I am not sure, but I think it’s this thread.
Who was talking about a console version of Ghost Blade HD?
No seriously…put the shovel down
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Speaking about the lolbox.
I have one sitting arround doing nothing.
Maybe i should check about what things i can do to mod it.
I already moded my WiiU and it is already getting more playtime now that i did.
Maybe the lolbox can be rescued too.
Nothing confirmed yet, but I heard they are blocking people on twater and facebook too, lol.
I mean that’s perfectly fine to of course.
Was the Switch thread, and it was Stu.
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At this point I wouldn’t put it past them. This is a hell of a dropping point in standing for a company…like I’ve seen companies slowly grow out of favor with the community but this is a fucking 90 degree dive down right now.
That is the problem when you left that a board of shareholders looking for proffit decide what is best for it.
They were doomed no matter what they did, since not taking an stance would ruin their business prospects on china, doing the shit they did fucks them with a lot of consumers.
Perhaps they werent expecting such blow up, which is funny since they said the same when Diablo immortal was announced and blew on their faces.
It is clear that many people at blizzard are out of touch with what their community wants.
Just look at how they were dismissive at the idea of classic wow, lol.
Or expected that their primarily PC focused fanbase will eat a mobile version of diablo.
Or how they keep ignoring all the issues with OW that their playerbase keeps complaining about, adding the role que like 3 years to late.
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I haven’t been keeping close tabs on that whole drama. Have they really been getting hit in any significant way (lost sales, fans, etc) or is this the typical case of gamers blowing hot air?
I bet the guys at Blizzard who made this decision didn’t expect this to blow up beyond the gaming sphere. Senators, Congress and UN human rights groups going after them.
There’s nothing they can do at this point. The damage is done.
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Well it’s going to be tough to gauge sales losses since all of their most relevant games at the moment have been out for years and I don’t know how much Hearthstone pack sales are documented. At most we’ll have to see how it affects Overwatch sales on the Switch specifically.
Fans, yeah their PR at the moment has taken a pretty big hit. I haven’t seen a single person in a bunch of communities have one positive thing to say about Blizzard since the Blitzchung banning. It would take an act of god to even get them back to where they were PR wise from 3 weeks ago.
Is not only the gamers, they have politicians, human rights groups the media, basically everyone watching oer them as they keep dropping the ball.
As for tangible loses, we dont know yet.
We know that they were getting so much accounts cancelations that they blocked the feature for quite some hours.
They even had some of the old heads that developed WoW cancelling their accounts in protest.
Like i said some posts ago.
A lot of the people i know that play blizzard games have cancelled their accounts because of this fiasco, specially because the situation in hong kong kind of mirrors the situation in my country in some ways.
If there is any impact we will see it later down the line.
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This is very recent so hard to say so far. To add to what others said some of their own employees have walked out in protest though, so that’s at least one tangible effect.
And Bobby Kotex will probably still get a damned bonus 
It’ll be yuan too.
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Persona Scramble news coming next week. I know most the people here don’t like the idea of a persona musou but I really like the idea. I’m excited
https://twitter.com/destructoid/status/1185285309153497088?s=21
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I’m curious as to what the sales for Overwatch are looking like on the Switch. The timing for that version of the game to release could not have been worse. I would call it the Blizzard Backlash but that is a grave understatement at this point.
So can anyone find me clarification of Dusk Diver’s release date? Nintendo’s webpage says the game comes out 10/29. But every store where you can preorder it says it’s not dropping until 11/19. It’s not available on the PSN store yet but all the stores release date for it on PS4 also say 11/19.
Maybe one release date is digital and the other is physical? I wish they’d specify. I want to preorder the game but I want to know when I should. As well as when I should expect it by so I can budget it.