The irony of Blizzard getting their money making game banned from the country they have been appealing to for so long is just amazing. Karma really is a thing.
Well the original devs have been slowly but surely either conformed to the new "cater to the cash" movement or been pushed out the business or moved to different projects.
@@punchito China is not Asia and I have no idea what a "dp" is supposed to be, there are maybe thirty acronyms using "dp" in English and only most of them are NSFW.
Lol. Here I thought maybe the commies would do a commie thing and ban a game that´s conducting itself in an extremely predator way from the perspective of a captalist corporation. But noo... they just bitch about their autocrat being mocked. Like its fucking sad. At least the Soviet Union was a counterbalance to the madness. Now its just hypocricy all over.
I finally understood the "entertainment" part in the Blizzard's company name. There is just so much entertainment regardless if you buy their games or not.
So this is a story about a man, who saw blitzchung incident and decided to take action. He applied to Blizzard marketing department, jumped through the corporate hoops, learned chineese, crawled through cubicles, harassed women to hide his true intentions. But then the stars aligned, he got to work on Diablo Immortal promotion in China. And he did it. One picture of a friendly yellow bear did what many people considered impossible. Godspeed you, unknown hero.
That's IF They don't negotiate with china itself saying something like "we'll give you 30% of the revenue of the game to compensate for the damages" and china let's it slide for now. The only thing more powerful that pride is money and chine is known for loving money so..... The game is already made and i don't see why blizzard wouldn't negotiate with them since is better to win some money than to wait 3 years.
hero for CCP and patriots chinese gamers . ironic DI was developed to off set and balance out the massive success of genshin impact (MADE IN CHINA GAME) that drain alot of money from american players pocket . blizzard was american company and DI was aim for china market hope to drain alot of money from chinese players back to american company pocket . and they some how ruined it . CCP and patriots chinese players should really thank that rouge guy . he help to prevent chinese money flow to american pocket with one single move lmao ;))
The guy who wrote that question on their official DI account is an absolute madlad. If it was an intentional message from an official account owner, it’s a clear act of corporate sabotage against a greedy company. Peak commendations from me. If it was hacked, the guy who hacked it did the gaming industry a huge favor. In both cases, the deed is done. The question is: when *will* the bear fall off the chair?🤣
Imagine holding such power: Being able to cancel Blizzard at the drop of a hat. Who ever tweeted that is a legend we all tell about to our grand children.
this rouge guy are heroes . he stop chinese a massive amount of chinese gamers money flow to american company pocket with one single move . GENSHIN IMPACT MADE IN CHINA P2W LOOTBOX GAME are massive success in western and US market drain alot of american/western gamers money to chinese company market help china stronger . american gaming company Blizzard developed Diablo Immortal special aim at china market to off set the unfair . redict the money flow and this guy destroyed their plan with a single move . WHAT A GREAT HEROES FOR CHINA LMAO ;))
Whoever tweeted that is gonna get into a car crash and die on impact and the culprit will flee and never be found Or he'll die of a heart attack It's Blizzard, come on. You can't expect this guy to live a full life anymore. People don't wholeheartedly believe he won't get assassinated, do they? XD As if
ironic DI was developed to off set and balance out the massive success of genshin impact (MADE IN CHINA GAME) that drain alot of money from american players pocket . blizzard was american company and DI was aim for china market hope to drain alot of money from chinese players back to american company pocket . and they some how ruined it . CCP and patriots chinese players should really thank that rouge guy . he help to prevent chinese money flow to american pocket with one single move lmao ;))
DESERVED!!!! I'm actually happy that Blizzard will have harder time in China. The thing that happened to Diablo (which purpose was basically to milk China) was awful. I feel like this is somehow a redemption for all of us, who were f*cked by blizzard and their practices.
diablo immortal already made record breaking profit for blizzard so more is just to come. gotta hand it to bllizzard they made such a predatory work of art with thousands of layers of psychological manipulating mechanisms. a capitalistic masterpiece.
@@vinntunovo4324 its simple. china is a huge market for mobile games. and milk means to take their money. idk why people are so fixated about china when diablo immortal was created to milk every diablo and blizzard fanboy. imagine being foolish enough to think blizzard was that close minded.
@@rjacks3284 Dude, the amount of money they get from the whole western market (and Japan, Korea, etc) doesn't even match the amount of money they would get from China. Look up some revenue data, asmongold has even looked it up in some of his streams, I'm sure there's videos. "Diablo and Blizzard fanboys" are like ants compared to the Chinese market. If they would get to Chine, the whole western market would be MAX of 20% of their entire revenue, the biggest slice would be China and China only.
No he's a moron who risks his job and other people's jobs for a useless, never-going-to-have-any-impact sentence. He's neither moral nor just. He's just a man seeking pleasure at the cost of others. It's so funny to see people like you supporting this kinda behaviors. Just like that Blitzchung guy. You people don't even remotely care about what's happening in China, but you seem to have no problem joking around and consequently dragging other people down with you. If you want justice, do it at your own cost. Leave other people out of it. Hypocrites.
If it’s true he first ruins the already tough situation for all games in China, and it can affects gaming industry worldwide if China bans gaming further more since Chinese market is one of the largest revenue for game publishers, effectively less gaming for the rest of us.
I had a similar experience as JB in WoW. During MoP, my daughter, who was six at the time, spent $280 on mounts and pets when I was in the garage moving stuff around for my wife. I spent hours on the phone trying to get a refund. It's great to see that I'm not the only one.
hej man activate some kind of pay control on your bank card . i have a 2 and a half years old and im really concerned about what my kid will be exposed in the future.
At our lowest, at our darkest hour, the hero with no name sacrificed everything for our future. A true legend, we shall hail his memory in the halls of valor
@@oasist5969 We actually don't care who's gonna be our chairman, as an ordinary people. Different chairman's governing policy only has subtle influence on us. I understand most of western countries hate China. Just want make it clear that most Chinese don't pay much attention on the political issue. We don't care. It's a cultural difference.
Wait wait. lets me get this straight. We tried to hit blizzard and EA with our wallets for years, and all we needed was a tweet..... Please someone tweet shit on China's EA & activation forums!
My 10 year old grew up playing retro games. Explaining microtransactions to him was a matter asking him if he would rather spend real money to get bombs and arrows in A Link to the Past. The disgust on his face was great :D
@@vinfogzollnor6805 also overwatch has a massive fan base in China too, even with a lot of people moving away after a couple years from OW1. This is going to be a hit on OW2’s promotion lol
This is actually GREAT news, because Blizzard may now have to start listening to their western audience. The game was made for the Chinese market, where they're much more tolerant of this monetization scheme.
It's the biggest psychological trick in any game that uses any premium currency. It's the same reason casinos use chips. So that it's easy for you to lose track of how much money you are really spending. It creates a disconnection between the real and fake money in your mind.
Imagine trusting a story like this instead of the logical answer just because you are so biased. China is more concerned about their citizens then any western country
@@kzr_1613 I don't know if concerned is the best term, but I do know they have some strict rules about online gaming. I don't think the alternative, making an entire game to have it banned last minute in one of the biggest markets available, is much more logical though. I'm curious to see Immortal's next move.
14:30 A good point. A prepaid giftcard is a good way to do this. I had been asked by parents who have problems managing their kids and phone games ask me how to monitor it. The second one is, never save your password. I know the convenience is there, it makes it easier, but it's also easier for you to spend money because it's 1 less check to decision making.
I saw a comment on another vid saying the employee that did this was a Taiwanese person who worked their way up to get to this very position and up to this moment, all out of sheer pettiness
good, that's what they get for trying to build a monopoly in the gaming sphere. they already failed at this once in the past, doubt they'll be allowed to succeed again.
@@jackbower9087 In the eyes of the shareholders, yes this is huge. Because that kind of massive loss in profits would be more than enough to cause shareholders to lose faith in the company and start bailing out, depending on how Blizz does damage control. The corporate world only wants to see positive trends. Big dips in potential profit is a huge negative, even if they still could potentially make millions.
Dont worry dear chines players , Blizzard has investigated themselves and concluded there has been no hate for Xi Jinping in active-blizz "we don't hate Xi Jinping ,he's not a woman " blizzard officials say
As a company that deals in creative content...Blizzard has to realize the risk is too great in China. The liability can't be at an acceptable level for Blizzard. At a whim, the government can just say...nope, not you. Everyone else, sure....but for you, you get to sit in the corner for the next 3 years.
