true this.
Because those would be appropriate punishments? I’m not pulling this out of my butt, that’s literally what Brian Kibler who is easily the biggest non-player name in Hearthstone said would be an appropriate punishments.
When your biggest Caster (outside Monte in OWL at least) quits in protest because he believes a punishment goes too far…It probably goes too far.
So what you’re saying is that people abused the report function.
I mean, it’s pretty easy to just add “MAGA” or “Make Azeroth Great Again” to the censors and prevent people making characters or guilds with those names.
But they didn’t choose to, probably because they don’t actually care about censoring conservatives since that doesn’t cost them Chinese money and that this topic is simply trying to distract people from the actual topic at hand, which is Blizzard overreactive on Blitzchung’s punishment to appease China.
So its ok? Yes or No?
Free no trade yes.
NOTE: On further investigation, the casters did encourage Blitzchung to speak out against Hong Kong (‘the 8 words’). A penalty may have been reasonable for the pair, however, being fired was pretty harsh of a punishment.
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But they didn’t choose to, probably because they don’t actually care about censoring conservatives since that doesn’t cost them Chinese money and that this topic is simply trying to distract people from the actual topic at hand, which is Blizzard overreactive on Blitzchung’s punishment to appease China.
Overreactive yes from talking to you I’ve thought about maybe just how harsh the punishment was. I’d still say a punishment is at hand, but maybe not as harsh as it is. As for the appeasement I want to withhold judgement and wait to see if Blizzard has anything to say officially as a statement to us as the players, to their opinions on the banning, and anything else that seems to have taken root in the forums. Whether or not people will believe it is another thing but there’s always so much trouble and bad in the world, why try to find an excuse to make something evil when it might just not be?
Optimist here lol
What do I care what Kibler said? His status as a world class HS player doesn’t give him insight into future actions Blizzard might take in a hypothetical situation that hasn’t occurred IRL.
Ultimately anyone’s opinion about this doesn’t matter, other than Blizzard’s who again, have sole discretion to make this determination and issue punishment.
It doesn’t matter whether 1peson or everyone on Earth disagrees.
I don’t know if the reporting function was abused. It was used to get the guild name banned.
I don’t think the guild in question truly had a political agenda, but they were being cute with a play on MAGA. Harmless, but apparently enough were “offended” by it to draw the ban hammer for the name.
Says the player of a game that promotes violence as a winning strategy.
What? Oh, you’re only playing a game…oh I see, you don’t actually go out and perform similar actions in real life. Neither do I, because that’s all it is. A game. A means of entertainment that requires us to spend money on a regular basis to continue the entertainment feed. I dunno…you may get paid for playing? I don’t. But you can bet your sweet bippy that I wouldn’t stand in front of a camera and shout some statement that would risk removing said income unless I was fully aware and accepted all of the possible consequences.
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I am a firm Trump supporter and if a player used the same platform like this player did I say ban them too…this is not the place for this.
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They are not employees of Blizz, they just stopped the cooperation.
If we’re moving past the Blizzard talk and moving into discussion of what happened in Hong Kong it’s probably best you take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/ first for more information on what is going on over there.
You mean a barter system?
We’ve been there, done that. That’s why currency was developed – to provide a common means of exchanging goods.
What? are you part of the people that think that video games promote violence in real life? really? We’re that deep in nonsense?
The player was aware of consequences. But it still doesn’t excuse the lousy ruling. And pretty much the overeaction by Blizzard to defend their chinese interests. When they should act neutral at best, or defend their own values that they print on their walls and statues.
Holy cow, 7000 replies.
I know it’s a big topic right now but didn’t see this coming in 12 hours.
Thats probably where people need to be…honestly targetting all the wrong things here. Maybe the right reason in mind but the head is turned backwards.
yeah lmao all posts relating to this have been consolidated here
Doesn’t matter these players have to sign a TOS just like we do…rules are rules…without them there is chaos…
Pretty words, but nearly impossible to put into practice without reducing civilization to isolated townships with no trade. Once you get above the ‘small village’ level, and start trading with other towns, you quickly run into the need for currency to use for transactions, as barter quickly breaks down.
And there are simply too many people on Earth for us to move to such a system. Perhaps if we eliminated 90-95% of the Earth’s population, or were able to colonize Luna, Mars, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, etc. then we would be able to move to something like that.
Sure. If you believe anything a company says without expecting and looking for ulterior motives, then you’re an idiot. Actually, if you believe anything ANYONE says, without looking for ulterior motives, then you’re an idiot. It is human nature to lie and try to make yourself look good. Anyone who expects people to be different is lying to themselves.
Goes to show this wasn’t something “nobody cared about” when it’s got 7k replies and going strong.
Kinda silly seeing people say “NOBODY CARES” and then seeing them screaming in the threads about it on a topic they “don’t care about”.
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Personally I believe that the genie is out of the bottle here. This situation could have been avoided with a more appropriate punishment, but I don’t think simply reducing the punishment to something that is more appropriate will appease people.
His status as a Blizzard employee should though.
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