As much as I’m hoping people put their feet to the fire somehow, I will point out something important about this: this is exactly how they did Q&A last year to my understanding and this isn’t specifically in response to potential HK backlash. They’re probably very glad they’ve been doing it this way, however, now more… Read more
This is how it has been handled at Blizzcon for the last few years. You’ve submitted questions before hand which are edited for clarity or language, as not everyone who wants to ask speaks English as a first language. You’d then get in line for the Q&A and be handed your question back that has been edited. You can… Read more
I still don’t understand what the “correct” response was for Blizzard. They had a statement in their contract saying no inflammatory comments. Regardless of your stance, support for either side of the ongoing conflict in Hong Kong is in fact inflammatory. Read more
“...unless a Q&A goes particularly awry and turns into the year’s most viral meme.”
I just hope the announcements and games are good.Blizzard is far from unique in being tied to China, So it seems a bit odd to put so much blame on them while ignoring the fact pretty much every big gaming company would do the same in their shoes. Read more
Dammit Jason you can’t keep delaying games when there’s a slow news week! It’s just not fair. Read more
They brought Jason in from paternity leave just so he could delay a game again? Wow. Read more
Delays that happen this close to release day announcements both amuse me, and make me feel really bad for the producers. You know that for the last five months they’ve been talking with Sony, and with the rest of the dev team, trying to negotiate between the publisher wanting to release, and the the overall state of… Read more
Yeah. Pass for me. Didn’t realize it wasn’t the full game. I’m not playing an episodic game where the episodes are 2 years apart or more, not to mention the fact that they don’t even know how many parts they’ll have? Sounds to me like they’re trying to figure out how they can maximize their money. Read more
I’m sorry, WHAT?! Read more
Really hoping this was just an oversight on their part, because if this is purposefully misleading, that’s scummy shit on a high level. Read more
I am so confounded by Square’s marketing plan with this game. And why they seemingly obscure the fact there is more than one game on the box and in the branding Read more
