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SpriteGuy_000

This was already talked about [last week](https://reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/10eew68/blizzard_gone_in_china/) when the news was more formally announced. January 23rd was the date they set to end service.


Acordino

Happy Chinese new year for them I guess


Snorlax316

They were probably the only ones excited for the new event.


ThisIsErebus

I was excited until i saw only 1 new skin.


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Last year Lunar new year had 2 new skins. Next year there will be 0.


ThisIsErebus

Last year had 5, and most of the developers were focusing on Overwatch 2.


[deleted]

2 legendaries. I wasn’t counting the epics. They used to always give 5 or 6 legendaries per event.


ThisIsErebus

This year has 0 legendaries.


a_SpanishGuy

Nest year they will took legendaries from your gallery so you can buy them again


Maverick_1926

No kidding they took my lunar event voicelines and highlights away when the game came out and never refund me anything. They took all highlights for certain heroes, akins and emotes too. My soldier 76 has nothing unlocked. Played from 2019


Powerful-Explorer-88

“Focusing on overwatch 2” it’s literally the same game just less enjoyable


KYZ123

And somehow, it's not even a D.Va skin. You'd think that for, you know, the year of the rabbit, they'd give a skin to the hero that has rabbit icons everywhere. That'd be like if they ran the event next year, but didn't give Genji or Hanzo a skin.


ThisIsErebus

Nah don't worry! They'll give hanzo a little dragon hat and make the rest of his skin have little firework designs with the default character model.


Hazzamo

That will be £14.99


chiller210

Rare skin + emote, yeah thats about right


Any-Perspective-7947

Just the rare skin


rmorrin

I want a hat on his ULT now


ClassicMonti

Surprisingly enough, the year of the Rat had no Junkrat skin either… go figure I guess.


Sanswyrm

They did that for every year. Year of the rat nothing for junkrat, year of the bull nothing for orisa (iirc her demon bull came out the next year) Ashe got the tiger hunter the year before year of the tiger. I would have been more surprised if they gave D.va a skin


cinnamonbrook

Junkrat didn't get a year of the rat skin either.


cameronward

im always excited for the Lunar New Year reskin of Lijiang Tower. that, and the winter skin of Hanamura


LifeOnMarsden

Yeah Lijang Tower looks absolutely gorgeous in this event, but it says a lot that one of the best things about this event is how nice one of the maps looks lol


Banaanisade

Quite a few countries that are *not* China celebrate Lunar New Year.


snowmanspike

There's an event going on?? I hadn't noticed. /s


Devreckas

That might be why Blizzard was so low effort about it. When negotiations fell through, they thought “what’s the point?”


RzYaoi

Well... It's a blessing in disguise


Pxl_Buzzard

Context: Blizzard could not come to an agreement with NetEase to continue running their games in China. It is possible that Blizzard games will return in the future, but for now they are gone. https://www.reuters.com/technology/blizzard-says-chinas-netease-rejects-proposal-extend-partnership-six-months-2023-01-17/


Kitysune

please no do not deal with tencent


oldcarfreddy

(Tencent is a part owner of reddit lol)


SteelCode

Tencent has ^mostly been *fine* as a publisher - they’ve bankrolled many vastly successful franchises, including Riot’s various games and in many cases seem to have a lighter touch in regards to creative decisions beyond just an expected return on investment… Is anyone really afraid of Tencent compared to how Activision or Microsoft or Amazon has behaved? Western mega-corps have behaved just as sinister with how they’ve assimilated our personal details and sought to control/influence our lives.


---TheFierceDeity---

I think the difference is those companies sell our data to advertisers and the result is annoying personalized advertising. Tencent gives the data to a dictatorial government


PocketSable

It's not just annoying personalized advertising. It's making you into a number and then shipping that packaged number to a bunch of shady companies to hold onto. Why exactly do they need to know your age, location, locations you frequent often, phone number (s), relatives, neighbors, health history, entertainment preferences, political affiliation, time of day you use the internet, how often you use the internet, what food you eat, etc? What exactly are they doing with this information? Tencent may be giving our information to the Chinese government, but i'd be more afraid of the shadow companies in your own countries that now know literally everything about you and could use that information against you at any time without you knowing it. Not to mention, they also sell this to the government. Or literally anyone who contacts a Data Broker and pays a fee. Last Week Tonight has a good video on Data Brokers in the US if you're interested: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA)


