Ah yes and standing outside blizzcon and screaming or whining on a game forum is going to do soooo much help to the chinese peoole all they look like is spoiled millenials that just want to feel better about themselve by pretenting they are in the fight
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What do you mean? I still support them.
Nah obviously it wonât die out in like, we will shut down the server because no one plays it. But the game lost its touch and you can see that the community isnât big enough anymore to play this game in a competitive way. The game became what blizzard (or activision?) always wanted, perfectly fine for casuals.
No, blizzard still does good games, i still like them and will support. Games is not a place for politics thatâs all
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I doubt itâll have an effect, but trying to pressure global companies isnât the worst thing.
So whatâs your problem with it?
My problem is forcing private companies to interfer in politics hone or abroad, politics and business should remain complete seperate
They canât, for simple reason: politicians make laws. Besides, it works in opposite direction as well: companies provide funds for election campaign, but in return ask candidate to lobby their interests.
Itâs unlikely, that Blizzard was directly ordered to handle situation. Most likely they got scared, that Chinese government will change their mind due to this and ban them in China entirely. Blizzard didnât have to do that, but losing China market was too scary prospect for them to not do that.
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Private companies have been involved in politics for a long time. And hell, a Supreme Court ruling several years ago even made it easier for them to donate to the candidate of their choice.
They help fund their candidate of choice. They spend millions lobbying to lawmakers to get laws in their favor.
Do you actually think, for example, lootboxes will ever get trounced in the United States? Not a chance when you have companies like Activision-Blizzard, EA, and Epic that can spend millions to lobby behind the scenes in D.C. to make sure they remain untouched in the U.S.
Regardless of how people think Activision-Blizzard should have handled the situation, to even say that politics and business should âremainâ separate is naive. They havenât been separate for a very long time in the first place.
You came out and touted your 36 years, married, raising a kid. Well, Iâm 47 years old, have raised three kids to adulthood already and am half-way through the fourth childâs years, and am also married. Iâve also worked in entertainment for over 25 years, including for large companies like Marvel. You want to speak out against the Boycott Blizzard, thatâs fine. Iâm not boycotting them either. But a lot of what youâre typing just comes off as naive or uninformed.
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Theyâre free to ignore them. They donât have to do anything. Will be interesting to see what happens come blizzcon whether something else will have overshadowed it or whether itâll still be in the publicâs conscience.
Also, when an American company decided to come down so hard to keep the Chinese government happy and ensure they kept that source of revenue up and running⌠well, what did they think was gonna happen?
Hahahahah every war has been about politics and buisness. USA used to act like they cared about democracy in forign nations under the guise of oil buisness. Now we just dont care bc china is profitable now. Sad sad sad bliz is mixing politics and buisness by supporting the ruling powers
just because its in the contract doesnt make it right. Blizz put themselves in a bad spot with that contract. enforce it and get slapped for it, dont enforce it and china slaps them. i have no sympathy for blizzard nor will i have any for anything done against them for it.
I dont think lootboxes should be removed by force, let the market decide, if people have no control of their children or over themselves and go into debt buying lootboxes that is their fault not the companies
Iâm not going to get into the whole Lootbox debate. I simply used it as an example of business and politics.
That topic is best served in its own thread, for those interested in debating it.
Same logic use masters of fraud: âItâs your fault being stupid, that you fell for my shady scheme and lost all your moneyâ.
This is exact case, when government should actually do something.
See thats the problem less and less people believe in personal responsibility, people just keep asking the gov to get more and more involved in peoples personal lives
I really doubt that person is thirty six years old. The way they structure their sentences and all of the grammatical errors is more akin to a freshmanâs highschool paper. Or autocorrect is a b!+<h.
This is laughable, Blizzard has been pushing the LGBTQ agenda with Overwatch since the Tracer announcement - you must have meant Blizzard doesnât want anything politically inconvenient on their platform, because they got political with their games a long time ago.
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A lot of folks lose their jobs/work for personal beliefs or things they have said Iâm not saying I agree with them but here are some examples: Rosanne Barr, Paula Dean, Kevin HartâŚsay what you want but suffer the consequences.
Then why wonât you have your house built like literal fortress, and sleep with rifle under bed?
Government exists for social purposes, after all. There were times, when workers worked from 6 am to 6 pm, were paid nearly nothing, and itâs not like owners of factories on their good will decided to give workers holidays and other social benefits - it had to be implemented as law and enforced.
People simply want to buy services, not wonder every time, if they are being tricked out of their money.
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This couldnt be farther from the truth. Blizz is doing no such thing. If the player had come out in favor of the communist chinese party Blizz wouldve had the same response. Just shut down any political stuff on stream. So they are pushing no agenda vs an agenda.