This has been blowing up in the community for the last few days.
It all started when a 17 year old compLexity Gaming player from the Phillipines player named Andrei "skem" Ong, while in a tournament match against Chinese team Royal Never Give Up, wrote this in All Chat:
The Chinese DOTA 2 community went up in flames and demanded something to be done against the player. compLexity Gaming's response was this
We have been made aware of an inappropriate comment by one of our players in today's #coLDota #DreamLeague match. Complexity Gaming does not condone intolerance of any kind and the player will receive a formal reprimand, as well as a maximum fine.
As time went on, and neither Dreamleague(the company behind the tournament) nor Valve acted upon this, the Chinese community started to get angrier about the whole situation. Doesn't help that just a few days after the skem incident, another professional player from the Phillipines Carlo "Kuku" Palad did this on a public game:
So now Chinese players, angry at the inaction of the companies involved, started to do whatever they can to show their dissatisfaction at the whole thing. From Tweets, to emails, to mass negative reviewing DOTA 2.
There's a whole lot more to unpack from a few Chinese players comparing that usage to calling someone a n****r to others actively using racial slurs as a "reaction".
Update:
It all started when a 17 year old compLexity Gaming player from the Phillipines player named Andrei "skem" Ong, while in a tournament match against Chinese team Royal Never Give Up, wrote this in All Chat:
The Chinese DOTA 2 community went up in flames and demanded something to be done against the player. compLexity Gaming's response was this
We have been made aware of an inappropriate comment by one of our players in today's #coLDota #DreamLeague match. Complexity Gaming does not condone intolerance of any kind and the player will receive a formal reprimand, as well as a maximum fine.
As time went on, and neither Dreamleague(the company behind the tournament) nor Valve acted upon this, the Chinese community started to get angrier about the whole situation. Doesn't help that just a few days after the skem incident, another professional player from the Phillipines Carlo "Kuku" Palad did this on a public game:
So now Chinese players, angry at the inaction of the companies involved, started to do whatever they can to show their dissatisfaction at the whole thing. From Tweets, to emails, to mass negative reviewing DOTA 2.
There's a whole lot more to unpack from a few Chinese players comparing that usage to calling someone a n****r to others actively using racial slurs as a "reaction".
Update:
Earlier today BurNIng published a statement he received from Valve to his followers on Chinese social media in regards to the recent incident that occurred during the DreamLeague Minor.
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