Whenever news like this gets posted on social media I get a kick out of all the gamers absolutely incensed that a company would “kowtow to the CCP” to continue making money in China. Like, yeah no shit these multi-billion dollar corporations will follow the regulations and don’t care about “making a statement” or whatever lol.
My favorite so far was that one esports guy who said some kind of pro-HK riots comment in an interview and Blizzard dropped him like a hot potato. Stuff like that wouldn’t happen if capital ran things in China like they do in the US. I wish I lived in a country with a communist party powerful enough to make foreign companies scared of getting on its bad side.
Schrodinger’s gamer, simultaneously pissed about predatory addiction baiting and lootboxes in gaming and pissed at the only people on the planet actually doing anything about it
Whenever news like this gets posted on social media I get a kick out of all the gamers absolutely incensed that a company would “kowtow to the CCP” to continue making money in China. Like, yeah no shit these multi-billion dollar corporations will follow the regulations and don’t care about “making a statement” or whatever lol.
My favorite so far was that one esports guy who said some kind of pro-HK riots comment in an interview and Blizzard dropped him like a hot potato. Stuff like that wouldn’t happen if capital ran things in China like they do in the US. I wish I lived in a country with a communist party powerful enough to make foreign companies scared of getting on its bad side.
Schrodinger’s gamer, simultaneously pissed about predatory addiction baiting and lootboxes in gaming and pissed at the only people on the planet actually doing anything about it
In the end racism and anti-communism are more pressing needs to gamers than actually getting better games.