WOW Being cut off in China. There goes the game

[Buttercleave-moon-guard]

Ah a Floridian I see.

[Midautumn-illidan]

@Kynteria-wyrmrest-accord

flinging around a knife

That’s called Brandishing and is straight up a crime in Calfornia lol.

[Kynteria-wyrmrest-accord]

it is a crime but that don’t stop nobody

@Buttercleave-moon-guard

Ah a Floridian I see.

Worse. an ohioan.

[Chussyka-hyjal]

Ok but what about the trading card game rooster mount. Supposedly it was going to China market first, will this affect it’s release?

Or lunar festival mounts… we might not get those anymore

[Krogg-wyrmrest-accord (Krogg)]

@Kynteria-wyrmrest-accord

Duh this even happens in the US (WikiLeaks) once you become a problem to the government your livelihood is at risk.

but does it happen to Steve, the local carpenter after he shares a video of some cops beating up an old man or something? Do reps for the US federal government show suddenly show up at his workshop, search until they find that he didn’t report a few nails, drag him to prison for “corruption”, and only let him out when he stars in a video telling everyone that he deserved it and the US government is super cool? and everyone agrees because they’re next if they don’t?

[Floydfunk-atiesh]

@Therotinside-illidan

Where’s the historians in GD now? Need to know who opened the door to China and let American companies sell their souls to the cheap labor force!

I believe it was Nike was the first western company that opened the first successful factory in China that broke open cheap Chinese labor back in the late 80s.

[Cailayen-moon-guard (Cailayen)]

Microsoft has it’s own partners and network in China.

I’m amused and slightly appalled at the subtle and not so subtle sentiments being echoed in here.

At what point in time did the average forum inhabitant turn into a get off my lawn guy?

[Kiper-sentinels]

@Kynteria-wyrmrest-accord

imagine losing over 200 million a year because people don’t know how to play nice

Which is pocket change to some entities.

@Cailayen-moon-guard

At what point in time did the average forum inhabitant turn into a get off my lawn guy?

The average forum inhabitant here is also a political advisor, health expert, legal professor, and business owner.

[Onixia-kul-tiras]

Because China is unilaterally switching to Linux as is Russia for their OSes, I doubt blocking these countries will do much if anything

[Itaachi-proudmoore]

@Eladrin-saurfang

The Current Indian External Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said it best about Western hypocrisy and double standards.

He is a goat

Seriously we dont have any skin in Ukraine conflict. India always had a policy of non alignment. So, we have remained neutral in terms of world conflicts.

So…before West accuses India of being against Ukraine

India’s pharmaceutical companies as well as other organizations donated $ 8 million worth of medicines, food and financial assistance to Ukraine

We are helping Ukraine through humanitarian aid…but will remain neutral.

[Questen-kelthuzad]

@Onixia-kul-tiras

Because China is unilaterally switching to Linux as is Russia

The one thing russia and china doing right

[Onixia-kul-tiras]

Right and simply continuing to ignore Linux is going to bite Blizzard in the butt big time. Other companies will start targeting Linux, Valve is. Valve doesn’t even sell a Windows machine.

[Hellscreamer-frostmane (Hellscreamer)]

Lucky you are not in china as if you were making posts bashing the country, as you do with the USA, im sure you would get a “perma” ban.

Idk why so many people rush to speak ill of the united states…even when its not related at all.

[Anorave-moon-guard (Anorave)]

@Littlegolden-moon-guard

Losing Chinese players is going to be a HUGE financial hit.

3% of overall revenue doesn’t sound huge to me…

[Kiper-sentinels]

@Anorave-moon-guard

3% of overall revenue doesn’t sound huge to me…

facts aren’t something we usually care about on the forum. facts can easily be fabricated depending on the narrative.

[Eladrin-saurfang]

@Midautumn-illidan

On the subject of Chinese people traveling to the US, though, do you really think that the young people in China living off 1/4 of the US minimum wage are traveling the world? What the rest of the world sees is China’s 1% lol, China simply has such a huge population that their 1% is still an astronomically large number.

And the U.S and other develop countries do not have extreme wealth gap? The homeless population in the U.S has exploded in the last 10-20 years while the business and political elite just keeps getting rich. This is a product of capitalism. It is also an increasing problem in China as well as the rest of the world. In Japan a lot of the young people nowadays lives in their so called “1 square meter” apartments because of the extreme wealth gap.

Regarding the minimum wage, You do know each country have different minimum wages right? as well as different costs of living? If you think so low of china’s mininum wage what would you think of other countries which has lower minimum wages or even none at all. Your bias is clearly showing

Haters like you aren’t new anyway. What China is experiencing now is basically what Japan experienced in the 1970s and 80s until the U.S forced them to sign the Plaza accord which gives the U.S huge control over Japan’s economic policies and devastated Japan’s economy that led to the start of Japan’s economic stagnation that continues to this day. Japanese scientists and students are spies, Japanese companies stealing IPs, Japanese government employing slave labor, Japanese manipulating their currency etc. Same modus operandi to demonize a country and its people

[Rosemia-grobbulus]

@Eladrin-saurfang

What China is experiencing now is basically what Japan experienced in the 1970s and 80s until the U.S forced them to sign the Plaza accord which gives the U.S huge control over Japan’s economic policies and devastated Japan’s economy and led to the start of Japan’s economic stagnation that continues to this day. Japanese scientists and students are spies, Japanese companies stealing IPs, Japanese government employing slave labor, Japanese manipulating their currency etc. Same modus operandi to demonize a country and its people

Pretty much. Don’t get me wrong there is definitely plenty bad with China. But this is the reality: China isn’t so heavily frowned upon because of actual human rights violations, plenty of countries do way worse and we don’t care. China is heavily frowned upon because they are a competitor for first place on the world power scale and aren’t guaranteed to heavily benefit us. Same with Russia (but with ukraine that comes into question lulz)

[Feldophile-illidan]

Its already losing subs left and right even with chinese market, losing it will surely fast track the game downhill

[Lilthica-remulos]

China has many more MMOs than we do in the west, so WoW going missing is going to mean donkey excrement.

[Littlegolden-moon-guard]

You can bet that China can technically block just about anything from entering their country. Satellite signals included. Scramble them up like eggs. They already have a scary strong space presence.