It doesn’t matter Blizzard will look worse in China now.
You think you will get that info here? 
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I mean he’s right we have absolutely no way of knowing which enormous cancerous corporation or nation is responsible for depriving the Chinese of their vidja. Some folks with money got mad at each other so now we’re freely speculating.
You shouldn’t burn your orc until you cross it.
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looks like illidan will have some new players on us servers. I’d love to know what caused so much friction but probably won’t happen.
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You think? Or the maybe Europe never colonized anything?
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The question will haunt me for the rest of my minute before I forget about it
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At this point I’m about sick of giant multibillion dollar companies treating their fans like they’re just cheap little playthings in the playground. No one is talking about the fact that an entire nation just got yeeted and will not be able to play their favorite games for the foreseeable future.
This “beef” or whatever you call it is just childish and petty at this point. No longer can you look at these decisions from a profit driven economy so much as they’re just narcissistic executives choking on their own ego.
To hell with their greed.
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There’s probably like 20k of them that are still passionate enough with the game and willing to play on foreign server, instead of just move on to, idk, 10 billions other newer game out there.
If anything they should just play something else until the League MMO come out.
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since these are US forums I guarantee the majority consensus is that the chinese company is at fault
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Textbook behavior a petulant child would do.
Guess we know who was the issue. Companies should take notice and just flat out stop doing business there until the PRC collapses. Also everyone in the world needs to patch and fortify their tech to cut off leachers from stealing IP they didn’t develop.
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There’s a bunch of chinese players already on the NA side. They basically live on Illidan.
What we might see is far more chinese players using VPNs coming over.
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things just went up to 11
Well I hate to wake you up from the slumber… But that’s every business.
Most of the time they do try to avoid such calamity and it’s not for the good of the people. It’s money.
I’m not saying there aren’t some CEO’s and shareholders that aren’t altruistic… But if you don’t think money is before everything else you’re crazy.
Not to mention there are International laws that both sides have to uphold.
Chinese censorship laws are incredibly restrictive and strongly enforced.
After a while I too would get sick of creating 2 versions of one game
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I mean, the CCP has had a “our way or the highway” attitude forever when it comes to foreign entities doing business in China. Not hard to deduce who is at fault here, regardless of what forums these are.
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The whole concept of China having their own version of the game with censorship is stupid to begin with.
Speculating but I’m guessing NetEase isn’t a great company to work with. Kindve sounds like they demand a large % off the top while also demanding things to be censored.
Especially if blizzard is “trying” to be progressive.
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But would you get sick of the extra money?
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no john, you are the colonizers.
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Hopefully they can manage just fine with them. I’m not sure how mainstream using a VPN is, but I do know that the more barriers to entry to put in the way, the fewer people will be able to access. And that genuinely sucks.
On the upside, the fans can enjoy the game as it was intended rather than having skeletons turned into bread.
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That’s assuming that this wasn’t because they couldn’t come to some agreement via the us/chinese law.
In fact I would wager that the deal fell through grudgingly… They wanted the Chinese market
Good, hope they never have a deal again.
Force blizzard to focus on the home turf.
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