Blizzard are communists now and against human freedoms

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For sure this was already discussed but I scrolled topic and didn’t find such one.

“Think globally” and “Every voice matters” - These are slogans that once belonged to the company and that they betrayed. Dreaming of China’s money Blizzard has completely turned in support of comunistic repressive power. Everyone knows there is no democracy and simple human rights in China, people are now struggling to gain them and what did Bliz do? Banned those who thinks globally and wants their voice to matter. Bliz complitely forgot they become so rich because of the WESTERN people, money and freedoms and not they simply abandoned all these values. Your voices don’t matter, players don’t matter, this is all lie! The only thing they want is your MONEY and after you gave them away you are no longer needed.
This situation began not just now, it’s a really long story. Just examples when the company had spit on your fan expectations and opinions:

  • When SC2 was under development many people were saying this design DOES NOT suit the original Starcraft universe, just compare the old and the new hydralisks, firebats, archons, carriers - these are completely different units, unrecognizable for an old fan. Yes, we are now used to them, but back then it was nonsense. No reaction from Bliz, they did all units square and magical-looking so that Warcraft fans probably liked them. 9 years! were needed to begin bringing back the true skins. For money.
  • Colors. For years and years people were asking to bring back color picking in ladder. Just look at this:
    SC2 Forums
    I even had a topic with 100+ likes, a petition for colors (I couldn’t now find it). What did Bliz do? Added the teamcolor change in options whom noone uses! Other players don’t see what you pick, so it doesn’t matter. What if you were the only who sees your skins on the field? Bliz didn’t do a thing actually, they just gave us a fake solution so we shut. 9 years in game! Still always blue vs red! That is just ridiculous!
  • LotV campaign was made amazingly bad. Cinematics are good but Niadra, Mira, Tosh and many others didn’t even appear. Spear of Adun team was not the one expected (Urun, Mohandar?). Selendis poorly redesigned. Almost every mission is capturing 4-5 locations. When I played it, I couldn’t believe they did it so bad. This was a remake of Warcraft 3 campaign where 3 races united against Archimonde. Only worse.
  • Tracer and her pose? Remember that? People found out this pose is sexualizing her too much. What did they do? Changed it to an EVEN MORE sexualized one. Like “take it, stupid dogs, and shut”.
  • Blizcon 2018. Diablo immortal which was catcalled by everyone. INSTEAD of real Diablo 4 or some other good game they created a complete mobile shiet specially for China where people injest any low game you give them. They shown us they are not interested in good games when they can do money for nothing.
  • Situation with co-op. 2 years - no new maps, no major fixes for Karax and others who have very big gameplay problems though players collected all the issues in special topics. Alarak is still half a commander who has half units and doesn’t have air.
  • Long ago Bliz promissed to introduce leagues into co-op so good players were not obliged to carry noobs if they don’t want. But they successfully gave up on that promise - if you are a pro you can’t even prevent same leech from downloading in 1 game with you by banning him - you can’t talk to him but game can still download you and him 5-10 times in a raw again and again. I explain what it means - a player HAS NO RIGHT to have a comfortable game experience, he is obliged to CARRY a griefer, because there is a chance that griefer will be satisfied this lazy easy game so he wants to pay some money for a new commander. It’s like Bliz forgot that good players payed their money TOO and they god damn have a right to have pleasure by speedrunning maps with equal ones, not carry ballast working for Blizzard for free.

I call you to act. Are you tired of Blizzard communist politics when they don’t listen to you and don’t solve problems for years? Do you like all those bugs they don’t fix? Do you like red vs blue billion times? Like to carry leaches? Go ask them on Blizcon when they begin respecting us!

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You need a brain rework.

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Blizzard doesn’t care about you or anything you have to offer, unless you offer money. Welcome to the Corpocracy. Activision is just as bad as EA.

Alarak is in desperate need to fixing, and We’ve been begging and even offering money for new maps. The new market is China, and Blizcon is set to disappoint, again.

