The silence is where they went wrong. In stead of exercising damage control they doubled downed and hold up in their trench. They should said something, even if it meant throwing the company that wrote the apology for the china player base under bus.
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Very well put sir.
It’s just too bad most won’t understand something so simple.
Thats the 5% share holder that im talking about, is China’s, but not only that the flaw to your econimics here, is if you look up the actual income wage of whom can purchase luxury per capita, it narrows down your 1/5 of population by alot, look up blizz’s sales, China is 30%
So now how do you account for the other 70%, which isn’t only the United States.
When you go to another country you abide by their laws and customs or GTFO. Same applies here in America you come here you abide by our laws and customs or GTFO. Funny that Americans get pissed when we cant impose our BS on others.
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From what I understand, Activision-Blizzard only gets 12% of it’s revenue from the Asia-Pacific region, of which China is only a small part of that. Sure, they want to grow that number, but they really shouldn’t be shoving out existing customers in their haste to make new ones. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and all that jazz.
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It’s amazing how something so simple can be so easily misunderstood.
But this is par for the course here in the states though.
I mean, American companies censor their employees daily and fire them for it, but nobody bats an eye lol.
It’s about growth.
There really is no more growth in the West for many American companies.
So they invest in Asia and Africa.
It’s really quite simple.
Sadly that’s also a problem. Over the past 15 years, Bliz have been drilled into the position of being screwed either way.
They usually adopt silence because even if they step out, SOMEONE will jump at them and it just continues. They are safer to shut up and take the hit.
It sucks. Yeah. For everyone involved.
You think the artists, the programmers, the dudes who have to watch these forums, vast majority of the staff even wanna be in that position? heck no.
They just wanna make a game. and play a game. about green oversized dudes and blue and gold tin men fighting over a planet.
I want Jimmy the texture artist dude to keep enjoying and making those awesome freaking textures. Not worry about a crowd of angry people who he wasnt even responsible for ruining the one time of year he should be celebrating his hard work.
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Right; Blizzard told a 10b/year Chinese internet company with a 33b market cap who, among other businesses, licenses WoW and runs it in China what to say and they jumped right on it. Blizzard, of course, has content decision power over the 17th largest internet company in the world (where’s that sarcasm font when I need it?).
Netease made its own announcement as the Chinese distributor of WoW - not as a Blizzard subsidiary which they are not.
Not meaning to cherry pick, but 30% of sales in one Region seems pretty good. Not going to look up everything on Blizzards financial situation… because frankly I don’t care, but 30% is rather significant.
I am unsure how China would have reacted if Blizzard employees did nothing, but we know what China is capable of in terms of censorship and economy control. Don’t think its unreasonable to say that by the end of the month that 30% could become 0%.
I remeber many years back an American commiting a crime in another country. As punishment the country in question caned him. Oh the uproar leading up too his punishment from his family and some law makers.
They still spoke on Blizzards behalf. Blizzard still allowed it. That’s the point, not “Someone Asian based posted it”
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Could someone please reference what press release, and where we can see it? Obviously a lot of people are passionate about this matter but I’m clueless as to what happened.
Things like this, are nothing but grasping at straws.
Splitting hairs.
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I wish people would stop trying to say Blizzard had any control over what Netease posted.
And also just plain factually wrong.
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So you’re saying they didn’t speak on their behalf? Because, it’s pretty clear who the statement was owned by.
Spoiler alert: The name they used wasn’t Netease.
It was posted by a company in China. A place where they could end in a camp being beaten and starved and worried about their families disappearing. Come on man, do some research.
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Read the above comment. The name “Netease” wasn’t used. It was posted as being representative of what Blizzard thinks.
And really? Blizzard has no control over what a 5% shareholder does with their name and license? That is pure nonsense.
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I remember this same event, but this kinda semantics to this don’t you think ? That man was guilty of a crime he conducted in said country. Blizz is shutting down American streams , of American teams, now as well, or did you miss that update? Like I said Blizzard has zero right to censor what people, say, wear, and or their political point of views.
What they are saying is Blizzard USA didn’t pen the statement. Their licensing company based on scene did.
Yes they do twitch and youtube streamers shut down people all the time for trying to say things the streamer does not want to hear.
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