Chinese gamers will soon be able to download World of Warcraft Progress – World of Warcraft
As you know, Blizzard and NetEase have decided not to renew their partnership in China. As a result, WoW players are wondering what will happen when the servers shut down on January 23, 2023. Will they lose their characters and their progress over the past 15 years? Well, no, they will be able to … download them.
Yes, it is strange to say that. But this is exactly the solution that John Hight proposed to players of Middle Empire. The producer tries to reassure gamers by making sure that the transition to a new partner will be as smooth as possible, but it also turns out that no company is set yet.
All that is known is that players will soon be able to save their progress on their “personal device”. This obviously raises questions, especially about potential manipulations that can occur on the data, but the studio is clearly aware of this.
In any case, it will be interesting to see, in practice, how all this plays out for Chinese gamers, and perhaps rest assured not to see many years of gameplay go downhill.
Hey, World of Warcraft CN players:
I hope you all started exploring Dragon Islands with your friends. Since your last video was posted, you’ve all been interested in what we do to bring World of Warcraft back to you after January 23rd. In addition, we know that you also want to ensure that your current in-game characters, progression, and items will always be with you on your future adventures in Azeroth.
We are currently in discussions with a number of potential new distribution partners in China and this process will continue until we find a suitable solution. At the same time, we know how important your progress in World of Warcraft is to you. So I would like to tell you that the World of Warcraft team is working hard to develop a feature that will allow you to save your characters, items and progress in Azeroth on your personal devices before starting the game. Decommissioned Jan 23.
I should mention that this functionality is in addition to the “information sealed” mentioned in the previous NetEase announcement. We hope the transition to the new partner for the World of Warcraft CN service will be smooth. In addition, thanks to this feature, everyone will be able to keep their game history and memory in their hands.
We’re working with NetEase to finalize the plan and will publish more details on how to save game progress in January. We know that you will have many questions about this feature and when you can return to Azeroth. Stay tuned and we’ll keep you posted on further developments in the future.
Let’s catch up with you again in January!
John Hight
Managing Director of Warcraft Productions
“Incurable web evangelist. Hipster-friendly gamer. Award-winning entrepreneur. Falls down a lot.”