Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
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Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
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Re: Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
#2> The specific views expressed by blitzchung were NOT a factor in the decision we made. I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision.
Needless to say, this line has generated a very large amount of snark on social media.
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#3> The specific views expressed by blitzchung were NOT a factor in the decision we made. I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision. Needless to say, this line has generated a very large amount of snark on social media.
It's very Orwellian.
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#4Why would Blizzard bother to lie about this? I guess they're trying to recover from all of the negative press, but it looks like they're just digging themselves into a deeper hole.
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#5I’m not a gamer, but I imagine most are smart enough to see through this cringe-y PR disaster. Late Friday night dump of nonsense corporate speak is painfully predictable. This will do more harm than good. Yikes.
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#6Blizzard:
> If this had been the opposing viewpoint delivered in the same divisive and deliberate way, we would have felt and acted the same.
Also Blizzard:
> We will defend the pride of our nation (that nation being China)
So when will they be terminating the people in their company that posted that announcement on behalf of the company? Oh wait, they won't be, because this company is completely and utterly full of shit. This is a company that will ban players for using naughty words, but won't ban a country from the market place for actual real life atrocities. People like this make me ashamed to be American. Honesty and integrity mean nothing in this country. All people care about is whether you use nice words.
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#7I’m not a gamer, but I imagine most are smart enough to see through this cringe-y PR disaster. Late Friday night dump of nonsense corporate speak is painfully predictable. This will do more harm than good. Yikes.
Oh they absolutely are not. You should see the way people have always, and will always defend this company.
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#8I’m not a gamer, but I imagine most are smart enough to see through this cringe-y PR disaster. Late Friday night dump of nonsense corporate speak is painfully predictable. This will do more harm than good. Yikes.
Oh they absolutely are not. You should see the way people have always, and will always defend this company.
I dunno, the hearthstone subreddit still seems pretty angry...
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#9Not a great look. This line:
> The actions that we took over the weekend are causing people to question if we are still committed to these values. We absolutely are and I will explain.
Is basically saying, "What we did actually exemplifies our values", or maybe saying, "Well actually, our values..."
Combined with the complete lack of acknowledgement of wrongdoing and not addressing their initial online response at all, I don't expect this will smooth things over at all.
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#10I’m not a gamer, but I imagine most are smart enough to see through this cringe-y PR disaster. Late Friday night dump of nonsense corporate speak is painfully predictable. This will do more harm than good. Yikes.
Oh they absolutely are not. You should see the way people have always, and will always defend this company.
Scanning social media, I haven't seen a single gaming influencer say it's a sufficient statement: https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Averified%20https%3A%2F...
The contrarian viewpoint is "what were you expecting?" in which case the reply is "an actual apology."