#overwatch hong kong

[ophilosoraptoro]

[r4vezer0]

Mobile Suits behind a paywall, adding only 1 new mobile suit per season instead of the 2 they originally said and launching the console version in Japan and not in any other countries in Asia is why Back 4 Blood has a higher active playercount than Gundam Evolution.

I love Gundam and I think Gundam Evolution is cool but holy crap they dropped the ball If Bandai Namco wants this game to be successful, stop announcing tournaments and put mobile suits for free on Battle Pass like Overwatch and launch the console version in more countries like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand

[txttletale]

lrb this literally drove me insane when blizzard announced overwatch 2 and people were like 'they're doing this because of their sexual assault scandal / hong kong scandal' like. there was a whole 3d animated trailer amiguitas do you know how fucking long those take to make

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

On OCTOBER 23 at 7PM, I'll be in DECATUR, GEORGIA, presenting my novel THE BEZZLE at EAGLE EYE BOOKS.

#20yrsago Sony bullies Retropod off the net https://web.archive.org/web/20041018040446/http://www.retropod.com/

#15yrsago This Side of Jordan – Violent jazz age novel by Charles M Schulz’s son Monte https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/16/this-side-of-jordan-violent-jazz-age-novel-by-charles-m-schulzs-son-monte/

#10yrsago FBI chief demands an end to cellphone security https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/us/politics/fbi-director-in-policy-speech-calls-dark-devices-hindrance-to-crime-solving.html

#10yrsago Please, Disney: put back John’s grandad’s Haunted Mansion tombstone https://thedisneyblog.com/2014/10/16/petition-to-return-a-lost-tombstone-to-the-haunted-mansion/

#10yrsago How Microsoft hacked trademark law to let it secretly seize whole businesses https://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/

#10yrsago If you think you’ve anonymized a data set, you’re probably wrong https://web.archive.org/web/20141014172827/http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/

#10yrsago The lost cyber-crayolas of the mid-1990s https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/16/the-lost-cyber-crayolas-of-the-mid-1990s/

#5yrsago “The People’s Money”: A crisp, simple, thorough explanation of how government spending is paid for https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/10/the-peoples-money-part-1.html

#5yrsago What it’s like to have Apple rip off your successful Mac app https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/16/what-its-like-to-have-apple-rip-off-your-successful-mac-app/

#5yrsago Blizzard suspends college gamers from competitive play after they display “Free Hong Kong” poster https://www.vice.com/en/article/three-college-hearthstone-protesters-banned-for-six-months/

#5yrsago Terrified of bad press after its China capitulation, Blizzard cancels NYC Overwatch event https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/blizzard-cancels-overwatch-event-as-it-tries-to-contain-backlash

#5yrsago A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-subscription-trap-free-trial-scam-ads-inc

#5yrsago Britain’s unbelievably stupid, dangerous porn “age verification” scheme is totally dead https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/uk-government-abandons-planned-porn-age-verification-scheme/

#5yrsago Not only is Google’s auto-delete good for privacy, it’s also good news for competition https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/16/not-only-is-googles-auto-delete-good-for-privacy-its-also-good-news-for-competition/

#5yrsago Edward Snowden on the global war on encryption: “This is our new battleground” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australia-facebook

#5yrsago In Kansas’s poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the ailing to debtor’s prison https://features.propublica.org/medical-debt/when-medical-debt-collectors-decide-who-gets-arrested-coffeyville-kansas

#5yrsago Want a ride in a Lyft? Just sign away your right to sue if they kill, maim, rape or cheat you https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/16/want-a-ride-in-a-lyft-just-sign-away-your-right-to-sue-if-they-kill-maim-rape-or-cheat-you/

#5yrsago #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago’s teachers are back on strike https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/union-strike-chicago-teachers/

#1yrago One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones

Tor Books as just published two new, free LITTLE BROTHER stories: VIGILANT, about creepy surveillance in distance education; and SPILL, about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

[chaosites]

Sup its me again

Do any of you have a favourite game?

