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[Teneb]

They definitely pick up a lot of wild stuff because of the focus on indie devs. I don't imagine they have much in the way of investors to look after - what they have have gotta be pretty relaxed.

From a quick wikipedia read, it seems that the idea behind Devolver was to avoid investors altogether. So props to them.

[Iduno]

So Blizzard pulled the prize money of a pro e-sports and sent him home because he expressed support for the Hong Kong protests.

Nice to know who they actually work for.

The worst part is now EA has to try to one-up them to retain the title of "worst gaming company in the world."

[Jopax]

I am liking the movement that sprang up in support of the dude. Namely artists doing Actiblizz character fanart as supporters of the protests. The hope being if it becomes a big enough of a thing and directly associated with the protests it might cause Actiblizz some trouble with the chinese.

Here's hoping it does, they've been spineless shitheels long enough imo.

[Dunamisdeos]

There are longtime players canceling various subscriptions in protest as well. Good stuff. Effective stuff.

[Teneb]

Apparently from reports people are no longer able to delete their Actiblizzard accounts. The process is demanind stuff like ids and such to prove the owner's identity... and then refuses them anyway if provided.

[Dunamisdeos]

Apparently from reports people are no longer able to delete their Actiblizzard accounts. The process is demanind stuff like ids and such to prove the owner's identity... and then refuses them anyway if provided.

Oh really.

I'm going to try right now.

[nenjin]

Sounds like damage control to me.

[pikachu17]

Sounds more like crime to me. There has to be a law against totally preventing people from cancelling a service. Or am I confusing accounts with subscriptions?
Even discounting the criminal part of it, how is making people hate you for an additional reason damage control? Even people that don't mind what they already did will hate this.

[Ulfarr]

Apparently from reports people are no longer able to delete their Actiblizzard accounts. The process is demanind stuff like ids and such to prove the owner's identity... and then refuses them anyway if provided.

This should backfire so bad for ActiBliz

[Kagus]

"Hi, I'd like to remove my account now please"

"YOU REQUIRE MORE VESPENE GAS"

Apparently from reports people are no longer able to delete their Actiblizzard accounts. The process is demanind stuff like ids and such to prove the owner's identity... and then refuses them anyway if provided.

This should backfire so bad for ActiBliz

If it's true, sure. But it sounds like such a hysterically stupid thing to do that I'd be surprised if they actually did that... I'm gonna lean a bit more towards "people on the internet making stuff up" for the moment, until more news about uncooperative account retention comes out.

[nenjin]

I can tell you that, being in the business of account management, this is not an uncommon tactic to use. Delay just long enough for something to blow over and half of those people will probably forget they were outraged enough to cancel.

[TamerVirus]

China's also waiting for things to blow over 

[A Thing]

So I was playing Crusader Kings 2 in Spanish and something funky happened with a nickname.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It means something roughly around the lines of "fulfill the following requirements to construct a hospital". Dunno what happened here, but this man apparently did something to deserve the nickname.

[ChairmanPoo]

*shrug* probably not the best game to learn Spanish. I'd advise rpgs instead

[Magistrum]

Obviously means he fulfilled the prerequisites to build an hospital, making him virtuous.