I'll be honest, I haven't paid attention to much beyond the Hearthstone announcements, but I really can't bring myself to actually care about anything being presented here. It's granted that I...
I'll be honest, I haven't paid attention to much beyond the Hearthstone announcements, but I really can't bring myself to actually care about anything being presented here. It's granted that I mostly only follow Hearthstone developments as is – I stopped caring about Overwatch and WoW years ago, and Diablo never appealed to me – but even then, despite the fact that this coming expansion to HS has some of the most meaningful (albeit insanely power-creeped) content the game has seen in years, I still can't care for it.
The game finally got a new gamemode, will give away 5 free legendaries on expac launch, and has finally got reasonably valuable pre-order bundles that don't look like ripoffs. But even with all of that, I'm still pissed. With how Activision/Blizzard has been the past year, I cannot possibly justify spending any money on any of this.
I know J. Allen Brack made an apology as one of the first things in Blizzcon, but until I see actual actions to back it up, that apology is completely worthless to me. Acti/Blizz is still the company that fired HotS eSports staff out-of-the-blue right before Christmas, still the company that responded to record profits with mass layoffs, and still the company that banned a player for supporting Hong Kong just so they could keep profiting from China.
I'm curious what the fan reaction would be if they suspended a player for endorsing a political opinion more controversial in the west. If, for example, Blitzchung yelled out "abortion is murder"...
I'm curious what the fan reaction would be if they suspended a player for endorsing a political opinion more controversial in the west. If, for example, Blitzchung yelled out "abortion is murder" or "black lives matter".
Wanting to maintain civility at these events is a good reason to discourage political discourse, given how obnoxiously toxic these topics inevitably become. I take a much bigger issue with the severity of Blizzard's reaction to this particular instance and their obvious kowtowing to the PRC than I do with the idea of them enforcing this policy.
That greentext is very obviously fake drivel that someone wrote to rile up the 4chan demographic. Just look at all the rants about "outrage culture" in the Overwatch 2 segment.
That greentext is very obviously fake drivel that someone wrote to rile up the 4chan demographic. Just look at all the rants about "outrage culture" in the Overwatch 2 segment.
Everything about it read like a 4chan wet dream of reasons to hate any company. The poster was clearly an alt-right nutjob. The only part of his "leak" that came to fruition was the claim that...
Everything about it read like a 4chan wet dream of reasons to hate any company. The poster was clearly an alt-right nutjob. The only part of his "leak" that came to fruition was the claim that Overwatch 2 was co-op PvE, which had already been rumored since Junkenstein 2016. He also claimed Diablo 4 was a looter shooter, which it clearly isn't.
I'll be honest, I haven't paid attention to much beyond the Hearthstone announcements, but I really can't bring myself to actually care about anything being presented here. It's granted that I mostly only follow Hearthstone developments as is – I stopped caring about Overwatch and WoW years ago, and Diablo never appealed to me – but even then, despite the fact that this coming expansion to HS has some of the most meaningful (albeit insanely power-creeped) content the game has seen in years, I still can't care for it.
The game finally got a new gamemode, will give away 5 free legendaries on expac launch, and has finally got reasonably valuable pre-order bundles that don't look like ripoffs. But even with all of that, I'm still pissed. With how Activision/Blizzard has been the past year, I cannot possibly justify spending any money on any of this.
I know J. Allen Brack made an apology as one of the first things in Blizzcon, but until I see actual actions to back it up, that apology is completely worthless to me. Acti/Blizz is still the company that fired HotS eSports staff out-of-the-blue right before Christmas, still the company that responded to record profits with mass layoffs, and still the company that banned a player for supporting Hong Kong just so they could keep profiting from China.
I just can't forgive them.
I'm curious what the fan reaction would be if they suspended a player for endorsing a political opinion more controversial in the west. If, for example, Blitzchung yelled out "abortion is murder" or "black lives matter".
Wanting to maintain civility at these events is a good reason to discourage political discourse, given how obnoxiously toxic these topics inevitably become. I take a much bigger issue with the severity of Blizzard's reaction to this particular instance and their obvious kowtowing to the PRC than I do with the idea of them enforcing this policy.
Greentext didn't bring up Hearthstone Battlegrounds though, that probably would have come up if he was in the loop on that in particular.
That greentext is very obviously fake drivel that someone wrote to rile up the 4chan demographic. Just look at all the rants about "outrage culture" in the Overwatch 2 segment.
Everything about it read like a 4chan wet dream of reasons to hate any company. The poster was clearly an alt-right nutjob. The only part of his "leak" that came to fruition was the claim that Overwatch 2 was co-op PvE, which had already been rumored since Junkenstein 2016. He also claimed Diablo 4 was a looter shooter, which it clearly isn't.
Didn't the greentext also say that D4 would be a looter-shooter or am I thinking of a different "leak"?
I'm convinced that the only reason Blizzard makes games is as an excuse to make shorts like these every few years.