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This is not Communist politics. Blizzard is no different from any other capitalist organization, its policy is aimed at maximizing profits. It is an extremely sad sight, but, alas, it cannot be condemned. The desire for more capital is the purpose of the existence of such enterprises.
During its formation, Blizzard developers were creators who were not limited to the market. But times are changing.
I am very sorry that the company is changing its policy in favor of the large masses of society, forgetting about the likes of us, fans of StarCraft.I dare say that all this policy towards China is aimed at creating a new reliable source of income (let’s face it, Wow is losing popularity).
Nevertheless, the company still remains a Titan of the industry, preserving at least some framework of morality (in comparison to EA and Ubisoft). I think the upcoming BlizzCon will be decisive for the company. Either she gets her reputation back or she dies in our memory.

Both of them died before the Lotv.

We have irrefutable evidence that the company’s story was rewritten before the release. I agree that the end result was not as bright as I expected.

That’s why I personally hate Lotv. My favorite character was just deprived of a decent piece of Lore. At least, thanks for not killing her.

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post is supposed to be about blizz/HK
OP’s entire list of complaints is about wanting prettier units in sc2

Lol.

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You say that like it wasn’t Bliz’ decision! They didn’t die irl when you can do nothing, that was 100% on their will to disappoint us for no reason.

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Urun actually survived LoV. I assume he wasn’t included because the caste of characters was already pretty large and he didn’t offer any unique perspectives. Artanis is New Templar, Karax is Khalai, Rohana is Old Templar. The other alternative is to have him be controlled by Amon, but he isn’t really a character then.

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With regards to the communism, the whole point of banning the pro HK stuff was to not offend China. And this isn’t limited to just the freedom of speech thing. This is a fundamental aspect of Blizzard.

Supernatural, bodies with blood, skeletons are just some of the things China forbids which means these things cannot exist in Blizzard games either. You also can’t say bad things about China, despite not being inside the great Firewall, you are still affected by it albeit by proxy.

As of now Blizzard is testing the waters just to see what it can and cannot get away with and this is nowhere far from over. If you’re fine with this, then the next one won’t be such a hard sell will it since you already accepted this one.

That’s the fundamental difference here. When the NBA dug their heels and said no we won’t sanction that coach versus Blizzard sanctioning that OWL coach, the NBA was saying no, we care what the world thinks about us, versus no, we just want to sell games regardless of how low we have to bow.

SC2 has mediocre updates like Stetman and Cradle in co-op because that’s all it can afford to do. RTS and SC2 by extension isn’t as popular as it was back then.

Yknow who doesn’t like China either? The Koreans. One hopes they will take notice of all this pro chinese sentiment Blizzard is on.

As for the other stuff it’s fairly obvious. SC2 is a dead game, not dead dead obviously, making it free certainly help, but its obvious it’s not alive enough to receive substantial updates. You won’t get SC2 remastereds any time soon or some sort of fourth faction update they simply don’t have the resources. THAT isn’t a related to the pro china stuff.

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Who the hell China is for you? The government or the people? You do offend people when you prevent them from expressing their will for freedom. In the end - who buys Blizzard game? Chinese government? Lol no, Chinese people do.
What they did is they BETRAYED their own rules, their slogans. Because of dreaming for asian money. They can sell everything including their honor, ideals and YOU.

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Yeah, because f China, right?

If they ban someone for being against a certain group of people, then they aren’t giving favoritism to that group of people.

No, the thing you are hating on is definately WESTERN corporatism.

People do matter, that is why they strongly enforce anti-political policies in their events.

No-one except at least 50% of the playerbase, probably more.

The design of the game has nothing to do with any of this, and you shamefully make a mockery of the real problem by trying to relate it to your opinions of a game that has nothing to do with it. The real crime is you using a human rights problem to push your opinions and agenda.

And aside from that, I thought we were rid of calling anything you don’t like “communist” when the Cold War ended.

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The people of Hong Kong are NOT the people of China. That’s why they want independance from China.

