On June 7, 2022,165438+1October 65438, Shanghai Netease Network Technology Development Co., Ltd. announced that the World of Warcraft operated by the company in Chinese mainland will be terminated at 0: 00 on October 24, 2023 due to the expiration of the entertainment agreement between the company and its partner Blizzard.
From 0: 00 on October 24th, 2023/kloc-0, 65438 officially stopped the operation of Blizzard's game products, shut down Battle.net login and all game servers, and closed the client download. After the game server is shut down, all account data and character data (including but not limited to characters, remaining game time, game props, materials, recharge information, etc. ) will be titled in every game.
Netease will arrange a refund for the virtual currency of online games that players recharge in the game but have not consumed, and the game time that has not expired after payment (if any).
Release of World of Warcraft:
On June 23rd, 2007, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade broke the record of the fastest-selling PC games in North America and Europe. Within 24 hours after its release, 2.4 million client copies were sold worldwide.
Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion of World of Warcraft, set a new world record for PC game sales 24 hours after its release, with sales reaching 2.8 million copies that day, breaking the 22-month single-day sales record of the first expansion of World of Warcraft, The Burning Crusade. Ranked first in the monthly sales of PC games in the United States for three consecutive months.
It sold 3.3 million copies on the first day of release, and Fission of the Earth broke the fastest sales record set by the second expansion of Wrath of the Lich King. By the end of 201111,the sales of the third expansion exceeded 4.7 million sets in the first month, setting a new record for PC games in a single month.