This is the reason that was given to me when I said I want to play at this event. My wife was part of the 800 layoffs and she spoke up about the injust practices of company. I was told I am a liability because of who I am married to.
Christina Mikkonen
@ZerinaX
I’m just going to say it because it’s affecting my husband’s mental health.
Blizzard is currently blacklisting @savjz from events because I spoke out against the company and offended a CM by responding to their tweet with: “Are you f**king serious right now.”
What a joke.
Christina Mikkonen
@ZerinaX
In a call with said CM (who has me blocked on Twitter), the CM stated to @savjz that I would not be welcome at any Hearthstone event and would not be able to accompany him in case Savjz was invited to anything in the future.
Christina Mikkonen
@ZerinaX
Punishing me is one thing. They don’t like me speaking out against what I believe is wrong.
Punishing my husband just to punish me is grossly unprofessional.
Christina Mikkonen
@ZerinaX
Here are my own receipts. To say that this is deserving of blacklisting Savjz is ridiculous. I was incredulous at best to the CM in question.
I assure you that I have received FAR WORSE from my time as a CM.
Chris_Attalus @Chris_Attalus
Have a love for @PlayHearthstone? Passionate about Community? Wanting to work @Blizzard_Ent If you answered yes to the above, come join my team
Christina Mikkonen @ZerinaX Replying to @Chris_Attalus and @PlayHearthstone and @Blizzard_ent
Are you f**cking serious right now Chris
Christina Mikkonen @ZerinaX Replying to @Chris_Attalus and @PlayHearthstone and @Blizzard_ent
Gonna give it to your straight. Job pays s*it. Expectations and amount of work are too high. The entire commercial department right now is a disaster. How can you post this in good faith? Honestly.
Christina Mikkonen @ZerinaX Replying to @Chris_Attalus and @PlayHearthstone and @Blizzard_ent
I was blocked for this post
Christina Mikkonen
@ZerinaX
I will continue to speak out against things I believe are wrong with the industry. It is the only way things will improve.
You don’t have to agree with me.
Christina Mikkonen
@ZerinaX
Replying to @ShinobiHaruka and @Savjz
I agree. Imagine my surprise on the phone call Janne had with the CM, which was on speaker phone, when the CM told MY HUSBAND TO NOT TELL ME THIS
Let’s face reality for a little bit here: this company’s reputation is being ran to the ground because they can’t deal with their affairs in a professional manner. Regardless if its because of the quality of its employees, they just can’t seem to stay away from the spotlight.
This post is just a little detail in a sea of bad press for blizzard - and they just keep them coming.
The last big news, however, is something a lot more dark than that or all the other virtue signaling or china pandering they’ve done before. Check out for yourself:
It’s hard to feel shame for them anymore, I don’t care about who they hold a grudge with but they just gotta get their stuff together. If they didn’t want to invite the guy, the company should try and be at least a bit more subtle than that to avoid giving base to accusations like that.
It is however standard professional practice to distance your brand from negative voices.
As a ‘Pro’ player, Whatsisname would have been made aware of this, most likely through a contract he would have signed before participating ‘professionally’.
Whatsisname is Savjz, a popular streamer who’s been playing the game and giving it publicity for quite a while now. What Blizzard did here is very stupid and damaged the company’s image way more than Savjz’s wife did. I understand that companies do what you’re saying, but me as their customer don’t agree with their censorship. I actually struggle to understand why you do.
Meanwhile, here’s and update:
Janne Mikkonen
@Savjz
I got an apology from the community lead. I am now OK to participate in future events, and my wife is OK to visit future live events as a guest. I had no idea this would blow up the way it did. Thanks to everyone who sort of came to my aid? I don’t know how to say it better.
Thankfully a large portion of the community was not as passive as you are and actually made Blizzard straighten up things.
Glad they did. In the old days, if someone in your clan did something bad, your whole family could get executed, even the children and elderly who had nothing to do with it (but that someone would die in a more horrible fashion). How could a spouse action cause the other spouse to be punished in today’s world?
Seem this issue has been resolved in its entirety, to the satisfaction of all parties involved.
That said, however, it is downright shameful it had to happen like this at all. Just another straw on the camel’s back. I wonder, what the last straw will be, for me? Heck, the fact I am even thinking about it in such a way right now means there can’t be too much more. I suspect there are more straws than there are pitchforks, when it comes to Blizzard. Meaning, they show no sign of stopping anytime soon, and at the same time, lack the necessary common sense and decency(among other positive virtues) to reverse course.
The way I see it, the resolution here is merely to stop the bleeding. But the wound itself is not going to heal without going the “extra mile”.
Christina’s ban from live events was never a company thing in the first place and the employee who said this did not have the authority or power to enforce it.
found this on reddit
and several posts i read say this was done by an employee on a power trip
No, I’m recognising the association between the ‘professional’ who likely signed a contract containing the clause not to, by action, association or otherwise, bring Blizzard or it’s products into disrepute and his legal bride who has gone out of her way to bring Blizzard into disrepute.
I see. I mean (including the Blitzchung thing), that’s two times now that they have been heavy handed, and then reversed the decision & said it’s a mistake made by an employee. I feel like they need to reign in the power of some of these employees in order to avoid further issues. If this kind of thing happens again, I’m still going to blame them even if they say it was an error by a single employee. They have the opportunity to fix this now so it won’t happen again.
This is assuming there is any disrepute to begin with, which there isn’t any. A person speaking their mind is separate from the actions of another. If anyone brings Activision/Blizzard into disrepute it is going to be Activision/Blizzard, by their own actions or lack thereof.
Had no action been taken it is likely the comment would have gone largely unnoticed. But instead someone who is employed by the corporation took action and caused a scene. That is on the corporation for allowing such a thing to occur. If there was any disrepute here, Activision/Blizzard own it all, in its entirety.
But we all know you are a Chinese troll. Anyone who was around these forums during the Blitzchung fiasco knows exactly where you are coming from.
In the really real world, yes it is.
In the world of corporate sponsorship, brand recognition, brand placement & so-forth, no it is very much not.
…Unnoticed by some.
Obviously the person whose job it was to notice, noticed.
Blizzard did the right thing there and didn’t do anything wrong here.
Apologies if I don’t flip flop around with my morals and opinions, I forget I’m on the internet some times.
At the end of the day, being invited to play a game professionally is a pretty cushy job compared to some of the options out there. Other than some mild RSI you don’t put much strain on yourself physically. You aren’t required to handle chemicals. You’re not an essential service required on the front lines helping corona victims. There’s no fire. Nobody is shooting at you. You’re safe, warm & comfortable, but people can see you.
It’s like a glass house.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and they shouldn’t let their wives throw stones either.
Assuming that you’re married or in any sort of engagement, that’s pretty funny - show me a picture of you and your wife so I can see if you can keep her in check.