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Firstly, the topic you were looking for is this: And you expect them to have the guts to make a real balance patch? - #1120 by Spirit-6683

Secondly, just to put it out here, everyone is acting outraged over the Chinese having their “freedom of speech suppressed” and how this is a violation of human rights, but honestly, if you ask the average Chinese citizen, they tend to not even notice this violation because they are pretty apathetic to politics anyway and couldn’t care less if you dangled “the right to expression of free speech” in front of them because they pretty much say whatever they want both online and offline anyway. What most people mean when they say freedom of speech is actually freedom of political speech, but most Chinese, as I said, are apathetic and couldn’t care less about politics.

Thirdly, mainland Chinese are different from Hong Kongers. I notice that a lot of people tend to conflate them, which displays a gross misunderstand of the social dynamics.

Fourthly, the Hong Kong protestors, while important, are not representative of the whole of Hong Kong. There’s a lot of talk regarding independence and “freedom of speech” but actually this discourse is generated by the most vocal of the population, the students, who make up the majority of the protestors. There’s quite a significant amount of the population who don’t want to separate from China (quite like how there are people for and against Brexit in Great Britain). Yes, there are differences in political opinions even within the same country or province. Shocking, I know.

Fifthly, it seems that a lot of people here think that they are speaking on behalf on Hong Kong, or that their opinions represent that of Hong Kong. No, your views merely align with the protestors, and as I said earlier, the protestors don’t actually represent the whole of Hong Kong.

Now I’m not saying they shouldn’t have the right to freedom of speech. It’s just that the people here tend to think they know what’s best for Hong Kong without actually knowing what everyone in Hong Kong wants. You’re only hearing the vocal protestors and equating that to the whole of Hong Kong, but if you actually go onto the ground, most of the Hong Kong population just want the riots to stop and for businesses to go back to normal. And as shocking as it may be, there is quite a significant proportion of the population who actually disagree with the protests and independence.

Too long, didn’t read? I don’t think any of us can claim to speak on the behalf of Hong Kong and know what they truly want. The protestors are part of a diverse collection of political opinions and views (or lack of), some of which may not align with what people tend to think as “normal” or “human rights” in the West. And Hong Kong =/= China.

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WireBender

^ People, look, this is how a collaborationist looks like. Justifying every corporate move, every restriction of human freedoms and every game issue. This is a communist, an agent, this is not your friend, this is your enemy.

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Aaaand that should quench any remaining doubts that the OP is not acting in good faith.

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I was not thinking about faith, I just said what I had to. The situation was becoming worse and worse during years and finally came to this.

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that’s not what “acting in good faith” means. It refers to the honesty of your position and your willingness to engage in dialogue, in this case.

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Yeah, I don’t want engaging in dialog. I wrote everything in the first place. Then I saw an agent who works directly for saving company reputation, arguing every word in vain. Blizzard will answer for what they do on Blizcon and will be catcalled again. I said enough here.

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Indeed, this is not the Blizzard I grew up with.

IDK if activision ruined them, or they were already rotten when they partnered up.

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Blizzard isn’t communist. They/Activision just want that sweet, sweet Chinese capital. They’re basically late stage Capitalism given form.

And to that end I won’t buy another Blizzard or Activision product until they fix their mess. Not allowing politics is fine but they allowed NetEase to use their official page to spew nationalistic rhetoric and enacted a vague and unenforceable clause in the ToS to punish whoever they want. As someone who’s dealt with contract law many, many times…that’s not okay. Vague umbrella clauses generally are not enforceable…because they are too vague and a judgment or sanction against Blizzard could have easily happened. Easily.

If Blizzard wants that sweet Chinese $ then they need to have NetEase handle all their Chinese censorship and be very clear that outside of Chinese territory, including Hong Kong as they have their own laws and jurisdiction , then Blizzard needs to say “No, sorry but we are NOT going to participate in state censorship activities in territories or countries where Chinese law doesn’t apply”. If the CCP gives Blizzard/Activision grief, then bring it to the media’s attention.

Point being eventually there’s going to be a conflict of some kind due to China trying to influence the rest of the world via heavy handed tactics in terms of censorship. Not war, more likely heavy sanctions or new laws passed that prevent corporations from enforcing laws that don’t apply to the territory or nation they’re being requested to help in.

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So, capitalism is communism.

We did it everyone, we broke politics.

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