you’re actually expecting blizzard to do in this case is to lose millions of dollar in revenue and fire countless employees just so a dude can show his support for a political movement during their event.

And in case you want to boycott companies that Tencent puts money into: https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-invested-in/

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“I can’t see anything I do making a difference, so I’ll do nothing.” The lazy, nihilistic answer to the question of what we should do in the face of circumstances we find objectionable.

The point you touch on by saying ‘developers insist their games are apolitical’: nothing on this planet is apolitical, and to insist otherwise is to show ignorance and privilege.

“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”

Rush(the band to be clear) made this point well long ago.  “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

Ah, there’s nothing we can do so we should just let it happen argument. That’s my favorite argument. Why outlaw murder? People will get murdered anyway. Why get out of bed tomorrow, we’re all going to end up in the cold hard ground.

Out of curiosity, what do you think your comments are accomplishing here?

Yeah, I see that now. I could dismiss, I guess, but it’ll probably be more fun watching them get torn apart by other commentors.

Way to suck up to a corporation, weighing their employees and the “MILLIONS OF DOLLARS” versus the literal population of Uygurs being held in concentration camps or the millions of Hong Kong citizens having their rights being thrown down in a barrel.

First, yes, I do expect an American company to choose human rights over profit. That’s actually not an unreasonable expectation, and I affirm it by taking my business elsewhere. Also, the notion that company’s must primarily act in their shareholder’s interests above all else is actually quite recent (mid-20th…

Counterpoint, this blowing up the way it has brings even more attention to it and is a worthwhile thing to discuss and examine. Was it predictable? Yes. Was it acceptable? Absolutely not.

There have been many times where people and companies have made stands against laws they have felt were unjust.  Standing up against unjust laws is how change comes about in the first place.

Everyone Ignore TadBravo in these comments, they’ve been sucking China’s dick in every article that pops up.

Yes. Just like we’d expect them to not throw in with the slave or weapons trade because they’re profitable.

Correct, yes, they should not be operating in China if China requires them to be complicit in totalitarianism.

And to think some people think that’s fine. I guarantee you ship them back a few decades and they would make excuses for IBM selling computational machines to the Nazis.

Game companies shouldn’t be bending over backwards to support authoritarian regimes which are abusing people. I’m kind of bewildered that’s become a mildly controversial statement to make.

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