Quote Originally Posted by Sorgesh View Post
Why would anyone go and scream some things about Hong Kong during a gaming convention? Go and scream that thing at politicians and not at gaming developers...
I believe a lot of that has to do with the coverage they get and the range of has. Shouting "Fuck China!" at a political rally is only going to touch base with the immediate political interests around that rally. And in doing it at a tournament placed a lot of eyes on China in HK, something China didn't want.

What Blitz did was obvious to get the message out there and it worked. As much as one tries to "old news" this seconds after it popped says a lot of how pervasive it was. And Blizzard's repeated fouls with PR just makes that original mistake sting worse. As it just keeps them in the limelight. Hell, the Switch release party is a solid example of that, all eyes went to Blizzard.