When Netease lowered his job in his own Marvel Rivals At the beginning of this week, the Development Studio in Seattle was unclear why the Chinese game publisher would cuts around such a successful project. Marvel Rivals From the December premiere, he attracted over 40 million players, helping Netease to augment $ 2.9 billion revenues from games and services during the quarter, when the game was released.
Ding reportedly got up to the cancellation of development Marvel Rivals Before release. It is said that the billionaire CEO did not agree to the license fee for superheroes and villains of Marvel, and considering them to replace them with their own designs of the heroes of Netase artists. (Netease refused this account, Bloomberg informed)
Over the past year, Netease has learned many studies except China, including Untold, a developer from Vancouver led by former Mac Walter Mac Mac; Jar of Sparks, a studio with Seattle founded in 2022 by a veteran Xbox Jerry Hook; and Ouka Studio, Tokyo developer Many’s visions For Square Enix. Apparently, Ding also constrained his studies on the back locally, and these cuts are deep enough that Netase Chinese studies may not spend any main titles in 2026.
Shortly after publishing the story of Bloomberg, Game file He informed on Friday that Netease is planning to get rid of “most of his foreign teams”, which may affect several studies supported by a Chinese publisher. This may potentially include studies created by Netease in recent years, such as T-Minus Zero Entertainment, founded by the former vice president of BioWare Austin Rich Vogel; And a fantastic pixel lock that creates “modernized fantasy MMORPG” World of Warcraft AND League of Legends Veteran designer Greg Street. Netease also acquired the production of field horses and a quarter dream in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
For Yakuza/Like a Dragon, fans who expect modern works of their former creators are several tragic news. Netease reportedly constrained additional funds and time for modern titles from Japanese studies and is not planning to sell or promote them. At least fans will have more from Ryu Gotok Studio, including the modern Virtua Fighter and Century project We are waiting for.
Netease layoffs in international studies are part of a greater trend of uncertainty in the video game industry, which has survived huge cuts in recent years.
Update: This story has been updated with modern reports from the game file, which is still painted by the grim picture of Netease plans regarding withdrawal from foreign studies.
