Basically Blizzard is on a witch hunt for pepe, they've removed him from the Overwatch chat and asked pro players to remove it from their twitter account...
>From what I understand, Blizzard reached out to SF Shock management to ask that sinatra take down his birthday tweet because it had a pepe in it, which Blizzard is trying to crackdown on in regards to being potentially offensive.
I really don't get this move at all from a business prospective. The people who buy Blizzard games are the FeelsBadMan, FeelsGoodMan pepe enthusiasts, so why go after the symbol that represents the gaming community? I don't want my imagination to get the better of me, but I'm sure all the artists, coders, developers etc. are hard at work trying to make a profit (which is good and makings fucking sense!). I guess I want to ask, rather than assume: who makes these decisions? Like someone is getting paid to ban pepe... how fulfilling a life they must have (I too would like to get paid to do nothing, its practically welfare).
I'm also worried that if they ban pepe, whats next? and what the end game is.
its way more entertaining to watch companies take political stances. i hope they do it more
Joshua White
Blizzard is a company that took their most iconic Diablo character, voiced by a white man, fired the white man (basically by making it impossible for him to work with them) and hired a black man to voice said character who became black for whatever reason.
Kayden Rivera
They still make the best waifus I forgive them.
I need d.VA in my life
Chase Hall
>playing modern videogames >caring about blizzard after 2007 what's wrong with you?
Joseph Evans
agreed there. But I just don't get the logic... to the point of frustration. Is it creating chaos for the sake of chaos. Or is it some bitch boy wanting to get some roastie's flaps? I thought business need to focus on profit rather than lil' pepe and politics (is pepe even political? they're banning a joke...)
I guess I want to understand it from their prospective because I'm clueless
Pepe is for neo nazi retards. Pepe go bye bye. No encourage Pepe cucks.
William White
Who? I played DII in the Stone Age but haven’t followed it
William Watson
>Basically Blizzard is on a witch hunt for pepe You should've realized that by the paid honeypot fag that kept spamming soe with dumb questions about stupid shit.
Isaiah Sanders
Pepe is the strongest egregore in the world, can't be killed even if we wanted to.
HotS makes Blizz somewhere in a $5-10 a year range. It's Blizz's least popular game by far, and that's saying something considering D3 was and is a dumpster fire.
That being said the general chat in HotS is pretty funny and seems pretty /ourchat/. Too bad the game is trash.
Jose Kelly
I'm getting deja vu, didn't this already happen a few months ago?
Logan Gray
i found out about it yesterday. what happened a few months ago?
Jack Robinson
I remember hearing about blizzard wanting to ban Pepe from their various platforms for months now, unless I'm remembering wrong/going crazy
Nathan Brown
>in regards to being potentially offensive.
oh no, the horror.
>what if she says no? I shouldn't ask her out then
This is the thinking of a beta faggot.
Asher Rodriguez
It makes more, considering I recently bought gems for 20 euro. >Too bad the game is trash It's actually quite okay for a moba, it's not the best game ever, but I still play it after almost 3 years with few breaks here and there. It's the best current Blizzard game imo.
Hyperbole. Still makes nothing compared to the other Blizz games.
>It's actually quite okay for a moba
Worse of the big name ones by far. LoL and DotA crush it in player base, competitive scene, casual players, etc.
All that being said I still play it too. It's nice to see the mash up of blizz IPs.
Christian Lee
The most played doesn't mean the best. It's usually better to have a smaller playerbase, look at what happened to WoW during WotLK. Also, if it was more popular, it would be as cucked as overwatch, due to how current Blizzard tries to "please everyone".
Chase Diaz
funny how those "everyone" all happen to be rabid sjws
Julian Cox
I don’t get why Pepe is so offensive now despite him existing for years before now. Once normies get hold of something its all over.
Gabriel Morales
The normans have had Pepe since years before this though
