My friend almost got hit by a car and that driver got paid off by pro-HK bodies. Not taking a political stance is not a choice companies can afford to make. This was the easy way out. The strategy where Blizzard says “not on our time” is Blizzard putting profit before ethics, and saying that they’d rather risk their…

My friend almost got hit by a car that hit another protester and the driver got paid off by pro-HK entities. Blizzard’s political stance is that degrading human rights and abusing people is not enough reason for them to change how they operate, and they can rot for that. 

Neutrality is a political stance, even if they pretend it isn’t. 

Most people have relatively low incomes and very little control over the shift of industrial manufacturing to China out of their nations. In the US at least, average incomes are middling and a massive portion of the nation is a few missed paychecks away from being below the poverty line. It’s hard to not buy Chinese…

They mean an ethically run state with human freedoms, the kind that HK has been enjoying for a long time and are now shrinking away as the mainland and HK government have decided they want to exert domination

I know you’re messing around, but having a private corporate issue in China at all kinda breaks the whole “they’re communist!” thing

Goes to show that at the end of the day, the little individuals always lose out when huge organizations do pretty much anything 

They’re a private company, they can totally tell people of ‘other movements’ to shove it. No one has a right to free speech in any Blizzard tournaments, which works both ways. They could openly endorse human rights policies and promote an ethically run HK, while banning people you supposedly believe will appear to…

Looter shooters? If you want pure gunplay and fun and are okay with a lack of anything else, I heavily suggest Earth Defense Force 5. Not ‘technically’ a looter shooter but there’s tons of guns to collect anyway. You could always go back and play any Borderlands game, they’re all fine. I’ve also heard Warframe is good…

If all you’re looking at are major releases by out of touch developers with investors to please, you’re seriously harming your potential enjoyment for games. There are hundreds of releases a year in various levels of corporatism. Get out of the mega corporation grind and play a small project by someone who’s still…

I feel kinda bad for the dead guy’s name being used this way. Honestly, if you look at the progression of the games, the deviation from innovation and a spirit for development kinda coincides with his death. I can’t guarantee that’s connected, but it’s possible that he stopped inspiring Ubisoft to care. 

Businesses tend towards corporatism and bending to the will of their investors over ethics the longer they run and the more profitable they get. Blizzard’s leaders who cared about the ethics and the vision of the company are long gone.

Hm it’s almost like having crappy business ethics comes back to bite you when you alienate your own community 

While possible, it’s almost guaranteed Nintendo has had someone working on a way to legally justify taking this down for years now. Probably an intern level project though since they aren’t getting anywhere.

I’m pretty sure your first sentence contradicts your own point. I don’t watch movies, and I don’t engage with media that has many famous celebrities in it. I know very little about Tom Cruise, but I also know that a lot of people know a lot about him and I know he’s famous in a specific industry. That seems like it’s…

I use social engineering constantly and have been thoroughly trained on using it. I work in healthcare. You gotta do what works 

I only know most “celebrity” actors as people who are in some media I never watched, because I don’t watch movies or TV ever.

It’s pretty funny to see what someone with relatively low knowledge of Star Wars thinks of these thing. It does speak to how some of the stuff is kinda iffy and not very identifiable though. 

It’s pretty funny to see what someone with relatively low knowledge of Star Wars thinks of these thing. It does…

As far as I know, they all need a Rockstar Social club account thing, which technically means they all have DRM. The launcher itself is sorta a version of DRM anyway since it’s company specific. 

Sometimes, and often it’s more of a collector type item than intended to actually be used. Even if there is a disc, it usually only installs the base version of the game and then you have to spend a day waiting for it to update to the correct version anyway.