After they broke up earlier this year, netease is reportedly being sued snowstorm Regarding refunds for games that are no longer available in China.
Last year it was reported that snowstorm Games such as World of W arcraft, Hearthstone and Overwatch will be pulled from China because it and NetEase cannot agree on a new contract. Those games, along with others such as Warcraft 3, the StarCraft series and Diablo 3, all went offline on Jan. 23, ending a 14-year agreement between the two companies. Now, according to a new report from Sina Technology (thanks to WoWHead), snowstorm
Netease’s main statement is snowstorm When servers for games like World of Warcraft and Overwatch went offline in China, they apparently promised refunds to over a million players who wanted them.However, NetEase apparently had to bear these refunds because snowstorm Allegedly not covering them.NetEase is also seeking compensation for unsold merchandise inventory and undeveloped games, as the company apparently had to “pay huge deposits in advance for several games, while snowstorm The relevant deposit was not refunded when the relevant game was not developed. ”
There are no details yet on whether a lawsuit has been filed, so who knows when this might be resolved, if it does go through.China is a huge market snowstormthough the company plans to bring the game back to the region in other ways in the future.
snowstorm It is also currently trying to be acquired by Microsoft, with the UK set to make a decision this week on a nearly $70 billion deal. The ruling will obviously make or break the deal, so Microsoft has been doing all it can to demonstrate that the deal won’t hurt its rivals.