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And I will never purchase another game until they start making good ones again. That is far bigger sin than refusing to be political about Hong Kong.
People have died and many are missing due to the Hong Kong situation. That's more important than a game.
Mark Kern (ex-lead WoW dev, and dev for Starcraft/Warcraft/Diablo 2) posted a good analysis of Blizzard's statement on Blitzchung. https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1183215204525412352?ref_sr...
The huge question here is what's going to happen at BlizzCon in two weeks. There'll be 40,000+ attendees, cameras everywhere, there are usually Q&A panels, homemade signs for player support, cosplay, everything. How can you host BlizzCon when you're terrified of political speech?
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FYI, for folks who aren't familiar, Mark Kern's history also includes full throated support of GamerGate and being removed from a CEO role at Red 5 by the board of directors. (Allegedly for erratic and disruptive behavior.) It's been a really, really wild ride seeing lefty twitter and righty twitter hold hands and agree that Blizzard did the wrong thing. (Though for different reasons.)
Interesting, can you link to a proof that he supported the harassment of female developers since apparently, "Gamergate" was a harassment campaign against female game developers. It should be easy to quote a tweet where he celebrates the harassment of female game developers, instead of making people take your word for it. Also what do you think is more relevant? your "Gamergate petty bullshit" or the fact that Mark K…
but you people can't help it
Personal attacks are all you know
We need to impose an 80% repatriation tax on any profits earned in China in order to offset the damages done to our domestic freedom of speech. China should not be able to control society outside of its own walls, yet they have blatantly influenced the behavior of our biggest mass media companies for years. To be fair, they've done an outstanding job of it. They fund a huge number of film productions. They've bought…
> They've bought out our cinema chains and gaming companies. All the while we never once see China portrayed as an enemy. I agree with most of what you say, but as a Dane who grew up watching Hollywood movies portraying America, it’s also a little funny for this particular part, to be happening to America. Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather be manipulated into liking a free society than a dictatorship, but I’m sure you f…
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People have died and many are missing due to the Hong Kong situation. That's more important than a game.
I don't live in China or Hong Kong so I insist on being able to live my life without having a position about all remote kerfuffles.
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> FYI, for folks who aren't familiar, Mark Kern's history also includes full throated support of GamerGate and being removed from a CEO role at Red 5 by the board of directors. (Allegedly for erratic and disruptive behavior.) how are these relevant to the subject at hand, particularly the second issue? it comes across like fnords
Because it's fairly common to signal boost someone who you may or may not agree with, and having the information can be useful for someone who previously was unaware?
The huge question here is what's going to happen at BlizzCon in two weeks. There'll be 40,000+ attendees, cameras everywhere, there are usually Q&A panels, homemade signs for player support, cosplay, everything. How can you host BlizzCon when you're terrified of political speech?
How do you respond when a character from your top grossing game is turned into a political meme? This is what Blizzard has been learning this week. How do you handle potentially thousands of attendees, at your organization's biggest annual event, turning it into a platform for political protest agaisnt your biggest growing market? There's three possible events: BlizzCon is canceled. Extremely unlikely but possible. B…
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You name two countries and then an obscure state. What's the deal with Utah?
Well, it might be that it is effectively a theocracy because a church with a strongly enforced normative code of "morality" controls access to political levers (practically requiring membership for anyone who wants to effect political change of any kind), and that church exerts a 10-15% tax on its members? Which it then uses (in parallel to the "official" state government) to invest in projects and consolidate its ow…