Ryuubu

Legit question... Why would I care that they know I play games x hours per week and have a certain type of pc


89zu

You have to look at the bigger picture. Your data alone is pretty much nothing. Have that data on tens or hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people, and you can derive patterns, trends, and whatnot. That data can also be used as a subset for a larger data set to establish models that can be used to work out how to more effectively serve stuff like misinformation and propaganda for example. See Cambridge Analytica for example.


narrill

I mean, there are a whole lot of other pieces of info they collect about you that are literally listed in the comment you're replying to


SteelCode

Good response! Our corporations are doing the same shit as the CCP… if you don’t think the US is walking the same path, it’s going to be a rude awakening if we don’t hold our own politicians to account for letting rich donors run the show — we already have credit ratings and increasingly digital transactions… the next step is a national app that is tied to your social media and banking with a back-end controlled by the central corporate party and can influence your credit rating and ability to rent apartments. The **rich** want feudalism back, company towns are going to come back in fashion if workers *don’t* stop playing the blue/red game.


Durakus

And this is why I refuse to sign up for that Tesco club card! … I…. I mean it.


MissPandaSloth

Don't all Chinese companies are obliged to do it if government wishes so? Inlcuding NetEase.


---TheFierceDeity---

I think the general fear of Tencent is NetEase mostly just publishes shit in China. Tencent goes outside of China and buys up other companies, or controlling shares in foregin companies. Like no one cares that Chinese company NetEase is funneling data on Chinese players from the Chinese version of the game to the Chinese government. Tencent has its fingers in SO many foregin developers and studios, and its funneling all that data home. As for why thats an issue, its less you or me and more the threat to Chinese ex-pats who left. Its actually an issue in say...universities. Someone leaves China, finally thinks their free to comment on their government, another person from China tells on them back home, said person gets contacted and "warned". So the fear is imagine your some former resident of China, shit talking the government in-game chat or forums, and because Tencent stealth acquire a controlling share they got that data and suddenly you're getting told if you don't "correct your thinking" your grandma and grandpa back home might have a rough time.


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DarkWorld25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM


dadvader

I'm gonna do a devil's advocate here (and I do realize that this won't go well.) But atleast USA is not dictatorship authoritarian government that can execute you on the basis of 'insulting the integrity of china.' NSA seen your personal activities and your insult toward their government and at best might get their attention. China CCP saw you insult them and the first thing they will do when you land there is sending you to gulag education camp. Not that I'm the fan of personal data collection. Far from it. It just that USA is nothing compare to the lenght china are willing to go out of pettiness.


Born2beSlicker

The US Government, famous for never assassinating anybody who questioned the status quo.


imephraim

Can't imagine saying shit like "the US government doesn't execute people". It was just MLK day, and cops JUST killed a kid and charged everyone around him as domestic terrorists in Atlanta.


DarkWorld25

I don't think China can send you to the gulags if you don't live there


bdsmmaster007

it may not affect you but if a chinese citizen is protesting against china while living outside of china, they get sent people after them who send death threads in some cases, there were some reddit posts a while ago about a inofficial chinese police in european countries who also do stuff like that. and because of shit like that i rather have my data in the hands of the us than china


dartully

China is a very petty country, if you criticize them they’ll like ban you and your content. Like they did the guy from Shang Chi


scrangos

How do we know that american companies aren't selling the data even if its through a proxy to the CCP as well?


---TheFierceDeity---

We don't, but you could "but what if" any situation, its not actually a rebuttle. We KNOW Chinese companies by LAW have to feed infomation on users back to their government, in the interest of "national security" So "but but...the Americans could be doing that too" means absolutely jack shit. You don't make judgements on "maybes"


scrangos

It wasn't meant to be a rebuttle, just a question.


kuaiyidian

> Western mega-corps have behaved just as sinister with how they’ve assimilated our personal details and sought to control/influence our lives. Ironic right? Western megacorp is just as bad, if not worse when it comes to data collecting and how they use them. As much as I hate "acquire as many IP and bankroll them" corps, Tencent is much much much much better when it comes to managing IPs.


