"World of Warcraft" and "electronic urn" were launched today, NetEase reminded: blizzard unilateral development, beware of security risks

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Xiao Zhan for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com January 18 news, as NetEase and Blizzard will end their cooperation, its game service will be terminated on January 24, 2023. Blizzard previously announced that after World of Warcraft national service is closed, players need to save the game data locally for the possible restart day, which is also jokingly known as "electronic urn" by players.

Today, the "electronic urn" of the "World of Warcraft" national service has been officially launched, and players can download their game progress for future use. When the national server game is back online in the future, you can upload the game history saved in your hands in order to continue the game. This function will continue to open until the national service is out of service.

Note that this operation of saving the game progress is an one-off, and the download progress will immediately lock all the "World of Warcraft" game characters under the Battle. net account, and the customer service will not be released, so you should make it clear that you will no longer be online in the near future before saving.

NetEase said in an announcement yesterday that the World of Warcraft game progress archiving function mentioned by Blizzard China in its statement was unilaterally proposed and developed by Blizzard and was not tested and used by NetEase. There may be unknown security risks. If this function causes players to lose their virtual property or is unable to play, Blizzard should bear full responsibility.

CTOnews.com learned that many games partnered by NetEase and Blizzard will be terminated on the 24th, including World of Warcraft, hearthstone Legend, Watchman, StarCraft, Warcraft III: reset, Diablo III and Storm Hero. All Blizzard games represented by NetEase will stop service and close the recharge service and user registration entry of Blizzard game products in Battle.net and client.