Well yeah most don’t actually care and are just virtue signalling and we have a 90 sec news cycle. Desperate for clicks youtubers might keep it going but thats a big maybe.
And because some people won’t be able to read I said most not all actually care.
As long as people keep whipping a Dead Horse negativity will always pursue.
If you have a spare 30-40 billion laying around… they may could think about it.
Blizzard buying out that portion changes nothing about the climate there. The only thing it does is remove another revenue stream. Thing is, it’s still an international company. No matter what events they host, they have to follow the rules in said country. Fact is, part of the contract stated that they couldn’t do what ultimately caused all the drama. This could happen anywhere, even in the US.
It’s Activision/Blizzard.
Specially Activision. They are all about money.
I’m a capitalist. I get it. I don’t have a problem with a company making money. What I have a problem with is someone lying about it to my face. Don’t want to lose the Chinese market? I get it but don’t try to say China had nothing to do with it. Just completely ignore that talking point if anything cause at least you didn’t lie.
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No problem what’s a business doing business and making money. It’s when they start to do shady stuff behind the players back.
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I made a thread about it too
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/blizzard-recent-statement/330802
They must think we are stupid if they expect us to believe that
Always was. Remember the interview J Allan Brack did where he assured his Chinese audience through a translator that they were putting their best developers onto the Chinese mobile game reskinned as Diablo? He is terrified of losing access to the Chinese market and they just proved once again how far they’ll go to maintain that access.
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Maybe they have different contracts that they signed? With everything that has been going down it wouldn’t surprise me if Asian players had different contracts that are far less lenient in terms of what can be said.
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They have different contracts because they’re in different leagues, thus different rules. The passive protesting also isn’t something they punish for.
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You obviously have no idea what the word “protest” means. I bet you think protesting is a bunch of people holding signs and chanting in front of a building.
They only did so because of the backlash. Blizzard can take a long walk off a short pier for all I care.
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Then delete your account and stop giving them traffic on their website if you hate it so much?
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They should have kept quiet, they did it to avoid tension at Blizzcon
Imo Comrades, they made it worse 
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Are you implying I play this game anymore? I am only allowed to post right now because they gave me a 2 month forum ban before i unsubscirbed and the bots can’t figure out I stopped paying for the game months ago.
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Not sure if that would’ve helped but if they would’ve never given their statement, I wonder if Riot would’ve given theirs lol
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shakes head You bad, bad Hume. What did you do to get a forum ban :o
OP you can accept that if you want, but we all know that the statement was generic, included no apology, and he still is banned.
Their statement was designed to shut people up, there was zero regret.
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Same old same old, held blizzard accountable for their double standards.
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