Are you willing to boycott ActiBlizzard after the recent actions taken against those who support Hong Kong?

[LumberPanda]

I was thinking about getting OW for the Switch (that gyro aim), but I'm not touching their products anymore.

Anyone know of a pro-HK charity to send the money I would've spend on OW to?

 

[LakeEarth]

I unfortunately don't have an ActivisionBlizzard game that I am currently playing that I can boycott. I'll avoid them in the future, no doubt.

 

[Monumma]

If they start pulling the same shit, you bet I will.

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They (Tencent) are the ones doing this shit btw.

They are the ones with the right of the NBA in China.
They are the ones that own blizzard.
They are the ones that own league of legends, where the caster abbreviated the full name of the Hong Kong team that just played the qualifiers for world (Hong Kong Attitude), decided not to air the winner's interview live, but on a big tape delay, and on the dedicated subreddit are now removing every post about it.

These situations only have 1 company in common, you bet that they will force this policy everywhere.

 

[Tbm24]

Gonna be honest and say no. Blizzard games, name overwatch, makes up 90% of video games that I play/have played for the past 3 years. It's still an amazing time with my friends and I won't stop playing it. I don't buy loot boxes like ever since that first year so that's something?

 

[Arsene no Kiseki]

No because if you're boycotting Activision/Blizz you'd also have to boycott everything Tencent related. Which is nearly impossible.

Also Overwatch is a terrible addiction I can't resist.

 

[RoboitoAM]

Nope I'll keep playing what I want to play

 

[EMT0]

No new purchases. OWL is a more complicated question since their players are in the same position that that Hearthstone pro are in; completely dependent on Blizzard for the career path they've dedicated themselves to for multiple years. I won't be buying merch, and the instant I hear of any bullshit from either a player or an org that team is blacklisted. And so help me if there's more horseshit from the CCP coming out of the homestands in China, I might have to escalate further.

 

[astro]

That'd be, what, WoW, Diablo, Overwatch, HoTS, Warcraft, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, CTR, CoD Modern Warfare, Sekiro, and Destiny 2 as current releases?

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Not Destiny no.

 

[TSM]

Given that I keep materially supporting a dictatorship due to buying so many goods manufactured in China I have a hard time saying yes. It'd be easy enough to boycott them, but it'd also be a very hollow gesture.

 

[Netherscourge]

People should protest at Blizzcon. Get everyone to wear a gas mask.

That'll look great when they pan the camera to do crowd shots.

The look on the Blizzard's devs and execs faces will be priceless during the Q&A with the crowd.

Red Shirt guy should go and wear a mask too.

 

[Shizuka]

No because if you're boycotting Activision/Blizz you'd also have to boycott everything Tencent related. Which is nearly impossble.

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Is it?

 

[StallionDan]

Call Of Duty is their main console release these days.

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Ever heard of Call of Duty?

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Guess I was just thinking of Blizzard.

 

[Sargerus]

Yep Boycotting them along with any Chinese products

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I hope you are not posting this from a smartphone, unless you are a hypocrite.

 

[Odeko]

It's relatively easy for me to do so (I haven't touched Overwatch in a year and already beat Sekiro) but absolutely. Fuck em

 

[Calibro]

Easiest decision I've made today. Deleted my account with thousands of hours played across Overwatch, Hearthstone, WoW, Diablo and StarCraft.

 

[maximumzero]

I already don't buy their software, so this is an easy boycott.

 

[Wilf Netherton]

They (Tencent) are the ones doing this shit btw.

They are the ones with the right of the NBA in China.
They are the ones that own blizzard.
They are the ones that own league of legends, where the caster abbreviated the full name of the Hong Kong team that just played the qualifiers for world (Hong Kong Attitude), decided not to air the winner's interview live, but on a big tape delay, and on the dedicated subreddit are now removing every post about it.

These situations only have 1 company in common, you bet that they will force this policy everywhere.

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Tencent does not own Blizzard.

 

[RecRoulette]

No, but I'm not going to look down on anyone that chooses to.

 

[slothrop]

I am, but (un)fortunately I have not purchased anything from Activision-blizzard since the first expansion for StarCraft 2. So my boycott is not worth much.

I suppose I'll never buy Sekiro now though, which was on my list. Sorry From.

 

[MarvelousIntent]

I've only got Overwatch installed, so it isn't a big deal for me to uninstall it and the launcher.

 

[JG_Lionheart]

Doesnt Tencent have shares in Ubisoft too?

 

[lactatingduck]

Yep. Been waiting for a sale to get some people diablo 3 on Switch to okay together and was gonna get Overwatch on Switch but not now. I'm good. They make great games but it's not hard for me to play something else instead.

For anyone who's not fired up about placating China, they've been murdering prisoners/Muslims for their organs. This is not your ordinary "company doesn't like thing I like."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...harvest-organs-for-transplant-tribunal-finds/

 

[voOsh]

League of Legends subreddit being censored hard right now:

 

[Arsene no Kiseki]

Is it?

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Do you not know how many pies Tencent has fingers in? They invest in a new company (not just games) seemingly every week.

 

[StarStorm]

Haven't bought a Blizzard game in years so technically, I would be boycotting nothing. Its not like they're releasing a bunch of titles recently besides their annual CoD.
Dropping Hearthstone for sure though and barely played OW so those are easy. Not getting Sekiro. My hands are tied FROM.