@@kelme8095 there is also an incredible number of people in China, most with internet access, I don't believe places like India have a large market for these kind of games, most other places also won't have much interest across the board with Diablo. So they just lost out on (not an economist or anything else, really), the grand majority of their profits, they might recoup in the following quarters, but it's a massive blow.
how the fuck is this a "new" idea? This is how it always worked, what the fuck are parents nowadays doing giving their kids access to their credit cards instead of making them use their own saved up allowance money? Seriously baffling
Single handedly gets a gacha game that is predicted to be extremely successful banned from the largest market in the world, in addition to possibly preventing any Acti-Blizz being published there as well. If the dude ain't dead he's probably gonna wish he was. This is why China has the reputation it has: They take 'mess around and find out' to an absolute extreme. Also Jack Black continues being an absolute legend.
@@Mae-nr7wr We're not going to get one: China is very selective on what news it wants the world to see. The person in the video's testimony is all we got and I have no reason to really believe they're making it up. That's what I'm sticking with.
If you ask me, this is just beautiful. :) We will see if they really are not able to release games in China for a while. But if, then this is just awesome.
The funny thing is that Xi Jinping's reactions to being called Winnie the Pooh do far more to harm his reputation than being compared to the bear itself. This is the type of plotline that I would expect to find in a parody movie as the resolution allowing the "good guys" to win.
His reputation isn't important, they do this on purpose, like Asmon said, for control. You will find that totalitarian states do things that parodies could never make up. Look up Elena Ceaușescu, wife of the communist dictator of Romania. Pretty much every medical paper in the country was credited as her work during a period of time, and some of which still have her credited to this day. She had never even passed a high school chemistry class and did not have a basic understanding of the subject. The public knew the truth, but if someone decided to say anything publicly you had a high likelihood of being reported by whoever heard. The completely arbitrary nature of it kept people quiet, and the complete irrational aspect of it has a demoralizing effect on the population.
" Xi Jinping's reactions to being called Winnie the Pooh do far more to harm his reputation " just as true as this ghost of pooh "story" with no actual source
@@Plainsburner I think it is a mix of control and reputation, since having firm control often relies on the leader being seen as "untouchable" or "larger than life", with any dissenting opinions quickly silenced and punished. Of course, on the outside looking in, we see it as the comical facade that it really is.
I was shocked when Immortal is banned in China, because China is flooding with these kind of games for years without any issue. But on 0:16, I fully understand why. FYI, if your videos/content are constantly stolen and being uploaded in China site, the only way to stop them is to insert 0.01 second of Xi JinPing into your clip, so that you report the clip to the authority, and the video will be taken down under 2 hours, sometime the whole channel too. The best case is the thief uploads clip of himself apologizing on his channel, oh yeah.
can we please get a 10 hour version of the outro? it makes my world so easy and wholesome, like meditation seeing that happy asmo and listening to that happy tunes ^^
What I think should be made 100% illegal alongside loot boxes, is the sale of in-game currency. Every item or skin or product they sell MUST have the regional real-world currency value attached to it, which would simultaneously abolish those purposefully imbalanced currency packs and psychologically manipulative skewed values. And the neat catch-all to "no purchasable in-game currency" means that they can't try some kind of skeevy workaround to have the item you buy be something with a value that can be traded for another product they sell. Same umbrella, baby. Currency that can only be earned in game-like LoL's LP? Sure, fire away. Ambiguous currency values to be purchased with real money? PROMPTLY UNALIVE THINESELF.
A few precisions after a quick investigation: 1) the official Weibo account for Diablo Immortal is indeed banned for "violating relevant laws and regulations" 2) there is no proof of what caused this ban. The post that caused it was probably erased (last post on the account is just the announcement of the postponing of the server launch to July 8th). The "bear" story is quite unlikely tho. 3) Since the launch of the game is for July 8th, it's not clear if the game as a whole is banned or it's just the official social media account 4) Other Blizzard accounts, including D3's official Weibo account, are still up. So the ban is not company-wide 5) Blizzard China has not addressed the issue yet. Edit: 6) The NetEase rumor is likely BS. There is no proof about this, and NetEase has not suffered from any apparent repercussions: all official accounts and games seem to be online as of the time of this post.
Also, I found their official BiliBili account and it's still up and running, so it's very likely that something was posted on the Weibo account that triggered a ban. Btw, I invite you looking up their last official video on BiliBili, the Chinese comments are quite hilarious.
Tav my first guess is the proof of what caused the ban is long term hostilities between staff superiors, company manager or managers at Blizzard and staff including possibly members of staff who are born and raised in China. If you were the leader of a nation you would realize why you would have to censor Blizzard if they treat people born in your country like that.
As a former Chinese, what is said in the video is true, July 8 is the launch of the Asian service, excluding China. This game is not possible to go online in China, as for NetEase is not 3 years can not get a new game publishing license, this is not conclusive, still just rumors.
"I'm mostly a liberal, but the 2nd amendment..." Good for you. I'm glad you have your own opinion on stuff. Too often, people get super tribal with stuff. Nuance is damn near a thing of the past, now. No one wants to debate, just yell.
Might destroy China stocks because everyone is really skittish on China for stuff like this like if I buy this stock is some random bullshit event going to cause me to lose 20% of my investment in a day?
I love that the most polite and soft insult like calling someone Winnie the Pooh can cause a reaction on the other side of the world. Gotta love the internet.
The Japanese LDP party also used to overstep their boundaries back in the day but it was nowhere near what the CCP has been doing. With that being said, if you live and work in Japan and anger the LDP enough, if you happen to be a journalist, a news anchor, or a celebrity you might have some trouble in finding employment cause the LDP owns and/or controls a lot of newspapers, tv channels and other media.
@@b.a1933 The problem was that Blizzard banned a Chinese Hearthstone player named Blitzchung for being apart of the Hong Kong protest. Basically, they banned this player for speaking out, and Blizzard got a lot of hate over it.
So anything you don't like should be banned? Is that really the power you want to give to the government? As much as I don't like predatory practices in gacha games, in the end, it is YOUR choice whether to spend the money or not. Blaming Blizzard for you spending thousands of dollars is like blaming Edy's for making ice cream that made you fat.
I think every country needs to ban games who continue predatory practices like these other wise they must have checks and balances in the games to keep minors off them
I guess they probably will. I am used to being name - called but Xi had no choice here but to make the tough decision of banning the game. Blizzard also needs to learn that hitting low after low has its consequences.
A lot of countries do except America. Personally I would not like something like this because stricter laws on games will likely mean we will get less games like GTA. What I'm saying is, those same countries banning games like DI also have banned a lot of games that would be considered M-rated in the US. An easier way to solve this issue is to simply not play games like Diablo Immortal, I switched right back over to POE and even Diablo 3 after trying Diablo Immortal.
@@Jarredlol on the bright side it’s also really shined more light on smaller devs for me. Never before have I looked at AA games and got exited as much as I do these days. For example all those short co-op horror games that you tubers play for 1 video worth of content are actually surprisingly really fun and for about 10-20 bucks, you get everything the game offers.
Typical entitled and delusional Americans trying to make it look like they have if just as bad lol. You wouldn’t last in China’s social media or other tyrannical countries for even a day with the sht you get away with tweeting about your leaders/politicians. Yuck.
all gambling/lootbox games should be automatically rated 18+ so kids dont get them and if kids do somehow get them and spend money on it the company must by law refund it.
It's not. Now China gets to renegotiate with Blizzard and get a better deal. China is happy this happened. Now they can put blizzard even further under their thumbs.
The more I hear you talk, the more I like you. XD Quite down to earth, reasonable etc despite all the "toxic gamer" stereotype people associate you with at times.
one of my old classmates spend 13k on a phone game 6 years ago~ and that literally bankrupted his family , they had to remove him from school and move back to the old town they moved from because the game didn't accept refunds they didn't have any way to pay for the new house or car , no idea what happen after that
That's the reality for 99.99% of people spending on games, life already costs so much, its only the 0.01% who are in a position to dump thousands and even then its just a black hole for money, and you could have invested that money and secured a comfortable future!
@@j4nk3n Could be maybe in the most popular ones that I never tried. At that level devs can get away with it probably. But most of these games are clones and scam people specially made with easiest payment methods possible with no refunds.