Do any of you share one?

This one could take a while!!! Let's do it Let's go down the line~! It doesnt count if it's their source, that's our only rule.

Starting with some collective ones! Yahtzee! Mergefruit (the shitty phone one where you have to drop the fruits and merge them to try and make the giant golden watermelon), earthbound(legal middle name!), UTDR, wii sports/wii sports resort,MySims, mario in general

And now some individual faves!

Alan: Cut The Rope, Run series, Wind Waker

Ann: she loved those baking flash games but a lot of them don't run well enough anymore, so just baking games in general!

BASIL: There's this specific solitaire game called like.... solitaire gardens? no. Solitaire Grand Harvest. He loves that one.

Brandon: Unfortunately one of Brandon's favorite game series is in fact Danganronpa. He knows it's not any good.

Callum: Callum loves a good itch.io indie game. Nothing really specific. Zey also like Mystic Messenger

Chara: Chara likes OMORI, the mother series and especially games where you can play as A Creature instead of a person. They would like animal crossing a lot more if this was an option

Chel-c: Dating sims, worse the better

Chia: fighting games, namely the crossover ones

Clara: Mysims SO much she is a mysims superfan. She also loves the barbie games, namely barbie horse adventures riding camp.

Clyde: IMVU, online virtual worlds in general, overwatch

Cocoa: Dating sims and otome games

Colbie: Colbie likes most nintendo games but they especially eat up those godawful mobile games. They also love SSX tricky

ENA: Yume Nikki

Ethan Lee: KATAMARI!!!

Fern: RPGs mostly. He in fact does like ISAT. For reasons.

Gary: Baking games

Glass: Absolute Majong fiend. Solitaire also

Gregory: Games that are made to mimic the style of old arcade games, definitely. He really loves skee ball, too. And claw machines. If those two count as games

HERO: He also likes baking games!

Jax: "Best game ever, Hong Kong 97. What? Of course I'm serious.'

Joan: Animal Crossing

Karma: Sims, apparently?

KEL: Wii Sports

Ken: Style Savvy

Kid: I love Hue

Kira: Card games

Kris: Smash Bros, especially brawl, Wii games in general

M: Portal 1&2, Garry's Mod

Mabel: GirlsGoGames.com forever. I cant remember the name of it but she LOVED this weird hair styling one. It had a like, hair growth potion that you could use? Will edit if any of us remember

Mae: rhythm games even though she sucks bad at them, Sam and Max

Marcy: Silly DS games, Mysims, arcade games

Maxie: Nintendogs + Cats

Napsta: ThisIsSand

Neil: Gameboy/Wii/DS games of All Kinds, Tetris type games

Ray: Connect 4

Rio: Card games

Rox: Any game where you can pet the cat

Sal: Super Mario Galaxy

Seven: Any game where you can pet the cat+ Connect 4

Si: Mystery Case Files/Hidden object games

Simon: Wii Sports

Star: Dressup games

SUNNY: JRPGs

Sysfrin: Candy Crush, Solitaire

Tobi: Yahtzee

Torrin: Shipwrecked 64

Trent: Yaoi dating sims/ Blush Blush

Unknown: Connect 4, Papa's Freezeria

Vanellope: Mario Kart, Karting games in general

Vix: Smile For Me,Nintendo in general

X: Solitaire

[everythingshinesunderthesun]

Remember how just a couple years back Blizzard was in all sorts of hot water for banning players who supported the Hong Kong protests and their abhorrent treatment of employees and the culture of sexual harassment at their offices and then they released Overwatch 2 and suddenly all of that wasn't important anymore?

