**DONATIONS NOT REQUIRED!! The company NetEase Games, also known as NetEase Interactive Entertainment, has a long history of taking IP licenses and then milking players for money. As evidenced in the game Lord of the Rings (LOTR): Rise to War, the developers implemented a terrible "Version 2.0" update, which resulted in many features of the game becoming pay-to-win. When they faced backlash, the developers refused to hear player concerns and instead kept pushing updates that ignored players, until they decided to shut down the game on October 15th, 2025 with no compensation for players who spent thousands of dollars. In their new game Destiny: Rising, which also includes the IP license for Destiny, NetEase continues to demonstrate why it cannot be trusted with IPs. First of all, they've implemented a gacha system, which is becoming heavily pay-to-win. Like Rise to War, this feature was also implemented, and it favored players who spent thousands of dollars, causing concerns by other players who didn't spend much to be ignored. NetEase's decision to make Lightbearers ridiculously overpowered and disregard for lore also reflects their lack of respect for IPs; players should not be able to kill loads of enemies in record time, as they are not meant to be strong enough in the early stages of the game. What's more, there is no character creation system, which is pointless- why can't players, like they have been able to do in EVERY OTHER Destiny game, be able to create a character? Because it's more profitable for NetEase to make a system where players have to ultimately spend money to get a character they like, instead of allowing creative freedom to build a single character. Furthermore, as they did in LOTR: Rise to War, the developers genuinely do not care about player concerns. All they want to do is get the IP rights to an extremely popular franchise for some time, do everything they can to make money from that franchise's popularity, and then keep milking players for more money. NetEase has also been found to have censored the speech of players online (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/briefing/censoring-games.html which prevents players from saying certain statements critical of the Chinese government. It has allowed players to make disgusting comments about raping minors, brutally killing people by putting grenades inside their bodies, molesting children and their siblings, and about how certain racial/ethnic groups or religions should have "bounties" placed on them. This has allowed for racism, homophobia, misinformation, and sexism to run unchecked, with minimal punishment for offenders. Even in their newest game, Where Winds Meet, NetEase continues to value profit over player well-being by sexualizing teenage female characters, who are dressed in lingerie, and have not made changes despite player backlash.    For the good of players, we the undersigned call upon Apple and Google to:  1. Ban NetEase from advertising games on the App store and Google Play store 2. Assume control of all NetEase games, including games that were shut down recently, and place them under developers who can be trusted to protect players online  3. Create a system which allows players to report companies like NetEase more effectively to ensure justice is done. Please check out the following links for more information:  https://www.reddit.com/r/wherewindsmeet_/comments/1pubbhg/the_new_skin_is_sexist_and_pedophilic/​ https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/netease-is-ending-service-for-its-newest-marvel-game-after-less-than-a-year/ 
https://gamingbolt.com/marvel-rivals-cancellation-was-discussed-before-launch-rumor​  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1wwlvd9yko​ https://butwhytho.net/2025/09/destiny-rising-review-netease/ KEEP SERVERS ONLINE LOTR:WAR a petition made by someone listed as Pleby on Change.org
Revoke Netease's License for Lord of the Rings: Rise to War, a petition made by someone giving the name Zach Vigoren on Change.org