@@gdgd5194 yea most mobile game companies are lazy predatory b4st4ards, 10% game 90% tricks to get people to spend, you see it all the time, company makes a lazy game and just puts progress behind a pay wall, so dumb but they are pros at taking peoples money as that's probably where most of the game budget goes
this rouge guy are heroes . he stop a massive amount of chinese gamers money flow to american company pocket with one single move . GENSHIN IMPACT MADE IN CHINA P2W LOOTBOX GAME are massive success in western and US market drain alot of american/western gamers money to chinese company pocket help china stronger . american gaming company Blizzard developed Diablo Immortal special aim at china market to off set the unfair . redirect the money flow and this guy destroyed their plan with a single move . WHAT A GREAT HEROES FOR CHINA LMAO ;))
In a weird way, that community manager that single handedly brought down China's mobile market to Blizzard is a hero. They're the reason Blizzard will get what they paid for.
17:00 I was thinking about this topic the other day and it’s the entire concept of ENTRAPPING kids habits and psyche while they’re young so they are addicted to those dopamine rushes of our character getting stronger or gacha spins. I’m a 30 year old dude and I still enjoy gacha games because they hooked me when I was 12, but I pretty much just play at the release get as many free spins and move on It’s similar to how girls get addicted to Instagram or tinder for the likes and follows for the dopamine rush just different platforms
True. I mean I'm 28 and started playing loot based games when I was 10. I had a phase a couple years ago where I played an average 16 hours a day and was in way too deep. Sure I'm part of the 0.001% and the only thing I lost were braincells but I can see addicting qualities when I see them and I know what growing up can lead to. This game design is not a coincidence and the changing market can lead to giant problems for a lot of people
@@idontcare9041 exactly, you’re lucky to be one one the few 0.0000000001% that didn’t dish in with your wallet. I’ve woken up outta that trap for the most part but they still get me with those 800% value packs every now and then 🤣 it’s like a recovering alcoholic slipping back a little haha. Yeah the market constantly changes, look at Fortnite for example! How many kids broke their parents wallets for cosmetics etc. it was fake money to them, but they still got the dopamine and their habit reprogrammed to accept micro transactions so in future games they will be more likely to spend their own money now cuz they are already used to doing. It’s crazy how deeply psychologically manipulative these strategies are, evil to an extent 😈
I think Asmongold and a lot of people will never try to comprehend gacha players, just like all mainstream medias did to WoW when it released. The whole talk about gaming making people addict isn't new, now it's some gamers blaming some other games because they don't want to understand the argument behind it.
@@CoffeeBrainzz With loot based games I was talking about MMOs or ARPGs. Just the dopamine rush of getting a good drop hooked me and well many games have RMT so finding pixels worth 100$ was hella addictive. Now imagine having to pay big $$$ for it (Edited to avoid misunderstanding)
@SealTeamPepega Certain games have addictive qualities. I'm not against them, I'm just saying that I am part of the 0.001% that struggled with videogame addiction. If you would monetize these games as companies do then you have a much bigger problem, that's my point. Btw, I never sold or bought any item, finding items with a value was more fun.
Virgin Western player: Spends 16000 USD on stream to "prove" how p2w Diablo Immortal is Chad CN schizo: Reports Diablo Immortal to all gov institutions avaliable and rakes through Blizzards weibo posts to find any little incriminating evidence so as to make the game stillborn forever
Bobby Kotick: Wait wait wait, do you mean I will not be getting my Yachts? Bobby Kotick: *Loads shotgun* I just want to talk to this person. HR: Bobby this is not a good idea. Bobby Kotick: I just wanna talk to this person.
American Game Company: "The Chinese game market is so hot right now! Look at all the mobile games they play! Look at all that money! Let's extract some money from China!" Chinese Communist Party: "Yes, yes, we're doing great now that we've allowed a little capi-- wait, extract money from China?" Chinese Communist Party: *bans American game designed to extract money from their economy* American Game Company: "Hey wait, you can't do that." Chinese Communist Party: "We literally welded people in their homes and waited for them to die while the world did nothing. We can do whatever we want, gwailou."
this rouge guy are heroes . he stop a massive amount of chinese gamers money flow to american company pocket with one single move . GENSHIN IMPACT MADE IN CHINA P2W LOOTBOX GAME are massive success in western and US market drain alot of american/western gamers money to chinese company pocket help china stronger . american gaming company Blizzard developed Diablo Immortal special aim at china market to off set the unfair . redirect the money flow and this guy destroyed their plan with a single move . WHAT A GREAT HEROES FOR CHINA LMAO ;))
Imagine how fragile your ego has to be being a literal dictator of an entire country and yet you can't even take the slightest jab at you it is literally the lightest of jokes imaginable.
Communist China was formed by overthrowing the other government while supports were still there and are somewhat alive today. It is not about ego, it is about setting an example for those who aim to resist. Their stability is the one that is fragile and vulnerable to new waves of idea that could change what ppl think of you. Especially when your political foes fully eliminated, but their supports preserve. All nations have their ways of controlling and regulating their ppl to some degree. It's the reality. USA has many nasty realities too we just dont talk about it enough to cope our fragile ego.
As much as I want to believe this will stick and cause a shift in game design at Blizzard. I'm sure it won't. Some hands will be greased and the money machine will keep on rolling.
This is an extract; Hello Chinese Diablo fan here, and I can explain to you what happened and what that might mean. There's a guy who works in Diablo Immortal's marketing team (which have access to the official social media account) did something very sensitive. Now we don't know did he forgot to switch the account or he use DI's official account intentionally - but the result is, he used DI official account to post a thread which complains "When would THE BEAR(implying Chairman Xi) fall off the seat?" It is not the thread itself called down the thunder, but instead it very quickly exploded in Chinese internet, people see it as an open provocation and eager to know what will happen next. That's why DI marketing was completely shut down in China, and Netease itself was heavily affected too. Rumor says Netease will not get any license for game publish in the following three whole years, but we don't know whether it's true or not. If that's true, it will also affect Diablo4, Overwatch 2 and WoW Dragonflight, and might even force Blizzard to change their cooperator in China mainland. edit more context: Important Notes: There is no confirmation on Diablo Immortal being banned in China; This is just assumption. However, it does appear the game's release will, at the very least, be further delayed there. The red-circled text "美国" shows that the post originated from the United States, meaning a non-Chinese DI team member made the post. Other posts by the account are usually made from "广东", or Guangdong, China. The actual post contents are "熊怎么还不下台...", which translates to "Why isn't the bear stepping down...".
This is probably the absolute hardest hit Blizzard has received in a long time. China is the single largest phone-gamer country in the world, by many magnitudes.
God I hope so. The reason games are shit nowadays is because the mobile ones make all the money from idiots....so they keep making more crap games foe thr idiots 🤦♂️
I feel like the one and only time an in game currency makes sense to be purchasable is when it can also be earned and traded. Like warframe has a plat currency that can be purchased but its not on a pay to win set up. More like a pay to win faster type of deal where you can skip time locked events like forging items which can take several hour or even days to complete. But you can also trade plat with other players or even trade valuable items to other players for plat which sets up an in game market. I still dont like it but objectively speaking you can play the entire game without buying plat and even get plat locked items through trading other players to get the plat.
lol as a Chinese I screenshotted that tweet and shared it in my friend group and I got auto-banned for 7days.😂 But I don't think it will affect Dragonflight. because since legion NetEase didn't get any licences for BFA and SL.（I guess they knew that apply licences is hard and will delay the lunch） they just claim the two expansions as some "ptr" things and all Chinese players are just testing the game, and technically we are at 7.9.5 instead of 9.2.5 and until today the login screen for retail wow is still the legion one. I guess they can do the same things to get away with ow2, but D4 is probably gone
Hell even the drama surrounding video games in general attracts you. You’re going out of your way to spend time to try and put a stop to something video game related. That’s caring and matters to you.
Unfortunately, I don't see this lasting. Blizzard and Netease will make an example out of the employee (if the Chinese Government hasn't already), grovel, make endless public apologies and statements and they'll be back in business before the end of the month. There isn't a chance that Xi will risk billions in revenue and hundreds of millions in taxation over the next 3 years over one employee. BUT what this employee has shown is that employees, particularly on the marketing teams of multi-billion/trillion companies... Have power. They can bring a company like EA, like Ubisoft, like Activision Blizzard etc to its knees with a few words on social media. That a lone individual can grab them by the balls, hold them to account and rattle their corporate overlords. Chances are this employee had a really bad day at work and they chose violence, and more absolutely should.