[rtgame]

why does everyone hate overwatch and especially overwatch 2? i know ppl hate it but i never see anyone say why. if anyone else wants to offer opinions in the notes i'd love to hear them. i'm not defending the game(s) i'm just curious

ok so recovering from surgery has fucked up my sleep schedule so bad i'm actually up and at my pc to answer this at 7 am on a sunday bc i have a lot to say and i didn't want to type this all out on my phone lol. (also i have to take my antibiotics in an hour so i might as well get up) this is going to be LONG because i have a lot of thoughts and a lot of reasons

i think the biggest one, just to get it out of the way, is that blizzard had a MASSIVE scandal over sexual harassment. this basically changed everyone's opinions on every blizzard property, but from what i understand, the overwatch team actually didn't have a harassment problem (FROM WHAT I KNOW), but obviously it still affected people's perception of the game and i'm not defending blizzard on this issue. i think several people should die over this.

anyways, i think one of the big things was blizzard randomly announced overwatch 2 back in 2019 to distract from them banning a pro hearthstone player over supporting the hong kong protests in an interview. the development of overwatch 2 brought overwatch 1 to a COMPLETE fucking standstill like. there was literally no actual update for 3 years because they moved the entire dev team to overwatch 2 so overwatch 1 was updated by a skeleton crew, which a lot of people weren't happy about (me included). the only real difference between 1 and 2, when 2 was announced, was that it was gonna have PVE, which was already weird because in the past they said PVE was going to be in overwatch 1 and now it's not?

and then overwatch 2 finally comes out and it's like. there's no PVE. it's "coming later." they later admit that the PVE campaign was cancelled back in 2021 (remember overwatch 2 came out late 2022) BUT THEN KEPT ADVERTISING THAT OVERWATCH 2 WAS GONNA HAVE THE PVE CAMPAIGN? THEY LITERALLY JUST LIED TO EVERYONE FOR A FUCKING YEAR?

it took like 3 years for overwatch 2 to come out and at launch, all it had to offer was 3 new heroes and a few new maps and its like, if they just kept developing overwatch 1 we would've had way more by 2022.

overwatch 2 is also free to play, which is like, that's fine on paper, yay everyone gets to play it, but in practice it means that overwatch 2 is rife with microtransactions. skins cost like $26. new heroes cost AT LEAST $10 depending on when you buy them (or you can spend a ridiculous amount of time unlocking them for free) and its like. i fucking bought overwatch 1 for $40, these characters and skins would've been goddamn free in overwatch 1, i'm not spending money on this. ALSO I SPENT $40 TO BUY THIS GAME WHY THE FUCK AM I SPENDING MORE MONEY TO UNLOCK CHARACTERS???? there's some PVE missions available in game now but they're nothing like what was promised and they. also. obviously. cost. fucking. money. and i already spent $40 on the first game.

also there's a battle pass now for monetization reasons and i fucking hate most battle passes. the microtransactions in this game are fascinating because they make the overwatch 1 loot boxes look good.

also, they started the overwatch league in 2018, which is like, professional overwatch gaming, and i really liked watching it (and even went to some games irl) (i won a raffle there once!), but then they started balancing the game around the pro competitive scene which kinda made it hard for casuals to enjoy because they would keep changing the casual game mode (quick play) to be more in line with competitive, which was getting balanced around like 0.001% of players, which just made it less fun lol.

+ when they released overwatch 2, it went from 6v6 to 5v5 which was a change i never liked because my usual team was 6 people so this means that we have to rotate someone out, and they removed the 2nd tank role when switching the game to 5v5 which was uh... my main role was off tank... which they fucking removed.... because the game's 5v5 now. my main (dva) feels borderline unplayable in 5v5 because she kinda just sucks now lol. idk i don't really like the flow of the game or how short team fights are with 5v5 and i absolutely hate being the only tank. i think 6v6 was the perfect balance for overwatch but that's been thrown out the window.

