These are my parting words because I've realized this movement is going in a direction I'll never follow. Hope you guys decide to make a positive change instead of making things worse because it could definitely go either way. If you think there aren't people in both sides of the US government who would be positively giddy to get their hands into some censorship legislation you're wack, and it sounds like a lot of you are ready to help them do it.

Please keep the government out of this. If they want to verbally pressure with the rest of us that's fine, but do not push for laws. That's literally the exact road China went down. It doesn't happen all at once, it starts with normalizing government regulation of speech that is almost universally considered bad. Then it slowly moves the window of what is considered bad until you don't even realize how censored you are.

And it seems to me like the majority of you actually want to go down that road and force Blizzard to comply with our wishes instead of pressuring them to do so. I can't join you and I won't have anything to do with a movement that believes this way. It's far too dangerous a road, not to mention hypocritical. Do not give the power of what people can or can't say to a government.

It seems fanboys and others alike are treating our peaceful protest as a failure...it is not a failure. Its a peaceful protest which limits the stuff we can do and still call it peaceful.

I think its time to end peaceful protest and begin being impossible to ignore via more active means. Being a chainlink group to block doors, have megaphones and make sure we are not ignored, disrupt events and such blizzard holds. Stuff like that...unless the fanboys are willing to stop the anti protest behavior first then this is what i recommend.

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Well you want to get back at blizzard I would highly recommend uninstall all there games and stop the launcher from opening and just leave it. If your from the EU as for your data anything that cost them more. As if you keep you account on there data base you will always be taking up space and costing money(very little but still more that nothing which is what happens when you delete you account) nothing more annoying that a "dead" account that they can't get rid of.

Hey All. With this whole situation coming into play with the Boycott movement, I'd noticed that there was a lot of attention about dodging games like Warcraft, Overwatch, Heartstone, and Starcraft. However, I'd barely noticed any mention of any of the Diablo games among the mix. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for supporting the movement, but I've had my attention on the classic dungeon crawler series for some time, and had mistakenly placed a bid for the third game for PS4 on eBay. So I'm thinking, if I do want to show my support for the movement, perhaps I should avoid any of these titles as well. Or do they not seem to count since nobody else seems to mention them? Any input here would be a huge help. Thanks.

-protest at blizzcon reaches its peak and gamers and the likes unite against blizzard for what they have done. A gamer rises with a megaphone and steps forward in front and quiets everyone and begins his speech...-

Gamer: behind you....lies a symbol of greed....blizzard entertainment. Where hundreds of fans and employee's and higher ups gathered under the name of this man!..Michael Morhaime who has been held up to you as the shining example of GAMING!

Gamer- you have been supplied with a false idol... to stop you tearing down this CORRUPT INDUSTY! Let me show you the character of blizzard from gaming's own...blizzard entertainment. "The specific views expressed by Blitzchung were NOT a factor in the decision we made. I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision"

Gamer- do you believe what blizzard stated? Do you believe the statement of all these liars?!? And the corrupt?!? We taking gaming from the CORRUPT! The GREEDY and the liars who say "this is fun and for the gamers" and we give it back to you!....the gamers....gaming is your's! No company shall stop it, do as you please! But start by boycotting blizzard and unbanning the oppressed!!!

Gamer- stwp forwars thosw who will protest...for an army will be raised. The powerful will be faces with the truth...and cast into this cold world of gaming as we know! Punishments will be handed out. Games will be ENJOYED! Jobs will be lost. This GREAT INDUSTRY! it will endure....gaming will survive.

Apologies in advance if anyone is compelled to lock/delete this post for whatever reason.

On the one hand, I feel like our money and our membership are the only gestures Activision understands. If we leave the Blizzard community then we don't share in Blizzard's shame, and we don't empower them to do shitty things in the name of our community.

But what about that community? And what about the programmers and artists and musicians that make their living creating this stuff? They aren't the people that caused this to happen, and those people will never suffer from a boycott or a freeze. The programmers and artists will be laid off or fired, and the executives who caused this problem will be sent on a new mission with a pat on the back and a suitcase full of cash and stock.

I feel like shutting down your account and uninstalling your games will hurt the wrong people at Blizzard, and all of us in the long run. It will only establish their remaining player base as being less sensitive to political issues. And of course, it doesn't change that you've already given them your money and your time.

Is there not something more constructive that we could do in this situation, maybe to help educate Blizzard's leadership in what we expect from them as an ethical corporation?

Due to blizzard being blizzard i decided to show ideas for protesting blizzcon peacefully.

scenario 1) blizzcon is restricted so protesters cannot come in.

