I followed the story with mild interest a couple months ago. According to insiders Blizzard (1) wanted a very substantial increase to their cut; (2) demanded th

I followed the story with mild interest a couple months ago. According to insiders Blizzard (1) wanted a very substantial increase to their cut; (2) demanded that NetEase develop more of those money sucking mobile games like Diablo Immortal for them but NetEase wouldn’t see any profit from the international market. On mobile now so won’t dig up links; also some of the reporting might be in Chinese. Given gp’s post history I doubt they are privy to details, more likely a knee jerk shot given the chance.