Nope. China does not work like western which can blame individual. In China, the head is also at fault. Heck even 1 division will be punished (depending on investigation). Thus even let's say you never know that John is the one which make the post, as long as you are in 1 division with John, you will be fired and your social credit take a nosedive (basically in China, they make you and your friend is not a friend). China goverment also can force the company to scale down and sells the asset without profit (yes this is happen to even big company such as Tencent) or can stop company from publicy sells their stock (like in alibaba).
It's far more likely from now on that all marketing trwams will just have more overhead in the form of a supervisor who has to personally approve tweets before they are allowed to send it out. More beaurocracy really.
I feel like somehow someway these gaming companies will figure out a way to get every game they make to have loot boxes and pay to win. I don't think it will ever go away.
If Diablo: Immortal really is banned in China they actually might have to restructure their monetization to be more US/Euro gamer friendly. Here's hoping. Still think the game is upper tier for the standards of mobile games for gameplay
Nah it won't happen. It's intended for a quick cash grab. The service will likely be discontinued in less than a year after it's no longer profitable. Should just shut the game asap so we can hope for a better Diablo 4.
this rouge guy are heroes . he stop a massive amount of chinese gamers money flow to american company pocket with one single move . GENSHIN IMPACT MADE IN CHINA P2W LOOTBOX GAME are massive success in western and US market drain alot of american/western gamers money to chinese company pocket help china stronger . american gaming company Blizzard developed Diablo Immortal special aim at china market to off set the unfair . redirect the money flow and this guy destroyed their plan with a single move . WHAT A GREAT HEROES FOR CHINA LMAO ;))
@@josephgold208 I'm not talking about competitive balance, just the basic demonsmashing. I haven't cared one shit about PvP in any game since SoulCalibur so the whales don't impact me that way, just in the way that the whole structure makes playing at all feel pointless since part of the fun of playing a game is power progression.
12:23 I'm leaning toward agreement here BUT the games would just make you wait for the item and if I'm buying an in game item I don't wanna wait. Then we could all just buy and refund buy and refund over and over. UNLESS there is a cooldown for buying after a refund!
The irony of Blizzard getting their money making game banned from the country they have been appealing to for so long is just amazing. Karma really is a thing.
Well the original devs have been slowly but surely either conformed to the new "cater to the cash" movement or been pushed out the business or moved to different projects.
asia is the future look at your dp
@@punchito China is not Asia and I have no idea what a "dp" is supposed to be, there are maybe thirty acronyms using "dp" in English and only most of them are NSFW.
Lol. Here I thought maybe the commies would do a commie thing and ban a game that´s conducting itself in an extremely predator way from the perspective of a captalist corporation.
But noo... they just bitch about their autocrat being mocked.
Like its fucking sad. At least the Soviet Union was a counterbalance to the madness. Now its just hypocricy all over.
@@Bingo_Bango_ I know you're big brained but don't think too much on it. It's just display picture 😅
I finally understood the "entertainment" part in the Blizzard's company name. There is just so much entertainment regardless if you buy their games or not.
They went from live service to live entertainment.
"Are you not entertained!?"
-Blizzard, burning trash fire.
So this is a story about a man, who saw blitzchung incident and decided to take action. He applied to Blizzard marketing department, jumped through the corporate hoops, learned chineese, crawled through cubicles, harassed women to hide his true intentions. But then the stars aligned, he got to work on Diablo Immortal promotion in China. And he did it. One picture of a friendly yellow bear did what many people considered impossible. Godspeed you, unknown hero.
Next blizzard movie 😮
How many butts was he forced to grope to finish his mission
is he dead now or in chinese gulag?
@@nachyomoney3598 Nothing happened to him, don't worry. In fact, he never existed.
@@enightc Promoted to the higher plane of existence, I'd say
Who ever runs that account took one for the team and just may have saved gaming.
No they didn’t , they didn’t even make a dent
This.
@@collectiblesnrandomstuff544 It is more than a dent bro. They lost a big market lmao
This did nothing. Blizzard will fire a bunch of people, play politics and get the game unbanned in China.
That's IF They don't negotiate with china itself saying something like "we'll give you 30% of the revenue of the game to compensate for the damages" and china let's it slide for now. The only thing more powerful that pride is money and chine is known for loving money so..... The game is already made and i don't see why blizzard wouldn't negotiate with them since is better to win some money than to wait 3 years.
The martyr. The keeper of the natural order. What a fucking legend. Who ever runs that account is a hero.
the ghost of diablo, because who needs sources or evidence
@@Mae-nr7wr Lol i think you have a bad grasp of the english language with how you are asking for sources on comments like this xD
hero for CCP and patriots chinese gamers . ironic DI was developed to off set and balance out the massive success of genshin impact (MADE IN CHINA GAME) that drain alot of money from american players pocket . blizzard was american company and DI was aim for china market hope to drain alot of money from chinese players back to american company pocket . and they some how ruined it . CCP and patriots chinese players should really thank that rouge guy . he help to prevent chinese money flow to american pocket with one single move lmao ;))
@@Mae-nr7wr Wumao Alert!
@@nickg1863 some people believe amber heard despite no evidence, some people believe this story despite no evidence. it is what it is.
The guy who wrote that question on their official DI account is an absolute madlad.
If it was an intentional message from an official account owner, it’s a clear act of corporate sabotage against a greedy company. Peak commendations from me.
If it was hacked, the guy who hacked it did the gaming industry a huge favor.
In both cases, the deed is done. The question is: when *will* the bear fall off the chair?🤣
Imagine holding such power: Being able to cancel Blizzard at the drop of a hat. Who ever tweeted that is a legend we all tell about to our grand children.
a legend! source: nothing
some people believe amber heard despite no evidence, some people believe this story despite no evidence. it is what it is.
@@Mae-nr7wr "Fire is hot"
"SOURCE?!?!"
this rouge guy are heroes . he stop chinese a massive amount of chinese gamers money flow to american company pocket with one single move . GENSHIN IMPACT MADE IN CHINA P2W LOOTBOX GAME are massive success in western and US market drain alot of american/western gamers money to chinese company market help china stronger . american gaming company Blizzard developed Diablo Immortal special aim at china market to off set the unfair . redict the money flow and this guy destroyed their plan with a single move . WHAT A GREAT HEROES FOR CHINA LMAO ;))
Whoever tweeted that is gonna get into a car crash and die on impact and the culprit will flee and never be found
Or he'll die of a heart attack
It's Blizzard, come on. You can't expect this guy to live a full life anymore. People don't wholeheartedly believe he won't get assassinated, do they? XD
As if
Any country has that power but only China has the balls to assert their dominance
The person who make that tweet should get a 800% bonus.
that guy probably gonna end doing time poor bastard.
and come home with head come apart
He is gonna get 800% bonus jail time, yes.
ironic DI was developed to off set and balance out the massive success of genshin impact (MADE IN CHINA GAME) that drain alot of money from american players pocket . blizzard was american company and DI was aim for china market hope to drain alot of money from chinese players back to american company pocket . and they some how ruined it . CCP and patriots chinese players should really thank that rouge guy . he help to prevent chinese money flow to american pocket with one single move lmao ;))
-800% social credit loss in china
+1600% social credit value in anywhere but china
DESERVED!!!! I'm actually happy that Blizzard will have harder time in China. The thing that happened to Diablo (which purpose was basically to milk China) was awful. I feel like this is somehow a redemption for all of us, who were f*cked by blizzard and their practices.
diablo immortal already made record breaking profit for blizzard so more is just to come. gotta hand it to bllizzard they made such a predatory work of art with thousands of layers of psychological manipulating mechanisms. a capitalistic masterpiece.
@@rjacks3284 😥
Just curious what is the meaning of 'milk China'?
@@vinntunovo4324 its simple. china is a huge market for mobile games. and milk means to take their money.
idk why people are so fixated about china when diablo immortal was created to milk every diablo and blizzard fanboy. imagine being foolish enough to think blizzard was that close minded.
@@rjacks3284 Dude, the amount of money they get from the whole western market (and Japan, Korea, etc) doesn't even match the amount of money they would get from China. Look up some revenue data, asmongold has even looked it up in some of his streams, I'm sure there's videos.
