Except that they do. You should really look into how they self edit to satisfy the Chinese government so that their products are allowed to be sold there. Same as Hollywood curtails itself to China. There’s no difference here, its just that Blizzard made the mistake of vocalizing they care about China’s money more…

Here’s probably the most important part of the whole problem though; If a pro China player would have done the exact same thing against Hong Kong, would they have been reprimanded the same way? Would Blizzard apologize to Hong Kong immediately following it for risk at politicizing and infuriating China? If you say yes…

That’s the first I’ve heard of such a thing. What Blitzchung did was protest human rights abuses against Hong Kong. If human rights are political to you, we’re not even having the same argument. There was no hate speech and there was no defamation of Blizzard’s name. He wasn’t screaming “MAGA” or “Feel the Bern.” The…

Its a hollow apology unless they rehired the fired casters and removed Blitzchung’s suspension. Either of those things would have been the action he suggests working on in the future.

They wrote the rules and they can change them.

Bingo! Its hollow and an immediate action they could have taken was to lift his ban. That would actually, you know, show some meaning behind the apology.

I knew right away when they added the PvE stuff in OW1, it felt like they were testing the waters with new tech and tools. I suspect players are getting fully fleshed out versions of those for OW2.

You’re choosing to seek it out though and again they’re not mutually exclusive. I protest physically and with my wallet and still find the time and enjoyment to peacefully play my games without dwelling on it. Picking a fight from your soapbox isn’t a good look for anyone.

But its no less important no matter when you want to hear it. If such a thing seriously detracts from your time, it flies in the face of your support.

Yes and cool. Not sure why you have the stance you’re taking then. Its the equivalent of donating to say NPR and then getting pissed when the pledge drive happens.

People like yourself are part of the reason we’re in the stupidest timeline. You can ditch your apathy and still enjoy time to relax. They aren’t mutually exclusive.

I regret nothing coming back to FF14. This is how MMOs should be done! 

To your point, several OWL players said bigoted things and their punishments were far less extreme. Not everything is equal and its painfully obvious that the swiftness and severity of their response was hamfisted in placating China.

They could have done nothing because “Blitzchung’s political views do not represent…

They could have done nothing.

Does this include an apology for taking the worst possible political stance? 

I remember the one time I wrote satire too without the /s and enraged the entire base internet male population. The amount of “Well actually” responses I got was hilarious though.

It hurts him the most and I couldn’t be happier about it!

Its really impressive but way too clean which makes it a little off putting. Also, why did they add a Tediore stock to it?

Exactly. Hate takes work and why is it worth that much effort?

The symbolism is indeed breathtaking.

Did I say bring it all up to the previous Flakker/Hex levels? No. Give more diversity that’s just as fun to use.