It’s that easy to criticize too. You are not a realist. You are just ignorant on other peoples POV.
lol OMFG.
Look. You seem reasonably intelligent. Can I just point out where you’re completely missing the boat here?
It’s not about Blizzard doing business with China.
It’s about trying to get Blizzard to not be China’s stooge.
Does this incident have ANYTHING to do with Blizzard’s business presence in China?
Yes, peripherally. But that isn’t what people are mad about.
People are mad that Blizzard is PUNISHING someone for speaking out against China.
Blizzard is CENSORING one of its players in its esports for speaking out against China.
That is what this is about. This is not about boycotting China. This is not about asking Blizzard to cease business ties with China.
This is about asking Blizzard whether it considers the Chinese market more important than its consumers in the free world.
Granted, Blizzard salivates when it sees the prospect of entering the Chinese market. It’s clearly important to them; they clearly want to do business in a country that has a billion people with increasing disposable incomes (in a supposedly communist economy).
But do they value that more than the base American market that gave them their start? That’s the question they will have to ask themselves if this picks up any steam and people in the US and Europe get angry.
It wasn’t the Chinese market that was at stake when EA yanked Battlefront 2’s loot boxes. … But, only time will tell.
No. 
Being realistic, in effect, you’re an apologist here.
If you can honestly look at that agreement and say that line of vague horse leavings was reasonable, and that Blitzchung had a clear expectation going into his competition that his activism would have the consequences that it did, then I think I might have a bridge to sell you.
I’ve seen more than you know. And though I may not agree with stances taken for trivial reasons (a video game…lmao…a video game!) People defending poor choices made are the ones ignorant of reality.
If you’re dismissive of the power of video games as influential media, you’re a fool.
Starcraft comes very near to being the national sport of South Korea. Blizzard games are huge in Asia. eSports, as a genre of entertainment, are huge, and China is a burgeoning market for both.
China has leverage over Blizzard, and that is what this fight is about: trying to take back the steering wheel away from the Chinese government and put it back in the hands of American consumers.
This is about telling them no. And there are enough of us that they will listen, because I don’t think Blizzard is looking to relocate from Irvine to Shanghai anytime soon.
As I told you before, you are your own censor. If there’s something you feel strongly about that you want to convey, best you run it past the people handing you the free money to play their game before you voice it.
… or, as it were, taking away the free money after having performed in your little show, given your product (effectively) free advertisement, and helped out your marketshare.
But you know something, you’re right. I completely forgot that part in the First Amendment: “The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments – unless some government or corporation wouldn’t like what they say, in which case, well, too bad my dudes! lol!”
Don’t kid yourself. The biggest investors in the company are all here, and they hold the reins as shareholders, not consumers. Consumers are mere pay to ride occupants. The shareholders are the horse and stable owners.
And access to the Chinese market of a billion paying riders gives those stable owners a massively stiff riding crop.
You are business in a global economy. Where’s your customer base?
"No, sorry. We don’t want to do business with you because you don’t align with our morale standa…OW! (gets a hard rib nudged by accountant, notices the millions of potential customers) “Hey friend!”
This is how we killed Apartheid, knocked down the Berlin Wall and tore Eastern Europe away from the collapsing USSR.
Also: *moral standards. I get that you don’t have them, but at least spell them correctly.
It’s all a mute point, human civilisation is set to collapse by 2050 due to climate change, all this is just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.
Hmm…I don’t recall seeing a gnome hangin’ round in any of the video feeds back then.
All I can say is WHOOOSH!
Oh I was there. … admittedly, back then, I was around the same height as a gnome. But I was there all the same.
*moot point.
And, call me an optimist, but if we can impeach Trump we can probably still turn things around. Just like all my papers in university: turned in at the last minute!
Look again. Blitzchung did not break the agreement. Nothing in the agreement said that he could not say what he did or that the streamers could not stream it.
Blizz gave itself the right to decide, after the fact, that something was a basis for punishment. It was Blizz’ action, and that is why people are objecting.
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I saw two get 404’ed in less than half an hour yesterday.
Thia thread is about Blizzard’s actions. It is not directly about Hong Kong, it’s about Blizzard.
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Exactly this. All this slacktivision when the dude is actually the one at fault is coming across as severely disingenuous.
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Yep, I can pretty much get certified on Udemy for $5, then write a Kindle dummies book, do the interview circuit, and et voila, Expert Status 
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