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You have to kill Winnie the pool per South Park advice. You have to ... there is choice when you have to no freedom.
NBA, Blizzard, who is next?
Title is clickbaity. They did it for a political protest during an official Blizzard tournament stream, not for actions on his own stream or something. He put on a gas mask and called for liberation of HK. I'm with him, but I definitely see why Blizzard has the rule in place, and it would not be right to overlook this - they would then have to be OK with others doing other protests. Blizzard should not pick a side.
Sometimes you just got to voice your opinion [1] Blizzard chose money over human rights and they will have to stand for it themselves. They've already picked a side, money. Now they lost my money though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salu...
I wanted to believe that even despite Activision buying Blizzard, it would stay an awesome company. I should have known better.
Starcraft 1 was the first game I ever bought. I feel sad to have to boycott them now.
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> The act didn't bring Blizzard into public dispute. Like most things these days, that depends on which "public" you're talking about.
Do you have any evidence that the free HK statement itself harmed Blizzard's business?
Title is clickbaity. They did it for a political protest during an official Blizzard tournament stream, not for actions on his own stream or something. He put on a gas mask and called for liberation of HK. I'm with him, but I definitely see why Blizzard has the rule in place, and it would not be right to overlook this - they would then have to be OK with others doing other protests. Blizzard should not pick a side.
Sometimes you just got to voice your opinion [1] Blizzard chose money over human rights and they will have to stand for it themselves. They've already picked a side, money. Now they lost my money though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salu...
Companies are spineless and will do pretty much anything for money. We've seen it from the NBA, Blizzard, Disney, and the like. The fact of the matter is that if you want to do business in China, you have to be open to censoring things that they don't like.
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> Blizzard should not pick a side. Not picking a side is siding with the status quo, which is Chinese oppression in Hong Kong.
Not picking a side is not allowing political discussion, no matter who you (or they) perceive to be right. Coincidentally, this is also the choice that makes most sense to a corporation which stands to lose a lot from picking a side. Players will likely respond to sensationalist reporting of this case, but forget about it soon after, while the Chinese government is not gonna go easy on Blizzard picking the other side…
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He didn't damage their reputation. Blizzard shot themselves in the foot.
That's like, totally your opinion. Blizzard has a huge base in China that is largely invisible to us. As a large (gaming) company you want to stay as neutral as possible, or at least that's what I imagine what large PR firms would consult Blizzard to do.