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Blizzard China Leaks Being Investigated by HQ
ThomasN7
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A couple of days ago you may remember we posted the story showing the Blizzard release timeline which was just one of the sensative leaked documents that were doing the rounds. Other documents that were leaked included information about the company’s operations, product promotion plan, global user numbers and marketing plan. Today the story emerged that the leak had come from the Blizzard China’s offices, and according to local sources, a full investigation is now underway by Blizzard in the US, although this has yet to be confirmed by Blizzard.
Blizzard China’s company head Ye Weilun has now left Blizzard China it emerged earlier today and has been replaced by former Nokia China business director Dai Jinhe. Blizzard has stated that Ye’s departure has nothing to do with the current document leaks and he had planned to leave the position months ago. According to the article on MObinoDE, company espionage is quite common in China although there is no indication as yet that Blizzard China has been a victim of any kind of espionage.
Leaks come out of Blizzard every month, mainly small things related to WoW, and there has not been any real urgency to stop them. We are guessing that the scale of this leak is just too much for Blizzard HQ to ignore.
Link: http://wow.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-china-leaks-being-investigated-by-hq/
Comments
Is this connected to Wikileaks?
I think it all started with the timeline leaks and it has escalated from there. Seems Blizzard don't throw them enough cash if you know what I mean.
There was nothing new in those reports to me , and some of the things will be shifted and adjusted .
To accomodate market change or climate .
Honestly the leaked reports were already leaked long before this , just the general audience didn´t get hold of them yet.
Thats the big difference , saying its a big deal to the well informed isn´t a big deal at all .
General audience can´t do much with those stuff anyway .
That they are blowing it up so hugely , isn´t something new , infact maybe its there way to cover there own behinds.
Cause only to cover incase cataclysme isn´t as succesfull as people say .
(but that would be miracle to pull off , since nothing else on the market )
But i predict the next 2 expansions aren´t even worth the time or marketing put into them .
The cash cow has been milked too much .