Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
As much as I want to think change will happen, it's much more likely this will be a few weeks of PR and ultimately nothing will change.<p>For something to change people have to vote with their wallets. In this context that means cancelling subscriptions or dropping games they are already playing in favor for ones by competitors with better integrity, and I don't see that happening.<p>Diablo players could go to Path of Exile, its closest competitor, but that game is massively invested into China as well and partially owned by Tencent.<p>Warcraft RTS players represent a small market right now with almost no microtransactions or ongoing revenue.<p>WoW players have alternatives, but not many I am aware of that aren't heavily Chinese based as the MMORPG category is dominated by Chinese companies like Perfect World.<p>Starcraft players don't have a lot of alternatives as SC has dominated the esports and highly polished RTS category for over 5 years with the same game. The closest competitor would be Age of Empires or Warhammer, I'm not sure how much influence China has over them, but they are different types of RTS games.<p>Heroes of the Storm players can go to Dota or LoL. LoL being owned by China and Dota being owned by Valve with strong Chinese market involvement.<p>More alternatives are needed IMO.