ALSO they removed capture point maps which i actually did enjoy and im still salty over this

tldr basically it's like. overwatch 1 died for 3 years and blizzard killed its momentum for overwatch 2 but then overwatch 2 has literally nothing new to it and it's just overwatch 1 but worse. we waited 3 years for literally nothing.

although, i will say i saw a lot of people online make fun of the game when they announced lifeweaver because he's, iirc, a pansexual thai man, and honestly, that never sat right with me because like. it was a bunch of online leftists making fun of the game for being.... too diverse? or feeling like it was checking off a list and i was never comfortable with it because like, even just 6 years ago we would not have gotten a character like him in an AAA game. i think it's because one of the studios under blizzard posted their "diversity tool" that they used to diversify their game and it was really fucking weird and gave points to characters depending on their race and sexuality and etc, and i think they even used overwatch characters as an example, which was REALLY weird, because the tool was being used by king and not the team developing overwatch and even the dev team called it out like "we don't fucking use this, what is this shit lol, stop using our characters for this"

also lifeweaver was made by a thai person on the team to represent his own culture so i genuinely don't think he was made with the diversity tool lol.

idk i still think representation is important and i think making fun of him was weird since like. pan thai men definitely exist irl. idk. it was weird as fuck and this is probably the only thing i'll actively defend overwatch on. #LeaveLifeweaverAlone or whatever. i mean he sucks in game but that's bc his abilities are lame and his healing is shit, not because he's pan lol

but also why do they keep making their japanese characters ninjas lol. i like playing kiriko but man why can they all wall climb.

also like, the final thing, regarding everyone else hating it is like, im gonna be blunt, i think a lot of times the internet will just randomly turn on something it loved (marvel (rightfully honestly), borderlands, someone provide more examples) and say it sucks/its cringe/etc because loving something is #Cringe and hating everything is #Cool or whatever, and overwatch has reached that phase of its life, and all the issues i mentioned above really didn't fucking help. the internet adores its hate trains yknow

idk genuinely my relationship with overwatch is super fucking complicated as someone who loved/loves the game. i really do like a lot of the characters and i think the game is still fun SOMETIMES, but it's definitely lost that spark it had in 2016 thanks to shit management and blizzard focusing on the wrong things. i think a lot about a world where blizzard didn't suck and overwatch never had all this shit happen to it.

also WOW IM SORRY this is so rambly i've had like 4 hours of sleep and this is just something i do feel strongly about since the game is/was important to me and quite literally changed my life, so it sucks to see how it turned out. when i was 16 i really was enamored by this game where the whole premise was fighting for the future and it was just optimistic about the future, and i think that really was important for me at the time, as dumb as that is. a game being like "hey, the future's gonna be awesome" during a year that was really nerve-wracking for me was something i did need at the time. it really does suck that overwatch's own future wasn't as bright as the future it was envisioning.

[angeltannis]

I both love and hate deep diving into Actiblizz stuff bc it’s fascinating but SO depressing… the devs in tweets, AMA answers and even interviews being forced to recite verbatim shit Bobby Kotick wrote that they knew were bold-faced lies… Jeff Kaplan being forced to go on stage at Blizzcon 2019 in front of millions of fans and promise a game that he knew was never going to come out with all the bells and whistles he was hyping up because Bobby wanted to “shift the news cycle” away from the Hong Kong thing… and then the longer Overwatch 2 took to develop, the execs started Punishing them by “starving” the team of resources and funding until they didn’t have anywhere CLOSE to the ability to create the OW2 they dreamed of making… and that was, of course, Bobby’s goal in the first place, since the execs outright told the devs who were lovingly crafting this campaign mode that it wasn’t going to make enough easy money, and that they needed to go the route of Microtransaction Battle Pass Hell instead

[scholarhect]

well actually my favorite example of this is when overwatch dropped something and people did the whole “let’s see what they’re trying to cover up this time” and settled on a screenshot of a headline about an update in the labor lawsuit. conveniently cropped out of that screenshot was the date on the article, 5 months previous. but anyway my second favorite example and the one i wanted to mention in the first place was (and i’m sorry that these are all about overwatch. unfortunately this is the person i am) “they announced overwatch 2 in fall 2019 and then didn’t release it for years, they clearly didn’t have it ready, they must have announced it early to distract from the hong kong scandal” hey i’m just wondering, was there anything that happened in early-to-mid 2020 that might’ve caused progress on a video game to slow down? just asking. no reason

