Feel bad for the players who have had accounts for this long and who are just going to end up losing it all. That's pretty awful, even as someone who willingly forfeited their own account of 15+ years.
You're making the assumption that the CCP isn't controlling the bot farms in the first place. Which, because of the amount of revenue involved, they almost certainly are to some degree at least. Many laws there fall into the category of "Illegal unless it benefits the CCP".
The only people this hurts are the regular players.
I found I enjoyed the game significantly more when I stopped paying attention to all the people on the forums telling me how much I am supposed to hate itAll this complaining is simply further proof that Blizzard could send each and every player a real-life wish-granting flying unicorn carrying a solid gold plate of chocolate chip cookies wrapped in hundred dollar bills, and someone would whine that Blizzard sucks for not letting them choose oatmeal raisin.
Nothing like completely unfounded conspiracy theories to fuel the flames for the knee-jerk reactionary folks, eh?
Two things --
1.) This will have no impact on the unfathomable number of Chinese WoW players who already play on NA/EU realms. There are many of them. Here's one of the best guilds on Illidan-US, for example. In fact, all those displaced by this announcement will likely be pouring onto NA/EU realms at unprecedented levels, failing Blizzard doesn't find another distributor for China in the meantime.
2.) We have no idea who the "jerk" is in this message. I'm extremely disinclined to take the CCP's (*cough* NetEase *cough*) side on this because they have a very well-documented history of distorting information to make themselves look better so only time will tell if we ever find out what really happened here.
Last edited by Relapses; 2022-11-17 at 06:33 PM.
We're talking about a country that spray paints its fucking mountains green, to say I have zero confidence in their ability to negotiate fairly would be a gross understatement.
Megacorps do not give a flying fuck about human rights. It's ALWAYS about money. Any time they pretend to care about things like "rights" or "morals", it's because the marketing team calculated that making such a decision will save money. Money is the sole driver of corporate decisions.
This is a big deal. If that happens to them, it can happen in other countries. Game as a service truly means you don't own it. Best solution I suppose, is to extract all player data with addons such as allthethings, and maybe find an emulator that can allow to keep playing...alone and offline...which will probably be legal since the game shutdown.
It would be moral for them to include an offline mode in wow, but probably not worth the money sadly.
It has always been known that Blizzard owns our characters and digital items. I'm not sure why this is a shock or surprise to people. The only difference between "us" and "them" is that Blizzard owns and operates things themselves whereas in China they do not.
If Blizzard shuts down at most we will have a Sandbox of WoW. It will have items and stuff but nothing that is server side unless people replicate those things.
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be"
End of quote. Repeat the line.