Blizzard removes HK Hearthstone Champion and takes away his prize to please China

[Strangebrew]

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hahahaha fucking cunts, Blizzard as a company deserves to burn

[Yunru]

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hahahaha fucking cunts, Blizzard as a company deserves to burn

The moderators in this community have set it to private. You must be a moderator or approved user to visit.

Yep. But its not like people can just make a new reddit.

[Big Thanks]

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hahahaha fucking cunts, Blizzard as a company deserves to burn

LOL is this real life? What in the world is going on.

[Vasilisa]

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hahahaha fucking cunts, Blizzard as a company deserves to burn

I'm rarely using reddit but I assume it's Blizz reddit page that was not moderated before the current shitstorm, right?

[Morothemic]

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hahahaha fucking cunts, Blizzard as a company deserves to burn

That's hilarious!!!!

[Lumineus]

What's actually kind of funny in fighting for democracy, you pretty much also lay the groundwork for the same kind of capitalist systems that are being criticized for not support these protests.

Right, because socialist authoritarians who want to turn the West into Communist China are so much better...

[Dystemper]

I will be boycotting Blizzard. I can't think of a single ethical business decision they've made over the past 5 years. I hope the company shrivels up and dies.

I have already deleted all Blizzard and Activision games from my Computer. Fuck blizzard

[bloodykiller86]

Well first of all....Fuck Authoritarianism

But let's be fully honest here and not sensationalist idiots....A person used a "foreign" platform for their political views, such platform has rules and regulations...that didn't get written on the spot mind you and are well established....such person faced the consequences of their action.

A-I admire his courage....whether knowingly or not...to state his believes, did he think there was not going to be any action?....freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

B-To the social media warriors crying foul all around about big bad company Blizz. and bowing to china and the denying freedom of speech....yada yada yada....you REALLY might want to learn a thing or 2 about our own "FREEDOM" here USA side....there is a reason we rarely to mostly never find say players in NFL/NBA...etc. or just everyday business make a political/controversial statements while being active on the clock and with contract....money talks and rules and regulations overtake their "freedom" of speech.

C-Those who naively think that Blizz. could/should have stood up for him.....man I would love to see that dreamland you live in....might as well believe apple/google/EVERY OTHER CORP. doing in businesses in/with china should stand up for every nitty gritty personal belief or social injustice....that is not how reality works, no one will drop a billion dollar business for a random...

D-To the overzealous boycott crowd.....well done and good for you, but if you don't mind could you boycott every other company that works with china to send a real message? That Iphone you are using to tweet your rage is made in china, that screen you are looking through has 90%+ components made in china if not fully....tell you what, go through your house and check everything with a made in china tag or has 60%+ components from china...and boycott and toss them out, time for a reality check....

E-IF that statement was on anything other than HK and the ties to china as whole....how many would make the same reaction I wonder? I am betting if some player stated some political statement for say the current Iraqi/Palestine blight....most of those "activist" against china all of a sudden will turn and demand no politics in their video games.

facts man, these people are just crazy here and dont see the real picture. its business, the guy did something HE KNEW was against the rules and HE KNEW the repercussions of it and yet still did it. He even said so afterwards so why the hell is everyone losing their minds? because theyre morons thats why lol

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I have already deleted all Blizzard and Activision games from my Computer. Fuck blizzard

who cares, your announcement is dumb

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[therealstegblob]

Well, partly understandable of both sides. the player got what he deserved but he had right to speak up his opinion, blizzard did what they had to save their face in the china market.
Both are right, both are wrong.

Standard shit "they are not our players they were retired two weeks ago".

Yeah dude, fuck democracy and basic human rights, those multi-million dollar businesses need M O N I E Z, it's so morally grey!

[bloodykiller86]

Right, because socialist authoritarians who want to turn the West into Communist China are so much better...

and who would those be? lol

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I think you literally need to look up that word. They literally not comparing apples to oranges because they made no mention of either fruit.

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I don't think you understand what you are saying. They have to appease China's government so all of the gamers in China can have access to the games we all get to enjoy.

How would you feel if some asshole white-supremacist managed to get MMOC shut down or get whatever game you enjoy shut down? That's basically the situation this guy put Blizzard in by politicizing their gaming platform. The idiot should have kept his political speech off Blizzard's platform. He risked the ability of all Chinese Hearthstone players to continue to play the game.

exactly this but people here wont get it man. theyre on the hate bandwagon

[Vorkreist]

People will sadly forget it over a week and blizz will continue sucking on china.
I'm curious how much shit blizz has to do in order to finally turn the entire player base against them.
Theres other things besides money in life. Just because it benefits you financially doesn't mean you can pull vile shit like this.

[Corroc]

I wonder how long people will talk about this and then forget China even exists outside of "Made in China" jokes when they get a low quality product. Maybe a week or two?

Prolly not long since it has already been proven that people had no idea what was happening in HK before this. I dont watch news religiously but even I knew what was happening in HK months ago.

[Lumineus]

He risked the ability of all Chinese Hearthstone players to continue to play the game.

Good. Maybe if that happens it will help, ever so slightly, to motivate them to rise up against their pigheaded pinko masters in Beijing. I doubt it, though.

[valky94]

Fuck Blizzard, I'll boycott them from now on.

Blizzard doesnt want their platform to be used for promoting political, racial, religios and whatever other standpoints, dude comes into the interview and expresses his political standpoint, and blizzard is the bad guy here?

[Hekazi]

Politics has no place in Esports though.

https://imgur.com/a/6dpMdNk

This is really obnoxious and I do leave the moment I see this instead of debating over the new expansion, which everyone should. The likes ratio was also way better prior to this video release, and the voting is now biased and not only patch dependent. We shouldn't allow this degenerate behavior.

This is fucked, and I hate it. Imagine if Arabs felt entitled to complain about invasions, of the Venezuelans for their crisis, or the Mexicans for the brutal cartels, or Ukraine and so on.. These seem to think they have a better claim, and are more human than the others.

[Rogalicus]

Blizzard doesnt want their platform to be used for promoting political, racial, religios and whatever other standpoints

[Alvito]

I wonder what all these champions of the Chinese people were doing before they heard about this and set their outrage meter to 10. How long until they all stop feigning care and support and move on to their next knee jerk reaction?

[NoiseTank13]

Blizzard doesnt want their platform to be used for promoting political, racial, religios and whatever other standpoints, dude comes into the interview and expresses his political standpoint, and blizzard is the bad guy here?

Yeah this is America, how dare you utilize you position to draw attention to human rights violations going on and potentially costing a corporation money? That's why we fought the Revolutionary War, so we can do business without the weight of morals regulating our decisions.

[Rendark]

I don't think you understand what you are saying. They have to appease China's government so all of the gamers in China can have access to the games we all get to enjoy.

How would you feel if some asshole white-supremacist managed to get MMOC shut down or get whatever game you enjoy shut down? That's basically the situation this guy put Blizzard in by politicizing their gaming platform. The idiot should have kept his political speech off Blizzard's platform. He risked the ability of all Chinese Hearthstone players to continue to play the game.

Well one i wouldn't really care that much is MMOC was shut down and two i don't care if China bans hearthstone over it. To me money is not worth sucking China's dick.

[Alvito]

A choice they made and rolled out the way they wanted to. Not being roped in by some person hijacking their platform. There is a huge difference between supporting China and letting someone outside of your company tie you to a point of view out of the blue.