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No, it's a neutral response from a company that literally has no ties or relation to it.

The problem with blizzard isnt that they weren't declaring a side.

It's that they did. Suddenly declared it, and took it out on their gamers and streamers. If a company wants to stay out of that shit show entirely, that's fair, unless they're directly contributing to the problem, it's not their point of existence to be up in arms about it.

We dont ask every company out there about the conflict in the middle east. Just let them be dude.

alright, i'm going to do my best to get this through your astoundingly coconut like head.

There are three groups of responses they could have made here.

1. We support china

2. fuck china

3. what they said.

An AMA is not a place for nuanced political discussion about the rights of those living halfway across the world from you. You cannot possibly expect a company to dissect a political situation that takes years to even fully study, because you read about it for 15 minutes online.

But, since you decided to go ahead and say that they're spineless cowards. let me point something out.

So are you. What is that you think not supporting companies that do business with china does? Do you honestly believe it effects the chinese market? No, it effects the companies that you boycott. And that's a good thing to do. It's saying "hey, you did a bad thing, I don't want my money going toward bad things"

But you have the gall to come out here calling others cowards. If you were so damned concerned, you'd be on the next flight out and marching in the streets with those in Hong Kong. You would be taking the fight to the actual oppressors rather than sitting comfortably behind your computer screen, across the globe, with a smug attitude because "You're helping".

You're not helping anybody. The pressure you're putting on companies that deal with china is not putting pressure on the CCP. at all. There is a 0% increase in pressure to the CCP for you boycotting a few companies.

They do not, have not, and will not care. Direct retaliation is the only thing that is saving the people of Hong Kong right now. So if you want to sit and call people cowards for not doing something, then maybe you should get off your entitled lazy arse and do something about it yourself.

The only thing that the blizzard boycott has actually helped is keeping a global spotlight on the situation. But short of the U.N directly intervening(won't happen.) Even that is a limited actual help.

I'm so entirely tired of this particular brand of self-righteous indignation. It's nothing but smug lip service that people repeat to themselves to feel smug and superior.

Hell, how many calls have you made to your local politicans about the HK situation? Even that would at least be doing something. What you're doing has no effect, so stop treating it as if you're some kind of knight, fighting for others at the sacrifice of self.

And you're out here berating a Netherlands based company.

Believe it or not most of the world doesnt want their corporate entities viewed as people.

And again, your question had been asked already. And saying "that's a blizzard ass answer" is what I'm giving you shit for, you fucking waffle.

They said they hope for the situation to be resolved for all sides. Not glory to China, not sorry for offending China for seeing HK as equals. Just. Hope it gets resolved. A perfectly bland response.

So this is only semi-related. But i've always been curios. How difficult was it for you to make lasting relationships when getting bounced around from place to place? Would you say you created stronger bonds with those that you did bond with because you were in such similar situations?

Alternatively being silent is accepting that you cannot familiarize yourself with every struggle currently present in the world. As it's a big place with plenty going on.

A company not going political is exactly how a company should function. It's the job of people, not of corporations to deal with these things(otherwise you end up with corporate entities with legal claims to personhood) And that goes both ways. But again, they have already been asked if they have any ties with Chinese owned companies. They do not. They are unaffiliated with this issue at all, and there is no need to take focus away from their actual product, that a small dev team has managed to make just to appease your ridiculous appeal for attention to your cause of the week.

You are being a dick and bringing up entirely unrelated global political problems into this discussion that should be centered around the game.

I'm willing to make a bet that before the blizzard case you never commented to another business asking about their stance on honk Kong. Its painfully obvious that this is a cause of the week to you, because if it weren't, you wouldn't be limiting yourself to the politics of one particular situation. You would ask about the middle east. You would ask if they support trump turning against the Kurds after years of support, youd ask about their stance on Myanmar, the situation in the Sudan, the central African republic, any of these or many others.

The situation in China and Hong Kong is bad, that's true. But attempting to force unrelated people to declare their political ideologies helps no one.