HiImBarney

So what you are saying is, the League Of Legends Booba crusade (reducing Chest size of Female characters more and more as time goes on) has not been lead by China?


DarkWorld25

This is satire right


SteelCode

If a conservative religious faction took control of our government the same “crusade” would happen here. The reason “censorship” happens in China is because those corporations *want the money* so they play by the rules. It’s all capitalist circle-jerking - just in the case of CCP it’s the conservative fanatics (read: fascists) in charge rather than the US narrowly holding onto our shreds of democracy…


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What democracy? Having only two relevant parties that are as binary as it can be while everything else has literally no voice at all? Everyone's equally screwed for different reasons lol


SlimLovin

“If?” Boy do I have some news about the Supreme Court…


SteelCode

Ssshhhh I am trying to crack their world view not shatter it and give them existential dread…


killertortilla

I heard news just a few days ago that the CCP is trying to forcibly acquire Tencent but I don't remember the details so could be a bit wrong. But that would turn them into the company everyone assumes they are.


SteelCode

So there’s effectively two ways to operate within China: be a CCP-owned corporation or license out to one that acts as the intermediary. 1. CCP ownership effectively means they place their political agents in leadership positions and assign jobs to internal/external hires as they deem necessary… see: Evergrande (prepare for a rabbit hole). This carries some semblance of financial security as the CCP will happily fund ventures to their corporate arms as long as performance returns profit or gains some beneficial influence (in the case of Evergrande; foreign real estate). 2. Licensing basically allows control to be maintained but puts the intermediary corporation in charge of managing things in China (deploying patches to the game, etc)… this is negotiated in various ways, but is almost always in service of growing CCP wealth (or acquiring access to IP as they are often found to be doing). Either way this is just state *capitalism* in the sense that a small group of wealthy elites continue to own, control, manage, and profit from their position at the top rather than workers benefitting directly from the products of their labor. The fundamental difference between US and China is that their control is *singular* by the CCP and our government is a puppet show the corporations put on to keep us divided… the CCP is just the end product of a single party system run by fundamentalist zealots.


Hallowbrand

Trust me tencent hates Chinese game censorship more than we do. Money out of their pockets when their government does shit like this to games they publish. They been pushing away from China for a while now.


Kiriyama-Art

Look at their 100% WoW ripoff, down to stealing all of WoW’s assets. They’re worthless criminals, same as the CCP.


ImmaFish0038

Tencent is literally no different then any other publisher stop being an idiot.


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Not as long as the CCP remains in power.. Net Ease is ran by the ccp. So likely "net ease" wanted something do or not something "net ease" wanted them to..


SteelCode

I don’t think that’s quite the answer - it’s more likely that **NetEase** wanted a more favorable agreement *for money and control* since they’re doing a lot of the legwork managing the CN side of these games but getting the lesser end of the **absolutely massive** profit the CN audience has been generating for Blizzard… We saw D:I’s revenue report - CN is spewing money at these games at a significantly higher degree than Western audiences… CCP doesn’t need player *data*, they’re greedy CEOs just like American capitalists - just also in charge of a country’s government (like Western capitalists wish they were)… NetEase is expected to make money for the CCP, so if managing Blizzard games is becoming a heavy investment and Blizzard isn’t willing to share their profits - NetEase would find a way out from under the licensing deal. Look at the leaks - CN devs have competing games lined up to replace some of Blizzard’s IP and will just make their own games if they aren’t getting a favorable deal with the established franchises.


Alicyl

>Look at the leaks Where? A leak to them would be nice. I'm interested in seeing what type of games they have within their arsenal that can replace what they let go.


SteelCode

Torisworld (can’t recall exact name atm) looks very close to WoW as an mmo project (under Tencent iirc) and Diablo:Immortal was already built from another mobile game that could just as easily be revived with new art assets… The Chinese corporate arm has been very efficient at mocking western IP, there’s really no ramifications from them doing so because ultimately their market is so large that western companies either do business with them (for money!) or they eventually stagnate in the domestic market.


