Highlights
- NetEase is rewarding Chinese World of Warcraft fans with cash prizes for reporting cheaters and rule-breakers.
- Fans can earn Battle.net balance by identifying accounts that break the rules, with rewards up to $177.46.
- The top 100 players with successful reports will receive various rewards, including a large bounty for finding hacks.
NetEase recently began a campaign that offers cash prizes to the 100 Chinese World of Warcraft players who find the most cheaters. From now through July 28, World of Warcraft fans in China who successfully report accounts that are breaking the rules can earn the equivalent of over $100 in Battle.net balance.
After over a year apart, Blizzard and NetEase were able to renew their partnership, commemorating the occasion with a new World of Warcraft statue of a Lightforged Gorehowl. Over the next several months, NetEase will be bringing Blizzard games back to the Chinese community, with World of Warcraft Classic being among the first games available to play again.
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However, to ensure World of Warcraft returns to China smoothly, NetEase is offering an incentive to fans who report cheaters, bots, and other bad actors. From now through July 28, Chinese World of Warcraft players who successfully report accounts who are breaking the rules will have their successful action counted on a weekly leaderboard. According to the announcement by the Chinese WoW operations team, at the end of the contest, the 100 fans with the most successful reports will be credited with Battle.net balance that can be used to buy subscription time, game services, and likely other items from the new in-game shop NetEase plans to reveal later this month.
NetEase’s World of Warcraft Classic Reporting Contest
- Available to all Chinese World of Warcraft players who haven’t had previous action against their accounts.
- From June 29 through July 28, fans who identify accounts that break the rules will have their successful reports counted and scored on a leaderboard.
- At the end of the event, the 100 players with the most successful reports will receive Battle.net balance.
- An additional 100,000 RMB ($13,778) will be given to anyone who reports the production, sale, or distribution of hacks that leads to legal action.
The prizes for the World of Warcraft players who get the most malcontents punished or banned start at 75 RMB – about $10 – but rise all the way up to 1,288 RMB, or $177, for the fan with the most successful reports. What’s more, NetEase is also offering a massive 100,000 RMB bounty to players who find anyone making or selling hacks, which is equivalent to nearly $14,000.
Rewards for Top 100 WoW Reporters in China
|
Rank |
Reward (RMB) |
Reward (USD) |
|---|---|---|
|
1st |
¥1,288 |
$177.46 |
|
2nd |
¥988 |
$136.13 |
|
3rd |
¥688 |
$94.79 |
|
4th-10th |
¥375 |
$51.67 |
|
11th-20th |
¥225 |
$31.00 |
|
12th-100th |
¥75 |
$10.33 |
This isn’t the first time NetEase has offered rewards for reporting bad behavior in WoW. Before its servers closed the first time, it had a program where Blizzard fans earned points for reports that could be redeemed for digital rewards at a special store, such as Hearthstone packs and in-game cosmetics. It remains to be seen if this system will be reinstated after the NetEase renewal, but either way, it is unlikely players outside of China will see similar systems implemented any time soon.
World of Warcraft
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- Released
- November 23, 2004
