BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers

Post by bovermyer » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

raxxorrax wrote: post #17

bovermyer wrote: post #6

As long as the protesters don't disrupt the experience that I paid for too much, they can do whatever they want. After weighing the facts carefully, I've decided that Blizzard was justified in penalizing the Hearthstone player, justified in penalizing the two casters, and truly abysmal at managing public relations. My position on Hong Kong is unchanged. I'm still firmly of the belief that China needs to grant Hong Ko…

> the experience that I paid for I would feel sorry for you, but you would have to pay me for that too. I ask myself what facts are there to be weighted. I doubt playing along and suddenly China liberalizes is a realistic outlook. But since China wasn't content with keeping their content rules within their own borders, that option quickly became less interesting. And I do believe that warrants a very strong answer. O…

Post by chrisacky » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 2:52 PM UTC

Shivetya wrote: post #29

prepend wrote: post #2

Blizzard president Brack’s statement that their policy limiting player speech is to “ keep the focus on the game and on the tournament." This is curious in such an ad supported game and tournament coverage. Do twitch ads take focus away from the tournament? A five second statement by a player is nothing compared to all the non-game material within and around broadcasts. This seems to me to be some damage reduction st…

They can eliminate the April Fools problem they had last blizzcon by simply lot allowing fans to ask questions direct to the panel but instead have them submitted and chosen. April Fools problem was when a person asking a question chose to comment and ask something else, namely about mobile version of Diablo.

Post by lovetocode » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

Post by dzamie » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 2:57 PM UTC

FDSGSG wrote: post #36

CreepGin wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a statement written for Chinese Authorities. This twitter thread analyzes it pretty well. https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1183215204525412352

>See the date. As others have noted, even thought this post was on Friday, which was the 11th, the date on the post is the 12th, indicating that it was posted from overseas, possibly China. That's not a big deal in and of itself, but let's me talk about how these things are done. Ah yes, UTC == China. Very reasonable logic here! This post was almost certainly made on Fri Oct 11 2019 17:18:58 PDT from Irvine, CA. Ever…

Post by colmvp » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 2:58 PM UTC

entropea wrote: post #44

seanalltogether wrote: post #33

The fact that Blizzard is in a position to throw a 'Con' each year shows that their games and lore are way more highly valued then most games companies. Could you imagine fans paying $230 to visit to an EA exclusive convention each year? Not gonna happen with their reputation. Blizzard is at real risk of losing this community they've fostered for the last 20+ years

> Blizzard is at real risk of losing this community they've fostered for the last 20+ years I'm reminded of that image of people in a Call of Duty boycott on Steam, playing Call of Duty. Blizzard will lose some money over the next couple of weeks, but aren't at a real risk of anything. https://kotaku.com/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-are-play...