The whole DQ thing sort of makes sense, a lot of competitions do follow along with “you can’t compete here anymore but here is somewhere you can compete, don’t cheat again”. Though I’d probably be complaining too about complete removal lol
But Blizzard didn’t choose the best punishment. They chose to overreact and try to make an example out of Blitzchung.
I honestly want to look now to see if any other person has either stated something politically and been banned for it or something like it.
LOL you should have visited the Diablo forum after last year’s Blizzcon.
Seriously though, if this sticks and enough people take action instead of just posting their very strong opinions on these forums (as happened in May 2015) you might possibly get Blizzard to move off its position.
But one or two days of heated comments (by largely the same contributors) won’t bring the change many want to see.
Funny, how that is the communist stance on life.
Oh no. They did. Directly and without question.
As always, we will defend the pride and dignity of China at all cost.
They are 100% behind the Chinese government and they don’t care who knows.
Because everyone hates China because they are bad, but USA has skeletons in their closet too.
I work in an afterschool program and my middle school kids are always quoting that dude when they’re playing Diablo. It cracks me up honestly. Having been there too when he said it, and watching my friend just die internally? Never seen him like that before which made me crack up more. Kept teasing him the whole time about it.
seems kinda mean now xD
No, I think the real ID kerfluffle was before May 2015.
For 19 days in May 2015, Blizzard stuck with its “no flight ever” “position” only to change its corporate mind after literally hundreds of thousands of players cancelled their subs.
I’m not seeing any such movement on this issue. A lot of posts but few actions.
Great, i know my government can be a POS but were here to discuss Blizzard being a POS and forsaking the player base, the values they espouse all for that Yuan.
Yikes. I’m facepalming at how you don’t even realize how dumb that is. 
As an American, as a fan of democracy, and as a fan of what my constitution deems unalienable rights; I am deeply disappointed in Blizzards actions in this incident. In the world I would like to live in, Blizzard would apologies to the player, give him the money he earned in the tournament, and fire everyone who was involved in the decision making process to punish him (and the others) involved in this incident. I get that we don’t live in that world though. But it makes me sad. And angry. I was raised in an America where we were, as a people, pro democracy and we did not bow to the whims and feeling of communist. On the statue outside of Blizzard is a message of “every voice matters.” They need to remove that value from the statue. They no longer have the right to keep it.
I do dumb things all the time. This doesn’t even crack my top 20.
Punish him appropriately? The entire reason this is an issue is because Blizzard went above and beyond for the punishment that this demanded.
In terms of rule-breaking, at absolute worst what Blitzchung did was sabotage an interview. Should he have been punished? Sure. But if Blizzard had have actually punished him appropriately, this never would have gained traction, not even in HS circles.
This is only an issue because Blizzard made it an issue.
A 12 month DQ and stripping him of his winnings is pretty damn harsh in the context of the situation. It hasn’t been explictly said, but he’ll almost be certainly blacklisted from future tournaments as well, unless things change.
Objectively, that’s harsher than what cheaters have gotten to the point where even Hearthstones biggest caster (Brian Kibler) quit in protest of it.
BTW guys, apparently you are unable to delete your account
Where was that quote from though? Sources would be nice 
I mean I have this as mine, though I’d like to see a more official statement
can’t link it nevermind
Well at least you admit/know how dumb that would be lol.
well ya just sold me on the absolute need for the second amendment.
I should tell you about the time i almost got arrested for singing “war” while drunk around midnight as a teen.
Seriously…
People are flipping out and taking this too far… for something so small and simple.
Player A got banned for bringing politics in the game. Its against the rules.
Thats it, thats all!
If said player did the same thing but with Trump or what ever, he would get banned as well… but because this was about Hong Kong everyone lost their mind and said right away that Blizzard is pro China.
There is but one place to go in times like this…heelsvsbaby face. I will be back soon I am just going to see what this guru has to say.
meanwhile, not a soul here protesting will give up even SINGLE ‘made in china’ purchase this month to hit china where it really hurts…the wallet.