For over a year Chinese Blizzard fans were unable to play any of the publisher’s games – including Overwatch, Hearthstone, and World Of Warcraft – due to a fallout with NetEase, which published the American company’s games in the country.
The two video game giants patched things up earlier this year though, with the full game returning on August 1… along with some very harsh penalties for cheaters.
Before its full return, NetEase is going to extreme lengths to stop anyone trying to spoil the popular massively multiplayer online game, with rewards of up to £10,500 for helping to catch cheaters and those enabling them.
‘Maintaining order in the game and purifying the environment of Azeroth is waiting for you to join,’ says a post on behalf of NetEase, according to Google Translate.
The post implores fans to come together in what sounds like a holy war against cheaters, and explains how NetEase will reward fans for snitching on those who cheat in the game.
Fans get points for each successful report of a cheater, with a leaderboard where the top 100 get rewarded between 1,288 and 75 points on their Battle.net accounts, to spend on in-game perks.
‘In order to ensure that everyone can enjoy the game in a good environment, we have launched a special campaign to combat illegal gaming from now on.
‘Let’s work together to protect Azeroth and create a fair and healthy gaming atmosphere,’ says the post.
That’s not all although, as NetEase can be concentrating on those that produce, promote, and distribute cheats, together with setting legislation enforcement after them.
The writer will reward followers as much as £10,500 ‘if the proof is adequate and legally enforceable to assist the nationwide service staff cooperate with the police to file a case’.
NetEase is actually making a brigade of bounty hunters to be its eyes and ears in opposition to malicious gamers, and contemplating the scale of the rewards it’ll most likely be very efficient.
It may sound harsh, however we’ve seen many examples of avid gamers being prosecuted up to now, for promoting hacked pokémon in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, for instance, and being jailed for spoiling the ending to visible novel Steins;Gate.
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