So basically blizzard games are unavailable in China due to Blizzard unable to find a publisher in China and until they do, games like OW and other Blizzard games are pretty much shut down in China, which also messes things up for OWL teams.
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Great, put in all the 
while they’re not looking!
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Worse things have happened.
This certainly is not on that list.
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Pretty much all Chinese gamers have VPNs anyways. Ping will suck for them but it’s not anything new lol.
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Give it a bit of time and Blizzard will find a new partner and re-establish themselves in China. It’s only a matter of time. They’re not permanently withdrawing from the market.
How so?
Lunar New Year is not exclusive to China.
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Wow really? Lu Bu reaper, Quinlong pharah, Baihu genji? I think they’re fantastic
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Shh, let the american be ignorant, its the only thing it knows how to do!
But yeah, the lunar new year is far from a chinese-exclusive thing. I do agree that a lot of the skins are very underwhelming though. This year’s ONLY skin also being one of them.
I still like the theme of the events though, this year being rabbit.
shame… if more companies stuck their middle fingers up at china, and stopped salivating over their heavy sacks Cough (of money)
then maybe devs would start making games that are fun again, instead of making games that are expensive… and if… IF!!! you spend enough money… you will have fun WE PROMISE!!! fingers crossed behind their backs
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Yeah uhh… hate to break it to you but the Chinese market has nothing to do with what you’re complaining about.
actually it does…
the asian markets in general, especially china, are far more accepting of micro transactions, and F2P but with heavily expensive cash shops than the western world
it was this that was a driving factor behind western developers starting to trend their games this way, to get that sweet sweet Chinese money…
they don’t care what their western audience thinks, because there is far more money to be made in the east with the model they have chosen
so… in fact, fun in games has drastically diminished, and micro transactions has drastically increased ever since western devs have set their sights on china’s coin purse
because instead of developing fun games, which devs hope people will buy and play for the fun
they developed cash shops, with games attached, and are only just fun enough, to keep you addicted
Freemium gaming - the Mium is latin for “Not really” (Canadian satan - 2014)
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anything that causes blizzard to lose money is ok with me
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China makes up 3% of Activision Blizzard’s profits.
3%
Not 13, not 30, not 63, or any other number.
3%
The majority of MTX purchases comes from the US, EU and other locations all around the world. Not China.
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the copium is strong with this one… keep on shilling for blizz my dude, im sure they will reward you
i was speaking of the gaming market in general, not blizzard… so… way to tunnel vision on “AHH!!! NOOO SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING BAD ABOUT MY BLIZZARD REEEEEEE!!!”
… but whatever… you do you
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This is a topic about Blizzard and how Blizzard is not operating in China anymore and you’re upset that I am staying on topic? Really?
The majority of MTX purchases do not come from China. Why? Because for years now China has been cracking down on video games. Only allowing children to play during certain hours, not allowing games to get published, cracking down on microtransactions being used in games (they were one of the many countries that cracked down on loot boxes).
You want someone to blame for video games being the way they are? Look inward. The US, EU and other locations around the world are responsible. Why? Because they started buying what these companies were selling and game developers/publishers realized there was a market that they could sell stuff to.
If you were to remove all video games from China, every single one, you’d still have MTX laden games making millions of dollars, because the majority of MTX sales don’t come from that country.
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Friendly reminder that Diablo Immortal made 50 million in the first month without the chinese market and at the rate it was going would only take it a couple of years to actually outprofit D3. A game which was, at the time, the fastest selling PC game of all time
Just to add on before someone goes “It JuSt LaUnChEd” the other two~ months before it released in China looked identical.
It’s another bonehead self-inflicted wound done by the decision makers at Activision-Blizzard.
They cancel one deal with a publisher but don’t have a backup plan with another.
All the Chinese OWL teams should boycott any payments to blizzard because they sabotaged their home market with this incompetent mismanagement.
Whatever future deal Activision-Blizzard can get over there they now have to negotiate from a position of weakness.
aight Roku… keep on keeping on… bye bye now
and it is unfun garbage that costs too much… so?..
keep shilling for blizzard tho
It’s literal walking proof that the model does work outside China. The fact you aknowledge it here literally defeats your entire point.