NetEase is not suing Blizzard—The Chinese court system confused one angry man with a corporate behemoth

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NetEase is not suing Blizzard—The Chinese court system confused one angry man with a corporate behemoth
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The original lawsuit named NetEase as an appellant, but that has now been changed.

, whose games it published for 14 years, for around $43.5 million. That report was incorrect, and based on a Chinese court document that for reasons yet to be explained named NetEase in error.

) on Chinese public information websites name NetEase and Yang Jun as the appellants against Blizzard Entertainment and defunct former licensing partner The9. The filings have now been updated to reflect that the suits are coming from Yang Jun alone, with NetEase's name disappearing entirely. What's more curious is the amounts involved and the wider context of a much-publicised fallout between two former partners: It looks an awful lot like this suit was an attempt to fit into that narrative and mislead the public into thinking it was a part of it.

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