 

[Kaffeemann]

I don't see why I should boycott the work of hundreds of individuals who had nothing to do with this decision.

 

[Monumma]

Tencent does not own Blizzard.

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Fair enough, they own 5% of the company and it's enough to somehow force this situation.

 

[Z-Beat]

I don't really get the "I already didn't like the company and wasn't gonna buy anything from them anytime soon anyway so this is easy" posts.

 

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[Ramsay]

Never played their games after their MTX shenanigans, never will after this.

 

[Marco_Tovarich]

Blizzard for sure.

Not sure Activision had any saying in this though. If confirmed I also boycott them (was really looking forward to the new Call of Duty, as I loved Infinite Warfare and it's made by the same team).

 

[itchi]

Yes but I didn't have any interest in playing any of their games anyway.

 

[alexi52]

I hope you are not posting this from a smartphone, unless you are a hypocrite.

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Well starting now I'm boycotting so that doesn't mean I have to throw away everything I already bought, and there's ways to get those kinds of products without giving a penny to China

 

[lactatingduck]

No because if you're boycotting Activision/Blizz you'd also have to boycott everything Tencent related. Which is nearly impossible.

Also Overwatch is a terrible addiction I can't resist.

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Not being able to do everything doesn't mean you shouldn't or can't do anything.

 

[Richter1887]

Yes.

Fuck them and China.

 

[SturokBGD]

Evil will always win as it has always been since the start of time.

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Evil can suck my balls.

 

[Ducarmel]

Sekiro is the only thing i have played from them recently, looking at the list of games they dev/publish it aint hard for me to boycott.

Sekiro 2 looks like I wont play it if they unfortunately publish it in NA.

 

[benzopil]

Right before Overwatch comes out on Switch? No.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

The last Acti/Blizz game I bought was Overwatch at launch. Before that, I have no idea. Nothing really changes for me.

EDIT: No, I forgot about Sekiro.

Still, they don't have anything that interests me

 

[Kayotix]

i own every CE of all the games they have made (Blizzard), i just cancelled my 15th Anniversary CE.

I was a HUGE Blizzard fan, this really made me do a double take about them. I doubt my action will do anything but personally i feel better about it.

 

[Wilf Netherton]

I hope you are not posting this from a smartphone, unless you are a hypocrite.

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People can take specific moral stances against specific actions without being hypocrites.

 

[LumberPanda]

No because if you're boycotting Activision/Blizz you'd also have to boycott everything Tencent related. Which is nearly impossible.

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OR you could try your best instead of giving up immediately?

 

[lord_of_flood]

Sure am. I don't buy many ActiBlizz products to begin with, and the one I was interested in (CTR) doesn't matter all that much to me.

 

[Lyrick]

Nope. I'm still going to buy Warcraft 3 reforged when it launches.

And at this time I'm going to hold on to my TCEHY shares.

From an International business standpoint they're seemingly doing what's best for business, and as businesses that's what they should be doing.

 

[TRU]

This is like the new "COD phosphorus" controversy of the week. A bunch of people are mad about something they didn't know they were mad about yesterday, nor did they give any thought about the controversy until it was time to be "woke up" by the media/social media and be mad/upset because its the right thing to do.

If you want to boycott ActiBlizzard because you are now all of sudden upset about the Chinese Government's policies/practices then throw away all of your clothes, cell phones, computers, gaming systems, office supplies, furniture, beauty products, pet supplies, etc. because you are the problem. By consuming all of those products your entire life you are supporting a communist regime.

Even if you boycotted Activision, you are still spending thousands of dollars a year supporting the Chinese Govt. by buying goods that they make, thus keeping their economy rolling.

If you want to be "for really real woke", then boycott everything you own and find products that China doesn't make.

 

[Wil Grieve]

Absolutely.

It literally requires zero change in my behavior. I don't play their games.

 

[HylianSeven]

I hope you are not posting this from a smartphone, unless you are a hypocrite.

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[Wilf Netherton]

This is like the new "COD phosphorus" controversy of the week. A bunch of people are mad about something they didn't know they were mad about yesterday, nor did they give any thought about the controversy until it was time to be "woke up" by the media/social media and be mad/upset because its the right thing to do.

If you want to boycott ActiBlizzard because you are now all of sudden upset about the Chinese Government's policies/practices then throw away all of your clothes, cell phones, computers, gaming systems, office supplies, furniture, beauty products, pet supplies, etc. because you are the problem. By consuming all of those products your entire life you are supporting a communist regime.

Even if you boycotted Activision, you are still spending thousands of dollars a year supporting the Chinese Govt. by buying goods that they make, thus keeping their economy rolling.

If you want to be "for really real woke", then boycott everything you own and find products that China doesn't make.

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Or you can just boycott because of the specific action mentioned in the OP.

 

[Shizuka]

Do you not know how many pies Tencent has fingers in? They invest in a new company (not just games) seemingly every week.

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Hmm, guess making a list is impossible.

 

[Deleted member 18944]

I hope you are not posting this from a smartphone, unless you are a hypocrite.

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let's not become inflammatory and unrealistic about what we can avoid and what we cannot. Being morally pure is not the point of this discussion.