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World of Warcraft has seen over 2 million players eagerly registering following the news of Blizzard and NetEase reintroducing Blizzard Entertainment games to China.
Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase, a Chinese internet company focusing on online services, announced on Wednesday their intention to bring back popular games like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Hearthstone to China this summer. NetEase has also provided further details about their collaboration with Blizzard, specifically regarding the plans for World of Warcraft in the Chinese market.
After this statement, the official Weibo account of World of Warcraft released intriguing statistics regarding pre-registrations. It was revealed that within just two days of the announcement, 2 million players had already completed the registration process.
Pre-registration for the Chinese server of World of Warcraft has exceeded two million accounts after NetEase rekindled with Blizzard on April 10 to bring the US video game developer’s hit titles back to China from the summer, according to WOW’s official Weibo account.@Warcraft pic.twitter.com/hzq9cox6gi
— Yicai 第一财经 (@yicaichina) April 12, 2024
World of Warcraft official weibo account released some statistics regarding the return of WoW CN realms.
– 2 MILLION pre-registered players since 10th (in 2 days!).
– 953,915 comments and thoughts collected for the rebuild of the Gorehowl statue which was destoryed after Blizz… pic.twitter.com/iRSAPCjboA
— NasDa (@NasDaCN) April 12, 2024
Rebuilding the World of Warcraft Gorehowl statue
NetEase and Blizzard artists will collaborate on a new Gorehowl sculpture. The previous statue outside their headquarters was destroyed last year amid criticism from NetEase regarding Blizzard’s last-minute license extension for World of Warcraft and other games in China. According to a Weibo post, over 953,915 people have shared and commented on the rebuilding of the statue at their headquarters.
