I’m just astounded that they took 3-4 days to issue any kind of public statement and this wet fart is what they came out with
nevermind that people are speculating that the statement wasn’t even written by a native English speaker and their arguments are reasonable and sensible
whatever internal and external PR people they have should start looking for new jobs and clients now and keep this fiasco off their resumes
I wonder if it’s primarily intended for internal consumption because their employees are revolting. That would explain all the bloviating about Blizzard Values
if it was meant for internal communications, then god bless the hero about to be fired
I don’t know the first thing about Chinese but this seems plausible.
I got a “have a garbage day” pin when I ordered a KRZ shirt and I love it.
What is the allegation behind this analysis though? That it was written by the Chinese gvmt and provided to blizzard? I mean is it not possible for a Chinese speaking blizzard employee to have written the statement?
As for the analysis itself, it doesn’t seem too unreasonable, but there’s something a little phrenological about it to me. There are certain grammatical oversights that are common among Chinese speakers who are not proficient in English, but those that are mentioned here seem pretty subtle. The oddest thing about it to me is the “when we think about…” sentence, but the Chinese phrase mentioned there would feel equally weird with any direct equivalent of the verb “to think” anyway, which to me is weirder than the verb tense used.
The idea that ccp wrote themselves their own apology is hilarious to me and what is this world
Blizzard’s statement purported to be unrelated to its Chinese business and Blizzard’s business in China is handled by a different company. The implication is that it was written for them by Netease.
I’m typically grossed out by people complaining about Tencent financing Epic, etc. but this
I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision.
is ridiculous on its face to me.
Got it, I wasn’t aware of the context of the statement. The language used is definitely a bit awkward. Many others seem to agree. I think written by a Chinese employee is far more likely than it being a statement provided by the government, that allegation makes more sense. Chinese gvmnt statements in English are less informal, grammatically precise but with some awkward phrasings in my experience. The difference between something written in Chinese and translated precisely but artlessly into English, and something written in English by a competent but not natively fluent English speaker.
It’s definitely not, like, Japanese constitution obvious, but then again “prizing” is a conjugation I’ve never seen in English before.
I did notice that, apparently it is used with some frequency in this context. The suggested Chinese that this supposedly translates is also awkward to me. There are perfectly normal nouns for prize or award in Chinese too. If it said “prize money” (for 獎金) I would be more convinced
After much trial and error I cheesed the Final Battle of Divinity OS 2 by turning the dude who instigates the second stage into a chicken, knocking off his last 4kish hp in one hit of the one-hit sword, then exploding his corpse.
I posted this in the wrong thread but when you think about it
it’s pretty important gaming news
the Mei statue, and any trace of it ever existing, has vanished from the Blizzard store
I hope they cancel blizzcon and people show up anyway with their protest signs and then blizzard gets sued by the city of anaheim for breach of contract
blizzard sux and their games are awful
except blackthorne, that game rules
Did they do Rock-‘n’-roll Racing? I liked that game.
Midi Paranoid was cool as hell.