Blizzcon 2019 - Blizzard Games

For those of us playing Blizzard games.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Expansion
Overwatch 2
Diablo IV

World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies - MMO-Champion

Yeah everyone should get behind a company that cares more about money (PRC) than freedom (HK Protestors).

Activision and Blizzard both can go jump off a cliff in my book.

#FreeHongKong

hunterp said:

For those of us playing Blizzard games.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Expansion
Overwatch 2
Diablo IV

World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies - MMO-Champion

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Did the protest at the actual event happen? I missed the live stream. Heard on Kotaku that they tried to say they were leaving the political crap out but they didnt 100% confirm it.

I stand hong with kong

Silverstrike said:

Yeah everyone should get behind a company that cares more about money (PRC) than freedom (HK Protestors).

Activision and Blizzard both can go jump off a cliff in my book.

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Eh, without going too much into it, the player broke the rules of the event and instead of using his time to celebrate his win, he made it political on a Blizzard stream/event. Why should Blizzard get involved with the political issues of another country? Not their problem.

Every company in the gaming business cares about money, lol. Who cares. They make entertaining games and people shouldn't expect more from them other than that, really.

Back to the OP - Very excited for D4. Getting tired of WoW, but, I'll probably get the expansion anyway, haha.

Been playing Overwatch since it came out, but cannot wait for D4. **** politics when it comes to video games. Its the only peace we have from all the garbage going on in the world.

kevinatfms said:

Did the protest at the actual event happen? I missed the live stream. Heard on Kotaku that they tried to say they were leaving the political crap out but they didnt 100% confirm it.

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I don't know if there was a protest or not. There may have been something going on outside. Blizzard did address it during the opening ceremony and basically said they screwed up and should have handled it differently.

Grabber said:

Eh, without going too much into it, the player broke the rules of the event and instead of using his time to celebrate his win, he made it political on a Blizzard stream/event. Why should Blizzard get involved with the political issues of another country? Not their problem.

Every company in the gaming business cares about money, lol. Who cares. They make entertaining games and people shouldn't expect more from them other than that, really.

Back to the OP - Very excited for D4. Getting tired of WoW, but, I'll probably get the expansion anyway, haha.

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I plan on getting all three. Been hoping that Blizzard would do a PVE story for Overwatch. The cinematics were pretty awesome. Blizzard probably has the best cinematics team in the biz.

Did anyone have jokes about the Diablo mobile game?

Grabber said:

Eh, without going too much into it, the player broke the rules of the event and instead of using his time to celebrate his win, he made it political on a Blizzard stream/event. Why should Blizzard get involved with the political issues of another country? Not their problem.

Every company in the gaming business cares about money, lol. Who cares. They make entertaining games and people shouldn't expect more from them other than that, really.

Back to the OP - Very excited for D4. Getting tired of WoW, but, I'll probably get the expansion anyway, haha.

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Downplaying this a bit aren't we?

He did not spout rhetoric, he specifically said I stand with Hong Kong. That's it. Nothing more. Other streamers and players have found themselves banned for similar basic comments. The irony is Blizzard hasn't banned anyone for speech like this before, so in this instance it's very clear the puppet on a string nature of this stance they took.

IronSnake said:

Downplaying this a bit aren't we?

He did not spout rhetoric, he specifically said I stand with Hong Kong. That's it. Nothing more. Other streamers and players have found themselves banned for similar basic comments. The irony is Blizzard hasn't banned anyone for speech like this before, so in this instance it's very clear the puppet on a string nature of this stance they took.

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Not really, I gave the short version of it.

Either way, I stand firm, politics should not be in video games, period.

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Not really, I gave the short version of it.

Either way, I stand firm, politics should not be in video games, period.

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Politics are video games.

Zerg vs Terran vs Protoss in starcraft is a war of politics and domination
COD is entirely political

Every game has a hierarchical structure, and telling someone that politics only applies in fake environments but not in real ones is complete BS.

I wish they'd make another Warcraft RTS, but with the cash cow that WOW is I just don't see it happening.

kevinatfms said:

Did anyone have jokes about the Diablo mobile game?

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No, they didn't really say much about it this time, but I hear that they had demos you could play.

IronSnake said:

Politics are video games.

Zerg vs Terran vs Protoss in starcraft is a war of politics and domination
COD is entirely political

Every game has a hierarchical structure, and telling someone that politics only applies in fake environments but not in real ones is complete BS.

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While I agree the content of video games is politics, I still do not agree that when you go to a PRIVATE event and bring something in that has nothing to do with the game, the event, etc. even remotely, that is over the line.

It would be the same thing if someone here went to an even like this and instead of discussing what they participated in, they said "MAGA".

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While I agree the content of video games is politics, I still do not agree that when you go to a PRIVATE event and bring something in that has nothing to do with the game, the event, etc. even remotely, that is over the line.

It would be the same thing if someone here went to an even like this and instead of discussing what they participated in, they said "MAGA".

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I agree that on their platform they have final say. The issue is they have different rules for different regions and gave into China's demands to protect their bottom line at the expense of players. Just like the NBA Blizzard is willing to look the other way and are getting called out for it. A US team at a US event did the exact same thing and instead of getting a ban and keeping the prize money they got invited to the next event. This is from Blizzard China twitter account and tell me that this isn't politically motivated?

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