Blizzard To Address Blitzchung Incident "Shortly"

[Deleted member 18944]

This post will be updated with their statement when it is made live.

 

[chadskin]

Hobbes
Incident Manager

 

[Deleted member 2791]

more hyped for this than any e3 press conference

 

[jviggy43]

Getting my popcorn and Mei memes ready.

 

[Chromie]

Fuck them. They're a company. Whatever affects their bottom line the most is all they care about.

 

[Deleted member 18944]

Hobbes
Incident Manager

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tbh i would have managed this incident better xd

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

"Screw you guys, I'm going home!"

 

[Admiral Woofington]

We at Blizzard hear you and are proud to announce.

Diablo Mobile. Gacha edition.

 

[Deleted member 58846]

Nothing they can say can make this worse

 

[Milennia]

Waiting on baited breath for this PR ridden word soup

 

[Zips]

Making an announcement super late in the day on the Friday of a holiday weekend?

It's impossible to roll my eyes any damn harder.

 

[Hybris]

popcorn.gif

 

[WestEgg]

Nothing they can say can make this worse

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Saving this for when they inevitably make it worse

 

[Y2Kev]

Yep Friday night.

 

[ChippyTurtle]

more hyped for this than any e3 press conference

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Hate to say it, yup. I'll either be reinstalling Classic WoW or deleting my Battle.net account in a few hours.

 

[Vylder]

No idea what to expect.

 

[data west]

Fuck them. They're a company. Whatever affects their bottom line the most is all they care about.

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I mean we're more interested in seeing whose money they care about more

 

[jaymzi]

Most entertainment Blizzard has provided since......Diablo mobile announcement at Blizzcon last year.

 

[Deleted member 42105]

Making an announcement super late in the day on the Friday of a holiday weekend?

It's impossible to roll my eyes any damn harder.

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yup, we all know what's about to go down. Those fucks.

 

[Hailinel]

*J Allen Brack walks on camera, screeches, runs*

 

[Loan Wolf]

Hope the boycott from the Western market has more ramifications than being complicit with the CCP.

 

[Theswweet]

Worth noting today is a Friday. Probably not gonna be a response people will want to hear...

 

[kirbyfan407]

What I once heard from a businessman is that you release your bad news on Friday. A Friday evening statement doesn't inspire confidence in me or make me think they have confidence in their own statement.

 

[JahIthBer]

"We are massive hypocrites who want to pretend to care about everyone's voice, but not when it threatens our money, just deal with it"

 

[Grimminski]

Yep Friday night.

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*bangs clipboard*

NEWS DUMP
NEWS DUMP
NEWS DUMP

 

[Mr Spasiba]

Gotta run it by the boy Xi first

 

[Lumines]

Worth noting today is a Friday. Probably not gonna be a response people will want to hear...

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My thoughts exactly. The timing is too on the nose.

 

[udivision]

No idea what to expect.

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I'm betting all my cash on a firm pro-HK statement.

I don't have any cash, thankfully.

 

[WestEgg]

Resend the ban and money, apologize to Hong Kong, and permakill Sylvanas and we can start over Blizzard.

 

[TheYanger]

I'm betting all my cash on a firm pro-HK statement.

I don't have any cash, thankfully.

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A statement that doesn't involve actually rehiring the casters and giving back the money is a non-statement.

 

[Technosteve]

Please buy our Pro Hong Kong card back

 

[Deleted member 21709]

I'm betting all my cash on a firm pro-HK statement.

I don't have any cash, thankfully.

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No way.

 

[Dalik]

 

[Deleted member 10629]

A delicious nothing burger for dinner it seems

 

[Deleted member 2791]

Nothing they can say can make this worse

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oh they absolutely can
double down without providing any remedies for what happened is basically bracing hell for blizzcon

 

[MCD]

They probably will play Mei's Sorry Sorry Sorry voice line for 10min non stop.

 

[Mashy]

Here we go. I honestly doubt they will do anything mindblowing. Surprise me blizz.

 

[HockeyBird]

Prediction time?

Will give him his prize money and shorten his suspension but a "while we respect freedom of speech he still broke the rules so suspension does need to happen". Please look forward to Blizzcon.

 

[Deleted member 58846]

I bet it will be "We should keep politics out of games, games are what we are about", or something else shitty to that effect which completely sidesteps addressing the problem.

 

[Flandy]

who are you OP and what did you do with Hobbes' avatar

 

[Meg Cherry]

At this point, would reversing the ban/prize dispute even solve the issue? The problem isn't that one guy was banned from playing Hearthstone, it was that Blizzard showed their cards with regards to what they're willing to do when profitability is on the line.

 

[Dream Machine]

just this gif

 

[Randomly Generated]

Yeah, if this was going to be good they wouldn't have waited until Friday night.

 

[NotLiquid]

I expect nothing

 

[Dmax3901]

Maybe I can stop clogging up their customer service team with tickets.

 

[Poppy]

i am ready to be disappointed

more

 

[Deleted member 18944]

who are you OP and what did you do with Hobbes' avatar

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Fuck my bad, I will add it back.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Worth noting today is a Friday. Probably not gonna be a response people will want to hear...

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I got the audio leak from the video they'll drop, it sounds like this.

 

[GranddadFreeman]

New gay overwatch character

 

[Grimminski]

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[Deleted member 18944]

Fuck my bad, I will add it back.

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Thanks Fat4all