All legitimate questions.
I think that Blizzcon will be… hazardous for Blizzard.
As for the situation? If enough pressure is brought, Blizzard will lessen the punishment on blitzchung. I don’t think anyone expects this outrage to have much of an effect on China’s attitude towards Hong Kong, however.
Also, any argument that we’re reading too much into it was destroyed by Blizzard when they issued their apology to China.
Could very well be possible… but i’ve become cynical enough that I don’t put anything past Activision.
I know that Blizzard is the main company but isn’t Blizzard China well…just an off-branch of Blizzard? I’d hope the CEO to make some sort of statement. I did read about the Weibo account response.
We’re not gonna go to war with China, Bernie Sanders is gonna get elected and bring Communism to America for them. They’ll teach us to be good little Comrades under Bernies watchful gaze
Attacking the most extreme views on one side of an argument doesn’t invalidate that side’s point altogether.
Over my dead body. I hope Trump wins, just so the trade war can continue.
True. Both sides have done too much of this.
Although I’m not really sure why anyone in these forums is against this protest…
I mean people are pretty dumb. I mean they spend years screaming at the government to pull our troops out of the middle east, then when Trump does that and Syria gets obliterated people start screaming that we abandoned them and didn’t protect them.
Trust me, I’m not saying it’s going to happen. But with sheer numbers, China has over eighty five military age/military trained males (military service is compulsory in China). A walk-in invasion would overwhelm our defenses.
Look what happened when a handful of murderers hijacked a couple of jets? Military defense utterly failed – and the AF was actually on patrol that day in DC! No cameras at the Pentagon? We are sitting ducks, regardless of our claims of military might.
But no, I don’t think China will invade the US or any other country. And sadly, you are right. So was Steven King. If it came down to our certain destruction, someone in our government would take everyone else with us.
Neither do I. I am cautiously optimistic on this point though.
No one can stop the trade war already.
The new cold war has begun.
When actions conflict with a global agenda, things like that happen.
Began with NAFTA. Only the trade war was waged against labor. Now at least it is being waged by nations against one another instead of pursuant to some insidious plan to reduce paid labor worldwide to a bowl of rice a day or the equivalent.
Probably the most amusing thought to me is that Blizzard Amercia wasn’t actually involved in this and that Blizzard Taiwan went completely rogue and did all this without approval.
Meaning Blizzard US is scrambling and screaming as their Taiwan division creates a PR nightmare and their Chinese division is trying to appease China- which only causes an even greater PR nightmare.
It’s almost entirely unlikely but I would love to be a fly on the wall for blizzard’s offices right now.
Topkek meme.
Honestly not even someone in the government. If it really came down to Amercia being invaded and toppled by a greater foreign power SOMEONE would find a way to launch the nukes. Some expert blackhat hacker with racist agendas, some Redneck shotguns his way into the launch room, some military officer/soldier who knows how it all works but terrified for his life.
America’s patriotism is so high strung that it’s nearly as dangerous as China’s, and perhaps even more so because we aren’t kept nearly as well in check as the other “patriotic” people are in other countries.
We’re pretty much a nation built upon a cult and the moment our cult is about to sink someone’s going to “poison the kool aid” as it were…
You see, war is only bad until the next humanitarian crisis happens, at which point it becomes a good thing again.
And it’s one we can win. More people will get tired of China, it, like the Soviet Union, will overreach, and then hatred of it will force everyone to side against them. If they try to match us for military spending, they will go the say the over the Iron Curtain.
Correct, it is quite tempting isn’t it? Supposedly they will have a bigger PC gaming population than the US has A population. So what makes it an awful decision?
They are stepping onto a tightrope without a net or balance bar. Trying to appease two diametrically opposed ideologies and moralities is a fools game. It would be one thing if Blizz was just trying to sell a game there but it’s not. They are trying to set up a permanent base there while trying to keep the one they have here.
Controversies like this are going to just keep coming. They are going to have to pick a side of that tight rope to fall off of eventually.
Meh if that happened it would be a member of the military launching the nukes. Very protective about “mother’s skirts.”
Wonder if you’re right about the Taiwan branch… interesting idea.
It would amuse me to no end.
About to say lmao it wouldn’t make sense for Blizz themselves to make that statement about not getting involved in politics then that Weibo response comes into play XP