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Blizzard has removed Hong Kong Hearthstone player blitzchung from Hearthstone Grand Masters and rescinded all his prize money
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They likely didn't count on the NBA story breaking at the same time. I think they underestimated the backlash
I thought so, too, but all subreddits for their games, Twitter, Facebook and even the goddamn 9gag are up in arms about this. Don't think people are going to forget about this anytime soon.
Of course, that's still a small subset of all the gamers, but still.
It's one of those things where you literally can't have it both ways. One country will boycott, the other will ban you outright.
I'm putting together a group of hackers with trenchcoats and goggles to take down the megacorps. Who's in?
And there it is folks. Get that shit trending and I wonder how far things will go.
Let's hope that Blizzard doesn't get the same slack that Riot did once the KDA video came out.
i wouldn't be surprised if they cancel all the q&a panels at blizzcon
If they didn't take any action, there wouldn't be any more Hearthstone in China, or likely any other Blizzard games either if they persisted. Retaliation against Chinese employees, massive layoffs, the entire future of the company in question. That would be a story.
I'm not saying that what they did is right, but I do believe that that's the alternative they were facing down.
You grew up and they didn't.
But I feel you. It sucks to outgrow a company that was such a big part of my childhood.
I hope the audience at the opening presentation at Blizzcon chant in support of Hong Kong. That would be great.
Yeah, I'm sure China would immediately cancel all their contracts and ban them for what one player shouted on a broadcast.
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So, I'm probably one of the biggest Blizzard fans ever....but their recent output has been uninspiring to me to say the least. This though, this is the last straw. I cancelled my WOW account while uninstalling every game and will not support them in any way shape or form. Diablo 4 would have been fun to try out in a few years, but this is too brazen to ignore. I'll just stick with PoE nowadays as it's been better for many years already, and I pretty much fell off the D3 bandwagon a year after launch in all honesty. That coupled with their butchering of their three Golden Goose IPs has soured everything about them for me now. It's about time I said goodbye to them, their identity and "culture" died long ago anyways.
The real alternative was to broadcast themselves that they have no affiliation with the winner nor are the winner's viewpoints or political expressions are representative of Activision Blizzard as a whole and be done with it.
Has anyone ever gotten away with not caving to Chinese censorship requests?
See: NBA, Google, etc.
(Both of whom are bigger players than Blizzard and offer less copy-able products, mind you.)
And if the Chinese government asked them to go further, what then?
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This wouldn't be enough. The NBA caved and forced Daryl Morey to give an apology for his Tweet (along with deleting it).
SOmething kind of surreal about a British character being used as an Icon for putting down an oppressive regime. British history and all. Ireland...South Africa..countless others
Thanks for this response.
I'm eager to see what develops next. The posts about Blizzard employee statements against the decision are quite poignant.
https://www./news/article-7549977/T...d-jeweller-supporting-Hong-Kong-protests.html
Aaaaaand another one.
League of Legends music video featuring some of their characters as a mock K-Pop group. Very popular and cleaned up a lot of the gender discrimination controversy that Riot had going on at the time.
League of Legends music video that came out that became insanely popular.
I mean, the answer will be whichever one doesn't hamper their profits.
It was likely already planned to debut because they had a live performance at a tournament for it too, but it just happened to debut at the right time that the company was swirled in the controversy, so the KDA video took up all the riot games headlines instead of the controversy, helping ease it out of the public consciousness.
I forgot which Game Awards show in which EA got a public fuck you but it'd be nice for somebody to call ActBlizz out this year.
Wow yeah where does Tracer find the time to do it all
The Blizzard subreddit was reopened and has a megathread for the news: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/comments/df6v8i/megathread_recent_blitzchung_situation_discussion/
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