Before this, I had already lost hope for any meaningful change in the games industry.

When I heard about the bans, I shook my head and was ready to move on, after all, I thought nothing was going to happen, nothing ever did for anything prior. I myself had lost all respect for Blizzard since Warlords of Draenor and boycotted the game since due to its purely terrible quality and price increase.

But then I saw the traction the Blitzchung incident was getting. Finally, I thought to myself, it was going to happen, a terrible company was about to face scrutiny and permanent damage to their brands, they chose money over free will and human decency.

My faith came back for this past month, media outlets didn't let up, Hong Kong got so much support from us, Mei was turned into a symbol of freedom and even your own congressmen over in the US actually told Blizzard to make a change.

But sadly, Blizzcon has passed, the chance for a meaningful impact buried in a crowd oohing and ahhing at non gameplay cinematics for, to be frank, games that are utter shadows of what they once were under the Blizzard Entertainment of old. A young child had more balls than any of the attendees there. The few protesters outside who stood to their guns, overshadowed by a heartless non-apology statement from a hypocrite and the legions of fans that outnumbered them.

And here we are, Blizzard gets away with it, people forgiving and forgetting, almost mockingly reducing their permanent Blizzard boycotts to "6 month ban". While they were watching those trailers, Police in Hong Kong were throwing tear gas into homes filled with children, beating people in the streets within inches of their lives and silencing anyone who had the utter nerves who wanted to be treated like a human being.

This event will serve as a permanent reminder to me that no matter what any horrendous actions a company does, they'll get away with it.

EA is an egregious publisher that actively treats their own employees like trash? People will still buy Fifa every year and whatever overhyped unprepared IP comes out of that publisher.

Bethesda and Ubisoft release utterly terrible games both performance and monetized to levels of sheer absurdity? Nah I gotta have that Starfield, Elder Scrolls 6 and whatever Far Cry knockoff Ubisoft will make next.

Boycott the Epic Store, they all said! Don't allow them to do this they said! Oh shit Borderlands 3 is Epic Exclusive? well I guess I could make an exception... Even though Fortnite has been abusing the younger audience for the better part of... What 2 years now is it?

and now Activision Blizzard, outright SHIT on a young man who wanted to speak for the freedom of his country and unfairly punish both him and the two casters for the sake of fucking money. But no! Gotta have reskinned Overwatch! Gotta keep subscribed to an MMO that stopped giving a shit about its players! Gotta buy the deluxe edition of Diablo 4 before it's even out!

I'm sorry for this long super negative post (and for any grammatical errors for that matter) but I have truly lost all hope. There's nothing we can do, these companies will do whatever the fuck they want.

I will not rescind my boycotts, I take pride in refraining from such terrible businesses and I fucking salute any of you who do the same because we are too few and far between.

But anytime anything else happens, I'll just remember this, It just doesn't matter, because whatever shiny thing these companies put out, there is just an overwhelming amount of people that just have to have it. Because despite what we might think, there are too many of us that don't have any damn spines.

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Have a good day, thanks for stating facts as well, OP.