Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
by smolder on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:32AM
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I think you meant to write empathizing rather than emphasizing.
Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
by ryanlol on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:09PM
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There's just not that much to empathize with in the Apple case, their decision to remove an app hardly inconvenienced anyone.
Censorship sucks and all, but in the end the actions taken by Apple didn't really harm anyone. Blizzard definitely fucked over Blitzchung.
* Apple's decision hurts vast groups of people, not individuals. People have problems emphasizing with huge groups (e.g. Hong Kongers, Ulghurs, Muslims, Catholics) but are very good as emphasizing with individuals. This is why propaganda aimed at appealing to emotion always focus on individuals: especially children/women. Blizzard went after not just individuals, but tournament winners/players.
* Apple's product is less liquid than Blizzard's. I can stop playing instantly. I can unsubscribe from WoW instantly. Selling my phone and moving to another platform is much harder. The alternative offerings are also all extremely pro-Chinese Party, so even if I went off-Apple for HK reasons, I am just making the problem worst. With games, there is competition and there is no lack of good games in each category (save perhaps RTS, but SC2 is tiny for Blizzard).