"Diablo and Blizzard fanboys" are like ants compared to the Chinese market. If they would get to Chine, the whole western market would be MAX of 20% of their entire revenue, the biggest slice would be China and China only.
I wonder if this qualifies as a new world record "The most expensive tweet in gaming history"
Definerly
It's up there but now your barking against elon musk, trump, gates, and many many others of which a single tweet changes billions in the market
@@WutBuergerImNetz Definitely*
@@Trojanmachine69 definertley
@@DurkMcGerk derfinitily*
The guy who tweeted, knew exactly what he was doing, he is a legend and I hope he is safe. Sabotaged from within. True legend.
No he's a moron who risks his job and other people's jobs for a useless, never-going-to-have-any-impact sentence. He's neither moral nor just. He's just a man seeking pleasure at the cost of others.
It's so funny to see people like you supporting this kinda behaviors. Just like that Blitzchung guy. You people don't even remotely care about what's happening in China, but you seem to have no problem joking around and consequently dragging other people down with you.
If you want justice, do it at your own cost. Leave other people out of it. Hypocrites.
Respect from hongkong people who is suffering from the China governments, F
If it’s true he first ruins the already tough situation for all games in China, and it can affects gaming industry worldwide if China bans gaming further more since Chinese market is one of the largest revenue for game publishers, effectively less gaming for the rest of us.
@@陸啟灝 你怎么当时不去现场？现在respect什么鬼？
@@chrisshi5491 人家想respect谁关你什么事？人家键盘又不归你管
I had a similar experience as JB in WoW. During MoP, my daughter, who was six at the time, spent $280 on mounts and pets when I was in the garage moving stuff around for my wife. I spent hours on the phone trying to get a refund. It's great to see that I'm not the only one.
hej man activate some kind of pay control on your bank card . i have a 2 and a half years old and im really concerned about what my kid will be exposed in the future.
lol, I believe you.. & my cat that I don't have kept buying Legendary Relics for me too.
@@devmike Check out this clown
Suuuure
At our lowest, at our darkest hour, the hero with no name sacrificed everything for our future. A true legend, we shall hail his memory in the halls of valor
All hail random marketing guy with the chinese weebou password!
The one true legend, we all did not deserve but we all needed in our darkest our of gaming history.. R.I.P. random marketing guy
a useless sacrifice, he died for nothing, no change will come from this just an inconvenience and a possible living hell for the man that did it
Hhahahahahahahahahaha
Fortune smiles with blood on her sword
Someone at Blizzards marketing team did what was called a "pro gamer move"
Tough "esport moment" or some mealy mouthed euphemism. Blizzchung's ban is avenged.
I had to laugh when Chris went crazy over jacks face turning red. That’s just jacks natural state of being. The dude can become a psycho on command
Who is Chris? :0
RIP the guy who tweeted this.
You will be remembered, hero.
Yes, the guy said what most of Chinese people want to say most.
@@oasist5969 We actually don't care who's gonna be our chairman, as an ordinary people. Different chairman's governing policy only has subtle influence on us. I understand most of western countries hate China. Just want make it clear that most Chinese don't pay much attention on the political issue. We don't care. It's a cultural difference.
Wait wait. lets me get this straight. We tried to hit blizzard and EA with our wallets for years, and all we needed was a tweet..... Please someone tweet shit on China's EA & activation forums!
It's on cooldown
@@getwave8041 HAHA, get out, I refuse this
My 10 year old grew up playing retro games. Explaining microtransactions to him was a matter asking him if he would rather spend real money to get bombs and arrows in A Link to the Past. The disgust on his face was great :D
Imagine making millions of dollars go **POOF** with 1 single tweet.
Lose out on the millions for this year.
Losing out on *BILLIONS* of potential money, they could have made.
Don't they have back-up plans?
@@ricksanchez1079 hehehe "don't you guys have back-up plans?" brilliant. I'm going to steal that one.
Hahah
and wow is pretty big in China too. Bliz is getting karma
@@vinfogzollnor6805 also overwatch has a massive fan base in China too, even with a lot of people moving away after a couple years from OW1. This is going to be a hit on OW2’s promotion lol
This is actually GREAT news, because Blizzard may now have to start listening to their western audience. The game was made for the Chinese market, where they're much more tolerant of this monetization scheme.
lmao
It won't make a difference, anybody that has had their eyes open for the past 5 years know how this will play out.
No lmao they'll get another publisher
@@Asghaad OW 2 is nearly done. Dragonflight is next 6 months while Diablo IV is coming in the next year. They have enough to last that long.
They still use Ox to plow their fields in China.. what marked was it made for?
It's the biggest psychological trick in any game that uses any premium currency. It's the same reason casinos use chips.
So that it's easy for you to lose track of how much money you are really spending. It creates a disconnection between the real and fake money in your mind.
For a moment I thought China banned it for the sake of its own citizens. Then I heard the bear story. Yeah, *now* it makes much more sense.
Tbh, it will never get a game license in China anyway, with or without this bear story
Imagine trusting a story like this instead of the logical answer just because you are so biased. China is more concerned about their citizens then any western country
@@kzr_1613 I don't know if concerned is the best term, but I do know they have some strict rules about online gaming. I don't think the alternative, making an entire game to have it banned last minute in one of the biggest markets available, is much more logical though. I'm curious to see Immortal's next move.
Either way it's a win win
It's not banned though, this is fake news.
Diablo Immortal was all about making a quick buck and it might end up being their most financially devastating game they've ever put out, oh my god.
More like Diablo Immoral.
They already got more money in a month than overwatch got it in years
They are financially secure and they don't care about bad faith either
bro wtf is yall talking about they cashing out on this game more than anything else 😂
@@MtpMuzik they made a lot of money in their first quarter, but if you think that covers production costs, you're tripping
@@Laeshen idk did they really do any work
14:30 A good point. A prepaid giftcard is a good way to do this. I had been asked by parents who have problems managing their kids and phone games ask me how to monitor it. The second one is, never save your password. I know the convenience is there, it makes it easier, but it's also easier for you to spend money because it's 1 less check to decision making.
I saw a comment on another vid saying the employee that did this was a Taiwanese person who worked their way up to get to this very position and up to this moment, all out of sheer pettiness
legend
Incredible
HILARIOUS if true 🤣
If that's actually true, that's absolutely legendary pettiness, and in this case, I'm all for it. XD
Facebook tier info
Dude who made that tweet is an absolute Gigachad.
was* :P
@@신-r2r true. May he rip
And he's also about to be an unemployed gigachad.
This how Heroes are born
And now he giga dead sadge
Finally, social media being used to its full potential.
There's not going to be a company left for microsoft at this rate! Getting banned in china a big oof
microsoft might use this as a reason not to buy since they ruined international businesses.
good, that's what they get for trying to build a monopoly in the gaming sphere. they already failed at this once in the past, doubt they'll be allowed to succeed again.
Oh no instead of making 300 billion they'll only make 180 billion boohoo
@@jackbower9087 In the eyes of the shareholders, yes this is huge. Because that kind of massive loss in profits would be more than enough to cause shareholders to lose faith in the company and start bailing out, depending on how Blizz does damage control. The corporate world only wants to see positive trends. Big dips in potential profit is a huge negative, even if they still could potentially make millions.
Dont worry dear chines players , Blizzard has investigated themselves and concluded there has been no hate for Xi Jinping in active-blizz
"we don't hate Xi Jinping ,he's not a woman " blizzard officials say
As a company that deals in creative content...Blizzard has to realize the risk is too great in China. The liability can't be at an acceptable level for Blizzard. At a whim, the government can just say...nope, not you. Everyone else, sure....but for you, you get to sit in the corner for the next 3 years.
yeah too bad that chinese money is crack. our companys would rather bend over backwards for another government than be american.
Exactly, and every time one of these companies or Hollywood gets burned it's one step towards them learning their lesson.
The chad, the legend, with one single tweet he hit blizz where it hurts the most, their wallet.
Dayum wasn’t that their target audience?
It actually was, which is the sad part. Chinese spend more on loot box/ micro transactions than anywhere else
HAHAHAHA OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS.
Welp. There goes that.
@@kelme8095 More like the awesome funny part
time to short activision blizzard stock XD
@@kelme8095 there is also an incredible number of people in China, most with internet access, I don't believe places like India have a large market for these kind of games, most other places also won't have much interest across the board with Diablo. So they just lost out on (not an economist or anything else, really), the grand majority of their profits, they might recoup in the following quarters, but it's a massive blow.
