I swear to god if I hear or read the words "bring the world together with epic entertainment" one more time.....
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(Polygon) BlizzCon 2019: Blizzard apologizes for its response to Hong Kong protests
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Why do people keep parroting this bullshit?? Who here said that boycotting blizzard is going to literally free the people of Hong Kong. There's legitimate reasons to be upset with an American company for punishing a Hong Kong citizens for speaking out about what's happening in Hong Kong against the demands of a tyrannical government. Why do I have to blindly accept that and continue to be happy and give blizzard my money when they do shit like that? Why do my actions regarding that become invalid if they don't also somehow save the people of Hong Kong at the same time?
The goal post keeps moving btw, before this apology, before blizz reduces the punishment, the parroted bs was that 'PrOTeSts DoNt Do AnYThiIng BtW'
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The intention was to try and placate customers, seems to me that it's just made things even worse for Blizzard.
Just want to add myself to the pile of fuck Blizzard. Idiots just keep letting China continue to dictate American company discourse. Fuck off!
I mean people bought tickets to this shit before all this stuff went down, so I would've hoped that there would be a good number of people going who actually cared about the situation and were only still going cause they already had tickets and hotels booked. But apparently shitty mobile games are more worth getting angry about than human rights.
Fair play to whoever wrote it as it is probably good enough for fans to go "Look, they apologised!" without Blizzard, ya know, having to do anything.
So whoever wrote it just saved some people a bunch of work.
So whoever wrote it just saved some people a bunch of work.
I think that half fuck you apology is blowing up in there faces. They should've said nothing if this is what they were gonna say
"Please accept this hollow apology we realized just at the start of our event, in the hope you don't make any noise about the issue during these 3 days"
So they didn't have the balls to actually do what they should have?! This is to placate those who wanted to feel better about supporting them still isn't it.
Even if they don't want to get political and directly say they support Hong Kong, they could have at least lift the bans to appease the protest.
Yeah that was a pathetic "apology". I really cringed when I saw his teary eyes and his cracking voice. Don't you see how this poor guy is suffering? Why are you so mean to him and his multi-billion dollar company?
This. So much this!
This was not a apology in any way or form. Nothing was said about China or Hong Kong and what their actions actually mean. This was some seriously condescending, disgusting words to people and acting like you give a fuck and you act like you take people's concern seriously. Like who the fuck cares how your communication was en not the implications from your actions, you China ass eating motherfucker. You can pretend all you want and that you care and that you are going to take any action to fix it without actually doing anything to fix it.
Your face is covered in some China black fucking looking goo and you smell like shit. Stop pretending its chocolate and that you smell like roses. We all know your covered in China's shit.
So once again: Fuck China, Fuck Blizzard and I hope the people responsible and that are okay with it, have a fucking horrible time.
Free Hong Kong!
that was hilarious in how bad it was
it's like they went down the list of what makes a good apology and did the opposite
it's like they went down the list of what makes a good apology and did the opposite
Not bad. I was honestly expecting only a few people with some how hong kong T-shirts and that's it.
They don't want to risk losing a billion potential players if the party bans Blizzard from china. If bliz has to chose between a hundred million worried people and a billion Chinese, they'll take the billion Chinese.
(that's my belief, i may be wrong, but i doubt so).
Anyway, they must be very happy, they know most people don't go beyond headlines... if people only read "Blizzard apologizes for its response to the hong kong incident", it's mission accomplished.
Is that not what's in the pics? A few people with T-shirts (and one cosplayer)?
Most of the folks in the background look like con attendees.
Guess we can't do anything about anything anymore, it's true.
Even if Blizzard rescinded everything they did and publicly supported the protest in spite of its financial burden, it wouldn't stop drug abuse in developed countries.
This is how you sound.
Put me down as yet another person mentioning that the thread title should be fixed to reflect that Blizzard did not actually apologize.
Nop, you are correct. People hide behind companies to to make sure companies get the blame fro choosing money over anything.
The Notepad++ thread had someone posting a list of fortune 500 companies doing business in Xinjiang, and the list was depressing to say the list.
Can you please not "always a bigger fish" this?
People are not asking blizzard to not do business in China, they are asking blizzard to not blatantly censor speech on behalf of China.
Why is that such a difficult concept for you?
Posted from his iPhone. The irony.
glad to see people out doing things they believe in but yeah.
