"It’s entirely reasonable to look at the way all of this was handled and decide that this is a studio you no longer wish to interact with at all as a response.
No, that doesn’t mean that you’re a hypocrite if you can’t or won’t cut out every business in the world that has some interactions with China."
Unless they’re trying to compile the feedback into one thread, constantly moving it without so much as a post clarifying the action isn’t going to help us out here.
riot still absolutely stinks but after buying the Rising Thunder devs and shutting that game down so they can make this instead, i need to know what it’s like and will play it
say what you will about riot because they deserve it, but they at least make the effort of showing that they’re changing, unlike blizzard “do you not have human rights” entertainment
https://kotaku.com/riot-games-and-sexism-one-year-later-1837041215
Same writer and website who broke the original story.
As far as Hong Kong goes, they’re still bad and I’ve no intention of making excuses for that or their previous work culture - tbh I felt iffy on them announcing their new big social drive while simultaneously censoring players from speaking about Hong Kong.
also fun fact the hong kong megathread is locked too lmao
Oh my god it’s the same abuseable b.s. system where mindless flags are just forcing the topic to close, the exact same (known) issue among so many other large threads
Gee Blizzard, your community is doing the silencing job for you, how convenient