Asmon's idea on giving the kid access to an allowance account sounds great, helps educate the kids about the value of money
how the fuck is this a "new" idea? This is how it always worked, what the fuck are parents nowadays doing giving their kids access to their credit cards instead of making them use their own saved up allowance money? Seriously baffling
@@jmm00702
>kid throws tantrum
>"ok ok little jimmy here's my credit card you can buy your fortnite stuff"
Single handedly gets a gacha game that is predicted to be extremely successful banned from the largest market in the world, in addition to possibly preventing any Acti-Blizz being published there as well.
If the dude ain't dead he's probably gonna wish he was. This is why China has the reputation it has: They take 'mess around and find out' to an absolute extreme.
Also Jack Black continues being an absolute legend.
nice, but no source
@@Mae-nr7wr No source for what exactly?
@@Mae-nr7wr Wumao Alert!
@@Mae-nr7wr We're not going to get one: China is very selective on what news it wants the world to see. The person in the video's testimony is all we got and I have no reason to really believe they're making it up.
That's what I'm sticking with.
Blizzard knows how to pick their representatives.
pretty sure murica also has a high kill count and still have drone kills in other countrys
If you ask me, this is just beautiful. :) We will see if they really are not able to release games in China for a while. But if, then this is just awesome.
Less games allowed in China = more military driven young men and boys.
@@verilux2063 tbh, with how predatory this game is, I think they’d be better off without it.
@raynaldo arlen k.eman Not yet, i can still download it
@@verilux2063 Theres more to life than the military and video games my dude.
Just saying.
Blizzard will probably get down on there knees and kiss winnie the pooh's feet asking for forgiveness.
The funny thing is that Xi Jinping's reactions to being called Winnie the Pooh do far more to harm his reputation than being compared to the bear itself. This is the type of plotline that I would expect to find in a parody movie as the resolution allowing the "good guys" to win.
His reputation isn't important, they do this on purpose, like Asmon said, for control. You will find that totalitarian states do things that parodies could never make up. Look up Elena Ceaușescu, wife of the communist dictator of Romania. Pretty much every medical paper in the country was credited as her work during a period of time, and some of which still have her credited to this day. She had never even passed a high school chemistry class and did not have a basic understanding of the subject.
The public knew the truth, but if someone decided to say anything publicly you had a high likelihood of being reported by whoever heard. The completely arbitrary nature of it kept people quiet, and the complete irrational aspect of it has a demoralizing effect on the population.
" Xi Jinping's reactions to being called Winnie the Pooh do far more to harm his reputation "
just as true as this ghost of pooh "story" with no actual source
@@Plainsburner I think it is a mix of control and reputation, since having firm control often relies on the leader being seen as "untouchable" or "larger than life", with any dissenting opinions quickly silenced and punished. Of course, on the outside looking in, we see it as the comical facade that it really is.
@@Mae-nr7wr If you'd stop saying the same answer in all comment chain then maybe what you said would have value.
but gr8 b8 m8, i r8 u 8/8
@@tibik.8407 source:nothing keep living in ur own fiictional world then 👋
Dude, that magnet thing you said to do to my monitor didn't work. I only see a rainbow on my screen now. Thanks Asmon.
I was shocked when Immortal is banned in China, because China is flooding with these kind of games for years without any issue. But on 0:16, I fully understand why.
FYI, if your videos/content are constantly stolen and being uploaded in China site, the only way to stop them is to insert 0.01 second of Xi JinPing into your clip, so that you report the clip to the authority, and the video will be taken down under 2 hours, sometime the whole channel too. The best case is the thief uploads clip of himself apologizing on his channel, oh yeah.
I think we want these videos in China.
If you have IP you want to protect put a photo of XI inside it lol
Asmon doesn't really cares man, nether does CatDanny
Better one, insert 0.1 second of Winnie the Pooh at a random time in the video.
Winnie hates game,but Winnie needs game for hmoney
Bobby might be missing a yacht after this
Think bobby has to stop the build of his New yacht for sure
can we please get a 10 hour version of the outro? it makes my world so easy and wholesome, like meditation seeing that happy asmo and listening to that happy tunes ^^
What I think should be made 100% illegal alongside loot boxes, is the sale of in-game currency. Every item or skin or product they sell MUST have the regional real-world currency value attached to it, which would simultaneously abolish those purposefully imbalanced currency packs and psychologically manipulative skewed values.
And the neat catch-all to "no purchasable in-game currency" means that they can't try some kind of skeevy workaround to have the item you buy be something with a value that can be traded for another product they sell. Same umbrella, baby.
Currency that can only be earned in game-like LoL's LP? Sure, fire away.
Ambiguous currency values to be purchased with real money? PROMPTLY UNALIVE THINESELF.
A few precisions after a quick investigation:
1) the official Weibo account for Diablo Immortal is indeed banned for "violating relevant laws and regulations"
2) there is no proof of what caused this ban. The post that caused it was probably erased (last post on the account is just the announcement of the postponing of the server launch to July 8th). The "bear" story is quite unlikely tho.
3) Since the launch of the game is for July 8th, it's not clear if the game as a whole is banned or it's just the official social media account
4) Other Blizzard accounts, including D3's official Weibo account, are still up. So the ban is not company-wide
5) Blizzard China has not addressed the issue yet.
Edit: 6) The NetEase rumor is likely BS. There is no proof about this, and NetEase has not suffered from any apparent repercussions: all official accounts and games seem to be online as of the time of this post.
Also, I found their official BiliBili account and it's still up and running, so it's very likely that something was posted on the Weibo account that triggered a ban.
Btw, I invite you looking up their last official video on BiliBili, the Chinese comments are quite hilarious.
Tav my first guess is the proof of what caused the ban is long term hostilities between staff superiors, company manager or managers at Blizzard and staff including possibly members of staff who are born and raised in China. If you were the leader of a nation you would realize why you would have to censor Blizzard if they treat people born in your country like that.
As a former Chinese, what is said in the video is true, July 8 is the launch of the Asian service, excluding China. This game is not possible to go online in China, as for NetEase is not 3 years can not get a new game publishing license, this is not conclusive, still just rumors.
@@janboow How can you be a former Chinese? How do you change ethnicity?
@@tony5422 I transformed into a super Saiyan
"I'm mostly a liberal, but the 2nd amendment..." Good for you. I'm glad you have your own opinion on stuff. Too often, people get super tribal with stuff. Nuance is damn near a thing of the past, now. No one wants to debate, just yell.
1:51 the timing of the music and the way asmon reads it was perfectly synched up
i cant wait to see the stock price tank on Monday holy shit
Might destroy China stocks because everyone is really skittish on China for stuff like this like if I buy this stock is some random bullshit event going to cause me to lose 20% of my investment in a day?
My favorite part is Jack Black pointed at the camera at the end.
Shoutout to the absolute unit that made the ultimate sacrifice. We who will not pay 24K for a single 5/5 star gem salute you o7
O7
I love that the most polite and soft insult like calling someone Winnie the Pooh can cause a reaction on the other side of the world. Gotta love the internet.
Next up in 2030. Gettin a Nuke calling India a country
It really is hilarious
Funny thing twitter is banned in china haha
@@darkmistico best thing they ever did. ..every country should ban Twitter
@@thewearyexile9000 it called the strong make impossible thing possible . the ultimate goal of every human
The Japanese LDP party also used to overstep their boundaries back in the day but it was nowhere near what the CCP has been doing. With that being said, if you live and work in Japan and anger the LDP enough, if you happen to be a journalist, a news anchor, or a celebrity you might have some trouble in finding employment cause the LDP owns and/or controls a lot of newspapers, tv channels and other media.
not all heroes wear cape, not all heroes also manage to enrage an entire county with a single tweet press.
What a fucking legend. Blizzard spread their scheeks for china with the "free Hong kong" scandal and now they are getting everything they deserve.
Bro what? Honk Kong was in danger of being taken over
@@b.a1933 The problem was that Blizzard banned a Chinese Hearthstone player named Blitzchung for being apart of the Hong Kong protest. Basically, they banned this player for speaking out, and Blizzard got a lot of hate over it.
@@flying-magpie ohh
@@flying-magpie it's actually hearthstone player
@@mohammedriadh4990I'll edit that.