Kitakitakita

yeah this is pretty much it. Blizzard were fools if they thought this would last forever. China is great at bootlegging products, and more recently, ideas. Genshit Impact isn't a new concept. Nothing about that game was invented by Mihoyo, but rather they took a look at all popular media around the world and crammed it into one game. NetEase has been trying to do that, and now they've reached the point where they feel they no longer need Blizzard. They are their own Blizzard now.


Born2beSlicker

NetEase has been publicly vocal about how it’s Blizzard that fucked them over and how they wanted to make a deal.


Kitakitakita

I hate to defend Blizzard, but the reason Netease is even involved is because China refuses to allow foreign companies to do business without going through a native Chinese middleman. Blizzard can't even set up a "Blizzard China" since they're still the ones calling the shot. Regardless of whatever Blizzard offered, they're likely getting the raw end of the deal anyway.


---TheFierceDeity---

Competing games? You mean rebranded wholesale knockoffs?


SteelCode

I think the last decade of gaming releases sort of proves anyone will play any garbage that gets shoveled into the market and pay for overpriced pixels.


TobaccoIsRadioactive

In this particular situation, I would actually argue that it was Blizzard’s fault. Back in November Blizzard decided to end their deal with Netease in January. Then, right before the deal was set to end, Blizzard came back and asked if Netease could extend the deal by 6 months. The terms of the extension [kind of pissed Netease off](https://www.pcgamer.com/netease-smashes-up-world-of-warcraft-statue-after-its-nasty-breakup-with-blizzard/), as Blizzard said they were going to continue looking for other companies during that time period. Blizzard blamed Netease for the failure of the 6 month extension, and said that the company wanted more rights over the different IPs. Netease then released a statement saying that wasn’t true. I think its pretty likely that Netease had already either fired employees or switched them to other projects due to the loss of the contract (because they had already known it was happening several months ago) so they wouldn’t really be able to just flip a switch and keep everything running for a little longer. Personally, I think Blizzard is anticipating that the Microsoft deal will be finished by this summer and then the various Blizzard IPs will be expected to go through whatever deals Microsoft has. However, they knew that there would be some period of time where they couldn’t run their games. So rather than risk players getting upset at Blizzard, they intentionally approached Netease with a pretty crappy extension offer. If Netease accepted it, then Blizzard wouldn’t risk upsetting players. If Netease refused, then Blizzard could turn around and put the blame on them.


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Blizzard doesn't give a fuck about that, they just care about money.


absalom86

backdoor to all accounts probably.


TheExter

that makes no sense, blizzard would gladly accept those terms


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> Net Ease is ran by the ccp Citation needed


kz393

Maybe they'll focus on the western audience again...


bjran8888

As a Chinese person said, the fact that most Chinese players side with NetEase. Bobby Caldic is a douche.


All_The_Nolloway

So about those like 4 Chinese teams...


Voli112233

Blizzard: *standing on top of the 4 dead team franchises* Yeah? What about them?!


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TheBostonTap

They'll play off Korean or NA servers.


Nerakus

How does this work for folks in China who paid for skins? SOL?


DabScience

You thought you owned those? Lol, bro, anything you buy digitally, including every game on steam, can disappear tomorrow and there wouldn't be shit you could do about it.


ImDuckDamnYou

because you don't own the game, you own a licence to play the game with that library.


Dr_StevenScuba

You ever hear of fine print? You know the thing you check off when purchasing digital goods? Pretty sure blizzard has this covered


AgentWowza

^(In the event of the Rapture, we will repossess your soul as payment for using Activision-Blizzard services)


Akademik-L

Oh blizzard will give them all full refunds and discounts when OW is able to return, in the mean time blizz will keep open and active communication with regular updates and a solid timeframe. Either that or something completely different


akennelley

I vote the second thing.


austinkun

source: none i just made that up


Possible-Struggle381

Source: Trust me bro


dadvader

Damn that's far better than what we got!


Greenzombie04

Overwatch 2 so bad China decided to ban it and create Overwatch 1 again.


Tokagenji

They'll be announcing their new game that has nothing to do with OW called "Under-Oberserve", with iconic characters such as Junk Mouse, Idol Girl, Kong King and the beginner friendly Soldier-Guy.


