Last edited by Alvito; 2019-10-08 at 08:59 PM.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
One year ban, a bit too much yeah. But also,
Keep your fucking politics out of video game related stuff. Its that simple. It isn't a free platform to say what you want like people somehow think it is when there are rules and contracts. He broke the rules, he got punished(excessively a bit). Its that simple. A lot of people are acting like Blizzard is so horrible and opposes the protests(which are a bit much in some areas), when the main thing they strive to do is keep politics out of their games.
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/11...464305665?s=20
ex-vanilla wow dev chips in
Shameful. Disgusting. Cowardly.
The guy is better than any schmuck yesman ass kissing devoid of ideas dev working at blizzard now.
classic wow & d2, some of the best blizzard has ever made, so good they had to bring classic back! and diablo 2 > diablo 3 > diablo immortal.
Of course blizzard disagrees because those old games lack MTX, which is the only reason to make a game in 2019, loot boxes content = best content!
Your example is not the same thing, what you are talking about is destroying property with spray paint on a physical object which has nothing to do as a medium for communication. The purpose of a camera and an interview is to serve as communication mediums to the public, and punishing someone on ambiguous grounds for a small statement is censurship and against freedom of expressing ones opinion - keep in mind that we are not talking about opinions that oppress a people group - like if the person saluting hitler, at most it insults a government which one should be able to voice their disdain over (even if that was not the purpose of the interview).
Oh, the poor Chinese players. You mean the ones who've gotten fat and happy off The Party's indiscretions. Because that's the only way you're affording Bli$$ard's MTX heavy products in China, not by working in a sweatshop for slave wages and barely being able to afford food and clothing. I guess that's all too familiar to these left-leaning tech firms in the Bay Area, though. Funny how we don't have to pack people into studio apartments like sardines to make ends meet in red states. Hmm.
Sorry, but I'm gonna keep voting Republican because they're the only ones willing to stick it to China and the short-sighted megacorps suckling its teats, even if I don't think tariffs are going to be terribly effective because God knows Apple and Samsung are not going to take profit hits on their absurd $1000 smartphones lightly and all the iZombies will pile out of Starbucks with their protest signs. It's too much fun to watch "progressive" pundits whine about it and then denounce Hong Kong while defending Antifa thugs with the same breath.
OMG 13:37 - Then Jesus said to His disciples, "Cleave unto me, and I shall grant to thee the blessing of eternal salvation."
And His disciples said unto Him, "Can we get Kings instead?"
People have been fired over flashing the WP symbol. Would you defend this on the basis of a freedom of expressing one's opinion?
Keep in mind the context of the interview - the guy dressed up as a protestor and said their slogan. It's one thing if the interview went down with him saying he wants to bring up the HK issue and his personal beliefs, and another to be making a scene out of it for shits and giggles.
I think this was a joke done in bad taste gone very wrong. There are very offensive connotations to that. It may not be oppressive, but it's very offensive in context to a wide group.
Blizzard in China is not controlled at all by Blizzard in the USA. Just a heads up for you. Not one person who made that decision lives outside of China, and the decision was made by the Chinese version of Blizzard, which is ran by the Chinese Government.
No I don't agree with what they did, but Americas hands are tied
I'm confused.
Using Blizzards China's platform, he knowingly and wittingly injected his own agenda and political opinions into a live broadcast. It caused a media shit storm. Good for him. This is why he did it.
If this guy was from the states and was talking about concerns over the tax increase of insulin -- and shouted "PEOPLE NEED INSULIN! GET LOBBYISTS OUT OF GOVERNMENT! GET BIG PHARMA OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT" the result would have been the same from Blizzards actions.
Would any of you care? No.
[QUOTE=Triceron;51689837]People have been fired over flashing the WP symbol. /QUOTE]
imagine being so full of bullshit that you have to distort events to attempt make a point, pathetic and shameless.
Indeed. I have no lost love for China at all, but anyone who thinks there was any other way this could end is incredibly naive at best. Blizzard isn't in the business of sticking it to the Chinese government, it's in the business of making money out of their games, and China is way too big a market to feasibly ignore. There's no way in hell they would put some small-time pro gamer over their largest playerbase. I would expect someone with, say, a MAGA hat shouting pro-Trump slogans to be punished in the exact same way.
Basically, if you expect a gaming company to stand up for your morals, you gonna have a bad time. The guy who was interviewed played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.