Overwatch May is turned into a symbol of Hong Kong resistance and protest against Blizzard actions
The day before Blizzard I banned the e -sportsman Hearthstone After he was on the live air of the Hearthstone Grandmasters tournament, he spoke for the liberation of Hong Kong. The company even fired two commentators who were unlucky to conduct a stream at that moment. All this led to great excitement among the audience Blizzard.
For example, players are trying to turn May into a symbol of freedom movement in Hong Kong. As the story says Overwatch, May – Round Chinese woman. Formally, she lives not in Hong Kong, but in Sian, but is still great for protest against the authorities of China.
One of the visitors to Sabreddite R/Hongkong spoke like this: “There would be pity if May from Overwatch became an icon of the democratic movement and led to the fact that games Blizzard Blocked in China ". The post gathered over 11 thousand likes, and on Sabredite they began to develop the idea: images with May began to take photos so that there was a mask on the girl’s face, and in her hands – an umbrella. Mask and umbrella – symbols of protesters.
In addition, users reinvented the short film “Wake up and Sing” about May. In the original, it was about how the heroine wakes up after a deep cryosna, discovers that her entire group died, and then receives a message from Winston and goes to save the world in the composition Overwatch. In remaking, salvation of the world was replaced by salvation of Hong Kong.
Indignation is also heard in other corners associated with Blizzard. Say, recently in the competition Hearthstone, Where teams of various educational institutions fight, one of the participants put a sheet into the camera with the inscription “Free Hong Kong, boycott Blizzard". The organizers of Stream quickly removed the call from the frame, but not so fast that the audience did not manage to read it.
Reddit inhabitants call permanently to delete their accounts in Battle.NET, as well as demand from Blizzard Archive with your personal data. The calculation that in Europe the company is obliged to provide such an archive within 30 days, otherwise it is threatened with serious fines.
Players also come up with a form of protest for the annual BlizzCon event, which will begin on November 1. Among the ideas are T -shirts with the inscription: "I’m on the side of Hong Kong".
As eyewitnesses convey, contradictions arise even inside Blizzard. At the headquarters of the company in Irvain, California, there is a huge statue of an orc, which is surrounded by slogans like “Thoughts Global” and “Important Each Voice”. After the scandal with Hong Kong, someone sealed these slogans.
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Well, if the police are brutally beaten, prohibitions on everything are introduced, and the authorities of Hong Kong are puppets of totalitarian China, then the reasons for the protest, obviously, have.
And the protest continues as if quite a long time due to the fact that the authorities themselves throw firewood. Recently, for example, a minor of a real firearm was shot.
It seems May together has every chance to repeat the story that was with Winnie Pooo. I can imagine how it will burn at the cat if Overwatch in China is banned.
1. They did not act "correctly", but in their right. Yes, this is their championship in their game, introduce rules, players must follow them if they agree. But they have no rule: "No policy". There is a type of conditional rule "Do not speak out in such a way as to spoil the reputation of the nearbyzard". If I say that I am Diablo: Importal did not like it, this also spoils the reputation? And if a lot of players will speak like that? Ban everyone?
Yes, the game tournament is officially not such a place, it is a large platform that a bunch of people views. The player knew what he was going on, but still did what he did.
“Any other game” can be anything. This is the same statement, the same ideas of authors as any other book, picture, sculpture, film or series. As it is perfectly political films and books, it is and will be, and even there should be, games about politics. Everyone’s business is only to watch or not to look, play or not to play, create or not create.
2. “The state of Internet community”, the Internet is not some kind of abstract something, not a person who has known the character, behavior and habits in advance. These are billions of people with their opinions, ideas and understanding. If someone suggested massively minus the “metro” in Steam, then someone can do this, and someone will pass by.
The boycott in itself is a political action, it has consequences, there is information about it. As a person who wants to act, but has no opportunity/readiness to help directly, should behave? Then similar proposals appear. This has massiveness, there are reasons and there are consequences. It may well affect something.
3. Such an irony in choosing a character is fully justified. In addition, dozens of times various groups of protesters turned, for example, their abusive name from their opponents, into their proud name. Here some similar idea can be traced. Like a duck with sneakers.