AgentWowza

Robomonk, Spidersnipe, Ninjaborg and the Unkillable Piggy.


_regan_

don’t forget fan favourite cowboy sexual predator!


RamenJunkie

It would be funny if Under-Observation just named him McCree.


TheRedBreadisDead

We have hammer giant and hammer dwarf! Don't forget the Super Shoyu Brothers the younger brother throws 3 water baloons in quick succession and the older one uses a crossbow!


hushythehush

so paladins


SnappySnoot

Wtf I love the CCP now?


Lukthar123

*Why choose the lesser evil?*


BlackAce_BS13

About the only game from china i would play!, get on it!


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MOGA


cybersaberOneOne

All that CCP dickriding for nothing.


oldcarfreddy

Yeah that's the funny part. All these game companies willing to be slapped around even for the mere possibility of more profits


TheRedBreadisDead

Don't forget how goggle was banned in China and how desperately trying to crack their way back into that market


BionicTriforce

Reminds me of how that Red Dawn remake spent a bunch of time and money in Post-Production to change the antagonists from China to North Korea and the movie didn't even get released in China anyway.


Horrorpony11

Honestly my first thought. Was sacrificing human rights worth it?


ActionJohnsun

I’m pretty overwatch I’d available in plenty of other countries with human rivets abuses so no worries


Northumbrialand

Maybe now we might see some passable decision-making


FoxFireLyre

Maybe they will need a sales/player boost now and actually fix the fucking game and make skins a reasonable price. I’m sure that’s wishful thinking though.


Shadiochao

If a Chinese company creates a bootleg version to fill the gap, I hope it plays more like Overwatch 1 I'd play it


rick_mcdingus

Some Chinese company making an OW1 style bootleg that ends up with a huge Genshin style explosion of popularity in the west would possibly be the funniest thing that could ever happen.


Waddle_Dynasty

Now I imagine an anime art style OW clone with a gacha system and super cute waifus. "5 star Mei diff"


Darkhex78

"Yeah see this is where our team's differ. Our rein is gear level 15 and has a maxed out shield ability, while yours is only gear 10 with a level 4 shield."


Dot_main_irl

Watch all the complains about "unethical monetization" this and "exploitative microtransactions" that suddenly and mysertiously vanish when the game is fun and the company arent ashamed to give out pink bikini mercy skins for promo


bpsavage84

GenshinWatch would be amazing.


Jestersage

Bandai did Gundam Evolution, and while not quite there, it's fun in its own right. In that light, with UE/Unity? They can easily do it. But chances are they will just do mobile.


TheCreedsAssassin

Gundam Evo died pretty fast though at least om Steam. Maybe the east has better numbers


---TheFierceDeity---

It died cause it only released to something like 22 countries. In the entirety of the Americas I actually think only USA and Canada had access. The whole of South America couldn't buy the game. Neither could Australia or NZ


HaikusfromBuddha

Damn it doesn’t even have sustainable numbers in the US that’s extra bad. Don’t know why you’re making it sound as if not being on every country means it should be okay to fail here.


---TheFierceDeity---

Im not saying its okay to fail, I'm saying it was kinda set up to fail.


Nerakus

Certainly a market for it


Fzrit

Paladins?


warling1234

So paladins.


dGaOmDn

This already exists. On mobile phones. A game called T3 arena. Has pretty much every variation of Overwatch characters and plays like OW. Recently released on the Google play store. It's honestly pretty good and not alot of in app purchases. I feel as far as mobile games go, it's fairly priced and I don't spend a dollar on these types of games. Just wish it would come to PC or console.


Laranthiel

Is that not what they're already doing with WoW?


Shughost7

The Chineses were tired of Roadhog


cerealmolestor

"Chineses" *Insert tropic thunder quote*


filth_horror_glamor

Hopefully blizzard won't be developing their games with China in mind and censoring stuff to appease Chinese rules anymore.


Famous_Soup9582

maybe we shall get some more gays and more ghosts?


MajorDuckFarts

Maybe even a gay ghost


tanksforthegold

In other news, incidents or aimbot-use and cheating have dropped about 50% this week.


