ZeroGravity
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Here is the original incident for context:
Oh, and they fired the casters too, for good measure.
Another company shamelessly bending over backwards for their Chinese overlords. Been a big week for that and it's only Monday.
Well the full name is Activision Blizzard, so take a guess.Whelp.
Blizzard is one less company getting my money.
Are they still owned by EA and Activison?
Because I'd LOVE another reason to hard boycott them.
China has infiltrated all aspects of the western world. That's why so many game companies are censoring and banning so many things. Because the Chinese want them to. I bet Sony's whole censorship bullshit is all because they want to sell more games in China and want to please the cunt communists. You see the influence of China on campuses etc. corporations etc. in the west. China has been at it for a long long time. Fuck China and fuck all communists
Blizzard and Activision don't make stuff I want to play. Last was Diablo 2 from Blizzard. As for Activision, I haven't bought a game from them since MW1 on 360. The only game that remotely has something to do with Activision's name on it that I own is Sekiro. Luckily that is just publishing and Activision didn't fund etc. anything to do with it. Just the publishing. Activision simply doesn't make stuff I want to play. So I'm happy to not support them or Blizzard in any way. Both are shitYup, no more ActiBlizz games for me ever. We absolutely cannot support this shit.
Sony whole censorship is because USA not China
We don't know this at all. They simply claim it's because different cultures are offended by different things so they take the easy way out.
I don't understand what's the story here. Blizzard is a profit seeking company and it will do what's in its best interests.
I don't understand what's the story here. Blizzard is a profit seeking company and it will do what's in its best interests.
They should have simply ignored it and adopted a wait and see attitude, at the very least. I also disagree this would be actively pissing off China since it's not Blizz making the offensive statementThis. Of course it's morally shitty, but you're delusional if you think a company like Actiblizz is going to actively piss off the Chinese Government.
They should have simply ignored it and adopted a wait and see attitude, at the very least. I also disagree this would be actively pissing off China since it's not Blizz making the offensive statement
You know the feeling when you played Deus Ex back in the days thinking "holy shit, what a nightmare." and today you wake up and realise we are there already?Corporatists. Corporatists never change. They fucking squirm and contort into any position to chase that dollar.
Right and customer outrage is also something that would obviously happen and rightfully so. Time will tell if Blizz desperate moves to compete in China will make up for all the lost goodwill in the west. Personally i think it's a very short sighted, investor driven, strategy that will ultimately lead to their downfallFor one, nobody knows whether or not someone contacted them immediately and demanded action. Honestly, the scale of the reaction here suggests it.
Even if they didn't, choosing to simply ignore something that the government would quite obviously not like is not going to do Blizzard any favours with them.
Again, is it pretty? No, not at all. Does it make sense from a business perspective? Yeah. Not saying what they did was nice, but it seems like an obvious move to me.
Right and customer outrage is also something that would obviously happen and rightfully so. Time will tell if Blizz desperate moves to compete in China will make up for all the lost goodwill in the west. Personally i think it's a very short sighted, investor driven, strategy that will ultimately lead to their downfall