I think we Should update the site to have Free Hong Kong Banner on the Site to show solidarity with people who are being silenced by Corporations more interested in making China happy than Human Rights.
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Blizzard has removed Hong Kong Hearthstone player blitzchung from Hearthstone Grand Masters and rescinded all his prize money
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We should. China's atrocities will be the story of this century. It would be commendable to get out in front of it and show early solidarity.
Rhykker will likely cover it when he does his next news update. Doesn't mean he will speak out against Blizzard's actions but I don't see how he couldn't cover it
Everyone at Blizzcon should go in Winnie the Pooh cosplay, winnie the pooh t-shirts, bring pooh plushies any pooh merch they can get their hands on.
What is Blizzard going to do, ban everyone wearing Pooh t-shirts? If they try it they are going to look the utter fools.
What is Blizzard going to do, ban everyone wearing Pooh t-shirts? If they try it they are going to look the utter fools.
Free Hong Kong, Palestine, Yemen, and every country being repressed by a giants power
That's exactly why people are rallying behind Mei.
They want to take one of their beloved characters and turn them into a symbol for the people they just stood against.
It's a fuck you to China and Blizzard.
Besides what was said right above me.
I believe the idea is to actually get her banned by the PRC, forcing Blizzard to remove her from the game.
Then the protesters will find another Overwatch character to rally behind. Repeat until the game completely falls apart.
To get Mei banned from Overwatch and, hopefully, get all of Overwatch banned in China. To make sure Blizzard feels the full consequences of cozying up to a regime that does not respect freedom of expression. And, most importantly, to show solidarity with Hong Kong.
In the unlikely event that Blizzard backtracks, it will be because the shareholders had a meeting and they decided the PR hit outside China would be more costly than getting banned within China. They'll dress it up as "doing the right thing" or whatever, but it really just comes down to that simple formula: which choice mitigates more damage.
Only one that comes close is THQ Nordic doing a QA on 8chan, and I think this has that one easily beat.
Taliesin addressed it on stream last night I believe, as well as this morning on Twitter. He is against it, as is Evitel from the look of things.
and yet have released no video on it. They did release a smug "I was right the leak was fake ha ha ha" video tho.
I really hope we quickly find out what J Allen Brack said to the employees about the situation.
HARDLY.
Yes, Anthem was a disaster. Yes, it was a poor game. Yes, it had issues.
But there's bad gameplay, bad releases, bad loot progression....
... And then there's THIS.
A disappointing game is nothing compared to a huge video game company openly siding with a tyrannical regime and harshly punishing one of their players for advocating for basic human rights.
This has become an international incident where even bipartisan condemnation from politicians is being hurled at them and countries across the globe are condemning their behavior.
This is beyond the pale and indefensible. It showed that all of Blizzard's "core values" are just lip-service and pure hypocrisy. It's BEYOND embarrassing and shameful, and they need to be dragged for this - now and forever. This is appalling and they deserve every bit of backlash being levied against them.
I have not been active here in a few months due to demands of RL and little time to play games, but I just logged inn to say I fully support this.
Do it!
Fully agreed.
I never imagined that shitshow would be topped, but here we are.
The wow expansion leaks that are floating around. Basically they only covered wow as usual is what I mean.
I was hoping for a meme response but okay. Your point is taken.
Those other countries aren't a threat to eroding freedom of speech globally which is what the Chinese arm of influence is trying to do. That is what sets the China problem apart from other suffering countries.
I don't know which one is worse (hard to compare, they're both absolutely 100% horrendous on many, but different, levels), but fuck if these two haven't singlehandedly turned this year into the worst ever for videogames in decades. :(
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