Are you gonna give me examples or can i get some sleep knowing you aren’t gonna provide?
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And their decision was morally wrong.
I don’t think you understand the concept. An American company just acted in the favor of China’s ideals.
Do you understand the gravity of this? If American Corporations are going to start actively working for China and doing their bidding. There is going to be a huge problem. This kind of activity is morally bankrupt, wrong, and nearly tantamount to treason against the very country they are founded, and work from.
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Idk if the person you are talking to has Morals man. Might be barkin up the wrong tree. Maybe flash some money.
Blizzard took punitive action against an inappropriate political speech as was its right to do. And yes, breaking the rules is by definition, wrong.
Try to imagine what would happen if Blizzard refused to abide by China’s demands. Lots of people currently employed by Blizzard would become unemployed.
Would Blizzard go el foldo? Probably not.
Court adjourned!
Honestly? I see the people on these forums whining about this in the same light as the gamergate crowd and the people crying about SJWs. They don’t actually care about the issue, they just want to be seen as caring.
Frankly, Blizzard did the right thing. The protester tried to force Blizzard to become a platform for his political agenda, and they slapped him down hard, to keep anyone else from getting ideas. Personally, I would have banned him for longer than a year. The casters, as well, got what they deserved for facilitating it and not restricting their commentary to the match.
Hell, this isn’t even out of character for Blizzard. They’ve always handed out bigger bans to people who make themselves bigger targets. Doing this in the middle of a live tournament made them all targets. They reaped what they sowed.
Should you be mad at Blizzard? Only if you’re being intellectually dishonest with yourself. Corporate mottos and mission statements are, and always have been, worth less than campaign slogans in an election year. If you thought that a publicly traded company was somehow ‘righteous’ and ‘woke’, that’s a ‘you’ problem. As in, you were an idiot for thinking that in the first place and you have no one but yourself to blame. The only corporate entities you can truly expect to be about their mission statement are nonprofits, and even most of those spend most of their money on ‘overhead’ like manager salaries.
I’m here because, frankly, I’m allergic to virtue signalling idiots, regardless of their political leanings.
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Examples of what? Your hypothetical? You’re the one who claimed:
I asked you if someone cheated in the competition and went unpunished? I am unaware of that happening and if you know that it did I would very much appreciate elaboration.
If a CEO has no morals and is willing to betray the ideals of the country they are living in for money…
That’s still called treason.
It wasn’t inappropriate, their decision was entirely decided by them. Breaking the rules is not by definition “wrong”.
If it’s legal for me to murder you wear your face and pretend to be you to your family, does that make it RIGHT? does that make it WRONG to stop me from doing so? Your morality is aligned to the “rules” and “laws” of everyone? How does that conform to the conflicting rules and laws between countries?
Why would they be unemployed??? Do you think China has that much control over blizzard?
It was also unlawful in Taiwan and it was morally bankrupt.
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Stock drop by 1.5%
Blizzard disables “Delete Account” function
Blizzard closes all customer service and social media responses
This is just the beginning of EA Games with their Battlefront 2 Loot Box boycott again, but this time, Blizzard touched the political gate instead.
Man I’d hate to have to live in your shoes. I thought mine were bad.
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Give me examples. Please. Thank you.
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Treason that is a strong accusation. What evidence do you have that Blizzard committed Treason?
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I typically wear sandals. But that’s because I am self employed, so I know when my boss is lying to me. Dress code is great, though. Don’t have to wear pants half the time.
Treason? LOL No. Extreme hyperbole? Yes.
Yes, people would be unemployed if Blizzard refused to comply with China’s rules and regulations and yes, demands, people would lose their job because Blizzard would be banned from doing business in China. Blizzard would have to close shop in China and everyone who works for Blizzard in China would become unemployed (unless they are sufficiently high up in the company to get relocated.)
I was just reading this thread on twitter…
Do you want samples of banned posts? Sorry, I would dearly love to comply but they are banned and deleted.
I want examples of The US, the corporate media and FB twitter and IG censor people every day right here in the USA. For nothing more innocuous than expressing a political view that deviates from the mass media’s agenda.
I wanna see you out yourself. I’ll wait.
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Yeah, the absolute TLDR is that the HS Community had to complain to Blizzard for over a YEAR to get a punishment on cheaters who’d been caught multiple times for them to get a punishment beyond simply being DQ’d in the tournament they cheated in.
They were still allowed to compete in other tournaments despite being caught both Stream Sniping (so they could see the cards the other players had by looking at the stream) as well as trying to fix the ladder by win-trading so they could get better seeds at future tournaments.
The end result was that after a year of complaining and spamming twitch that “Roger is a Cheater”, Blizzard eventually caved and gave a 12 Month Grandmasters DQ (same ban Blitz got) but DIDN’T strip him of any winnings (unlike Blitz).
So you have many in the community (including myself), who see this punishment as ridiculously disproportionate because it wasn’t a rule violation nearly as severe as actually cheating.
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I’m sleepy, who is winning?