The Spring Festival holiday has come to a successful end, and it's time to talk to you about the news related to the national service in the recent period.
THE FIRST NEWS IS THAT THE FIRST BLIZZARD GAME HAS LANDED ON THE XBOX PLATFORM.
A few days ago, a number of senior executives of Microsoft games participated in the official Xbox podcast program, during which they talked about the future strategy of Xbox. In addition to porting four Xbox games to other platforms, the content also includes important information that the first Blizzard game, Diablo 4, will be available on Xbox consoles (Game Pass) on March 28.
The first feeling of many players when they see this news is that "the national server is gone", the reason is that if Blizzard games are added to the Xbox platform one after another, it probably means that Microsoft intends to completely direct sales. In fact, this worry is completely unnecessary.
First of all, Zhang Dong made it clear that after being acquired by Microsoft, Blizzard Battle.net itself has no long-term meaning, and Microsoft will soon make Battle.net interoperable with XGP, and eventually replace Battle.net with XGP.
SECOND, BLIZZARD GAMES ON XBOX WEREN'T A TEMPORARY DECISION. In 2022, when Microsoft planned to acquire Activision Blizzard, it said that it would let Activision Blizzard games be on the Xbox platform, and it was originally planned that the first batch would be Call of Duty and Overwatch, but now it seems that Diablo 4 will be the first to hit the shelves.
Finally, even if Blizzard games are released on XBOX, it does not mean that Microsoft will directly sell the national server. At present, XBOX has an agent in China, the host agent is the Oriental Pearl, and the Game Pass software charging agent is NetEase. In a way, XGP replaces Battle.net and gives NetEase an advantage.
The second news is that NetEase God ushered in an important update.
In the month before the Spring Festival, NetEase Dashen gained the attention of a large number of players. The World of Warcraft channel manager also started a large number of drainage activities, and even set up a 10-year game time campaign during the Spring Festival.
With the end of the Spring Festival holiday, when some players opened NetEase God again, they found that their personal interface could directly display their national server Battle.net nickname.
Previously, there was only the option to bind Battle.net information, but now the nickname can be displayed directly, which is obviously one step closer to the result that players want. However, the fat brother found that it was still a blank page after trying to bind, and after consulting some players, he came to the conclusion that only those who had been bound before could display the nickname, and those who were not bound still couldn't open the interface.
The third news is that the national server will return in April at the earliest.
Due to the large number of uncle news in January, and in the end, none of them came true, so the first feeling of many players when they saw this news was "starting to talk nonsense again".
In fact, at present, the news from NetEase has reached the executive level, and those who have a little contact with NetEase employees can get some relevant news more or less.
Judging from the news obtained from various sources (multiple sources can corroborate each other), the cooperation agreement between NetEase and Blizzard was basically finalized a week before the Spring Festival, and the current news is that the new customer service team will be hired in March.
A source revealed: There was no official announcement before the year, on the one hand, because the team's preparations did not catch up, and the two sides planned to officially announce that the service would be launched. On the other hand, because the contract negotiation this time is relatively large, in addition to Blizzard's family bucket terminal game and subsequent mobile game development, it also includes the diversified development of Blizzard's IP, such as Warcraft movies and so on.
In short, the news I got during the whole Spring Festival is like this, and the national server should return in April-June (free for a period of time). This time is also basically the same as the news of major bloggers.
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