"Ride it out, they'll forget" is also an impossible strategy to pull off when you have a thin skinned government wanting you to silence everyone who speaks up or they'll take away your ability to make money in their country.
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Blizzard has removed Hong Kong Hearthstone player blitzchung from Hearthstone Grand Masters and rescinded all his prize money
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"Ride it out, they'll forget" is also an impossible strategy to pull off when you have a thin skinned government wanting you to silence everyone who speaks up or they'll take away your ability to make money in their country.
Personally I think it was uniquely powerful. I thought out of all of the meme's it was the strongest. Definitely the most striking.
Ah thank you. Yeah that makes more sense. Feels like it all only started growing yesterday.
Still, now I'm wondering if it has to do with Blizzard
Perhaps, but it still wouldn't make sense to delete that and not all the other content.
It's difficult to know for sure as we don't have the info about why the user got banned.
I think it had the best viral chance so deleting it makes sense. After seeing so many companies generally censor what they are told to by their Chinese connected businesses, I think it is reasonable to be suspicious when a notable reddit thread of this nature is deleted. Either way it's out there and on Knowyourmeme already so the thread really doesn't matter anymore.
I wonder if Blizzard are holding out on releasing a statement until tomorrow because of the slower weekend news cycle.
They have no idea how to spin this without pissing off someone more. They are probably waiting to see if this blows over.
Same. I strongly believe this.
Unfortunately with the video game industry, stuff like this might be forgotten in a week like rockstars crunch culture.
I mean document dumps on Fridays is a real political pr strat, so.
That's not true, if I wanted to go find a thread I made five years ago I could very easily do so. Your right that threads very quickly fall off of the front page of subreddits but they never disappear unless they are specifically deleted.
This, they don't want to lose the Chinese market. But how do you deal with the outrage from the rest of the world? They're up shit creek.
maybe, yeah
remember when allegations of sexual harassment at naughty dog came out and their only acknowledgement and response was a blog post that amounted to nothing, which was put up on a sunday
and then everyone promptly forgot about it because it left the news cycle
I have literally never seen an old thread disappear on Reddit simply because it was old. The fuck nonsense is this? The post was from this week, I can show you plenty of posts, not even popular ones, from like a decade ago.
Holy shit, I remember this.
Nothing came out of it.
Naughty dog basically said it didn't happen and now that it's forgotten and TLOU2 is coming out, people completely have forgiven Naughty Dog
I think that would have worked if they hadn't pissed everyone last year with that diablo mobile announcement
Possibly, but I'm not sure. Grandmasters playoffs starts in a little over 7 hours and I'd think if they wanted to say anything they'd do it before then in case any players have any ideas planned. There's no Hong Kong-based players in the playoffs, as far as I know, but Eddie is originally from Hong Kong and there's a few Taiwanese players in the mix.
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Has this already been posted?:
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/on...said-it-would-protect-chinas-national-dignity
Today, IGN obtained a translated version of a statement posted on October 8 to Blizzard's official account on the Chinese social media service Weibo. The translated statement follows:
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/on...said-it-would-protect-chinas-national-dignity
Today, IGN obtained a translated version of a statement posted on October 8 to Blizzard's official account on the Chinese social media service Weibo. The translated statement follows:
I mean, it resurrected the news that Good-ol' Bobby Kotick was buddies with Jeffrey Epstein, so that's something.
"Hey everyone! Look over here and stop thinking about human rights because we're about to do a Warcraft 3 Beta!"
It's also a bit more trickier, in the end even if they did apologize and basically say '' fuck China '', that can lead to layoffs and the Blizzard branch in China, its employees can be in danger. We are dealing with human lives here, in the end.
There's nothing they can do to stop the employees in China from being in China. It's literally a non-factor. Like, what is China gonna do, hold their own citizens hostage?
But what of their safety? They would be now affiliated with an anti-China company. I'm not so sure that would be a non-issue.
Still I hope that Blizzard gets rid of the China money, but the more I think about this, I'm starting to understand why Blizzard is taking their sweet, SWEET time trying to figure out how to get out of this without people losing their jobs or in worst case lives.
There's nothing that Blizzard can do about it if somehow that's what happens. It would be a pretty bold step for the Chinese government to threaten their own citizens over an American company that they would surely no longer be working for at that point.
That's an unreasonable fear and it's ridiculous to try and use it to justify inaction
From my understanding their operations there are handled by Netease and Tencent. I have never read of Blizzard worrying about their employees safety and if that is the case then that opens a whole other can of worms. How could they continue operations in a place that is threatening their employees. I need to see an article about Blizzard worrying about the safety of their employees in China.
I think it is more likely that they are horrible at handling crisis and there simply isn't a popular solution that doesn't involve really upsetting China. The only other solution is very bad and it is to carry on as usual and not support Hong Kong. They have put themselves in a terrible position because they are greedy idiots.
Chinese Blizzard employees wouldn't be in danger over the decisions by the American leadership.
True.
Its crazy to me that despite last year being a circus this year is somehow gonna be worse.
yes it was posted 3 days ago when it happened
could just be a matter of job security, not life security. If they ceased operations with China, people the would lose jobs, and people here would lose jobs, because this would affect stocks and shareholders, and heads would roll. Im not saying this justifies it, its just the reality of this whole mess.
and by here I mean in NA, where I am not lol
Another morning here in the EU and no statement out of Irvine. Yeah, that's pretty much it for me.
Expect some WoW expansion and Diablo 4 "leaks" soon to push this out of the news cycle. And the media will probably happily play along.
Expect some WoW expansion and Diablo 4 "leaks" soon to push this out of the news cycle. And the media will probably happily play along.
still, something else will eventually happen and Blizzard will be out of the spotlight
THQ incident didn't cause an international crisis of identity though. Hell, people are now just finding out Blizzard makes their gay characters not gay in China as well.
Chinese government has a pretty strong stance against homosexuality. This is why you're not gonna see a gay character in the MCU anytime soon that can't be edited out.
I mean, is that the part that shocks you? Most games are heavily modified (as in, censored) for China.
LMAO, nevermind then, as more shit gets discovered this will take a long time to die
Yeah, I just found out about this week. Everyone I know is shocked. Its a disgusting move.
this isnt a "discovery". Here's another one: Taiwanese players cant use the Taiwan flag or even call themselves from Taiwan, they are technically from "Chinese Taipei" (this is for any game btw). None of this is new if people actually pay attention to whats going on over there.
yeah that's why I don't think "memefying" Mei is really going to work that well, when they had no problem removing other stuff that could already offend them, I mean it would take a lot of effort and time. Not telling people to stop though :P
Yeah this is tradition
At any international sports event, Taiwan team are always called Chinese Taipei team
We kind of got a WoW expansion datamine, so I'm expecting a Diablo 4 teaser any time now.
To clarify, Taiwan is required to style itself as Chinese Taipei in all international sporting events, it's not exclusive to Blizzard or gaming.
There was never any real reference in the game, is it just a case of the supplementary material not being released in China? Or to they actually depict Tracer and 76 as straight in official media in China? Because that's fucked.
Oh, Activision-Blizzard WISH they could have something similar to the Diablo: "Immoral" debacle right now. Seriously, they had a massive blind spot by not having been ahead of this in the first place. It never should have happened like it did.
But it will be interesting to see what kind of press Blizzard will get by enacting censorship dictated by a foreign country while in American soil. They'll almost definitely have at least two different streams going, at least one for China and the one for everyone else, and the Chinese steam will be delayed so it can be controlled for content.
Any material mentioning they are gay is banned. So Emily is just known as Tracer's friend. To China they are straight, there are no gay overwatch heroes there.
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