[jjnonken]

Overwatch: holding fast

Some time ago, Blizzard issued a temporary ban when a professional Hearthstone player relayed a message of support for the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. (https://www.tumblr.com/jjnonken/188437447160/blizzard-digs-its-heels-in-and-issues-6-month-ban?source=share&ref=jjnonken)

That's when I stopped buying loot crates. Then the whole workplace sexism thing came to light, which included changing McCree's name to Cole Cassidy to get the stink off. Overwatch was always supposed to have a PvE mode with a skill tree and everything. When I announced OW2 it was hoped that would include actual improvements, plus the promised PvE mode. They reduced the team size to 5, removing one of the tanks, which changed the team synergy; did a bunch of ability changes, not all of which I'm used to yet; and abandoned the old Loot Crate system in favor of the Battle Pass system, or buying cosmetics outright. It's a money grab. Used to be that even if you never bought a loot crate, you could grind for Overwatch gelt and loot crate drops, and eventually either get lucky or simply earn enough coins to buy the skin outright. Most of that has been replaced by needing to spend actual RL money for the fancier skins, some costing as much as $40. (You do get some cosmetics for free via grinding.)

There are a bunch of other changes, mostly minor, mostly unpopular.

It's frustrating sometimes. I'll see somebody sporting an absolutely gorgeous Mercy skin, for instance, and regret that I can never get it. I'm sticking to my guns and have not spent a cent on Blizzard since the Hong Kong thing. With one exception: I decided I wanted to change my name, but since I'd already used up my first free name change, I had to spend $10. I did so reluctantly and only because it was the only way to do it.

But I figure I'm still costing Blizzard money with no ROI, since they have to maintain the servers and stuff.

I still love Overwatch despite the negative changes, but I'm not enjoying it as much.

[beardedmrbean]

Re: Hogwarts Legacy.

I wish people would have cared at least 1/10 of how much they care about HL when the scandals of Blizzards and Riot games came out.

JKR might have fucked up ideas, but actual suicide and sexual harassment should be the priority. Instead everyone is still playing LoL or Overwatch.

Where was the solidarity back then? I bet 99% of people who go around saying to not play HL and posting spoilers is still watching Arcane and playing Overwatch.

That would be one of the reasons I think there's someone or some group of some sort agitating.

This does not feel like a rational response to everything going on with this game.

Also there's several other things blizzard has done that warranted a big response as well, whole thing in Hong Kong for one.

I don't get why this is the one people are latching on to.

[wackyrat]

Devlog #3

December, 2nd, 2022.

Hello again, all you beautiful faceless homunculi. I'm back after 9 long grueling months stuck in a Hong Kong labour camp. I have finally escaped and am back to work on whatever it is we do here at wackyratTM or whatever its called now. Anyways I've started drinking again and when I drink I get creative. Which is why I decided to finally sit down and birth this monstrosity I'm calling a devlog. So you're welcome. Speaking of monstrosities the game now has its first character. Now we'll I can't tell you too much them. I can tell you that they are guaranteed to stick with you right up to your final breath. I'm honestly sorry I created them ; only I've created that's more horrific is my son Matthew. Suprise, suprise I'm not some lowly virgin typing this out on a Belle delphine keyboard; well staring longingly at my "my little pony" collection. I am infact a divorced dad of 3 , ok 2 beautiful children and one Matthew. Thing is Matthew isn't even my son. He's the product of my bitch ex-wife hooking up with some Puerto Rican pro overwatch player; And the bitch had the audacity to make me child support for him for 13 years. It only ended then because it came out that his father was underage at the time of conception. Meaning not only is my ex-wife a bitch buts she's also a pedophile. Hey, at least it allowed me to get custody of me kids and also Matthew. Oh and you better believe I gave one hell of a testimony at her hearing. A little bit of perjury is ok, right ?. On another note , have you guys ever been to a SOAD concert? If not,The fuck are you waiting for ? If you have though. Then I've got a story for you. So I had acquired tickets through an almost legitimate source. I show up all decked out in my best leather vest + jort combo. It was going pretty well and I had worked my into the moshpitt. That's when shit went south. Next thing I know I'm getting groped more than a Japanese schoolgirl on a train. So I do the natural thing and headbutt the motherfucker giving me an impromptu prostate exam. Dudes nose shatters there's blood everywhere. Serj is yelling at me to get the fuck out of his show and security is treating me slightly better than FedEx treats there packages. Anyways long story short don't mix cocaine , Adderall and crushed up Flintstone vitamins. Anyhow I wanna get this published already cause it's been so damn. So in light up that I'm gonna wrap this up but don't worry there is more stories to come. Hopefully. Maybe. But you know don't hold your breath. Adios , your friend tinkleshits.

