I fully suspect them to now try extra hard to appear progressive. Now that they’re excluded from China’s money, they don’t have to play around Chinas ideals. Of course, this will be a front so that they can try and reel more people in and give them support/money for being so virtuous. I guarantee it, and its something we should call them out for when the time comes.
They are prolly busy thinking ways to please the ccp now. Not the other way. Because the ccp started approving imported games lately, which has been halted for 2 years.
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I see no negative side to this.
Yeah because you are racist.
Its bigger everywhere. Welcome to reality
In a billion people China, Netease is not the only company on the market.
China has very protective business laws, thats why hassle with Netease in the first place.
In the worst case, they can just open brand new Shanghai Blizzard company office, but its something that most avoid to do due to local laws.
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So tencent is making their own WoW clone and Blizzard is being kicked out of China.
What is this?
China lets foreign companies come in until they can copy their product and then kick them out of the country?
This has NEVER happened!
Insert shocked pikachu here.
Gaming is a business. Instead of complaining about a business model that will not be leaving anytime soon, start to make the decision to either stick with gaming or to find something else to do. You can complain all you want but it’s not going to change the way modern gaming is being presented.
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It took them 20 years to copy WoW? Jeeze…
Battlegrounds is completely different from the actual card game though. It’s a whole other game in the game, you don’t have to actually own any cards to play it, so if you are a battlegrounds only player you pay far less to play Hearthstone than someone like me who is a legendary ladder player.
China has relatively recently gotten into actual game production.
They have bought out established game developers to gain access to processes, tools, and equipment, and now they’re starting to utilize them on their own.
But because they’re relatively new to this, I’d expect more foreign developers to find their access to the Chinese market limited.
The CCP’s crackdown on games was likely more about pushing out foreign companies to make room for products more directly tracked and controlled by the CCP.
Yes i race in go karts how did you know? 
If that helps people stop buying i welcome it with open arms … as an old ex-customer of old blizzard , all i can do for now is wait and hope they change their ways , and the only way for that to even happen is if you people stop spending the money… its not about money, its about sending a message …