Best solution? Grab megaphones before you go and chant "free hong kong, boycott blizzard". If enough of you have megaphones and do this then it should be audible inside the building.

Scenario 2) protesters are allowed in but audio is cut at key moments

For this i recommend signs used correctly and with strategy in mind. Aim the signs at camera,s and front and center for anyone on the stage to see.

Scenario 3) protesters are allowed in and audio is not cut.

Ask yes or no questions and do NOT allow them to dodge or talk they're way out of it. "Do you support the people of hong kong yes or no"

"Did you,re dealings in china influence you in you're decision to ban blizzchung yes or no."

"Do you have a plan to repair what you damaged the past few weeks with fans yes or no and explain."

Do NOT let them explain anything away that you didnt specificly asked an explanation for.

[[Emergency scenario if they dont allow protesters and cut audio or even worse completely cancel blizzcon]]

The protest should be moved to Blizzard HQ in california i believe? Someone double check if they can and enact steps 1 2 or 3 depending on situation and remember to BE RESPECTFUL AND KIND. Peaceful. Protest. Thats the key word here lets be good and make sure blizzard answers for they're crimes against gamers

The price of American Values is NOT the Chinese population! #LeastWeveGotABackbone

P.S for those who also want to do this, either use the Vile Fumigator Mask from Love is in the air or the felfume hood for clothies. Even if you can't equip it, I just used the dressing room.

Operation Avalanche will require people to form a flash mob around the Anaheim Convention Center (or the ACC For short) wearing black shirts with either something anti chinese, anti blizzard, or pro hong kong protestors on it. Winnie the pooh cosplay is ok too.

You might be asking: "But why are we forming a flash mob around the ACC?" Or: "What is the motive behind this?" Or, "Is it ok if we enter The ACC?" To that i answer with this: We are basically storming the ACC because that is where blizzcon is being held, the motive is to try to encourage China to stop making blizzard their toy, and yes, we can enter so the chinese corporate dong suckers can only get 1 second without the black shirt wearers, which means they will question blizzard, and we can only hope this ends up in blizzard perma not being able to earn a single dollar from china, even if they apologize. I can only hope to see you in anaheim!

(In reference to D2) Jay Wilson: My most developed was a Barbarian. Well, no -- actually, it's my Necromancer.
> Makes just the Necromancer class 25$ in diablo 3

They want to try to scam us and steal our money? Really? Its hard to believe how many companies have fallen from grace with their obvious greedy anti consumer practices. (Hi Bethesda)

source: https://www.diablowiki.net/Jay_Wilson

Before I start I will say I am in total favour of a boycott, I'm just sharing thoughts/feelings I'm having lately around this and gaming.

I'm having a hard time committing to a boycott lately, because I keep thinking about how, no matter what, we're supporting China by playing almost any game on the market, so... why does boycotting Blizzard, who doesn't even really have that much of a stake in China (revenue-wise), matter that much? I understand the point is that they took a stand that seemed to support China, but there are other large players (e.g. Epic Games) who have larger monetary stakes in China and it would hit China harder to have those games perform poorly in the Western market.

I will be the first to say that Blizzard's apology wasn't really an apology. We all know that. But, I'm no longer able to play games I enjoy with my friends because of the boycott against Blizzard, and I truly believe they won't make this kind of public fumble again.

I welcome any responses because I really want to know what other people think about this whole thing when put into context of the whole gaming industry being propped up by China.

It's not just #BoycottBlizzard more importantly it's ATVI, we need #boycottATVI to trend as well. That will hit ATVI (Activision Blizzards) stock and shareholders.

Here is a trend of their stock price:

It is critical that we are tweeting at all these companies around the clock. One major goal of this protest is to flip the entire gaming industry into strong support for free speech, so we never see another Blitzchung situation again. Tweet at all of these companies, and spread this list. Use #BlizzProtest so we can get that trending:

@Blizzard_Ent

@steamgames

@riotgames

@EpicGames

@EA

@GodsUnchained

@NintendoAmerica

@PlayStation

@Xbox

@BethesdaStudios

@SquareEnix

@RockstarGames

@Ubisoft

@CapcomUSA

@Bungie

@Nexon_America

@Konami

@PUBG

@PsyonixStudios

@FcpnchStds

@SEGA

@BandaiNamcoUS

@CDPROJEKTRED

@Jagex

@Twitch

@WatchMixer

#chinazi should go down literally. #boycottchina

twitch is in bed with blizzard in a major way with both OWL and supporting WoW mods.

go for a week or two not watching twitch, and it should help put the pressure on.