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introduction：近日，有关暴雪国服回归的消息引发广泛关注。

** Source| ** Sina Technology Blue Whale Finance First Finance

According to several bloggers, Blizzard National Service will be announced on the morning of April 10. On April 9, relevant personages of NetEase confirmed the matter to Sina Science and Technology. According to NetEase, "the return of Blizzard national service was confirmed by the official announcement on April 10, but this announcement is mainly the responsibility of NetEase Thunder Fire Enterprise Group, and the protection density is extremely high." According to BlueKing's further understanding from close sources, Blizzard will issue the official announcement on the resumption of cooperation on April 10, and then NetEase will follow up on the official announcement, the specific time is from 9 am to 10:00 Beijing time that day. In addition, Blue Whale Finance learned that the main content of the official announcement is to resume the previously interrupted cooperation between the two sides, but the specific Blizzard national service will not be launched until this summer at the earliest. Since Blizzard broke up with NetEase, the fate of its national service game has attracted people's attention. On November 17, 2022, Blizzard suddenly announced that the licensing agreement with NetEase would expire on January 23, 2023. Since then, after many rounds of public response and pull, NetEase issued an announcement on January 23, officially announcing the suspension of Blizzard games. According to the announcement, at 0: 00 on January 24, 2023, all operations of "World of Warcraft", "hearth Stone Legend", "Watchman Pioneer" and other products represented by NetZhiyi in the Chinese mainland market will be officially terminated. Blizzard will shut down Battle.net login and all game servers, as well as client downloads. However, Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard was approved by the British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on October 13, 2023, which means that Microsoft has cleared all obstacles to successfully proceed with the deal. After the return of Blizzard to Microsoft, it is possible for its games to return to national service. In an interview with the media after Blizzard 2023 Carnival in early November, Blizzard President Mike Ybarra mentioned the return of national services, saying that millions of players in China love Blizzard games. "everyone at Blizzard wants to make sure they can play our games. We are a global company. I want us to be in every country in the world, including China. " **