"World of Warcraft" online games market disturbances
5 月 23rd, 2009
The "World of Warcraft" can be any sign of trouble in the media and immediately set off waves of players, not only because of "World of Warcraft" has a huge user base, but also because of its proxy in the Mainland is in a sensitive period of the handover. June 1, NINETOWNS the agency agreement with Blizzard expired, Netease will officially take over wow gold the "World of Warcraft," the operation of the Mainland.
Although April 16 has announced that Blizzard and NetEase, NINETOWNS in the snow and on the "World of Warcraft" operating agreement after the expiration of its exclusive right to operate the mainland will be granted NetEase's affiliated companies. But less than the very last moment, no one that the situation will not change. July 2007,NINETOWNS and around the "dance group" the right to start a proxy fight, in NINETOWNS developers and the Republic of Korea has announced that after the co-operation, in August, "Audition," the agent finally landed a long time network outbound hands. Running out of Time delicate tripartite
In fact, last summer announced that NetEase and Blizzard Blizzard Entertainment's joint operations "Warcraft III", "StarCraft II" and the war from network gaming platform, the NetEase will be "World of Warcraft," wow goldthe right to operate the There are rumors began to die down from time to time like to. Since then is to find new profit point of Netease, had experienced success and hope to obtain greater NINETOWNS interests Blizzard began overtly or covertly subtle game, and this game in April of this year started on the 15th into the climax.
April 15, NINETOWNSpresident of the exposure of an internal e-mail, caused uproar in the industry. Distributed to all staff in this message, Neteaseparticipate on "World of Warcraft," said Acting angry negotiations, at the same cheap wow gold time is also implied by its language, NINETOWNS The game has lost the right to follow-up agent. The next day, Blizzard and NetEase cooperation that news release.
All kinds of signs that NINETOWNS while concentrating on promoting the adoption of "FIFA ONLINE 2", registered with the "World of Warcraft" official network of the domain name is similar to doing a good job, such as the loss of "World of Warcraft," the preparation, but also have not given up efforts to restore. NINETOWNS still have an important bargaining chip, that is, a large number of user information. The right to change carriers will inevitably involve the transfer of user information, and if that occurred during the transfer of large amounts of information loss, etc., will no doubt since "World of Warcraft," the operators have significant adverse effects,buy wow gold this is Blizzard and NetEase are reluctant to see to.
It is reported that Netease NINETOWNS through heavy snow to the user information to the "transfer" request, including NINETOWNS to 73 million U.S. dollars was invested to purchase the server hardware in order to transfer 22 million U.S. dollars, while all operators NINETOWNS "Warcraft world "(including customer service staff) to the transfer of one million U.S. dollars. Of these requirements, made it clear that refusal to accept NINETOWNS.
May 12, "World of Warcraft," the use of the updated agreement, an increase of NINETOWNS may at any time for any reason or no reason and suspend, terminate, modify or delete user accounts, and without notice the terms of users. Subsequently, a large number of players in the official forums NINETOWNS expressed dissatisfaction.
The same day, NINETOWNS operations of Warcraft servers all the time no reason to extend the suspension of services, the official network access can not be normal, there are players to speculate that this is NINETOWNS server "blackmail" Blizzard.
The next day, NINETOWNS statement that the patch is not released by NINETOWNS, the relevant agreement NINETOWNS nothing changes. Blizzard admitted, to amend the agreement with the help of the transfer of Netease transition:buy wow gold "The ultimate goal of achieving at an appropriate time account data and the role of a smooth transition for the upcoming transition of the routine work done." As for the "stop service "the relevance of speculation, the parties did not respond. Event variables are still
However, before the "World of Warcraft" the new information it is difficult on-chip delay line and the excitement of the infighting between enterprises compared to the players in this incident will come to Chianti static performance of the transform operators may have lost or account information games affected the continuity of all the overwhelming fear. At the same time, the voice of sympathy NINETOWNS grown gradually, many accused NINETOWNS before the "World of Warcraft" expansion pack to update aspects of the new players cheap wow gold ineffective NINETOWNS affirmed the ability of operators and customer service quality, said "World of Warcraft" the new information relating to the localization of the introduction of chip modification and review of such issues, the replacement of operators may not change the situation. Site in the major events of this survey are not optimistic about the operation Netease change this situation also holds a majority.
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