4. Ooo, "offended leftists". Well, yes, all rebellious they just came to “make a noise”, they do not care about their lives and relatives, this is just a hobby. Riots do not arise out of nothing, they cannot simply appear from one idea with extradition, it just became the spark that “lit a protest”. This suggests that people have long been accumulating energy for a long time, the very idea of protest was accumulated in them, which means that we need to look at the reasons in the general sense, and not “well, they took away/did not take somewhere, they were banned/allowed, and will calm down”.
Tell this to the brilliant founders of the UN, who gave countries the right to impulse borders, and peoples – the right to self -determination and human rights.
But in general you have chosen a little the wrong site to discuss the political. This news is here only because the game company was plunged into it.
How nice that people did not endure such behavior of the blizarts, and express their position in practice. Directly warmth on the soul from this news.
The ironic story of how the American company in pursuit of Chinese money forgot that it should follow such funny concepts as freedom of speech, human rights, etc.D. Eh, there was a time when Blizzard just made high -quality games ..
Well, nothing, live longer with the position of "up to one place" and find that already in "China".
And what did you expect from a company that decided by some six months ago to ban Chinese players mentioning Winnie Poh in the chat. Simply because the Chinese state farm was compared with this bear. Honestly, not at all surprised at all. I am surprised why they did not start worrying about this on this occasion, although the alarming call at that moment already sounded.
P.S. I, as a communist, extremely offends China’s behavior and the behavior of the nearby. Because Chinese totalitarianism even more discredit this political current in the eyes of the rest of the world, and close -up only indulges in this.
Absolutely the same I can say about the publishers who, in pursuit of Chinese dough, throw the rest of the players.
Or do you consider it normal that publishers remake their games only to please Chinese censorship.
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It’s good that at least Rainbow Six Siege managed to defend
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That company has died, and for a long time. Now there is only a “living corpse” that can do something good, but most of the still huge disappointment.
But once the purchase of a blizzard of Activision has carried a positive character.
Yes, the game tournament is officially not such a place, it is a large platform that a bunch of people views. The player knew what he was going on, but still did what he did.
This situation reminds me of what was happening in kamels in the rusky part of YouTube from 2014 to 2016. Fierce political scream on whose Crimea and to whom glory.
YouTube is a large platform, but the video about the cats is clearly not a place to express their politicians.beliefs regarding the relationship of Ukrainians and Russian. The authors of those YouTube channels that ruthlessly banned and cleaned all the inappropriate political unit from cages caused the most respect for any sane person. Blinds in this situation were received in the same way – they stabbed the political in the rudiment.
Everyone would have their own opinion – the world would be much smarter. But in reality, many people do not think their thoughts and defend not their point of view, but an imposed media.
As a person who wants to act, but has no opportunity/readiness to help directly, should behave?
For what to act? Nonyms from Reddite want blitches to allow their events to speak things that are unpleasant for the Chinese authorities?
Riots do not arise out of nothing, they cannot simply appear from one idea with extradition, it just became the spark that “lit a protest”. This suggests that people have long been accumulating energy for a long time, the very idea of protest was accumulated in them, which means that we must look at the reasons in the general sense
As a resident of Ukraine, I can authoritatively say that protests, even massive ones, are not necessarily an indicator of a bad life, and far from always the truth is on the side of the rebels.
As for Reddite, they simply think for the dogma that China is evil, and therefore make noise. They fight against evil 🙂
But they have offensively have communism with the same working conditions as our ancestors under Stalin. I lived there for a couple of months, I saw everything with my own eyes.
Hmm, and this news got here that the politicalate is so political.
1. Blinds came correctly, maybe tough but correctly. Their tournament is not a place for political statements. As actually and any other game. (Yes, I know that everything is drawn into politics, but there is a part of the work of the organizers of the tournaments).
2. Boycottes from the players in Reddte – a game, talking not so much about the games themselves as about the state of the Internet of the public and information pumping of some mass of people.
3. May as a symbol of the rebellion, it’s all exactly what to take the conditional “Martin Luther King” for posters
support for conditional kukluksklan (it is clear that in my example the bet is higher, but the degree of schizophrenia is the same).
4. Well, lastly, half a year, riots killed the Hong Kong economy in the trash, they will be a little more and they themselves ask for China, if only there was something to have. Fools arranged provocations, but do not understand what they really want. This follows from a typical "change in the requirements" of the strike. The decision to provide extradition was canceled very quickly, but they do not care, they are now rebelling Raby riot. They resemble "offended leftists". As a result, another show, instead of real political reform.