P.S. to whoever stole my Kia Sorento..... FUCK YOU

[ladymariayuri]

overwatch 2 shut down in china. remember when you guys banned the hearthstone player supporting hong kong. thats crazy. thats craaaazy

[gooberto]

at this point i’m 100% convinced overwatch 2 was just a complete asspull they did at blizzcon to try and distract everyone from the hong kong protest controversy and then panicked when they realized people wanted them to actually make it

[doubleca5t]

Don't forget that the whole reason this happened was because Overwatch 2 was announced in 2019 while it was nowhere near being finished, but the existence of an Overwatch 2 significantly drove down interest in the original Overwatch since it was now viewed as essentially a lame duck, so Blizzard had to rush out an Overwatch 2 PvP only release to get people playing the game again but the effort required for said release prevented them from doing the PvE mode that was the whole point of doing an Overwatch 2 in the first place, and the reason they announced Overwatch 2 super early and put themselves in this ludicrous predicament is because in 2019 Blizzard banned a couple Hearthstone players for speaking out in support of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and they were getting absolutely REEMED for that decision because their fanbase are a bunch of reddit libs whose international politics begin and end at "china bad" so what I'm trying to say here is that we have our glorious Chairman Xi Jinping to thank for the collapse of Overwatch.

So, let me see if I've got this straight.

When Overwatch 2 launched last October, it was framed by Blizzard as a PvP-only early access preview of a game which would eventually include a substantial PvE campaign, to be added in a later patch.

Today, Blizzard's representatives admitted not only that the PvE campaign mode has been scrapped, but that the internal decision to do so was made in late 2021 – meaning they'd been knowingly lying about the game's planned feature set for nearly a year at the time of the October 2022 early access launch.

Is that about the size of it?

[oppressive-crab]

Anyways it's jot my thoughts down time again

My mom is off on her vacation so I'm home to dogsit, hell of a time to do so I know, hell of a time to leave me alone with my thoughts too, I think she trusts me more than she should.

Anyways Hitler 2.0

If I'm being realistic, I don't think there will be a "war" about it, I mean, not a civil war, there's gonna be a shit ton of international deaths because of this, no doubt. There's going to be a fuck ton of protests tho, black bloc levels probably, but not 2020 Hong Kong sized protests. Well, maybe. Anyways he's going to die this presidency, not like assassination die, like heart disease die, and himmler 2.0 will take over, I don't know if he will be better or worse to be honest, he's a fame and power grubby little bastard. God kamala fucking fucked the easiest layup of her career, fucking dumbasses, the entire campaign team. Christ

I wonder what rights I will loose, truthfully, the only overwatch diversity chart score I have is aroace and non binary, so I don't fear for much, but that's why I've been so poised to fight, because I'm able too, not to get too anime protagonist but fighting for people who's situation makes it harder to fight for themselves is literally my life's purpose, it's the duty of people with privilege to use it

Anyways sleepy time :3