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Blizzard has cancelled the Overwatch Switch launch event at NintendoNYC
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Generally speaking I don't think you often hear why a small even like this gets cancelled. That said, it's a shame, I haven't had an opportunity to meet OW VAs and I def wanted to here since I'd be working about 8 minutes from there.
Oof they really are not good at handling this.
You cant escape this. What do you wanna do? Also cancel Blizzcon? lmao
You cant escape this. What do you wanna do? Also cancel Blizzcon? lmao
How are people not picking up on the fact that this is a reference to the classic line "You all have phones, right?"
Whether Blizzard cancelled this event because of the Hong Kong controversy or not, the optics remain the same and it's Blizzard's own damn fault. Everything they do at least in the short term will rightfully be scrutinized.
Fairly certain it's a play on the "You all have cell phones, right?" line for the Diablo mobile announcement.I can't tell if you're trolling or not from how incredibly naive this take is
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I can't tell if you're trolling or not from how incredibly naive this take is
I think this is supposed to be a
"You all have phones right?"
Gag
When this
Is the common sentiment, I can't call this digging the hole deeper. More avoiding the hole.
You can't go "All right I'm ready for shit to go horrible!" then be like "they keep cancelling events, wtf Blizzard." You're validating their reason for cancellation and by this point you're just in it for schadenfreude
People who think it's feasible to scuttle BlizzCon on three weeks' notice quite obviously don't know the first thing about BlizzCon.
Blizzard's whole calendar revolves around it. Their marketing strategy is solely dependent on BlizzCon to the extreme that I would expect it to be seriously reevaluated for future years, now that it has been exposed as a vulnerability when an October surprise throws their whole company off-message. The last time it was feasible for them to bypass it was in 2012, and that was before BlizzCon became the grand finale for every single one of their e-sports initiatives to the point that that product launches and announcements don't even carry the weekend anymore.
If you're dissatisfied with Blizzard's conduct in the current fiasco, the imminence of BlizzCon is very much on your side. The time pressure it applies on them to do something, and do it halfway right (or at least not flagrantly wrong, as with their Friday statement), is considerable. It would be utterly untenable for them to weather the rest of this month in silence now that they've read the mood—which is not to say they aren't dumb enough or crazy enough to try it.
The employees in every arm, from software to e-sports, who work on producing the convention and ensuring everything goes on track like they've been planning for months—they must be furious.
They're doing a gag. Stop itI can't tell if you're trolling or not from how incredibly naive this take is
They even updated the event portrait, lol.
overwatch anywhere...... event canceled.
lol @ the irony in that.
Calm down, its just a variation of "Dont you guys all have phones" in the Diablo Immortal QAI can't tell if you're trolling or not from how incredibly naive this take is
bigger events have been cancelled that have both flights and accommodations.
I dont think Blizzcon will be cancelled since they generate a LOT of revenue through it, but i'm sure we can expect quite the scandal there.
If ya'll ever browsed one of my many threads on the Blizzard HK debacle, you will know that there are plenty of Era users who actually use that logic to say some really dumb shit. Let us not act like its that obvious.
Ya'll should refresh the thread before posting so you're not accidentally the 852nd person to quote a post and tell them it was a joke.
Oh, I can see it now.
To be fair I've seen this take unironically expressed many times on this site in previous threads on societal issues.
Blizzard is firmly in "rot forever" territory for me. The onion-layers of their response has made their intent clear. I previously had put aside money for Switch Overwatch, and I've been a huge fan of their work for decades. For the sake of my soul, I want nothing to do with them.
