May Stop Service event to some World of Warcraft players job-hopping

Nine city on property damage compensation and commercial slander official Blizzard court, due to a large area stop the event "World of Warcraft" in Chengdu players have to jump. Around the Chinese market the most lucrative game, "World of Warcraft," the agent of the main turmoil, nine cities, NetEase, Blizzard three-party entanglement is still heating up.　　When the nine cities to the "World of Warcraft" Blizzard launched a lawsuit, will formally take over the "World of Warcraft" Operation NetEase issued a statement yesterday, on the players concerned about the issue of the server open time to explain. Nine cities to the court by the United States Blizzard development, China's "Nineth City" agent operating 4-year network game "World of Warcraft", each year for the Nineth city to bring hundreds of millions of yuan income. But this April, NetEase and Blizzard announced a sudden agreement, the Nineth city operation of "World of Warcraft" expires on June 7, no longer renew the contract, to operate by NetEase, which caused many contradictions. Blizzard and nine cities to fight a "spat." Xiaowei, CEO of the nine city, even said in a letter to employees that Blizzard was demanding that nine cities invest 73 million of dollars to buy hardware such as servers to be transferred to them for 22 million dollars, but the nine cities did not agree. Recently, the Nineth city has launched two lawsuits against Blizzard Entertainment in Shanghai, formally bringing the latter to court, respectively, on property damage compensation and commercial defamation.　　Two proceedings have been entertained and will be heard in public on June 18 and July 8 respectively. Service affected Chengdu player job-hopping and at the same time, the security of the game data transfer has become the industry and players the most concerned about the problem. Warcraft at home at the same time the number of online players to maintain a long-term more than 1 million people.　　A large number of players worried before, because NetEase, Blizzard and the nine city three parties on the transition issues can not reach a broad agreement, and "World of Warcraft" easy to face the approval process, China's World of Warcraft after June 7 May face months of server shutdown "empty window."　　U.S. Investment Research Institute Paliresearch analyst said, due to the game approval issue, Blizzard and nine cities on the "World of Warcraft" operating contract expires, before NetEase officially took over, Chinese players may be temporarily "World of Warcraft" 2-3 months. In the middle of May, the "World of Warcraft" appeared in a large number of stop-service events, but also to the hearts of the players around.　　Chengdu, a "play money studio" members revealed that because of concern about the instability of the server business, the current professional players have changed the style of similar online games, such as the Grand "Eternal Tower" and so on. NetEase Blizzard of the joint statement to appease the hearts of the players, from May 27 to yesterday, NetEase CEO Ding Lei and Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mikemorhaime jointly published a number of "World of Warcraft," the Chinese player's open letter, revealed June 7, 2009 0:01, all the "World of Warcraft" The server will temporarily shut down in order to complete the transition until NetEase new service is open. NetEase will be at the end of all servers, get the last all relevant data snapshots before the outage, this snapshot can record all players final game role and game time data. Once the World of Warcraft has been reopened, the data will be introduced to recovery.　　The announcement said that the exclusion of technical reasons may be unexpected, theoretically all user data will achieve seamless transfer, including the account of the remaining game time, will also be retained after the server re-opened and can continue to use. The announcement promises that NetEase and Blizzard are planning to open the first batch of servers in late June 2009 and open all other servers in a matter of weeks. Reporter Luo