What really surprised me is that the Asia-Pacific region only accounted for 12% of Blizzards revenue on financial reports in June of this year. Not only that, but the majority of that 12% is non-Chinese. Blizzard isn’t making these decisions based on what they’re pulling in from China right now, but to continue to…

First and foremost, I paid for these games. I will play them. Period.

In multiplayer games, though, other players are content. You’re providing game content and incentive for the players that do spend money. You’re still participating in Blizzard’s business, which is still making them money.

Cancelling my WoW Classic subscription was crushing. For the first time in months, if not years, I was having genuine fun with a multiplayer game again. I quickly met some friends, ran a few dungeons, and got almost to level 40.

What about the plumbers and aluminum siders working on the Death Star!?!

Logging onto your accounts, playing the games, etc., even if you aren’t paying for anything is supporting the business in their numbers development.

“Now remember, when the enemy comes for us don’t fire back.. Those soldiers are just trying to feed their family, we don’t want to hurt any of them.”

And how about you read the article first before commenting. She even mentions it.

I’m pretty tired of big game companies getting away with whatever they want to do just because they have a product that is popular.

This argument that you should support Blizzard to support the rank and file workers is bad one. The people making the decisions at the top need these employees more than the employees need Blizzard.

I was struggling with this as well. “Voting with my wallet” doesn’t do much when the last Blizzard product I bought was Overwatch at launch, but I can vote with my bandwidth, so to speak. If player population and lootbox sales are low for the Halloween event, maybe that will at least give them pause. 

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Yeeeah, that was never a good look. For all the talent—and sometimes absolutely cutting journalism—this place held and was capable of, the constant sense of “We are better than our readers” didn’t do them any favors.

There was definitely some myopia associated with the decision-making processes in this place, both at…

From the Grayening to the non-stop Tomato trolling, who knew that having open disdain for your customers was a bad business model?

There’s a black guy over at fox business who was accused and retained his job when they ended up firing people like O’Reilly. I don’t think Dahvie Vanity, a Latino emo artist who was accused of having sex with multiple underage girls has been punished for what he did. It looks like Melanie Martinez’s career is…

This is also why blue is arguably the most powerful color in the history of mtg. Turns out spending 2-3 mana to counter/remove a more expensive threat is quite powerful. 

Uhhhhhh it literally took like fifteen years for R Kelly to face ANY reprocussions for what he did? Anthony Anderson has been accused of of rape and sexual assault multiple times and has like five TV shows. It took what like thirty people to take Cosby down?

There is an aspect to all of this that hasn’t gotten enough attention: what is meant by punishment, and what is meant by redemption?

Can confirm. People immersed in PE are easily the worst people I’ve ever been involved with, and I comment on the internet.

The PE guys will then blame “overseas competition” for the jobs stolen by their financial fecklessness, and “family breakdown” for the fact that unemployed people use drugs at a much higher rate. From Brian Alexander’s Glass House, about the debt-fueled takeover and devastation of glass maker Anchor Hocking and its…