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I see that BlizzCon's coming up. Like last year I'm sure there'll be ample opportunity to give the company a bloody nose.

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Let's see if people remember that long, or if this is just flash in the pan.

If South Park decide to make China a recurring plot point over the next month someone might.

It's less than a month away. If protests are still going on in HK by then (which seems likely), I can see BlizzCon going south real quick.

What happened last year?

Everyone was expecting a Diablo 4 announcement but they demoed a crappy Diablo mobile game instead. The audience took them to task over it and Activision stock took a hit.

Here's a short video with some summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkHAlhCvWg

The second part has some interesting reactions from fans, counter reactions from blizzard. This moment has rocked the gaming community, and generated some memes on the internet.

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