
06:18 The Theory – Efficient Markets At Work
07:44 The Responses – NetEase Boss Lashes Out At “Jerk”!
15:09 The Reasons – Blizz Returning To Their Principles?
20:43 The Future – What’s Next For Blizzard In China?
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Warcraft movie was dope. wish they would do a series, or several movies covering at least up to Warcraft 3. That'd been awesome.
China probably told them they had to give half their company to the Chinese government and all decisions would have to go through them.
As someone who doesn't really play Blizzard games anymore, cause well they just haven't held my interest after a few expansions of WoW and that I just don't care for unlimited ammo spray and pray Overwatch. I can say that all I hear when it says that "no more Blizzard games in China" is that it means no more of the "Chinese Bot Farmers" that use to be such a pain in the past in games like WoW.
Still I kinda agree with some of the other commenters here that it is some karma for doing so much to cater to China and not seeming to listen to the rest of the playerbase. So will be interesting to see how it affects future games.
uhhh…. what the… is things changing alot in their house's?
Mobile gaming is strangling innovation in the traditional gaming market, and only appeals to a certain demographic. Money wasted.
The Warcraft film was big in china because the studio casted Daniel Wu as G'ul Dan the main antagonist of the film, people might not notice it because he was a green CGI Orc, but i bet it was heavily advertised there
Also , pay attention to current politics, so to speak. Get out of china now.
See this is why I love karma she's a bitch but she's a funny bitch
I dont quite get it. They are in business of selling games, but they dont eant to sell games in China or Russia. What makes you think they would want to sell games in India? But where are they going to sell games then, in US and EU?
Looks like activision blizzard offended the ccp overlords
How much bitcoin did China sell to invest in this?
I thought for a second the Microsoft deal was what he was gonna talk about 😅
I love reading the comments and seeing people absolutely shit on blizzard. Like, do we know if it was blizzard, or was it netease?.. China's got a pretty controlling government, and it's entirely possible they had a play in this. Wouldn't be the first time that a governmental body has had their fingers in the gaming world.
How do you piss off a public against their Gov… pull their games from the public due to Government regulations…. Welcome to the Free Net Chinese People… Use that VPN to get your game!!!
Wouldn't be surprised to find this is based on politics. Would be nice to see if Blizzard gets screwed though !
10:07 He wrote this in English on his Twitter account.
Are they playing the stock? Make it cheaper for Microsoft purchase?
Selling high for el bobby?
Can they play with a VPN?
Blizzard just has to increase monthly wow subs to $25 a month and China doesn't matter anymore. Guarantee you that not a single wow scrub will notice. Anyone still playing Blizzard games will pay anything to keep their accounts alive.
No king rule 4ever… Maybe a new wow need to be made
Game company getting fucked is always a good News
So buy our stuff and we'll steal your money?? Wtf?? Blizzard needs to disappear…
I think its a good thing. Look for example to cosmetics world.. mostly china wants animal testing. Im sure China wanted some control into the game.
When the boss of NetEase tells me someone is a jerk, I immediately assume he means they have morals. Which is something weird to say about an Activision executive.
Wait is this not what the protests are about?
On the one hand, fuck Blizzard for what they've done. On the other, I'll be happy to play WoW if they redeem themselves by cleaning house, disavow The CCP and other dystopian people they defended, AND fix their lore.
Edit: Was anyone high up at Blizzard fired or replaced? If so maybe that could explain things. Hopefully for the better.
We need to pull manufacturing out of communist china…invest heavily here and mexico, south america too…keep it local to this continent….we would be far better off!!!
or China wanted more spyware in the game they can use to track the players and blizz did the right thing to say no…. ;o) who knows..
Oh well
Chinese players won't have to go without for to long because NetEase will eventually pirate the games lost.
I am not sure that Blizzard has a short-term plan. Selling their games and shutting them down next month is totally consistent with their current mode of operations.
Oh man… imagine constantly screwing the customer base that made you popular in the first place for over a decade only to be shut out like this… all for a market that's going to collapse as China's population collapses because of their 1 child per family policy.
That thing is called Greed.
This aged badly
All Blizzard cares about is money, and they defend their name and brand like hawks when it comes to civil matters, with that being said, I'm sure Blizzard has plans to keep their customer base in China, one way or another.
nice
Blizzard needs to cut ties with activision too. I want good blizzard games again