Fully agree and that's not even mentioning how problematic he's been with women characters

Also good to note that Bobby Kotick was involved with Jeffrey Epstein. 

I have neither shouted nor shown any political stance. Just pointing out that you are being needlessly defensive about something no one is forcing your hand about.

Ooohhh, poor baby is tired of hearing about politics in his fuunn ttiimmeesss?!

Unless your only hobby in the entire world is Blizzard games I simply can’t respect this “Stop standing up for people and let me play mah video games” attitude you seem to have. You come across as devoid of empathy and utterly seflish. The fact that rather than just going on playing their games and supporting them you…

Gee, I’m so sorry. It’s crazy that people like me care to point out silly things like companies participating in the suppression of dissent against an authoritarian government during a massive crackdown on millions of people wanting nothing more than democracy and personal freedom.

As Kotaku noted, Blizzard gave a dodgy apology to open Blizzcon. They also, notably, did not revoke Blitzchung’s 6 month suspension.

Nice to see people openly protesting tyrannical overloads who are valuing dollars over quality talent.  Seems to be a bit of that going around recently.

No, good would have been completely reversing the suspension, and choosing their core values over the bottom line. Every Voice does not Matter at Blizzard when they specifically side with a country actively silencing voices, and they aren’t holding themselves to a higher standard of any sort.

What’s the better here though? What is being committed to? What concrete steps? It’s a kind of non-statement.

He could start by revoking the remaining 6 month suspension on Blitzchung for speaking out on human rights atrocities and political suppression in Hong Kong.

If you think this was a good apology, you’re going to have your mind blown when someone gives you an actual, sincere apology, one day.

Did they reverse the suspension completely? If not, then their words are hollow. “We’re sorry, but we’re not going to do anything about it. Please give us another chance, even though we didn’t give anyone else one.”

Granted, I’m not hearing the whole apology, and I’m not going to waste my time listening to PR Crisis Jargon: The Movie, but what you’ve excerpted fails, for the simple reason that the problem was not that Blizzard “moved too quickly.” The problem was that they moved at all. It wouldn’t have been any better if they…

A vague speech. Never mentioning hong kong or china or even the dude they punished.

Call me cynical, but doing this only at the beginning of Blizzcon just seems like they are trying to stave off any talk of it so that it won’t overshadow their announcements. I desperately hope people still flood the Q&As and whatnot.

The problem with this apology is that Blizzard still isn’t taking responsibility for its actions. Taking responsibility would mean taking actions that would likely harm their sales in China and they aren’t willing to do that.

Without a communicated action plan, these words mean nothing. 

Funnily enough, this is also the apology that we should be receiving from incompetent coward CEO Jim Spanfeller and his even more incompetent lackey Paul Maidment over the abhorrent treatment of this network of sites.

Translation: this affected our sales and stock price.