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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by paulddraper on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:11PM (#21265067)
They are between a rock and hard place.

It's a total no-win for them now.

(Queue morbid curiosity.)

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by barry-cotter on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:50PM (#21265429)
Cue, as in it’s your cue to speak rather than queue as in line up to wait for something. Truly English spelling is a delight for historical linguists.
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by nordsieck on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:01PM (#21265962)
> Truly English spelling is a delight for historical linguists.

The worst part to me is that many (often older) loan words have anglicized pronunciation, while other loan words keep their original pronunciation.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:06AM (#21266955)
Sometimes we borrow a word multiple times!
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by barry-cotter on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:05AM (#21267818)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(linguistics)

e.g.

> chief, chef, cape, capo, caput and head (French (twice), Latin via French, Italian, Latin, and Germanic, all from the same Indo-European word *ka(u)put "head")

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by paulddraper on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:40PM (#21265825)
Ah, I thought it was "queue" as in "put in line to do next"
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by irq on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:57PM (#21265479)
It's definitely not no-win. They can completely exit the Chinese market. The company will still survive if they do so. Earlier in this thread it was pointed out China generates only 10% of their revenue.
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by gpm on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:05PM (#21265534)
This.

Fire some people, make hongkong-protestor-Mei a skin [0], declare "we screwed up" in big letters, at that point the press this has generated for them would probably be a net win in the non-PRC market.

[0] end of this video https://old.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/dibrb0/overwatch...

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by esoterica on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:58PM (#21265946)
You’re correct that there’s a clear winning move, but you’re wrong about what that move is. Blizzard’s stock price hasn’t budged much since the scandal unfolded. Clearly the market doesn’t think there are going to be any long term repercussions from this. Every few week the gaming internet gets really mad about something or the (loot boxes, micro transactions, DRM, etc) and kicks up a huge fuss and then everyone immediately forgets about it and keeps buying games.

Why on earth would Blizzard feel compelled to exit the Chinese market right now (which would definitely tank the stock price)?

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by paulddraper on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:09PM (#21266375)
Agreed. This is Facebook-level outrage and Facebook-level market consequences (little to none).
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by mantap on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:04PM (#21265525)
I actually see it the other way around. This action to appease China is extremely cynical and they only reason they are emboldened to take it is because Blizzard have immense financial security.

Most normal corporations would be way too scared of exactly this kind of backlash to so brazenly crack down on behalf of a totalitarian state.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by microcolonel on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:20PM (#21265159)
Well, let's hope the kowtow to genocidal fascist dictatorship option is clearly the more painful of two painful paths.
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by phy6 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:44AM (#21267124)
Have you seen Blizzard's official Weibo account apology to China? It seems like kowtowing still seems to be their plan to get into that sweet sweet mobile game market.
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by vkou on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:23PM (#21265184)
How did this sort of thing work out for the NFL, in terms of kneeling players? Pretty well, all things considered.
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:48PM (#21265409)
The NFL never took Colin's entire NFL earnings away from him on top of firing anyone commenting on the initial sitting. I'm pretty sure if they did this, there would be much more uproar than letting him do it and quietly not signing him onto any more teams.
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by belltaco on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:52PM (#21265444)
He also didn't start talking about police brutality against African Americans in post game interviews to the media, IIRC.
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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by paulddraper on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:12PM (#21266394)
1. Kaepernick kneeled during game ceremonies.

2. He talked to the media about this as much as possible. 18 minute interview with ESPN: https://www.espn.com/blog/san-francisco-49ers/post/_/id/1895...

3. And he launched an entire campaign around it https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by stale2002 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:21PM (#21266088)
He absolutely did lots of interviews on the matter.
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