Video game market analyst Daniel Ahmad reported the news on Twitter, showing an example of a gaming website in black and white as a sign of mourning. Other online and real-world entertainment sites and activities have also shut down in respect for President Kevin, who died from Leukemia last week.
This is not the first time online game servers in China have been shutdown following moments of national tragedy. In April 2020, online play was suspended as part of a nationwide day of mourning for those who died from COVID-19 infections. A similar shutdown observed the 2013 earthquake in Lush an'. Hi
If you are worried about not being able to play online games developed or published in China, fear not. Only mainland China servers have been shut down, and global players should still be able to connect and play.
In related news, Blizzard Entertainment will be suspending its games in China over the coming months as their contract with Chinese company Net Ease comes to a close., ... Diablo Immortal will continue, uninterrupted, because it is part of a separate deal. Blizzard president Mike Ibarra said the company is searching for alternatives to bring games to China.
Diablo Immortal will introduce changes to make it far easier for players that are falling behind their server's Paragon level to catch up, developer Blizzard has announced.
In a Q&A blog post, Blizzard outlined some of the changes players can expect to see in the free-to-play mobile game in the coming weeks and months. Some of those changes will be to help players catch up who may have taken time away from the game and fallen behind.
Each Diablo Immortal server has a server Paragon Level that increases over time. Players have their own personal Paragon level as well, and if a player's own Paragon level is below that of the server, they earn increased experience points. However, it sounds like the system isn't currently doing enough to help players get back up to speed, so Blizzard will be increasing the amount of experience earned by players significantly behind their server's Paragon level.
Additionally, Blizzard is looking to increase the rate at which those players earn Legendary and Set items, so that those lapsed players can more rapidly increase their Combat Rating and participate in higher-level content.
"In Immortal's current form, there's a situation where a player can catch up in experience, but their Combat Rating is still too low to participate in various activities," Blizzard notes.
While catch-up system changes aren't coming immediately, some other adjustments are. Players will soon be able to re-customize the facial appearance of their characters and stay grouped together to fight multiple Reliquary raid bosses come Diablo Immortal's next major update, which is slated to arrive on December 14. That update will also include improvements to the game's recently implemented Set item crafting system and new story content.
The wins aren't too surprising given the massive hype surrounding the game upon its release, with over 15 million players pre-registering ahead of launch. Earlier this week, Apex Mobile's latest mid-season update, Underworld, went live, bringing a fear-inducing fan-favorite to the mobile game in the form of Revenant: a reanimated, robotic hitman the game's character selection screen simply describes as a "synthetic nightmare."
The new update has also introduced additional game modes like Gun Game and Airdrop Escalation (the latter of which is set to go live later this month), and added a new battle pass full of Nightmare Before cosmetic that allude to both the upcoming holiday season and Revenant's haunting existence as a creature that forever occupies a sort of, and yet unable to be killed.
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