I think that was "inspired" by the same thing that supposedly happened to Anthem development, where they weren't supposed to mention Destiny.
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It especially falls flat considering that the FFXIV devs visited the Blizzard office super recently lol.
God of War action adventure RPG XD
Like, come on, no one can believe that
All that's going to do is get people to mute you. You're not changing anyone's opinion on the games themselves.
If they'd rather mute than acknowledge the actions of the company they are giving their money to, that's on them, not on me.
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only thing here causing me some disgust is you and your posts mate
He's saying that it's literally no effort on their part while you take time to post the same thing and again and again, for better or worse.
Really, my post causes you disgust but genocide doesn't? How about you not attack me and go about your business talking about the game. I have the right to be in this thread and bring up Blizzard's actions, unless the rules have changed.
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Weren't you posting in the threads about Airpods and how you want to buy them for your sister the other day? Did you also give your sister a lecture on how apple removed apps used in Hong Kong protests?
Weren't you posting in the threads about Airpods and how you want to buy them for your sister the other day? Did you also give your sister a lecture on how apple removed apps used in Hong Kong protests?
Lol, the best thing you have is whataboutism.
And to answer your question, yes I did. She's aware of it. She's an exclusively Apple fan unfortunately. Once again, different people have different levels of protest. I'm not going to buy my sister earbuds from another country. Beyond that, almost all consumer electronics are made in China. Just because something is difficult doesn't mean we shouldn't point light to some other thing. What a terrible response. "LOL BUT YOU BUY APPLE PRODUCTS"
Oh great do we need to post that comic again?Weren't you posting in the threads about Airpods and how you want to buy them for your sister the other day? Did you also give your sister a lecture on how apple removed apps used in Hong Kong protests?
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I mean im on a gaming forum here to discuss games; nothin more to it really.
It's not whataboutism when you are basically shitting on people that are not agreeing with you. It's fine if you want to boycott or whatever with blizzard products but attacking people like you are is pretty sad.
Cool, but you being a forum warrior will not change Blizzard's stance, not of people still liking their games because they understand the teams working on those games are not the corporate mindset nor will it free hongkong. And I hope you arw active otherwise because just boycotting Blizzard and then posting free hongkong everywhere does nothing.
Especially not in Blizzard threads dedicated to the games.
Completely incorrect. All of the fuss is what led Blizzard to dial down their punishments in the first place and attempt to put out a comprehensible PR statement. It was because of pressure from fans, the attention they placed in online discussion, social media etc.
It is because they couldn't properly market their games without China being brought up. They would much rather their hype machine not be distracted.
a third person action game turning into another kind of third person action game is a bit less of a step than an isometric game turning into an FPS
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BC and WotLK were by far the greatest mmo days of my life.............fucking glorious.
I hope we get BC classic because so many specs were fixed for that expansion.
Hope some of their new games are optimized better. My rebuild Im finally doing in November is going to be on an Intel 9900KS instead of a 3900x almost solely because of the gulf in HFR performance between chips on Blizzard games.
I feel like a BC classic is a foregone conclusion at this point. The success of classic all but guarantees it. They would seriously be leaving money on the table for no reason.
They even said doing TBC now would be easy with all the work they have done with Classic. So Im almost 100% they will make TBC servers. The real question is will they allow 1 way char transfers to it, or force everyone to level from level 1.
Either way, I can see it succeeding easily.
I feel like a BC classic is a foregone conclusion at this point. The success of classic all but guarantees it. They would seriously be leaving money on the table for no reason.
They even said doing TBC now would be easy with all the work they have done with Classic. So Im almost 100% they will make TBC servers. The real question is will they allow 1 way char transfers to it, or force everyone to level from level 1.
Either way, I can see it succeeding easily.
I would start at level 1 anyways.......the changes to the leveling curve in BC along with better talent progression was a much better experience. To me it was the right balance of time taking to level and having fun. Vanilla can really drag at certain level brackets
Whose that supposed to be in the background left of Mercy (above Tracer)? A new hero? Don't seem to recognize it....Better quality
WoW can be played single player from 1-120 no problem. It's got everything else you mentioned.
That would be so cool. For someone who grew up playing Warcract but bounces off MMOs, I would love to have another game to engage with the Warcraft world in.
As opposed to other video game companies that support an imperialistic capitalist regime and its military industrial complex that kills innocent civilians on daily basis.
