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I never said they were journalists. Never pretended they were either. They're a broadcaster team that works for Blizzards marketing team that realized that the moment this guy opened his mouth on Hong Kong that he was putting their jobs on the line.Those arent journalists.
Those are corporate employees, payed with PR/marketing funds.
If you work in PR/marketing, and on your job get caught ducking away from controversy under your desk - you are producing the biggest possible PR damage for the company.
Like, I'm a cashier, not exactly a thing with high job security or anything, and I usually don't get in trouble if someone does stupid shit as long as I didn't cause it or made the situation worse. It's insane to me that Blizzard opted to fire them because of something they had no say or control over. My bottom-of-the-barrel job has higher job security than the job of these people.
Just because it doesn't happen doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. I know it's not fair, but that doesn't change that I can express my desire to want it to be fair and personally criticize the situation for being unfair.Again - shed the perception, that something here should have happened more impartial, fairer, or more like in a proper society.
I get why they did it; ActiBliz wants to suck up to the Chinese government so they don't risk getting their asses banned from China. I'm saying that I find it pathethic and ridiculous that they managed to tacitly agree with a government that abuses human rights on a regular basis whilst trying to enact a Big Brother state. Because, no matter how you spin it, that's what they inadvertingly did.This is not your movement. This is not your culture. This is a corporate marketing ploy given any resemblance of importance by marketing spending. To entice more people to spend real money. Once you got that into your head - the entire story and company reaction will become much clearer to you.
I think I covered this up above a little, but I'm sorry for them to the extent that they got fired over something they had no control over.Those people had the job to sell you on the believe of professionalism, and importance of a designed concept. As casters. Now you are sorry for them? You'd wanted for them to remain in their jobs, peddling you a fantasy?
It seemed to me like they panicked and realized they were done for.On a side note, they are burned. If the most famous thing you've done in your public career was to duck under a table, when thing became controversial - you'll never loose that image again. Of course they were fired. You dont need your 'public officials' to be tainted that way.
Pointless attack on my age range aside, I never said they spoke like journalists. See above.Just because they 'talk like journalists' - they arent. (Things millennials or gen z'ers will never understand. Part 1 )
Dunno what this has to do with anything here.Maybe I should post the video of Daigo (of Street Fighter fame) now living his dream as a care worker for the elderly again?
Everyone in the racket gets payed more than the actual talent. And they all know it. And they can joke about it? And then you feel sorry for them when they acted 'humanly' when they are payed not to?
This is how 'the tournament scene' on 'live experiences' economies works. If you are a caster, you are complicit. And help others to pray on minors. Basically. Because the entire sense of importance you create around a game where devs can change powerbalances, while yawning, with a mouseclick - is fake. You are faking others out. To spend money. And then you call it cerebral and entertainment.