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Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry

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408 points seapunk | 1 comments | 09 Oct 19 10:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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martin_bech ◴[09 Oct 19 12:18 UTC] No.21202435[source]▶
This is also next level Streisand effect. I would have never heard of any of all this, if Blizzard had just ignorred the player. Now its on HN a bunch of times, on my twitter timeline etc.
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1. baud147258 ◴[09 Oct 19 12:56 UTC] No.21202714[source]▶
I've read elsewhere that such move might be deliberate, by complying to Chinese demands, but also drawing a lot of attention to the situation.