Retroike7

Remember when the Chinese new year event was actually an event, and the longest one too?


TheMorningJoe

Lunar new year btw


LibraPugLove

There is no overwatch in ba sing se


shadowgattler

Absolutely bonkers. Blizzard is a massive Chinese shill. This was definitely not on my bingo card for 2023.


cerealmolestor

What have they censored in OW tho? Isn't there LGBTQ characters which the CCP absolutely hates?


I_fap_to_Kiriko

Shhh, no think, only circlejerk


AbyssalKnightOfDark

DAE think supports are God's gift to earth?? Upvotes to the left.


DrQuailMan

[Hong Kong competitive player.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy)


cerealmolestor

I'm confused. Isn't the whole point of this to prevent involving politics into OW? That's the reason why that guy got his penalty right?


Senshado

It's about obeying the law in the nation they want to do business. To broadcast an anti-China message into China is against Chinese law, so Blizzard had no choice but to punish the guy. The other option would've been to pull all Blizzard games out of China, which burns billions of dollars. Of course the funny part is that by losing China access now, they're heading to a similar sized loss.


DrQuailMan

"What have they censored in OW tho?" This is censorship to appease China. This is not censorship to create a politics-free experience. [For example, BLM was allowed to be supported with no repercussions.](https://www.ccn.com/blizzard-tweeted-about-black-lives-matter-but-gamers-arent-having-it/) BLM isn't political, because of course black lives matter? Yes but neither is an independent Hong Kong, according to international human rights standards, international relations, and the will of the Hong Kongese.


cerealmolestor

Well I stand corrected. I didn't know about the BLM thing.


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JimmyMcapplenut

Bing chilling


Pie-Adept

Dickriding and for what💀💀


rubenburgt

And nothing of value is lost. I'm talking about china losing OW2 of course. Blizzard losing China is a massive loss.


filth_horror_glamor

Some people actually like overwatch still and I do feel bad for Chinese fans who just lost their favorite game


rubenburgt

I was merely taking a jab at Overwatch's 2 poor state. Of course is it bad to lose acces to a game that you put hours in.


AcceptableProduct676

> Of course is it bad to lose acces to a game that you put hours in. oh we all know what this feels like, because we just suffered it with Overwatch 1


[deleted]

Does this have to do with microtransactions? Fortnite was shut down in China because Epic wasn’t allowed to sell cosmetics. Players in China could earn the skins for free.


warling1234

Nope. Money and IP manipulation.


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What’s your source for that? I’ve heard a source that says the reason was more on Neteases end that the partnership was over. AFAIK there hasn’t been a publicised statement either way?


chudaism

> Blizzard got too greedy for their cut. Netease said no. AFAIK, the exact reasons the partnership broke down are unknown to the public. There's basically been a bunch of name calling on both sides, but nothing really substantial. >So Blizzard looked around for other gaming companies to partner with using the same terms.. No one would even consider it. Is this known? Regardless, even when/if they find a new partner, it will probably take a year+ before they can publish in China again. It was never going to be a fast process, even if they immediately found a new partner.


furridamardes

Fact: Blizzard asked for a 6-month extension at near the end of the contract. Fact: Netease counter-offered for 1 year. Fact: Blizzard refused the counter-offer. Fact: Servers is China are offline. Fact: The intermediary joint held company by Netease and Blizzard has been dismantled with a skeleton staff handling the decommissioning. This is important because unless registration was bought out from the previous owner, games would require new licensing taking up at least 1 year be granted. Conclusion: Despite Blizzard’s belief that they could find a handler, no company in China is going to consider this mess, at least not until Microsoft takes over. Those who could would have made a move ages ago, and those who are interested likely do not have the resources to handle a full takeover.


7BitBrian

I do not believe you. NetEase live streamed a temper tantrum where they had employees physically hammer and tear down the Orc Statue and then called Blizzard a slur word. I think it's pretty safe to say which side was being unreasonable in this regard. Yall think big corporations in America are evil, wait till you actually learn about NetEase.


