Finding domestic partners and resuming server operations in China is the current top priority

The content of today's article mainly supplements yesterday's news of Microsoft's large-scale layoffs at Blizzard and the resignation of Blizzard Entertainment President Mike Ybarra and Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham.

According to The Paper, after Microsoft carried out large-scale layoffs at Blizzard, a relevant person from Blizzard China exclusively responded to The Paper: “This time the team and personnel have been adjusted. , involving the company's global level, some colleagues in Blizzard China have also been affected. On the other hand, finding local partners and restoring the national server operation of Blizzard games is still one of the focuses of our current work." This is the second time that Blizzard China has recently An official response to issues related to the return of the national server. The last response was after the hot search for "NetEase Blizzard Compound" on December 25 last year. At that time, Blizzard China's response was: "We currently have no information to share or Update." In contrast, Blizzard China's response this time is more constructive than the last time. At least it said that the return of the national server is the focus of the work. As for where the progress is now, it is a matter of opinion.

The following content is excerpted from Weibo @雪 Tyrant, mainly Microsoft’s news supplement and analysis of Blizzard’s large-scale layoffs.

##Yesterday, many Blizzard game bloggers were saying that "Blizzard Carnival is going to be suspended." In fact, this matter was just a revelation from a foreign "uncle", although this "uncle" "Revelations are sometimes quite accurate, but whether this is true or not is still a question mark before official confirmation. Blizzard King said in this regard: The so-called "Microsoft canceling BlizzCon" is a rumor at least at this point in time. There is no official announcement or real sign, only a tweet from Jez Corden. And what he says on Twitter is often the same as when you brag on WeChat Moments, especially when he is emotionally unstable/he is drunk and posts "I bet so much", his credibility plummets. . Apart from anything else, Quakecon and Minecon are still being held as normal. It's possible that BlizzCon was cut to one day because it was really burning money.

According to Snow Tyrant Weibo, the scope of the layoffs mainly includes the entire Odyssey project team, ABK customer service team, some Xbox business departments, game community managers, QA department, game localization team, Diablo 4/Hearthstone/Overwatch game designers, artists, visual effects, animators, concept artists, world and level designers, programmers, engineers and producers, etc., but only the World of Warcraft development team has not seen layoffs Report. Microsoft should be very optimistic about the prospects of World of Warcraft, and hope that Mr. Mason can lead the team to rebuild the glory of World of Warcraft.

In addition, there are still incubation projects within Blizzard that are not Warcraft, not Diablo, not Overwatch, and not Hearthstone. For example, the person who asked players at BlizzCon, "Don't you have mobile phones?" Brother Cheng is currently leading a small incubation project.

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