Blizzard's official flagship store issued a normal operation announcement: the suspension of the game will not affect the surrounding sales.

CTOnews.com January 17 news, November 16 last year, Blizzard Entertainment announced that due to the current license agreement with Netease will expire on January 23,2023, will suspend most Blizzard game services in the mainland of China.

However, this does not affect Blizzard in China to sell game peripheral products, Blizzard official flagship store announced last night that the suspension only involves game-related business, Blizzard flagship store will continue to operate as usual, and insist on providing every Blizzard player with Blizzard official high-quality peripheral products and services.

It is worth mentioning that the home page of Blizzard's official flagship store has recently been updated, known as "Spring Festival closed."

CTOnews.com understands that Blizzard today also released an update on the breakup with Netease: it said it contacted Netease again last week and sought assistance to discuss the extension of the existing agreement based on the established terms agreed by Netease in 2019 for six months. However, Netease did not accept its proposal to extend the existing game service agreement after last week's extension negotiations. Blizzard will therefore suspend its national game service on January 23 in compliance with NetEase's suspension notice.