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Blizzard Releases Statement, Reduces Blitzchung And Casters' Suspension To Six Months And Restores Blitzchung's Prize Money
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He's banned but the removal from grandmasters was a separate punishment.
everyone posting responses from domestic sport events is missing the point.
They need to post pictures of international events, taking a stance for an issue that's considered controversial in one of the countries associated with the sport.
So the apology was basically lets focus on games and not politics.
So blizzard will use politics and social issues when it supports their image and bottom line. But the moment it gets complicated for them its back to "but meh vide0 gamez" lets just focus on muh video games.
So blizzard will use politics and social issues when it supports their image and bottom line. But the moment it gets complicated for them its back to "but meh vide0 gamez" lets just focus on muh video games.
Pathetic damage control by a trash company. They knew exactly what they were doing and it was bending the knee and licking boots for one of the most evil governments in the world. Fuck Blizzard and the Chinese Government. Still not buying D4 even though I put countless hours into 1, 2 and 3.
Holy shit, was this posted?
IGN was able to independently translate the statement from Blizzard's official Hearthstone Weibo account which reads:
IGN was able to independently translate the statement from Blizzard's official Hearthstone Weibo account which reads:
As a season ticket holder to a football team, yeah, the 20 minutes or so before a game feel like attending the church of America.
On one hand, I get this from League. It's a sporting event, and it's not like League is the NFL where they court the jingoistic stuff. To my knowledge, they and most other esports leagues have veered away from any forms of patriotism or political messages.
On the other hand, I don't think we should even be doing as much business as we are with a country like China that represses, jails, and kills so many of it's people in the regular.
User Banned (3 days): trolling, whataboutism
Hey did you ever hear the story of the American Prison Industrial Complex?
As much as I partially agree with you, this is whataboutism (and as far as I know, USA prisons don't harvest organs from prisoners).
Whataboutism is the worst. Especially when people try and sell that America is just as bad.
Oh cool. That thing where we ignore the evils of the world because of other evils.
There's nearly zero risk being Pro LGBTQ+ with the online gamer audience in 2019 so it's basically cheap marketing.
No.
Longer answer: its aim is to muddle the discussion with relativism, "both sides" approach and overall try to make it seem like it's pointless to fight any specific example of a wider problem until you're able to magically solve the problem globally, which, of course, will never happen.
Only if they are both happening at the same time. Otherwise it's just a lazy way of saying "this doesn't really matter".
If both are happening concurrently it can be a valid point. But only in the sense that it makes the other side evil too. Never in a manner that makes the actions ok.
It doesn't? Why not?
Agreed totally
Good, classy response. Some people will have a problem that he isn't more outraged probably, or wish he didn't accept the money. Really tough decision.
No one will be angry at anything he does. He was braver than any of us just buy starting all of this. Blizzard is the embarrassment and the one to be angry at.
Blitchung seems like an amazing person at least. Very good response overall.
He most certainly should take the money. It was his money to begin with, and one of the biggest mistakes Blizzard did in this, was taking his money away. It is one thing to penalize someone by not allowing them to participate in future events. Taking away something they already earned is just extremely bad style.
Wish he had called out the penalty for the casters a bit more. They really should not have been penalized at all.
He most certainly should take the money. It was his money to begin with, and one of the biggest mistakes Blizzard did in this, was taking his money away. It is one thing to penalize someone by not allowing them to participate in future events. Taking away something they already earned is just extremely bad style.
Wish he had called out the penalty for the casters a bit more. They really should not have been penalized at all.
As bad as US is, in particular at this very moment in history where it seems like US democracy is pushed to the brink by things like corruption and inhumane treatment of children, it surely pales compared to China committing genocide. Heck, even what happens in Hong Kong is nothing compared to that.
Hong Kong just happens to get the attention right now, and that is fine. We should be happy that some of the many terrible events in the world is getting some of the attention it deserves, rather than cry that it is unfair - even if it actually is.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Avery Brundage deemed it to be a domestic political statement unfit for the apolitical, international forum the Olympic Games were intended to be. In response to their actions, he ordered Smith and Carlos suspended from the US team and banned from the Olympic Village. When the US Olympic Committee refused, Brundage threatened to ban the entire US track team. This threat led to the expulsion of the two athletes from the Games.[11]
Blizz reacted the same way at first LMAO.
Isn't Riot Games' situation different in that they are literally 100% owned by a Chinese company? Blizzard made a choice, Riot has no choice besides massive quitting.
Consider this.
1. Nazis are a political group. Any statement made about Nazis involves politics by intrinsically.
2. Of any political group, Nazis are the most universally demonized. "Nazis are bad" is not typically a controversial statement.
3. Saying that Nazis committed atrocities is a statement of fact, saying otherwise is historical revisionism.
Again, they could have plausibly had other rules in place. Like maybe they have something against violent or grotesque speech, like specific descriptions of violence by the Nazis could be viewed as inappropriate.
However, when the rule is no political talk, the issue comes up again that you're always going to be enforcing it selectively. If "Nazis committed the Holocaust", which is a straightforward statement of fact and not particularly grotesque in and of itself, is bannable, then you're validating the opinions of historical revisionists by painting the statement as just an inflammatory opinion.
The fact that the issue is in reality remarkably uncontroversial - the actual lie that people were fed was that regular Germans didn't know about it at the time; the evidence was always so abundant that no legitimate actor would deny it - puts a spotlight on Blizzard's decision to treat it as if it was.
Weird how you're allowed to perform public fellatio of a nation all you want, but the moment someone says "no thanks" to the part where you're celebrating that nation that celebrates killing escaped slaves it becomes a controversy.
Almost like organizers pick and choose what political statements are tolerated and which are enforceable and which aren't based on agendas.
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The US is actively committing genocide. Let's be clear about that.
Fun fact: there are parallels between the treatment of the third place finisher, Australian runner Peter Norman and the present situation. It's a common myth that Norman was opposed to the BP salute when he was a staunch supporter and suggested the black gloves.
Norman was rejected for the following Olympic games and shunned by the Australian Olympic Committee, allegedly, all the way up until the year 2000 - effectively killing his professional athletic career. It was only after his death that the Australian parliament formally apologised for his treatment in 2012.
Yeah and it's a privilege we all have that we can know about this issue and call it out, directly to the government. People aren't saying that America is free of issues but we have the ability to actually talk about them here. And companies could call it out and many have and they wouldn't be punished by the government. And if they were they could sue in court and they would probably win.
To disingenuously deflect from the issue at hand.
I knew he supported the salute, but I never new what happened to him afterwards. Fuck. :(
You know what's truly fucked up about this statement? It's the 6 months thing. Why 6 months? They just halved the initial fucking punishment. If the initial punishment was like 2 years, would they have reduce it to 1 year (by halving it), or 6 months still?
This shit is just hurting my brain. It's like they're treating it as a game balance in a patch notes. Something too OP, half it. Fuck for sake.
This shit is just hurting my brain. It's like they're treating it as a game balance in a patch notes. Something too OP, half it. Fuck for sake.
It's the best way to defects from the horrors of other nations.
