NetEase Tears Down Local Orc Statue And Posts A Spicy Response To Blizzard On Ending Licensing Agreement
The dismantling of the Orc statue was live streamed with around 30,000 people watching.
For NetEase, it seems they have some very strong feelings about Blizzard Entertainment with the licensing agreement for several games ending in China. It would have been business as usual behind closed doors, but Blizzard's update that claimed NetEase's inability to secure a six-month extension was the culprit has riled up the Chinese company enough to tear down their local Orc statue.
Wowhead managed to get a sliver of the scene where the Orc was dismantled and also sighted a response from NetEase regarding Blizzard's update:
"In our view, Blizzard's proposal - including today's surprise announcement - is brash, unseemly and commercially illogical," said NetEase. Later in their spicy and lengthy response, the company claims Blizzard's character saving feature for Chinese World of Warcraft players is an "untested archive feature." According to NetEase, "there may be unknown security risks" for Chinese players.
Wowhead also shows one Chinese player having issues with this feature, which wasn't allowing them to log back in or download their information, and others state having the same problem.
As icing on the cake, there's a "Blizzard Green Tea" at NetEase's coffee shop that seems to call out Blizzard for being manipulative. In modern Chinese culture, the "Green Tea" part is a slur referring to someone who appears wholesome but underneath is anything but that.
Yeah...NetEase is not happy about the recent failing negotiations with Blizzard.
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