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The World of Warcraft Studio announced its permanent withdrawal! After making money for more than ten years, it couldn't withstand the three consecutive moves of the national server official!

2024-07-16

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After the new national server returned, NetEase used three tricks to basically block the business of all studios. Among them, a power leveling studio that was extremely prosperous before the server was launched announced that it would run away and permanently withdraw.

The World of Warcraft Chinese Studio announced its permanent withdrawal!

This is a relatively well-known studio, and it promoted its power leveling service before the server was launched. Xiao O checked his Douyin and found that he already has 125,000 followers, which is not a small account. In his recent profile, he wrote "11 years of power leveling career, it ends here everyone".


Before the Chinese server was launched, many Chinese studios started to accept orders early, and many of them were for power leveling. Knowing that the Chinese server would continue to open Ulduar, this power leveling studio even offered a super package of 1,688 full-level + 210 gear levels.

This price is extremely expensive, but because leveling in WLK is difficult and time-consuming, and a set of 210-level equipment is not easy to obtain, because the drops from dungeons depend on luck, there are quite a few people who place orders to purchase this leveling service.


Unexpectedly, the Chinese server announced the launch of a super upgrade package with increased volume but no price increase, which directly crushed all the WLK nostalgic server leveling business. In addition, the mall later launched the 888 super deluxe annual card gift package, etc. Friends who want to level up a new account in the WLK nostalgic server will choose to go directly.

This has resulted in the studio having no orders to take, and can only accept some leveling orders in new areas, but this is just a drop in the bucket.

Xiao O learned that his Taobao store was also shut down, and all the pictures and texts were changed to "XX is no longer a power leveler" and "XX has quit power leveling." He had been doing business for more than ten years, but this move ruined him.


NetEase's three-stroke attack brought all the studios down

In addition to the first trick mentioned above, there is also a second trick which is to increase the intensity of account blocking, and there are rewards for reporting scripts and plug-ins.

After the return of the national server, NetEase has greatly strengthened its efforts to combat scripts and other illegal behaviors, and has also launched the "Holy Light Bounty Order" activity, where players who report violations will have the opportunity to receive Battle.net points as rewards. Regardless of whether a character uses scripts, plug-ins, synchronizers, or automatic macros, once the report is confirmed, the account will be banned.


For accounts that are detected to use scripts, they will be directly banned for ten years. Those who use illegal jumping software and disrupt the order of the game on the public screen will also be banned, usually for 1-14 days. A friend who hired a power leveler was also banned for 10 years. It is estimated that he used scripts or some other technological means to level up.


The third trick is to modify the script to earn gold.

This move can be said to be the most ruthless. We know that in World of Warcraft Classic, the biggest impact on the game is actually the army of scripts that farm gold. Friends who have played WLK on the Asian server must know that those script armies not only cause server queues, but also have a huge impact on the game's economic system.

First, during the soft launch test phase, the Chinese server officials cut off the gold-farming benefits of the scripted hunter army in Borean Tundra. After the official launch, they first directly cut off all gold drops from the Black Temple gold-farming script, and then adjusted the gold-farming benefits of dungeons such as Karazhan and the Eco Ship. These adjustments combined have basically made it impossible for most gold-farming scripts to continue to be used.

As a result, many studios that make and sell gold in World of Warcraft Classic will no longer be profitable.

With fewer scripts, the ones who benefit are naturally the players who actually play the game. They no longer have to worry about queues, and game resources are no longer occupied by scripts.


Judging from the current situation, the gaming environment of the new national server will be much better than before. I hope that the national server authorities will continue to increase their efforts to crack down on gaming violations so that national server players can play more comfortably!