Everything you are saying is just making a case to not do business in said country.
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Good. Maybe their citizens will fight against this nightmarish government then. Why should the rest of the world have to suffer?
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Yeah, well, this wasn’t exactly unknown when Blizzard decided to do business in China. You can’t blame us because they decided to lie in bed with snakes.
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All the more reason we shouldn’t be capitulating to their tyrannical regime.
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Easy to say when it isn’t your life in danger.
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I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Blizzard’s China offices had been assigned their own personal PRC “standards & practices” guy (or guys) who is stationed at their office to offer…guidance when the need arises.
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I actually just read the Weibo apology made by Blizzard. Absolutley pathetic.
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Blizzard China’s Employees apologized on that site that same night to the govt without the knowledge or consent of the rest of the company. If I were in their shoes over there I would too, because it would mean a good chance of being arrested by the government for myself or my family. The problem is for everyone it seems is Blizz U.S. stood by the ban but never denounced the commentary.
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Blizz china employees said that under govt pressure, not the guys in Irvine. U.S. Patriotism has nothing to do with it, unless you are talking about the enforced patriotism of a handful of Chinese workers.
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I don’t care. Blizzard is an American company, not a Chinese one. I don’t care if those employees were threatened (wouldn’t surprise me in the least), I care if Blizzard is willing to stand up and do the right thing.
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This is actually worse for blizzard than if it came from Irvine because it shows that the people in Irvine have no control over their china division.
If they are going to do business in china they should have had been running that division with an iron fist; like their culture demands.
That stream should never have made it live. So at best blizzard is incompetent and at worst they are complicit. Pick one.
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That’s right you don’t care if they had to say something or possibly die… you are Worse than banning a player.
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The weibo account does not belong to blizzard.
There is more fake news on this forum than in the msm.
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That’s from Netease, not Blizzard. Netease, the Chinese licensee of Warcraft, not a Blizzard/Activision subsidiary. Netease, the Chinese internet company with a 33b US market cap, which does not take orders on what to post from Blizzard. That’s not Blizzard’s Weibo account - it’s the Netease account.
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Maybe blizzard should set the record straight.
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Blahblahblah. Take your shilling virtue signalling somewhere else. Blizzard did nothing to contradict there China division, so it seems entirely reasonable that they agree with it.
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If that’s true, and I’m not saying it isn’t, Blizzard is shooting themselves in the foot big time by not clearing that up.
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lol, that was so good I had to re-post it.
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A lot of people agree with you. By not clearing it up, we are free to speculate that China is pulling Blizzards strings.
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It’s not their Chinese division. ffs. Netease is a 10b (us) a year Chinese internet company with a market cap of 33b US, who - among the other things they do - licenses WoW from Blizzard to run in China.
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