Is it your opinion that D:I was delayed in China due to political reasons?
Everyone has their own theory. The difference ism I did not claim mine is truth, its only a theory, a game theory.
Oh srry forgot. All these youtube vids made by clueless angry ppl were considered factxD
But but…they wanted to believe it! How could their feelings be wrong? They had so much emotional evidence 
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Get off from youtube, please.
Breaking rules the Chinese government put in place to protect their snowflake president is in fact a political reason.
I would say so; however, I keep askng for someone to clarify their view to state whether they believe the whole insult thing was in fact a potential cause of delay. This was the primary speculation on the forum due to news reports.
This is a strawman argumemt. In general, I think most stated that several reasons were possible where the prevailing idea was the insult.
Whatever the reason is, all we know is that DI monetization is never the part of the delay like “some” people claimed or think so. 
What matters now is DI China is playable now and there is nothing that those naysayers can do to prevent Blizzard from making $$$ on DI. 
I believe D:I was only delayed due regulations of anti-addictiveness and maybe monetization required by Chinese government. That’s it. I’m like 99% certain that it wasn’t about a political tweet though.
Look at Dungeon and Fighters Online for example. They were delayed and still haven’t released at China but gave a similar explanation to the situation; anti-addictive measures.
We have no idea why this applied though, it could be fans noticing the government or government already aware of that. For me, it was about the fact that they forgot some face recognizing libraries inside the game files and this caused Chinese government to question this.
Whatever it was, it seem to be settled now.
What matters to whom?
Whether the game is playable or not in China that does not affect the underlying issue that the game has predatory p2w. There has been significant reputational damage to Blizzard, far exceeding a normal phone game with microtransactions.
The video gaming industry with this and other missteps due to loot boxes has led to outright bans of D:I in 2 European countries. Furthermore many countries are looking into legislation to regulate these predatory practices.
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Pretty sure no changes to the monetization were made. Pretty sure it was political because the “toughest” totalitarian leaders are giant snowflakes.
Yeah, I dont buy the tweet excuse either. It was, at most, probably just an excuse.
I dont really believe it was because of monetization either.
The Chinese government do arbitrary things toward companies sometimes, just to show they are in control.
I do however think China is one of the countries most concerned about predatory game design and addicted players. It would not at all be surprising if they made changes that would affect D:I. However they could do those just fine at any point before or after D:I is released. Wouldn’t have to delay the game for that.
Indeed.