Blizzard General News

[Tomiko]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/co..._or_something/

[Silenka]

https://twitter.com/SGBluebell/statu...147052544?s=19

Yeah, this was immediately apparent to me while reading the statement as well. This statement was largely written by China and the president's name is just stamped on the thing. Anyone with a background in Asian language translation would have a lot of red flags set off right away, and I mean in the very first sentence with the Asian ellipsis. That . . . is something I associate with Asian type and not with any sort of Western convention. It only gets worse from there. (Ironically, "prizing" is what a lot of people say tipped them off, but prizing is a perfectly fine, if rarely used English word). Not to mention the whole thing is formatted like dogshit, and there's no actual apology or admittance of wrongdoing. Calling what blitzchung said "divisive" is also a tip-off imo, as it's only divisive from China's point of view. The cherry on top is Blizz neither acknowledged nor rescinded what Netease said on their behalf, that they would "always uphold the values of China" or whatever.

Blizzard is run by the Chinese.

[Salodin]

I always thought blizzard would get owned by the koreans =(

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[Fiye]

I always thought blizzard would get owned by the koreans =(

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If Samsung game two fucks about video games they would've already owned them lol

[Corrderio]

I wonder how badly BlizzCon will get raided. I'd love if someone who watches Metokur really does dress up as Whinnie the Pooh

[Salodin]

Idk how they're gonna make blizzcon safe from this...

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[silverdragontyr]

They could easily just not let anyone dressed as Pooh or HK Support Mei in, regardless if they have a ticket, but there would be blowback. I mean there is basically no way for them to not have some sort of bad publicity from Blizzcon. There is shooting yourself in the foot, then there is standing on a landline for fun.

[Fiye]

Idk how they're gonna make blizzcon safe from this...

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They're going to go NBA about this. Keep HK propaganda outside and if someone does shit inside the convention center they'll toss them out.

Pretty easy to keep stuff out with a 5-10 sec delay ala superbowl wardrobe malfunction.

[Fiye]

They already got owned by last year so I wasn't expecting an open Q&A session either.

[fantasticdan]

Reminder that blizzcon isn't using physical tickets anymore, but rather a smartphone app that can access your contacts and track your precise location.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/...martphone-app/

I'm not sure there is anyway they could really stop a protest at blizzcon, short of cancelling it altogether. They've previously screened and preapproved panel questions, but last year somebody already lied about their question, than went up and asked if diablo mobile was an april fools joke. I wouldn't be surprised if people that got the mic for things like that this year will all be crowd plants, but what could they do to stop people from chanting, booing, wearing anti-china/pro-hong kong shirts, holding up signs, memeing mei cosplayers, etc?

They gonna strip search people? Physically remove them from the event while others record it on their phones? Ban phones? I can't think of any answers that wouldn't make the situation even worse for blizzard.

[guartz]

Fucking China, we should like trade war their ass or something.

[Ksandra]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/co..._or_something/

This is A+. 5/7 Would watch again.

[guartz]

There was this funny "blizzard response" reaction video with Mark Kern & Quartering in a live stream but for the life of me I can't find it.

[Fiye]

Has Mark Kern done anything since abysmally failing at Firefall?

[arus2001]

https://twitter.com/NintendoNYC/stat...40424467173378

Blizzard cancelled 10/16 Switch launch event in NYC.

[Salodin]

They gonna cancel blizzcon too? Lmao

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[Gokulo]

[Prothescar]

Nintendo cast all the blame onto Blizzard with their tweet so it was 100% Blizzard's call.

[Corrderio]

I've been meaning to ask, is Paladins any good? Or does it get repetitively dull like OW?

[Melena]

From what i've heard from multiple people is it's a reskinned overwatch, with a lot of the hero's functionality being almost identical to overwatch.