That means they’ve also lost Blizzard a lot of money.
How is supporting HK protesters supporting hate? The double think is just too much. You need a remedy to your severe cognitive dissonance. The cycle never stopped kid. People are mad and for good reason. CCP is the adversary of our age and you side with them? What a joke!
Tencent has a 5% stake in Blizzard/Activision. Tencent runs a “Citizen Social Score” program for China.
For those that don’t believe blizzard has taken a side. Please do some research on this.
Yet Tencent owns 40% of EPIC games and its majority owner said they wouldn’t censor contestants political beliefs.
Blizz is bowing to these people, in part, because they are literally owned by them.
No. The issue with your comment is that you ask for evidence that popular streamers bring in revenue and in the very next sentence you’re making a claim that you’re sure they lose Blizzard money. See the issue now?
It makes no sense here! Blizzard did the right thing. They do not want to be involved so they did something that would cease others from wanting to do it as well.
Its spreading hate cause your hating on blizzard and trying to get people going along with it, thats called spreading hate. Talk about age, tells me alot about you. Clown
The rule they used was so vague that they could ban anyone for anything - doesn’t say anything about banning political speech
" Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image will result in removal from Grandmasters and reduction of the player’s prize total to $0 USD, in addition to other remedies which may be provided for under the Handbook and Blizzard’s Website Terms."
The only group Blitzchung offended was the Chinese Communist Party -
People are already tired of companies bending the knee to the chinese
Sure, what he said was not relevant to hearthstone, but whats happening in Hong Kong is one of those things that could use support in any form.
The response from blizzard is being criticized because its clear by the severity they ONLY value money from the Chinese and they are scared of repercussions - If you think they did it to keep political discussion off their platform then you are wrong. Basically “don’t say thing that will piss off the chinese”
The quickness in the actions of blizzard are surprising considering the history when dealing with, say, hacking and racism
Quite frankly, I wouldn’t trust anything coming from the Chinese government at this point. Their propaganda machine was hard at work long before the civil unrest. They’re not going to tell their own people anything less than the world is bending to their will which unfortunately is not far from the truth.
Either way, nothing Blizzard can do will change the situation for anyone so it’s not surprising that they would simply act to protect themselves. If we want this to change, we need to change our trade agreement, or end it.
Yeah I can see where that comes across as dense.
It’s not about whether or not he broke rules. It’s the punishment, it smacks of “this is what will happen to you if you step out of line!” authoritarian punishment. It is so extreme for a young mans words. I love it though, an entire country and multi billion dollar multinational corporation did this. Responded to ONE dude’s words with clear signs of fear and cowardice. I wonder how much those words would have costed blizzard at the end of this? Maybe it’s nothing, maybe it’s millions of dollars!
LOL what side??? Oh I know, pls dont use our venue for YOUR AGENDA. They were there to play a game that is all. Idiot.
Lol, ya, your right. If your making money off blizzard by competing in their GAME for MONEY, yes you play by there rules, which state they dont want any part of this? How are you so stupid?
So it’s not censorship unless you blanket censor everyone?
And If Blizzard had the power to effectively shut down Heels they would have used it. Influencer supporting a boycott…
They’ve been disingenuously censoring by consolidating these arguments into single unmanageable threads. And I say disingenuous because it allows them to claim they aren’t censoring while severely limiting the visible scope of the issue and neutering the effectiveness of the dissent.
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I thought you were leaving since you don’t like people “spreading hate” as you call them names.
My agenda is to call out blizzard for pandering to an oppressive government and i’m doing exactly that.
You have no depth in your understanding of this matter and don’t seem to have a desire to gain any.
Just go watch your twitch and have a coke and a smile.
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I’m honestly glad they banned him.
A huge number of people would never have heard about any of this had Blizzard not banned the guy.
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Any United States company that does business with (not HK, NOT Taiwan) PDRoC should be shuttered. PDRoC should be on the restricted list imho right along side Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan, and North Korea
@TheQuixote (wasn’t sure how to get this to reply to you since I was replying before the thread was merged) They could disallow him from using Blizzard footage but they can’t shut him down outright. What would these guys be without the Blizzard game footage? That’s what I’m getting at. Blizzard doesn’t do those things. They definitely could hurt all of the streamers and content creators if they really wanted to but they’d have a far larger backlash than the HK incident.
They banned the interviewers because they told the young man to say his words then they would end the stream. They encouraged it, knew it was gonna happen, and set up for it.
Soon this will be the most replied thread on the site. Good times.
No, your making dumb posts about a company who didnt want to be used as a platform for this, and had every right too.
Your taking away from blizzards ability to monitor how THEIR game is used. So your infringing on blizzards right to not take part in this. Do you understand that?
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No ome cares what china does so long as it doesn’t effect them or someone they know. Blizzard should of known stealing from a e sports guy would have consequences.