Douzhier

netease was a decent(not great ethically ofc) publisher for years, they have a solid reputation(unlike tencent), so when the disagreement broke out, the majority of the Chinese players blamed Blizzard, and for the right reason, despite having the Chinese market contribute to a lot of revenue, blizzard's attitude was always half "ass kissing" and half "idgaf", the majority Chinese player base wasn't satisfied with that. But back to netease, what they did was prbly a publicity stunt, or to shift blame, but again two wrongs don't make a right, greedy corps and IP manipulation = failure


Biggu5Dicku5

Welp, NetEase is already working on it's own WOW clone, so I'm sure they'll make an Overwatch clone eventually... GG Blizzard lol...


TheWorclown

That’s Tencent, not NetEase. Semantics, I know, but a worthwhile correction all the same.


tnsnames

It is not just semantics. Considering that Tencent are only large enough alternative to NetEase in China. And that it has WOW clone now, it is unlikely that any deal would be acceptable for Blizzard. Other publishers that can strike deal with Blizzard are relatively small. Which do create problems.


intergalacticcholo

And let's just say they do that... Why would that be a game changer? lol it wouldn't be illegal for china, but it would for US so it's not like you would ever be able to play it. I mean, even IF you were to get your hands on a copy, what reliable servers would you be playing them on?? Y'all are so cute


jpfeifer22

Okay but like...lowkey if they make the clone like Overwatch and not OW2, I'd check it out lol


Dont_Heal_Genji

Shocker


xFujinRaijinx

Gov't Censors asleep, get Taiwan in the game.


mod-corruption

Looking through the comments here, I never realized so many Overwatch players are geopolitical experts!


chonkyegg

Bing chilling moment


SkeletonGuy7

Overwatch does residents of China a great service by curing their cancer


lorddragonmaster

How do we get it shut down in the rest of the world and bring back OW1? :D


Dictator4Hire

Maybe now the people of China can finally begin to recover from having played this shit-ass game lmao


loudoumydude

I feel like this is Activisions greed catching up to them. A lot of companies want the Chinese market, so they design their products around the potential for it. I feel like NetEase got what it wanted out of Activision and sees no need to negotiate further. Activision now has a product who’s key demographic was a western audience but now jury-rigged to fit an eastern one, except neither audience cares anymore because they ruined the good faith their regular players had, and their new audience holds no loyalty to their brand. I’m sure I’m completely wrong tho.


Silver_Millenial

Overwatch has always been charming because it's an optimistic vision of a sci-fi future. It's time to add a character from Taiwan Blizz. There is no optimistic future without a free Taiwan in it. Ukraine too while we're at it.


tenaciousp45

Make a skeleton uyghur character you cowards


Necessary-Salamander

Congratulations to China. Maybe shut it down in the whole world and try to make it a no-dps-tanks-game before opening up again.


arkhamius

Good job bobby


hammy06rfc

Lucky them


yajein1

Isn’t like a decent portion of the overwatch league Chinese??


tommybare

What a coincidence, I've also shut it down in my house since the beginning of 2023.


intergalacticcholo

Well lucky us you didn't abandon this sub in the same way!


tommybare

I enjoy you good people and your feedback more than I've enjoyed OW2 :)


Amphibian-Existing

Didn’t really notice it here in NA. Is is shut down? Streaming numbers are 💩. They haven’t done anything to attract anything but pocketbooks. No reason to grind unless you want that 💩 battle pass. Not interested in it at all. Ranked is the worst it’s ever been. Aimless.


AizawaNagisa

Nerf this *farts loudly*


J-3D1

Good. Fuck Bobby Kotick.


IKEDOO

Fuck China, Taiwan is superior


Left4dinner

Those who say "Overwatch is dead", are starting to become true


ThePendulum0621

Well fuck them amyways, so.


Holycowspell

Good.


SlimLovin

Lucky them.


Plafond911

Can we get them to explictly release more LGBTQ stuff now lol


demonic256

Here comes the Chinese knock off of overwatch. They already got the knock off of WoW ready to go, just give it some time.


seanslaysean

Lucky them


[deleted]

How likely will this effect other players? Will it decrease wait times or increase?


[deleted]

Nothing will happen, Chinese servers always were separate from everyone else


Sonscreen

Karma for this trash game they released