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Re:Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China by jdoliner on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:28PM (#21207647)
That's exactly how they're going to bounce back from it, it's going to be easy for the game companies, and it's going to work great. Or, more likely, they won't have to bounce back from it at all. The people cancelling their accounts will be back within a month. Gamers will tolerate anything, unless there's a better game that they'd rather play they're not going anywhere.
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Re:Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China by slenk on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:58PM (#21207998)
Disagree - we hurt the sales of Battlefront 2.

And I think there are gamers, like me, who haven't paid money to Blizzard in a while because I don't subscribe to anything Blizzard, but I already own a bunch of games.

What should I do?

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Re:Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China by hnick on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:11PM (#21209211)
I guess you could vote with your wallet by buying from a leading competitor instead. It won't hurt them directly, but market position matters to them. They will probably notice it about as much as one lost sale :(
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Re:Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China by joelx on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:20AM (#21214778)
Boycott Blizzard and tell all your friends to do the same.
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Re:Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China by hnick on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:05PM (#21243869)
I think we both have been, for a while, simply because their games were not for us anymore. The post I responded to was asking what to do when we already don't buy, a boycott won't be felt.

Though anyone planning to boycott would best keep in mind not to forget about anything labelled Activision too.

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Re:Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China by not_a_cop75 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @05:57PM (#21208593)
"Gamers will tolerate anything, unless there's a better game that they'd rather play they're not going anywhere."

How about any reasonable replacement game? I'd say the game industry is pretty well saturated. It's not like there's only one great game per genre, or only one great gaming system.

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