The Stormwind theme hit at 1:50 is epic
I agree, I think diablo Immortal should be banned in America. It would make a huge statement to companies like blizzard
I mean If u ban blizzard I'm not sure what gaming company u will not ban..
@@guetali the ones who don’t make games like Diablo and learn from blizzards lesson. Or get banned. It’s that simple
Yeah if ARs and RPGs and Tanks are legal there I doubt that's gonna happen my friend.
So anything you don't like should be banned? Is that really the power you want to give to the government? As much as I don't like predatory practices in gacha games, in the end, it is YOUR choice whether to spend the money or not. Blaming Blizzard for you spending thousands of dollars is like blaming Edy's for making ice cream that made you fat.
I think every country needs to ban games who continue predatory practices like these other wise they must have checks and balances in the games to keep minors off them
I guess they probably will. I am used to being name - called but Xi had no choice here but to make the tough decision of banning the game. Blizzard also needs to learn that hitting low after low has its consequences.
A lot of countries do except America. Personally I would not like something like this because stricter laws on games will likely mean we will get less games like GTA. What I'm saying is, those same countries banning games like DI also have banned a lot of games that would be considered M-rated in the US. An easier way to solve this issue is to simply not play games like Diablo Immortal, I switched right back over to POE and even Diablo 3 after trying Diablo Immortal.
I agree, this practice has really ruined the industry. Greed shouldn't come at the expense of a GOOD video game
@@Jarredlol on the bright side it’s also really shined more light on smaller devs for me. Never before have I looked at AA games and got exited as much as I do these days. For example all those short co-op horror games that you tubers play for 1 video worth of content are actually surprisingly really fun and for about 10-20 bucks, you get everything the game offers.
I like that even celebrity dads get annoyed when little kids spend big piles of money without realizing how much work goes into earning money.
A lot of people in America have had their lives destroyed over one tweet.
Only in your mind.
@@femaledetectedopinionrejected nope. In RL.
@@gavinshreves5541 uhh there is a huge labor shortage in the u.s. they will be fine
Typical entitled and delusional Americans trying to make it look like they have if just as bad lol.
You wouldn’t last in China’s social media or other tyrannical countries for even a day with the sht you get away with tweeting about your leaders/politicians. Yuck.
Nah, we don't talk about that here. Cancel culture isn't a thing, tyranny only exists in countries like China or Russia
/S
all gambling/lootbox games should be automatically rated 18+ so kids dont get them and if kids do somehow get them and spend money on it the company must by law refund it.
It's so ironic that a game made for China is now banned in China. Karma has done right on Blizzard.
If all it took was one bad comment from a rogue employee to get Bizzard shitcanned from China, maybe it's for the best.
It's not. Now China gets to renegotiate with Blizzard and get a better deal. China is happy this happened. Now they can put blizzard even further under their thumbs.
This is great and I hope the ban persists!
Whoever man in red at blizzcon is a legend
Whoever throw that tweet will always be remembered as mythical hero
The more I hear you talk, the more I like you. XD Quite down to earth, reasonable etc despite all the "toxic gamer" stereotype people associate you with at times.
one of my old classmates spend 13k on a phone game 6 years ago~ and that literally bankrupted his family , they had to remove him from school and move back to the old town they moved from because the game didn't accept refunds they didn't have any way to pay for the new house or car , no idea what happen after that
None of these "games" have refund. Scamming wouldn't work with refunds unless scammer is the one getting a refund.
That's the reality for 99.99% of people spending on games, life already costs so much, its only the 0.01% who are in a position to dump thousands and even then its just a black hole for money, and you could have invested that money and secured a comfortable future!
@@gdgd5194 you can get refunds but some games have refund policies and if you do a couple refunds your then locked out of making any purchases at all
@@j4nk3n Could be maybe in the most popular ones that I never tried. At that level devs can get away with it probably. But most of these games are clones and scam people specially made with easiest payment methods possible with no refunds.
@@gdgd5194 yea most mobile game companies are lazy predatory b4st4ards, 10% game 90% tricks to get people to spend, you see it all the time, company makes a lazy game and just puts progress behind a pay wall, so dumb but they are pros at taking peoples money as that's probably where most of the game budget goes
To the guy who handle Diablo Immortal social media in China whether you did it accidentally or on purpose... you're my hero.
So this is how the Blizzard dealt with the gold farms. A problem that they had not been able to solve for so many years, they solved with one picture
Blizzard: "yummy china monies, me like China"
Random worker: "lol bear boi dumb"
China: **does china stuff**
Blizzard: **surprised pikachu face**
this rouge guy are heroes . he stop a massive amount of chinese gamers money flow to american company pocket with one single move . GENSHIN IMPACT MADE IN CHINA P2W LOOTBOX GAME are massive success in western and US market drain alot of american/western gamers money to chinese company pocket help china stronger . american gaming company Blizzard developed Diablo Immortal special aim at china market to off set the unfair . redirect the money flow and this guy destroyed their plan with a single move . WHAT A GREAT HEROES FOR CHINA LMAO ;))
Best subtitles for what just what happened 👌
My nephew ran up a $10,000 in app purchase bill in one month. I’ve never seen my sister as mad as she was the day she found out.
In a weird way, that community manager that single handedly brought down China's mobile market to Blizzard is a hero. They're the reason Blizzard will get what they paid for.
17:00 I was thinking about this topic the other day and it’s the entire concept of ENTRAPPING kids habits and psyche while they’re young so they are addicted to those dopamine rushes of our character getting stronger or gacha spins. I’m a 30 year old dude and I still enjoy gacha games because they hooked me when I was 12, but I pretty much just play at the release get as many free spins and move on
It’s similar to how girls get addicted to Instagram or tinder for the likes and follows for the dopamine rush just different platforms
True. I mean I'm 28 and started playing loot based games when I was 10. I had a phase a couple years ago where I played an average 16 hours a day and was in way too deep. Sure I'm part of the 0.001% and the only thing I lost were braincells but I can see addicting qualities when I see them and I know what growing up can lead to. This game design is not a coincidence and the changing market can lead to giant problems for a lot of people
@@idontcare9041 exactly, you’re lucky to be one one the few 0.0000000001% that didn’t dish in with your wallet. I’ve woken up outta that trap for the most part but they still get me with those 800% value packs every now and then 🤣 it’s like a recovering alcoholic slipping back a little haha.
Yeah the market constantly changes, look at Fortnite for example! How many kids broke their parents wallets for cosmetics etc. it was fake money to them, but they still got the dopamine and their habit reprogrammed to accept micro transactions so in future games they will be more likely to spend their own money now cuz they are already used to doing. It’s crazy how deeply psychologically manipulative these strategies are, evil to an extent 😈
I think Asmongold and a lot of people will never try to comprehend gacha players, just like all mainstream medias did to WoW when it released. The whole talk about gaming making people addict isn't new, now it's some gamers blaming some other games because they don't want to understand the argument behind it.
@@CoffeeBrainzz With loot based games I was talking about MMOs or ARPGs. Just the dopamine rush of getting a good drop hooked me and well many games have RMT so finding pixels worth 100$ was hella addictive. Now imagine having to pay big $$$ for it
(Edited to avoid misunderstanding)
@SealTeamPepega Certain games have addictive qualities. I'm not against them, I'm just saying that I am part of the 0.001% that struggled with videogame addiction. If you would monetize these games as companies do then you have a much bigger problem, that's my point.
Btw, I never sold or bought any item, finding items with a value was more fun.
Virgin Western player: Spends 16000 USD on stream to "prove" how p2w Diablo Immortal is
Chad CN schizo: Reports Diablo Immortal to all gov institutions avaliable and rakes through Blizzards weibo posts to find any little incriminating evidence so as to make the game stillborn forever
It just keeps getting better
Bobby Kotick: Wait wait wait, do you mean I will not be getting my Yachts?
Bobby Kotick: *Loads shotgun* I just want to talk to this person.
HR: Bobby this is not a good idea.
Bobby Kotick: I just wanna talk to this person.
Lol imagine if Bobby shoots Xi Jinping with a shotgun because they stopped him from scamming Chinese kids for money or something
Hr doesn't care! Are you delusional lol
The net ease thing came to fruition fast
The fact that something like this can happen is really bad, but it happening to Diablo Immortal puts a smile on my face :D
But unfortunately this is not in true and their social accounts were blocked. But the game was not.
