I find ironic that "Politics out of my games!" is somewhat what HK protesters ask for.
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Blizzard has removed Hong Kong Hearthstone player blitzchung from Hearthstone Grand Masters and rescinded all his prize money
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40% of epic!? So basically any game running Unreal gives them money
"While we stand by one's right to express individual thoughts and opinions..."
Immediately follows that up citing a rule that prevents someone from expressing individual thoughts and opinions.
Yeah, it's quite cowardly. We all know what happened, and Blizzard put profits over people as expected.
Immediately follows that up citing a rule that prevents someone from expressing individual thoughts and opinions.
Yeah, it's quite cowardly. We all know what happened, and Blizzard put profits over people as expected.
Also, nobody seems to have raised this in connection with this latest incident, but Blizzard's complicity with Chinese state interests and propaganda over the Hong Kong issue specifically has been out in the open for months.
Here is a slice of what was added to the profanity filter in WoW back in June. (NetEase operates WoW in China, but of course Blizzard had to be complicit with implementing this update on the development side.)
Here is a slice of what was added to the profanity filter in WoW back in June. (NetEase operates WoW in China, but of course Blizzard had to be complicit with implementing this update on the development side.)
I agree. A comment in reddit made me chuckle "Soldier 76 is gay and proud and out of the closet. Just don't ask him what he thinks of democracy!". Absolute cowards
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This is bogus. Especially firing the casters too. That's some top tier unfair BS I'd only expect to see in an eastern country. How is it their fault AT ALL?
China $$$ >>>>> Human rights, Blizzard's new motto
China $$$ >>>>> Human rights, Blizzard's new motto
Spineless assholes. I'm embarrassed that I own some of their games. Won't be buying any in the future.
they are being funded by the same company that funds Activision, aren't they?
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Bungie gets $100 million investment from Chinese gaming company NetEase
Expanding beyond Destiny to ‘build new worlds’
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uhoh.
Hopefully game journalists do the journalist part of their title and help signal boost this to the mainstream media.
Isn't traced also not gay in China? Disgusting how blizzard cowtows to them. Companies been shit for ages tho.
China is not getting discussed in mainstream media unfortunately
Bungie gets $100 million investment from Chinese gaming company NetEase
Expanding beyond Destiny to ‘build new worlds’
uhoh.
Yep. They split and got right into bed with China.
It's been interesting, to say the least, to witness Blizzard's entanglements with China go from a comic sideshow during the peak of the WoW gold-farming era (itself Steve Bannon's origin story, as we now know), to a weird-news story about removing skeletons from their games for the sake of compliance, to the unsettling succumbing to political pressure like erroneously referring to Taiwan as "Chinese Taipei" in Overwatch events, to the elevation of their outsourced partnerships with the Chinese mobile market to their main IPs on their main stage.
The import of this latest development is that it unequivocally confirms what everybody has known about Blizzard all along, but were comfortable downplaying or merely joking about. But there is no denying where they stand. The stink of their reputation for kowtowing is going to linger.
Watch what happens with WC3 Reforged, and watch it closely. WC3 is as much a product for the Chinese market as SC1 is for South Korea, to the extent that they've been receiving first announcements of events or patches for some time. That's their core demographic. I would have made the easy decision to sit out Reforged had I not already received it as a gift.
Most of these companies who are trying to grow in China or who have Chinese money invested in them don't care about what people think, they're chasing money and regardless of whether it's the right thing to do or not they'll fully support defending whatever it is to increase their worth. It's a shame that greed has caused companies like Blizzard to lose any semblance of being a company with values but clearly from what people have mentioned in this thread this isn't something new to them and it hasn't affected them so far.
well fuckBungie gets $100 million investment from Chinese gaming company NetEase
Expanding beyond Destiny to ‘build new worlds’
uhoh.
This had already happened with Siege, they wanted to censor the game overseas so that they only needed to support one version. The blowback was enough to make them change their minds, though.
Friendly reminder that HK is fighting to not be subsumed into a government that does stuff like this:
Fuck the Chinese government and their corporate puppets.
Full solidarity with the HK protesters!
Full solidarity with the HK protesters!
I wish I could boycott Blizzard, but I haven't really gotten a game from them in ages.
At least I can say I lost my final bit of interest in the Overwatch Switch version.
At least I can say I lost my final bit of interest in the Overwatch Switch version.
I mean, less than 1/6th of ActivisionBlizzard's income (and that's all of Asia including Japan)
It's just that they're banking on the West not caring about Blizzard kissing up to a dictatorship.
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