They won’t need to. All they have to do is take a page from the GOP’s book and sequester the protesters to a cordoned-off area where virtually no one can see them.
People might try, but it won’t matter because security will be there to throw people out and all questions will be prescreened. As is the case with every single company that has some kind of controversy so close to one of their events. Blizzard won’t be the first to do this.
Yep, this right here. The point is to change how Blizzard behaves. Fixing Hong Kong is outside the scope of this.
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I hope you are right, but I don’t give people that much credit.
I missed where that involves the devs and not the higher ups. A lot of the devs are making thier opinions known inside the company. And these people are going to harass them and not the activision people. The people working at Blizz know already. Literally preaching to the choir
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Are you talking about protesting? Protesting the event isn’t about harassing devs or anything, it’s about embarrassing the company in the public eye. Making the big news stories about BlizzCon be about the protests and the issue, not games.
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Outside yes, I agree fully.
The people planning to start stuff in the con and harass staff? Less so.
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I mean, nobody should be harassed. But protesting the con is a first amendment right, and people doing things like cosplaying as HK Mei and Winnie the Pooh, or throwing out disruptive questions, are not harassing staff.
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They can…
The media is gonna flocked over like moth to flames if this got out of hand.
But internet people can range from good will people to complete retards. AND retards are more easier to influence than the good ones.
Some knows this, and they can incite enough people to turn a protest into a “**** fest”
edit: god damn typo.
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It’s great you assume people will do nothing inside. Wrong but great.
People would not be “looking forward to the Q&A” if the did not plan to harass devs about their bosses decisions
And that is the fear I expect to be a reality. I do not give the general public enough credit to do otherwise
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I mean I would love that haha
Asking someone an unpleasant question once is not harassment.
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But considering the magnitude of what happened.
People are just gonna ask those questions again and again and again and again.
It gets annoying and bad really quick. It will also makes the VA feels bad cause there are VAs in Q/A.
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Realistically, it’s also what Blizzard needs to be asked about. Because lots of people are hanging on a better response to that issue before they’ll buy anything from them ever again; it matters more than Diablo 4 or whatever.
Still waiting for the answer to how thier bosses decisions involve the makers of a game?
Congrats you got an awkward non answer from someone there to work. Wow
Well, if you can drag their bosses out to answer the questions, then do it!
You can’t do anything to the bosses except keep the issue in the media. Asking about it during Q&A is a great way to do that.
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The staffs that do Q&A can’t do stuffs like that. At all. Their managers can only interpret so much of the executives order that would make the questioner unsatisfied and more fuel to diss them online.
These kinds of questions are for the executives to answer, and those vultures are too busy swimming in cash than actually attending a nerd con just to get their faces fulled of tomatoes.
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It doesn’t really hurt them personally though. The question will just be super awkward and embarrassing for the company (not like the speaker has anything to do with it) and it might be uncomfortable for them for a minute. I mean, I don’t blame that “Don’t you have a phone” guy for Diablo Immortal… or even know who he is personally.
That is gonna be fuel for Twitter fire.
Not that it’s already being spammed with Hong Kong stuffs.
Which got me thinking:
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This is all a lot of steps to pretend harassing those not involved is fine.
There are plenty of things that can be done to address Activision directly. And a giant outside protest will make a point as well.
People making idiots of themselves and bugging devs does nothing but hurt thier cause
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I’ve asked questions at a Blizzcon Q&A before. They weren’t prescreened. They were broadcast live.