Let's be consistent here. Blizzard's action regarding HK is disgusting. But if Blizzard working with the Chinese government should be treated as they're directly supporting the human right crisis in Xinjiang, then every company working with the US government is directly supporting killings of civilians in the Middle East.
I propose that we go to every thread about Hollywood movies to remind people that these companies produced pro military propaganda. Also let's remind everyone that Ubisoft, EA, Bandai Namco, Activision and others paid money to defense contractors. Thus directly supporting the making of tools that killed civilians.
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As a gaming enthusiast, I can use these same words- "I'm here to discuss games" - to explain why I'm more conscious and feel more personal responsibility in regards to the politics of video games than the countless other products that I interface with way more casually, and I appreciate that mindful gaming talk in core gaming spaces.
Not that I'm not flawed with my video game consumption. I'll be ambivalent, but I know I'm going to enjoy aspects of the festivities of the OW2 reveal most likely.
i know, it looked bad then tooEcho's design has been known since last Blizzcon
We really do need a single player open world RPG Blizzard game. It's the one genre they have never tackled.
Surely they can compete with Bethesda and CDPR; heck, even Rockstar.
They got the pockets to go all-in on a AAA epic.
And maybe a completely new IP, not just another Warcraft/Diablo/Starcraft retread.
Surely they can compete with Bethesda and CDPR; heck, even Rockstar.
They got the pockets to go all-in on a AAA epic.
And maybe a completely new IP, not just another Warcraft/Diablo/Starcraft retread.
uggh pls no, those game are all taking like 8 years of dev time, use that time in Overwatch and Diablo pls
Yep a big open world rpg and a 3rd person action game. The latter they clearly had interest in or Ghost would have never been something they wanted to make in the first place.
Pretty disappointed their OW story game is just gonna be another fps. Would have loved a cool 3rd person shooter/action game with you going through different characters in the story. Post launch dlc would be stories other characters that weren't the main focus in the story. Regular OW would get maps and skins based on big events that happened in the story.
gimme this with Widowmaker
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yes but give me a modern reboot, give us the warcraft story from the beginning, and make it a AAA action rpg game. New visuals, etc. not MMO, not MMO lite, but a single player action RPG that is AAA.
It really saddens me how normally I'd be hyped but instead I'm just more disgusted with blizzard trying to sweep this all under the rug.
I really don't get the need for whataboutism.
My point is that post "Free Hong Kong" all you want, whatever that means. ("Five key demands, no one less." is more appropriate. "Free HK" doesn't really reflect what the protesters are actually demanding.) Saying Blizzard is somehow supporting genocide because they banned blitzchung is hyperbolic. By the same logic, all AAA video game companies are in some way supporting some atrocity.
You don't know how immeasurably disappointed I've always been that Overwatch wasn't an XCOM-like tactics game where you use the full suite of characters to create incredibly varied squads and combinations with tons of unit differentiation. It's called Overwatch, for crying out loud.
Such an incredible world and aesthetic design, relegated to cinematic shorts and wasted on a multiplayer-only FPS.
I don't get why you would double down on whataboutism, but okay. Blizzard's policy is to defend the honor of China, so they will continue to defend the oppression and genocide. They had an opportunity to apologize and state they stand with Hong Kong and basics human rights. Instead they blamed the player and the casters for the incident.
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There is active complicity and passive complicity. Reprimanding Blitzchung in a clear show of force and appeasement is active complicity. Saying that Blizzard supports genocide is hyperbole, but what we know for certain—not only with their Hearthstone action, but with prior actions like referring to the Taiwanese Overwatch team as "Chinese Taipei"—is that Blizzard applies their own internal policies, within their own power and jurisdiction, to concord with China's national interest. It's fair play to emphasize that this particular national interest, writ broadly, is not okay.
When people bring up the ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang, that is shorthand for saying: remember which country we're dealing with here, and which country businesses are tripping over themselves to enable.
That was from NetEase, the operator of Hearthstone in China. Blizzard China's statement didn't include that.
It was through an official blizzard account and they have not refuted it. Nor have they come out and said they don't side with oppression of human rights.
It wasn't though. Hearthstone account is registered under NetEase.
Who owns Hearthstone? Blizzard. It is their job if that statement is not in line with their policies to put out one of their own rebuking the notion and saying they would stand with human rights.
Until they do that and apologize, we know Blizzard stands for oppression and genocide.