Nobody has anything to say about Blizzard?

Nobody? =0[.]o=

Fuck Blizzard! I used to respect them :*(

It's really cold? :^)

They overreacted but they might have clauses that stipulate official broadcasts or w/e don't include politics of any kind.

Fuck Blizzard for sure! They have delusions of grandeur if they think they can regulate free speech.

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kolyaboo wrote:

Fuck Blizzard for sure! They have delusions of grandeur if they think they can regulate free speech.

Uh, they can. Organisations having codes of conduct restricting you from doing particular things on their property or while using their services is entirely normal. It isn't "regulating free speech" that's the problem, it's the particular bit of speech they happened to focus on and the consequences they chose for it.

I haven't cared about Blizzard since they dropped the RMAH. If they were going to release a shitty Diablo, at least I could have farmed real money with it. Once the auction house was gone, there was no longer any reason to play that abomination of a game.

Nothing since D2:LoD has been any good.

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GusTheCrocodile wrote:

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kolyaboo wrote:

Fuck Blizzard for sure! They have delusions of grandeur if they think they can regulate free speech.

Uh, they can. Organisations having codes of conduct restricting you from doing particular things on their property or while using their services is entirely normal. It isn't "regulating free speech" that's the problem, it's the particular bit of speech they happened to focus on and the consequences they chose for it.

Yes/No.
Rules present in code of conduct are going up to a certain extent. Law is still the one that cover and limit those.
In short yes a company can deny few things in its code of conduct or whatever legal docs, but it doesn't mean she can do whatever she want and specialy when it come to measures taken, or any other actions related to the situation when somebody breach them.

Now let's resume "situation":
- Player banned for talking about its political stance.
- The two people making the interview got fired up (WTF??)
- Possible attempts at censoring different discussions about this subject on various plateforms.
- Possible attempt at denying customers from applying their right to remove their informations, and accounts (they said it was a technical issue)
- Removing video sequence from their official stream.
(list seems a bit longer :( ).

Yes Chung breached competition rules, but was it necessary to take some extreme measures like that? Against a kid playing video games LUL.
They screwed up hard, and i'm afraid once again the employees are going to be the one to pay the hard price, common case when such things happens.

actiblizzard are an abomination. its hard to really say anything else without breaking some pathetic tos and getting the thread locked...

There is literally nothing to say about Blizzard. It starts as a small company established by few enthusiasts with passion. At first, they made great games, full of vigor, humor and great new ideas, starting with Lost Vikings and Warcraft 1. Later, Diablo 1 appears, which achieved great success and Diablo 2, which achieved gigantic successes. And then these "passionate enthusiasts" decided to cash their success and actually did it.

Their company evolved into a classic, corporate behemoth, whose only rule is "even more money". Sound familiar? It should. That is why now they are only interested in money and nothing else. If meddling in politics would bring them more money than stay away from politics, then company websites would consist of political slogans only. Because Excel spreadsheet showed them that meddling in politics can only bring losses, in their code of conducts they strictly forbade any politics.

What is happening right now is "an action directed towards showing an example". For the first few weeks they may lose some players, but the overall message will be clear. No politics. And professional players who earn on playing will adapt to this, because those who do not adapt will stop being professional players. And any nonsense in the style of freedom of speech or human rights? Sorry, but it does not bring real income to shareholders, while a market with over a billion consumers generates such income. It is not Blizzard that is to blame, it is the "system" that puts profits, profits and only profits first. Do you want to change something? Then start with yourself and your native corporations.