Warcraft Weekly: NetEase cooperates with Blizzard, shared office space members confirmed

Hello everyone, this is the World of Warcraft Weekly.

Mainly consists of three parts: "Warcraft Events", "Warcraft Competitive Product Updates" and "Warcraft Game Updates".

Let us take a look at the recent news about Warcraft that makes us unhappy!

NetEase rents an office next door to Blizzard? Employee confirmation: Cooperation with Blizzard

According to news posted by NetEase employees on social platforms, NetEase suddenly rented an office next to Blizzard’s headquarters around January 10 and has arranged for a group of employees to go there. Open up wasteland".

Although the preparations for opening up overseas office space this time were very hasty, judging from the photos posted by employees, even the computers and office mounts had to be assembled by themselves, but from now on Judging from the news in the comment area, behind the land reclamation is the beginning of the resumption of cooperation between Blizzard and NetEase.

In this regard, some netizens said that this is likely to be due to Microsoft's negotiation. Blizzard and NetEase have once again reached an agreement on the World of Warcraft mobile game, and the two parties are ready to conduct joint research and development. Cooperation.

As for the candidate for the new agent of the national server? Then it must be NetEase in all likelihood.

Is it an inevitable trend to increase the price of monthly cards? Former NetEase person in charge: In the past, foreigners paid to make up for the low price of Chinese servers

Recently, because a number of new MMO games such as "Zhu Xian World" have launched monthly passes, many players have discussed the game. Can manufacturers support themselves if they only rely on monthly card fees?

In this regard, the former CEO of NetEase said that the reason why the Chinese server of Warcraft was able to achieve pure monthly card payment was mainly because European and American players paid high-priced monthly card DLC, which shared the revenue with the Chinese server players. pressure. At that time, Blizzard's development strategy was to expand the global market, so non-R&D regions did not need to share development costs, and players in the Chinese server did not need to pay for new DLC.

But as the IP of Warcraft has occupied the leading MMO market in various countries and regions around the world, it seems that the increase in monthly card prices has become an inevitable result.

Relying on Warcraft to solve the kidnapping case of an underage girl? Strange worms span a thousand kilometers

According to multiple media reports, the US police successfully used the game "World of Warcraft" to solve a bizarre kidnapping case in early January. A 16-year-old girl disappeared inexplicably in Ohio on December 27. After questioning the neighbors, the police found no clue at all, and the case almost became an unsolved case.

What is very outrageous is that subsequent investigators found that the girl had logged into the "World of Warcraft" account multiple times in Florida, and another named Thomas Ebersole also logged in frequently at the same place, which caused the police to of great concern.

Subsequently, through the official IP address of "World of Warcraft", the police successfully found the missing 16-year-old in Florida, more than a thousand kilometers away from Ohio. An underage girl, and captured the weird guy who took her to play "World of Warcraft" - Thomas Ebersole, a 31-year-old adult single man.

In the end, this incident, which seemed to be an online elopement of a young couple, changed again under the personal account of Thomas Ebersole. The man said that he personally drove the victim back to his home and hid her. He planned to wait until the girl came of age to become a legal couple with her. Is it proper to kidnap an underage girl?

I have to say that love brain really kills people. Let’s not care about how difficult this plan is. It just ties people up in their own homes to play "World of Warcraft" together. 》This incredible operation makes people wonder why this Ebersole cannot play with others online. Is it because the distance is too far and there is a delay in the network, or is it more immersive to play in a group game face to face?

In short, waiting for Ebersole is a lot of accusations of interference with child custody and violation of minor rights. It should be difficult for this guy to engage in online dating in "World of Warcraft" again in this life.

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