WOW Being cut off in China. There goes the game

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No more World of Breadcraft? :frowning:

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after all the work that went into developing MoP too. :frowning:

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I wonder if the “disneyfication” of wow has been part of that. Getting rid of the “mean” emotes and such. I was blaming the woke crowd for it, but if you think about it, just maybe it was to appease the Chinese censors. They didn’t want mean.

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Tbh, the nice emotes can be used meanly too. Like /lol, and even /smile to some extent.

Anything nice can be used to be mean too. Like hitting somebody with flowers.

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As an Overwatch player, I view this as a win. Overwatch doesn’t need OWL. Most games don’t need esports.

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It’s only 3% of their revenue. They could afford to lose it.

As reported by Bloomberg, China accounted for at least 3% of Activision Blizzard’s net revenue last year

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I’m also an Overwatch player, and the League does not really impact the game development all that much.

Fact is, eSports are popular and there’s an audience for them. I think it’s fine if Blizzard caters to that audience. The League has been going on for 5 years at this point. If it wasn’t popular and wasn’t generating money it wouldn’t have gotten past the first year. For fans of the Overwatch League to lose 4 franchise teams that they may have supported, and for those teams to lose the ability to play is a gut punch. Now the only eastern team will be Seoul Dynasty unless Blizzard can negotiate a new license with either NetEase or another Chinese company who can act as their sponsor.

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There are 18 years left until the annexation of Hong Kong is finalized and China becomes the sole economic superpower. There is no way the West lets that happen. This proxy scuffle with Russia is just a pretext for the real war, to drain China’s biggest ally of defense funding and veteran personnel.

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I wasn’t aware they were turning women into fruit and removing innuendos for the Chinese audience.

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Don’t you mean “Birthing Human” :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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China only represents 3% of ABK revenue. Blitzchung / Free Hong Kong could have been enough of a dent on Blizzard that whatever new deal the Communists tried to negotiate was not worth the revenue loss in other markets.

If the Chinese took the success of Immortal as a sign they could bully Blizzard into a deal that favored the Chinese more, they were sorely mistaken. People in the West are fed up with “Chynna” and the Chinese are too greedy and self-absorbed to see reality as such. Hence no deal could be struck at this time.

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Yeah my bad for using such antiquated terms. :joy:
Those silly Chinese and their silly censorships!
Us enlightened free speech westerners believe in body types 1 and 2.

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If we lose Chinese food…

Because of WoW…

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Hong Kong is already a part of China. That happened in the 90s. What the treaty that China signed during the handover established was that China would not interfere with Hong Kong’s laws and way of life for 50 years. But it, like Macau, are by no means independent regions, they are considered a part of China.

When we reach the 2040s, the treaty forbidding China from changing Hong Kong’s laws will expire. Whether or not Hong Kong’s laws then change considerably or not will depend on who is leading China at that time. Xi Jinping will likely either have retired or be dead by that time (he’s 69 years old now, and the treaty was signed in 1997, so by 2047 he will be 94/95 years old), so it’s unclear what a China under his successor, whoever that is, will look like.

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well there is a long history there. in like the 1800s there was an opi*m war and multiple countries literally used military force to force them to trade. and then there was the open door policy, and then the open door policy was voided because the people’s republic took over. WW1 and WW2 is kinda blank for me but I know that in the 1950s we had an embargo and Nixon undid the embargo. and china decided to start trading alot

so I guess really we can all blame Nixon.

some of that might be wrong but it’s what I remember.

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These guys havent forgotten the century of humiliation

They are fully focused on getting their revenge

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xi the pooh

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Emperor Xi Jinping

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eh. it’s really old history when we look at other countries and their feuds and alliances now, though it took forever for them to get hong kong back. they hate japan a lot more than us though. that’s usually the #1 answer for countries they dislike.

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Maybe. I’m always a bit skeptical with esports though. Mainly worries with balance and meta. Esports brought us GOATS for example.

The fact that people don’t know this is very worrying, especially on a forum for a company like this that was in controversy around Hong Kong protests :person_facepalming:

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