You should add Warcraft and Overwatch to the boycott list. Blizzard had banned a person for speaking out for Palestine and Microsoft, which owns Blizzard, has donated alot of money to the IDF.
https://twitter.com/BagginsKQ/status/1714974431200579753
Also the person that runs the Warcraft wiki, seen above, is a hardcore racist and zionist to the point he views Jews against Netanyahu's crimes as "blood traitors".
The post you sent here unfortunately no longer exists. I don't know if they deleted it or X did -which I'm so sorry I didn't get a chance to see. But I did look at a few forums that spoke about Blizzard supporting the IOF by censoring the person you spoke about, but I haven't been able to find more media coverage about this.
I know that employees of Blizzard asked fans to boycott games several years ago to support the efforts to put better policies in place to protect people from sexual harassment and assault -specifically, women in the company who are targeted and also not paid equitably. I have also seen people talk about how certain designs on World of Warcraft to be antisemitic. There are many problematic elements to WOW and overall the gaming industry -I would have to look into the person who runs the Warcraft wiki a little more (since the post no longer exists), but considering how many industry zionist-supporters there are, I wouldn't be surprised.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I'm not as well-versed in the gaming world/industry, so I hope I can look into this a little more, but thank you for bringing this up so we can look into it more/be more attentive to it.
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I figured out blizzard's scam with making overwatch 2 free....it's quite evil genius...
I couldn't get my head around it.
Why make a paid game free? I know it's been done before, but usually when they outright failed initially (COUGH DESTINY). And not that I didn't want people to play it (tho adding mass amounts of noobs wasn't on my happy list), it was more 'you are a 22 BILLION dollar company. YOU DO NOT DO THINGS IF THEY ARE NOT PROFITABLE!'
Took me 3 days, but I figure it out.
First off, like so many pay to play: multiple in game currencies.
The money I gave hours of my life to earn in overwatch 1 was 1/2 worthless in the new game. Sure, I could buy things...but things I already owned/had access to. Practically NOTHING new.
Second, the new meaningful currency was impossible to earn.
Battlepass (which had a LOCKED character you could not get thru ANY other means) had it so the currency was 1000 credits. If you did the challenges, at max, PER WEEK, you could get is 60. That's 16.6 weeks. Each battlepass is 60 days. So you couldn't earn enough ever to get it regularly. They made it impossible.
Which brings me onto #3. The worst thing to realize....
Battlepass, by their numbers, is 60 days long.
That 6 a year.
At $10 (plus tax) per time.
The original game cost $60.
In other words, every single year, if you go full battle pass, you're practically buying the game EVERY-SINGLE-YEAR.
Oh, I lied btw. Here's the dirtiest part.
Their challenges, for battlepass credits (yeah, you buy it, but have to still EARN it) AND the credits to buy battlepass are almost exclusively locked behind 'won games.' So in other words, you spend your hard earned money, but suck or have a shit team, it's near impossible to complete a battlepass in the time frame.
But don't worry; they got you.
Too sucky or stupid or no friends or shitty team mates?
You can buy tiers in the battlepass.
Costing even more than the original game.
Not to mention the whole phone # thing was to data mine. Not protect you. So they got you by the balls.
It's like no one ever thinks a tech company would do a false flag on themselves for money. Idiots. They were not prepared, it got them endless press and media coverage, they could lie about who did the attack, and come out looking like the good guys. Geez. EVIL BUSINESSES ARE WHAT MAKE UP ALMOST ALL BUSINESSES YOU DUMB FUCKS!!!!
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Me: Hmm. Maybe I should return to WoW in the future...
Blizzard: So we’re removing the permanent Water Elemental pet
Zal’ria: 🥺
Thanks Blizz, just remove the main ability that was one of my character’s fantasy, especially when it has a billion cosmetic glyphs and been with us for several expansions now.
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Subbed to wow on a tuesday, off from work, and the game is undergoing maintenance that will last most of the day.
I am having so much nostalgia right now. Back when every tuesday was a multi-hour waiting game, watching realms slowly come back online. And sometimes seeing them go back down immediately after. Praying things were online and stable for the raid that night.
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Three Crashing Updates | Thursday, 09/28/2023
Got 3 new updates just now regarding Crash Team Rumble:
A second free trial period is available between 9/29 (Friday) through 10/2 (Monday)
Double Hero XP makes a comeback between now and Monday, so hurry and win more XP to level up any characters right now
A new map (with cosmetic rewards) is now available to play: Waste Deep!
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GYGO Variety Hour: Why Are Brands Like This
Hello, and welcome to Get Your Game On! I’m Zora, and I’m here to report on… well, frankly, whatever moves me when my turn comes around. This week we’re taking a close look at global human rights abuses and whatever the hell is going on with Microsoft, but I did get deep into the weeds on the bizarre branding partnerships that have come out of games marketing in the last few weeks. So… stick…
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