This is such a silly statement. I bet you have zero clue of a single poster who said I'm boycotting Blizzard who subsequently went back to endorsing them.
Not one.
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Blizzard’s Actionless Non-Apology Is Complete Bullshit
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This is such a silly statement. I bet you have zero clue of a single poster who said I'm boycotting Blizzard who subsequently went back to endorsing them.
Not one.
Yeah but how can they feel better about themselves if they don't make sweeping generalizations about groups of people? Unless those people excited for videogames are not acting as outraged as everyone else they must be bad people.
I want to say to the people who are saying that events like a Hearthstone Tournament interview shouldn't be a platform for politics of any kind, I agree with that for the most part but I also think no law or rule should be 100% absolute and these things shouldn't be treated as black or white. Freedom and not being oppressed are core-rights of humans, if someone speaks out for the freedom of others who are being oppressed that should be an absolute nonpunishable statement due to morals alone.
Now if someone brings any other kind of politics into such a situation, such as gun control, personally attacking another human being (Trump sucks!) etc. then this behavior should absolutely be punished but not a statement that fully aligns with human rights.
Now if someone brings any other kind of politics into such a situation, such as gun control, personally attacking another human being (Trump sucks!) etc. then this behavior should absolutely be punished but not a statement that fully aligns with human rights.
Lol what? In this kind of situations people don't generally need to feel better. The only one generalizing is you.
Fixed your sentence.
I wouldn't call them bad, people are more than one thing and that would be a very narrow minded situation. Your a human being not a ostrich so pretending everything is fine and acting blah I can't hear anything because of games is well sad.
I wanted to say more but since I'm not allowed, at least I'm not willing to fly that close to the sun. Please just stop pretending that you care and just buy your games and play them.
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Activision/Blizzard needs to take a knee here. They need to run a promotion in their games that allows the players to purchase an item that can be displayed in-game that show support for the cause. Umbrellas or if they have any teeth an image like these....
Or if they really have any balls at all they'd take the situation for what it is. People are dying for their freedom. Profits over people?
ALL of the profits of that sold item should then be put towards pro HONG KONG support.
Activision/Blizzard. Let your community have a voice. You just need to supply the microphone.
Or if they really have any balls at all they'd take the situation for what it is. People are dying for their freedom. Profits over people?
ALL of the profits of that sold item should then be put towards pro HONG KONG support.
Activision/Blizzard. Let your community have a voice. You just need to supply the microphone.
This made it to mainstream news coverage, senators from both sides of the aisle wrote a letter openly condemning them. It's obvious they would much rather bow to an oppressive regime for the sake of their bottom line. This isn't something that's just going to magically go away after awhile this is going to affect how people see Blizzard in the long run. The internet doesn't lack long term memory, a few people on the internet want to forget about this so they can justify themselves for buying their games.
Even when it stops being talked about as frequently, this whole situation is going to be forever tied with Blizzard's identity as a company, like Nike and sweatshop labor and Amazon with their warehouse practices.
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Good for you. I'm glad we established that you think my views are invalid by providing, uh, absolutely no points on your own.
Only thing I ask is that maybe you could contribute to the discussion by actually providing counterpoints rather than simply reacting in dismissive nature to someone else's stance. If you think I have zero clue and stuff, just put me onto your ignore list, that feature exists for a reason, just please spare me and others of the dismissive crap because you don't agree with us, especially if all you have to say is "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT" and that's it.
I mean, yeah? How does that apology mean anything without unbanning him?
Same tactic used when people criticize the state of Israel: "stop being antisemitic!"
It's spineless bullshit.
My point was that it still wouldn't be enough for some folks. Obviously should unban him.
*golf claps*
You're only confirming your researching skills are just as good as your writing skills. The point you tried to make, the people saying they take issues with Blizzard are crawling back to them because they released a hype trailer, is trash and based on nothing but your lazy engagement with this subject.
The anger at Blizzard clearly emotionally affected him. Some people are unfortunately taking on too much pity for his emotional appeal because it is the heat of the moment. The others really didn't care about the underlying issue for the anger against Blizzard.
Oh, of course.
I just wanted the peoole doing this to speak up because i would love to hear why they think this strategy will somehow help them.
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I actually follow a shitload of people who said it and what do you know? the bones in their back have dissolved
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You are assuming that I'm being serious about him saying free Hong Kong lol.
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Activision/Blizzard needs to take a knee here. They need to run a promotion in their games that allows the players to purchase an item that can be displayed in-game that show support for the cause. Umbrellas or if they have any teeth an image like these....
Or if they really have any balls at all they'd take the situation for what it is. People are dying for their freedom. Profits over people?
ALL of the profits of that sold item should then be put towards pro HONG KONG support.
Activision/Blizzard. Let your community have a voice. You just need to supply the microphone.
HK prefer the black flag, not the red one as a heads up.
Yeah, I agree with you here. It was just a well crafted PR speech and those short pauses where he was waiting for applause were sickening. Blitzchung is still banned, no action is being taken, they didn´t even say his name or what they are sorry about exactly.
Sorry J. Allen Brack , this is not good enough.
Sorry J. Allen Brack , this is not good enough.
User Banned (5 Days): Modwhining, History of Similar Behavior
Era does not moderate this subject. I'd just go with it.
They originally locked the thread for that exact reason I posted but decided to reopen it.
So let it rock.
My guess is that you don't actually understand what his contract says. The wording is "in blizzard's sole discretion" so you're standing there pretending that blizzard set out some sort of clear rule set when the reality of the matter is that the rules are that blizzard does what blizzard wants.
What a weird thing to say. Like, you care about Hong Kong but not about protesters?
Came to post this so I am glad somone did it.
This video should be a required watch for those not understanding the outrage.
It's kind of telling that you can see the similarities when Jim shows the images of Todd Howard at E3 this year briefly, and how similar they look to this.
They did this to get a positive response. They knew some wouldn't respond so positively unless they said something, this non apology was that. Their way out even if was as empty as could be.
The irony of overwatch, and hero's protecting people from opression and danger, and then Blizzard is just embarassing beyond belief.
The kicker being Overwatch 2's tagline appears to be "Stand Together."
No weirder than people seemingly being more concerned with the duration of his ban than anything else.
Yes, I Heard about that clause. And I suppose they should have said, no political discussions during live or post matches. I also wish they would have been a little more discussion before enforcing the rules. Ultimately they are a private company and can do what they want within US laws and regulations.
Very much so and as you can see around here, it's worked very well.
But here's the thing: they didn't use a clause like they because they, unlike you, know that they've already allowed political speech because it's impossible to define "political speech" in a way that concretely allows them to avoid pissing off China without also making them hypocrites.
More importantly, they didn't do that, so stop defending it.
No one here is saying that blizzard did anything illegal, so it's really weird to bring that up once you've been backed into a corner. It's kind of like being called out for saying something bigoted and then your response is "well I have free speech, so..."
I also expected nothing. I thought they'd just try to drown it out with announcements and hope for the best
Blizzard's non-apology IS worse than Hobbes' original post. Saying it's the opposite is hyperbolic, to downplay the groveling Blizzard did for a fascist state.
Sports being political goes really far back, so you getting hung up on the method like comparing Colin Kaepernick's kneeling as being correct and Blitzchung saying he's in solidarity with freeing Hong Kong is wrong is missing the forest for the trees. You not caring or wanting to hear a pro gamer's politics who happens to live in Hong Kong and is affected by the topic he brings up is very privileged, and screams "no politics in my videogames".