I absolutely do not support Blizzard's handling of the situation. However, I will note that as a publicly traded company, blizzard has a legal obligation to try to maximize shareholder value. I think it's pretty clear that's what they were trying to do here, by not pissing off China. The Chinese market is extremely important to that shareholder value.

If you really want to think it through, US law requires blizzard to do things that are best for the company. Chinese law has other requirements. Blizzard has to balance those things.

My position would be that blizzard should now maximize shareholder value by publicly stating that they do not support the brutal Chinese regime, and that they're willing to take those consequences. That'll help him out with most of the rest of the world, and maybe, at least in the short-term, how to make up for whatever revenue and profit they aren't able to generate in China going forward. Admittedly though, people in the west would forget about their courageous position, and it probably wouldn't be good for the long-term health of the company.

Ultimately, this is the position that company chose to put themselves in when they went after the Chinese money.

You want to inject the morally questionable into the ruling conditions of participation and Blizzards actions. I clarified, i clearly asked you if it's morally objectionable when it says "NO politics!". You replied by insisting reading meaning into my comment that isn't there. You didn't pose a question, you want to insist the rules Blizzard installed are morally objectionable, which they clearly are not. I clarified why and you don't like that, since you got nothing to counter.

The irony, you yourself, all this stir up give even more reason why politics have no place at an apolitically marked event. Many gamers see it the same way, want to keep it clean and neutral fun. Alas, others insist being dicks about it and force their shit down peoples throats, insinuating whoever isn't on their side is "anti human rights". That is the morally objectionable here.

Inventory charm sytem is garbage, no space cause charms fill everything. No auto gold pickup, no account shared multiple stash system, and only 3 god-like builds, all others is garbage. Console players already have PoE which shits on Diablo 2 retail.

Blizzard will never touch D2 or even D3 (D3 was turned into a classic game, aka maintance mode) again, they are 100% commited with D4 development.

The reason Blizzard did Starcraft remastered is because it still is big as an e-sport in Korea to this day.

If you don't want to follow the rules of a competition... don't enter.

What does political views got to do with playing video games?

Blizzard are a video game maker and a business not a justice fighter for peoples rights. What happens in another country is not controlled by Blizzard. They have majority of there market share there and are not willing to lose everything over a war that cannot be won. I feel sorry for the Hong Kong people as I have many friends who are from HK however Blizzard are still just a video game maker and boycotting good games over political views to me are simply not true gamers at heart. I could care less if the devil makes video games, if the video game is good and interests me than ill buy it regardless.

A smarter sense in these situations would be to keep political views away from gaming so these things don't happen.

Well Blizzard consumerbase might be shifting to people with less rights so this problem could just be one of an adapting nature.

I wont ever respect rules used as an political enforcement to shut down someone like that though,the company's own developers are even protesting about it.Calling out for violence would be something else but this is about fellow human rights.

1) Downsides to power creep with charms? seems like a fair thing, want to load up on charms, cant carry too much else.

2) No auto gold pickup.... granted this is nice, but gold is basically a ignored thing with little to no value, economy was item based tradeing.

3) "only 3 god-like builds"  hey atleast D2 actually had builds (skill trees for verious objectives you could maximise your character for).
Diablo 3 has NO builds, because you can just swap things on the fly.... and every character feels and plays like most others of the same type.

4) PoE sh*ts on diablo 3 as well...... plus console players also have Diablo 3.

and lastly I agree, blizzard wont do a Diablo 2 remake.

I feel like diablo 2, aged a million times better than diablo 3 though.
I was playing D2 for years and years... and D3 was flat and over, within a few months (for me and most of my friends).

You're talking nonsense. What is the topic of the thread and what is included in my post you've quoted? You've even put it in bold.

I was clearly commenting on the subject and nothing else. Why would i make it wildly off-topic?

How did you come to the conclusion i suggest following morally questionable rules/guidelines generally in the first place is a mystery. Where does it say that, where do i imply that? Point it out and explain yourself or continue make things up in your attempt to somehow end up being right.

You started by asking me if i think rules should be followed without question regardless of morallity. And i'm suppose to give what answer to that? For example: "I think rules should be followed, always. When it says shoot the POW then i will happily oblige to make him dead. No matter the circumstances. Even if it makes me a war criminal".

Yes, that is the stupidity of your question i've dodged. Do you have any more nonsense you want to ask me? Like, since i occasionally attend birthday parties, if i celebrate Hitlers birthday?

I will just say this guys, Being silent and not talking in the face of oppression is not a neutral political view, that isn't "leaving politics out of it" that is turning a blind eye and allowing stuff to happen. If every company and person took the blizzard stance of "just don't talk about it here guys" then that would open the door to places doing whatever they wanted. If the cops started a "lets just not talk about it" policy to crime in your town, there would be less conflict for the cops, but the crime wouldn't go away... they would just not be talking about it or dealing with it.

All I'm saying is Silence isn't not picking a side, you are being silent because China told you to be.

You don't think you should know what the hell you're talking about before talking lol?

Blizzard can't let this behavior fly you say, yet the US team wasn't punished for doing the exact same thing, actually worse for adding boycott blizzard which actually is divisive.

You seem to imply Blitzchung did infact cause damage. I'd like to know what the damage is exactly that was worth such a severe punishment.

We aren't programmed robots, we have the intelligence to consider nuance and context, to treat each unique individual situation as just that, a unique individual situation. So it's sad to see some are resorting to labeling to defend this, as if all that matters is the fact that it can be labeled political, the actual content and effect it has be damned.

EDIT: Wait a sec, the bolded there, that's you just admitting this is infact about China and their money. xD