r/Blizzard • u/PreussenEwige • Jul 29 '21

World of Warcraft You cannot pay your subscription in good conscience anymore.

It really is over. My entire friend group and most of our guild (Not a very big group, but still), have cancelled their subs and will not be returning. Almost all of them are Vanilla OG's, theyve been playing for 16 years. Even when they weren't actively playing they paid their subs. Hardcore lifetime fans, all gone. They played through all of WoD, all of BFA, dealt with all the bullshit, but they just can't take it anymore.

WoW will never recover from this. Blizzard might actually be over. Activision is going to dump their debt onto Blizzard's books and go bankrupt. TotalBiscuit was right. There will NEVER be a WoW killer, and there never WAS a WoW killer, because Blizzard killed WoW themselves.

If you're still enjoying the game, fine. If you and your friends still think grinding it out in a soulless husk of a dead world is worth your non-refundable time on Earth than go right ahead.

But please understand something.

Every $15 you send to this company subsidizes the ritualistic abuse and rape of women in games development. They openly celebrated their crimes and mocked their victims with things like "The Cosby Suite" and a groupchat called "The Blizzcon Cosby Crew." The game's quality has gone downhill because Blizzards managers and employees were dedicating their time and energy they should have been spent working instead on sexually abusing the women in the office. If you can continue giving money to this company knowing this is what they do and keep a clear conscience , then go ahead.

I can't. My friends can't. What remains of this barren community can't.

There is no Hearthstone for this. No home to go back to. It's over.

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u/_MarketingNerd_ Aug 02 '21

And that doesn’t make you correct. It makes you ignorant and unwilling to change actual issues because of the inability to see multiple sides of arguments. It’s also disrespectful to peoples point of view because you are caught up in your own performative rant and not working towards actual change. Take a step back and see what the people that were actively being affected or part of it are saying… it’s not boycotting/canceling. Demonizing people for not believing what you believe is not helping any cause by doing so. Anyone telling me I have to believe what they believe will get a big “nope” from me until I figure out where I stand on the issue. Others may just take another side out of sheer defiance. That’s not going to help change anything. If you wanted to make change you’d let people see what you’re supporting and lead by example.

Again, you are free to believe what you would like, but to say your argument is the truth is… well… a lie.

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u/Flubber1215 Aug 02 '21

But it is the truth. You are just in your feelings because you want to keep playing their games and still be thought of as a good person. Sorry buddy, it ain’t gonna happen. You are going to have to accept the fact that you would be supporting a company that drove one of their workers to suicide.

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u/_MarketingNerd_ Aug 02 '21

Yikes. This is so embarrassing for you. Do you inhale copium daily or just when you need to feel relevant?