If Cato were alive today, he’d be saying
Beijing delenda est
Makes me want to show up at BlizCon dressed as a Chinese censor from South Park
It’s actually more than 4 threads. It’s all thread. It contains “it”, which I think isn’t a bad solution. It’s better than to just keep fighting agaisn’t it.
Bellular made a big vid covering the whole thing, including covering the response in Mandarin, translated by some discord members or something. And basically everything else except maybe the strike at Blizz hq today.
Lemme fish you a link…
http.s://youtu.be/e2UoVgLhCY4
It’s well beyond that now. Now it’s about a company we’re supporting being supportive of a relatively hostile foreign and grossly authoritarian regime.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park apparently understood how to respond to it better.
Apart from a few outraged comments on these forums, I don’t see any significant backlash coming.
There was an immediate and significant response to Blizzard’s efforts to remove flight in May 2015, and that did have an impact.
But so far, all I’ve seen are a bunch of comments without accompanying and decisive action.
My prediction is that this will be a non-issue by the next “news” cycle.
Answer: Cha-CHING!
(channeling my inner Goblin for a moment)
Thank you i appreciate your thoughts. Genuinely. I have some hope they will backtrack. China only represents 12% of the revenue. I personally don’t see a compromise China would be happy with. Mine would be keep the ban, give back the money. He knew what he was doing so i think he’d be somewhat happy to see them cave and give the money he rightfully earned back. The people im arguing with, i get that rules are rules but when it comes to certain subjects i say its appropriate to break them, and we think its not at all serious because were discussing this in the constraints of a gaming forum but it is very serious. A lot of us didn’t just pop up over night with our criticisms of China. I’ve railed hard against them, I just never brought it here until blizzard forced my opinion. I have friends in HK, working there. I worry about them every night. So its not like i just jumped on a band wagon.
Oh im subbed to him thanks, i havent checked in a few hours.
Just canceled my wow subscription and uninstalling wow and all blizzard/hacktivision products. I was really looking forward to playing a vulpera even to the point of leveling my long forgotten horde monk to start the rep grind. Been playing blizzard games since WC1 that ends today. The “We stand for the pride of our country announcement,” was literally the last straw. Blizzard has shown its colors and they are red with gold stars on a backdrop of green.
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Not to in any way challenge your comment, but I really would be interested as to your 12% source. My understanding was and is that China is a huge part of Blizzard’s market.
And I hope you understand that the PR employee in China charged with the obligation to deliver these remarks, was acting as (s)he was specifically required to. My guess is Blizzard doesn’t pay this person enough to brazenly challenge the Chinese government, in China.
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Good old Cicero. One of the the titans of Rome. His grandson was also really epic.
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do a winnie the pooh cosplay wearing a communist officer cap
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I mean we are at more than 6k posts and it keeps going up. This is way more serious than any game topics. One shouldn’t even compare humans rights issues with just issues in a video game.
Blizzcon is terribly soon, yes it could have fade if it was in maybe in 2 months. I don’t think it will fade before Blizzcon.
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You weren’t around in May 2015, then?
I hope everyone could have a look at this video, what the protesters are doing and why they couldn’t get support from most of the citizens in Hong Kong.: https://youtu.be/ZPYuGYLesx0
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With BlizzCon in only a few weeks, both Blizzard AND China had better do something FAST.
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You guys just want attention. Otherwise you would of already left.
They are throwing people off of rooftops in other parts of the world but oh man if you ban a hearthstone player then we will have war.
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Well hopefully with all these people quitting, queue times on my classic server will go down.
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Major news sites are covering it. Articles on reddit have amassed over 116k votes. US Senators (the implication not if u agree with them or not on other things) Have weighed in. Other Pros, Other game CEOs have commented. Blizzard employees walked out. Its not just us that are upset. Can you imagine what Blizzcon will invite if they let this go?
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