Should be banned world wide
Agree
It may not affect OW2: in China it's called OW returning, so it can share a license with OW.
But I'm interested to see how things turn out.
American Game Company: "The Chinese game market is so hot right now! Look at all the mobile games they play! Look at all that money! Let's extract some money from China!"
Chinese Communist Party: "Yes, yes, we're doing great now that we've allowed a little capi-- wait, extract money from China?"
Chinese Communist Party: *bans American game designed to extract money from their economy*
American Game Company: "Hey wait, you can't do that."
Chinese Communist Party: "We literally welded people in their homes and waited for them to die while the world did nothing. We can do whatever we want, gwailou."
this rouge guy are heroes . he stop a massive amount of chinese gamers money flow to american company pocket with one single move . GENSHIN IMPACT MADE IN CHINA P2W LOOTBOX GAME are massive success in western and US market drain alot of american/western gamers money to chinese company pocket help china stronger . american gaming company Blizzard developed Diablo Immortal special aim at china market to off set the unfair . redirect the money flow and this guy destroyed their plan with a single move . WHAT A GREAT HEROES FOR CHINA LMAO ;))
The irony of the diablo immortal add at the beginning is just to sweeeet ❤️
Thought I was going to hear about some loot box technicality. This is so much better!
Legend... Absolute Legend. Also damn China, never complain about your country when all it takes is one person to wreck an entire market.
Greg Abbott did that to Texas for shits and giggles.
Imagine how fragile your ego has to be being a literal dictator of an entire country and yet you can't even take the slightest jab at you it is literally the lightest of jokes imaginable.
How fucking gullible you have to be to trust a story like this
Communist China was formed by overthrowing the other government while supports were still there and are somewhat alive today. It is not about ego, it is about setting an example for those who aim to resist. Their stability is the one that is fragile and vulnerable to new waves of idea that could change what ppl think of you. Especially when your political foes fully eliminated, but their supports preserve.
All nations have their ways of controlling and regulating their ppl to some degree. It's the reality. USA has many nasty realities too we just dont talk about it enough to cope our fragile ego.
@@nongprayuth485 Good response actually.
in app purchases/ability to obtain anything through something purchased should immediately shoot up the age rating to 15+
Bro this has to be an intentional sabotage from a blizzard employee lmao. That's wild.
As much as I want to believe this will stick and cause a shift in game design at Blizzard. I'm sure it won't. Some hands will be greased and the money machine will keep on rolling.
This is an extract;
Hello Chinese Diablo fan here, and I can explain to you what happened and what that might mean. There's a guy who works in Diablo Immortal's marketing team (which have access to the official social media account) did something very sensitive. Now we don't know did he forgot to switch the account or he use DI's official account intentionally - but the result is, he used DI official account to post a thread which complains "When would THE BEAR(implying Chairman Xi) fall off the seat?"
It is not the thread itself called down the thunder, but instead it very quickly exploded in Chinese internet, people see it as an open provocation and eager to know what will happen next. That's why DI marketing was completely shut down in China, and Netease itself was heavily affected too. Rumor says Netease will not get any license for game publish in the following three whole years, but we don't know whether it's true or not. If that's true, it will also affect Diablo4, Overwatch 2 and WoW Dragonflight, and might even force Blizzard to change their cooperator in China mainland.
edit more context:
Important Notes:
There is no confirmation on Diablo Immortal being banned in China; This is just assumption. However, it does appear the game's release will, at the very least, be further delayed there.
The red-circled text "美国" shows that the post originated from the United States, meaning a non-Chinese DI team member made the post. Other posts by the account are usually made from "广东", or Guangdong, China.
The actual post contents are "熊怎么还不下台...", which translates to "Why isn't the bear stepping down...".
This is probably the absolute hardest hit Blizzard has received in a long time.
China is the single largest phone-gamer country in the world, by many magnitudes.
we need such bans in EU too
Soon will be.😀
God I hope so. The reason games are shit nowadays is because the mobile ones make all the money from idiots....so they keep making more crap games foe thr idiots 🤦♂️
We already have
Based Netherlands and Belgium
I feel like the one and only time an in game currency makes sense to be purchasable is when it can also be earned and traded. Like warframe has a plat currency that can be purchased but its not on a pay to win set up. More like a pay to win faster type of deal where you can skip time locked events like forging items which can take several hour or even days to complete. But you can also trade plat with other players or even trade valuable items to other players for plat which sets up an in game market. I still dont like it but objectively speaking you can play the entire game without buying plat and even get plat locked items through trading other players to get the plat.
Lmao and this game was supposed to make insane amount of money there
lol as a Chinese I screenshotted that tweet and shared it in my friend group and I got auto-banned for 7days.😂 But I don't think it will affect Dragonflight. because since legion NetEase didn't get any licences for BFA and SL.（I guess they knew that apply licences is hard and will delay the lunch） they just claim the two expansions as some "ptr" things and all Chinese players are just testing the game, and technically we are at 7.9.5 instead of 9.2.5 and until today the login screen for retail wow is still the legion one. I guess they can do the same things to get away with ow2, but D4 is probably gone
Lesson learned 小伙子. 下次把截图颠倒过来，然后左右翻转再发👻
Sure you did bro
Hell even the drama surrounding video games in general attracts you. You’re going out of your way to spend time to try and put a stop to something video game related. That’s caring and matters to you.
Unfortunately, I don't see this lasting. Blizzard and Netease will make an example out of the employee (if the Chinese Government hasn't already), grovel, make endless public apologies and statements and they'll be back in business before the end of the month. There isn't a chance that Xi will risk billions in revenue and hundreds of millions in taxation over the next 3 years over one employee.
BUT what this employee has shown is that employees, particularly on the marketing teams of multi-billion/trillion companies... Have power. They can bring a company like EA, like Ubisoft, like Activision Blizzard etc to its knees with a few words on social media. That a lone individual can grab them by the balls, hold them to account and rattle their corporate overlords. Chances are this employee had a really bad day at work and they chose violence, and more absolutely should.
Well anybody on any marketing team has that power, its just whether they're dumb enough to sacrifice their career for it.
Nope. China does not work like western which can blame individual.
In China, the head is also at fault. Heck even 1 division will be punished (depending on investigation). Thus even let's say you never know that John is the one which make the post, as long as you are in 1 division with John, you will be fired and your social credit take a nosedive (basically in China, they make you and your friend is not a friend).
China goverment also can force the company to scale down and sells the asset without profit (yes this is happen to even big company such as Tencent) or can stop company from publicy sells their stock (like in alibaba).
It's far more likely from now on that all marketing trwams will just have more overhead in the form of a supervisor who has to personally approve tweets before they are allowed to send it out. More beaurocracy really.
I feel like somehow someway these gaming companies will figure out a way to get every game they make to have loot boxes and pay to win. I don't think it will ever go away.
Thanks for the coverage. Kind regards from Ásgeir in Iceland, who does not currently own Blizzard games.
One tweet may just be what will save gaming lol
If Diablo: Immortal really is banned in China they actually might have to restructure their monetization to be more US/Euro gamer friendly. Here's hoping. Still think the game is upper tier for the standards of mobile games for gameplay
Nah it won't happen. It's intended for a quick cash grab. The service will likely be discontinued in less than a year after it's no longer profitable. Should just shut the game asap so we can hope for a better Diablo 4.
@@yqisq6966 or very simply give the ip into a more competent publisher like Cygames or Yostar.
this rouge guy are heroes . he stop a massive amount of chinese gamers money flow to american company pocket with one single move . GENSHIN IMPACT MADE IN CHINA P2W LOOTBOX GAME are massive success in western and US market drain alot of american/western gamers money to chinese company pocket help china stronger . american gaming company Blizzard developed Diablo Immortal special aim at china market to off set the unfair . redirect the money flow and this guy destroyed their plan with a single move . WHAT A GREAT HEROES FOR CHINA LMAO ;))
@@josephgold208 I'm not talking about competitive balance, just the basic demonsmashing. I haven't cared one shit about PvP in any game since SoulCalibur so the whales don't impact me that way, just in the way that the whole structure makes playing at all feel pointless since part of the fun of playing a game is power progression.
12:23 I'm leaning toward agreement here BUT the games would just make you wait for the item and if I'm buying an in game item I don't wanna wait. Then we could all just buy and refund buy and refund over and over. UNLESS there is a cooldown for buying after a refund!
This is pure gold! I can't believe it 🤣