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Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by hnick »

slenk wrote: post #70
jdoliner wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly how they're going to bounce back from it, it's going to be easy for the game companies, and it's going to work great. Or, more likely, they won't have to bounce back from it at all. The people cancelling their accounts will be back within a month. Gamers will tolerate anything, unless there's a better game that they'd rather play they're not going anywhere.

Disagree - we hurt the sales of Battlefront 2. And I think there are gamers, like me, who haven't paid money to Blizzard in a while because I don't subscribe to anything Blizzard, but I already own a bunch of games. What should I do?

I guess you could vote with your wallet by buying from a leading competitor instead. It won't hurt them directly, but market position matters to them. They will probably notice it about as much as one lost sale :(

Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by nordsieck »

snagglegaggle wrote: post #73
apotheon wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would probably be more meaningful to cancel registration, and maybe even picket the place wearing that stuff (or at least post photos of wearing that gear on social media announcing they cancelled their registrations for the convention).

The tickets and accommodations are nonrefundable.

Not sure about accommodations, but the tickets are definitely not refundable.

> Tickets to BlizzCon, once purchased, cannot be refunded by the purchaser or exchanged;

https://blizzcon.com/en-us/event-info/attendees/ticket-agree...

Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by jammygit »

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

If that's real, that's a surprisingly bad PR move from Blizzard. I understand this was targeted at a Chinese audience (since Weibo) but they must have known this would get back to their English speaking audience almost immediately. There has to be a better balance then "We will always respect and defend the pride of our country" (even if that is a slight mistranslation).

They had to apologize to SOMEBODY, and they chose Chinese censors. The bad publicity is incredible so far, there are 5 top stories on reddit at the moment

Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by twno1 »

secraetomani wrote: post #33
loceng wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed - did Blizzard staff post this willingly or was this posted on Blizzard's Weibo account via Weibo staff or even someone else who followed an order? They certainly want to make the Blizzard game fans fall in line thinking Blizzard is aligning with China's tyrants' orders.

Is there any recorded instance of Weibo stuff forcefully posting on behalf of an account?

I really hate this but it's our everyday life to see actor or singer we love they need to apology to China on their social media almost every month.

These stars from Taiwan who have PRs in China, their Weibo wall may have post they do not agree automatically. That's because these PRs in China work so hard to doing their damage control job before everything goes wrong. I think years before, this may worked in China.

But something changed recently. There are too many "internet red guards" in China. They want to use the same criteria to censor whole world by VPN the great wall. Once "internet red guards" target a company or star, they will dig everything they don't like(maybe 5 years ago!!) and post inside the wall. Then they encourage everyone in China boycott it. After that, government have excuse to suspend someones business. That's why Morey's twit cause NBA so much.

And I don't think situation like this that Weibo post of Blizzard will do any help once Blizzard they need to apology to people outside of china. But we don't see Blizzard have any announcement to us yet. I think this PR post or discussion inside great wall is a clever move that control Blizzard international. They want Blizzard to say nothing or it will cause them more damage in China.

for our everyday life reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/asia/taiwan-china-s...

Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by [deleted] »

WilTimSon wrote: post #41

Gaming companies have messed up and lost gamers' trust in so many different ways: predatory microtransactions, oodles of crappy DLC, half-finished products being shipped with huge Day 1 patches, etc. But all those were directly related to the industry and could at least be bounced back from if the company removed transactions/made meaningful DLC/improved the state of their games in the future. How the hell do you bou…

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Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by joelx »

hnick wrote: post #81
slenk wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagree - we hurt the sales of Battlefront 2. And I think there are gamers, like me, who haven't paid money to Blizzard in a while because I don't subscribe to anything Blizzard, but I already own a bunch of games. What should I do?

I guess you could vote with your wallet by buying from a leading competitor instead. It won't hurt them directly, but market position matters to them. They will probably notice it about as much as one lost sale :(

Boycott Blizzard and tell all your friends to do the same.

Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by mr_khadaji »

Blizzard you had a choice to make, you could of been the gaming company leading the charge in freedom and human rights, (you have enough fucking oney tbh) But no you decided to make just a little more money instead of becomeing the coolest fucking gaming company to ever exist. Blizz if you supported BlitzChung, i guarantee your sales would of went up waaaaaaaay more then the entire chinese market is worth u shit for brains. There is more in the world supporting democracy then not supporting it. Blizzard you guys suck i would FIRE whoever made those decisions to ban him.

Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by pojzon »

Simulacra wrote: post #79

Absolutely shameful. Blizzard is chasing the dollars, or should I say the yuan, and turning their backs on customers, players, and ultimately human rights.

Most of the world is doing the same unfortunately and I dont see anyone screaming about that.

Yes, its that bad and people think mostly about themselves. If something does not impact you directly it does not exist.

Re: Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

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Post by pojzon »

henry_bone wrote: post #66

It might be time for democratic countries to consider not trading with China. China is totalitarian and marxist and is therefore incompatible with democratic values. But still democratic governments and corporations aim to trade with China because it's a massive market and there's plenty of money to be made. The Australian Prime Minister is between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, China is our major trade pa…

Thing is China already got rich by trading with rest of the world. Their middle class amounts to like 50% of total population.

The way China spends that money is very smart - they will be self sustained soon by buying up Africa.

They dont care about rest of the world, they dont have to. Soon not USA but China will be the biggest imperium on Earth.

Thats how more or less cards look like now.

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