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Blizzard (Taiwan) is the branch that made this decision, use your head.
Rules always apply, that is why they are rules and not just something you follow when it suits you.
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Yes I know. But blaming anyone in Taiwan for not “standing up to China”, even if they work at Blizzard, is pretty crazy. You’d have to know literally nothing about Taiwan. Taiwan even just existing is default “standing up to China”. Living and working in Taiwan is default “standing up to China”.
“Do anything we say would offend anyone and you violate this clause.”
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Blizzard isnt a ‘world’, its a company with rules.
Violate those rules and get punished.
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Wow, thanks for that. I had no idea.
Now explain to us how supporting human rights puts Blizzard’s reputation in bad light? Because it seems like it should be the other way around.
Thanks in advance! Hope to hear from you soon!
Way to move the goal post.
The part where it says “offends a portion or group of the public” is what I would call the violation.
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It puts Blizzard into public disrepute and damages their image in China. If it had been someone yelling about Northern Ireland instead or something, it would have gone exactly the same way.
But then if let that political speech in, then you have to let it all in. You can’t just pick and choose what political speech is allowed. Would there be outrage if he said something Pro Trump and got banned? Or something neo-fascist? Blizzard has to ban all of it.
And like it or not, it would hurt Blizzard massively if China banned them for not punishing Blitzchung.
You mean the Chinese government.
No, it damages their potential profits which rely on kneeling for the Chinese government. Blizzard’s own actions have put them into disrepute. They have shamed themselves.
I hear this a lot from apologists. If we allow people to support human rights, we HAVE to allow them to support fascism as well! No. No we do not.
There it is. That’s the problem.
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Okay, you’re free to think that and take your money away from them, that’s never not been the case. Are you still here because you think they might change their mind or go back on it?
And America was never formed…
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What does that have to do with Blizzard following company policy? Last time I checked, they didn’t tell the protesters to end their fight for freedom. They just don’t want them using them to do it.
Which is especially relevant here seeing as how Blizzard wrote those rules specifically to give themselves the self-sanctioned ability to do anything for any reason and then claim there were rules.
‘Being “bad” is punishable and only we determine what “bad” is and it can be anything.’
It reads like a rule but it sounds like around 60 words to say “we do what we want”.
And why did they need to codify their ability to do whatever they wanted to whomever they wanted in whatever way they chose within the confines of their competition? Couldn’t we just assume that since its their competition that they had this power?
Ahh but there needed to be a rule for people to point at. Few things erase thought like being able to point at something. There rule, rule there.
So yes, there is a rule. It exists largely to legitimize any action they want to take and keep you from asking too many questions.
That has to be what it feels like to be sheeped.
But then who decides what political speech is allowed? Is it just the politics you agree with? Is the trump supporter allowed to yell “BUILD THE WALL!” after winning the tourney? What about “Ban abortions!”? Why silence them but not others.
And Blizzard is not the only ones to do business with China and bend to their policies.
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I dont like vagueness in rules.This forum is horrible for that.
Trolling is a real thing, but get a biased mod in here who doesnt like your post and you’ll be accused of ‘trolling’ just for asking a stupid question they dont like.
Been there, done that.
However, its their game. Its their forum. They make the rules. If I dont like it enough i can take me and my game $$$ elsewhere. And most likely at some point both blizzard and the mods on this forum will end up pushing me and my three wow accounts elsewhere.
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If you were being at all remotely reasonable you’d understand why they would do this. Since you are opting not to be let me explain this: Because not codifying their rules and then trying to enforce any type of punishment would result in litigation. This is the same reason hot items are served with warnings. It shouldn’t need to be specified, but stupid people do stupid stuff and then companies because they haven’t specified things explicitly get caught up in lawsuits. Hell, even when they do specify rules and requirements in explicit ways they still get caught up in lawsuits. At least having it defined (however vague this rule may be) provides them a legal justification to fall back on. This is literally common sense “cover your butt.”
I mean by your argument why do we need laws/rules/regulations at all? Surely people would just know and understand what things they can or cannot do and would inherently know exactly what punishment would be levied for breaking a non-defined rule/law.
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Twitter was a mistake
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