I see, Thanks for clearing it up. I can agree that if China where to abuse the power to extradite its political enemies then that would not be a good thing. Not only is that wrong in my views as a westerner but it makes it possible for China to almost turn into NK in a way. At least that is how I would view it if I where a Citizen in their country.
So, you’re comparing a genuinely oppressed kid (Chung Ng Wai) living in a country being oppressed by a police state, who had an actual reason to protest…
To a spoiled, whiny, rich athlete who lives in the freest country Earth and who signs multi-million dollar contracts with the NFL, but thinks he’s “oppressed” because some cops killed some stupid violent thugs who rob convenience stores?
He did know that. That’s why he did it.
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You I like.
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It’s an official statement from the official account of their official partnership using their official, copyrighted logo.
Maybe they shouldn’t have let things get to the point where their brand could be used as a mouthpiece for Commie propaganda.
Wow. Thats quite the trivialization of the civil rights movement and ongoing racial tension in America, but ok.
I guess the politics of China supercede those of our own country. Whatever it takes to drive that narrative buddy.
Although I am disappointed in Blizzards actions involved with this event, I’m more surprised that so many Right Wing Incel types are burning their accounts. Personally, compared to other Blizzard blunders since Activation basically took over this one is mild in comparison.
Also I hope all the Right Wing incel types never come back, because they drag any community down.
Basically Firing of a guy for using Blizzard games to make a Political statement is not an issue for me, however I think stripping him of his title and earnings is a bit over the top. At the same time some of the other actions were wrong, and frankly not remaining neutral is a bit of a problem.
However things I hate more than this event.
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Horde Bias
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Overwatch having no Story mode.
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Overwatch character Widowmaker being a victem of male dominated abuse without any recourse. (caused my long time roommate and best friend to quite Blizzard products)
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Saying the Horde is made of Anti-Heroes, and then going full villain. Again, and again.
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Terrible writing since the end of Wrath.
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Letting Vivendi and now Activision set the tone of Blizzard Games for years.
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Not developing WarCraft 4.
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- Focus on High end raiding and not giving solo players a means to keep pace
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- Focus on Esports and not keeping WOW a RPG focused game.
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Somewhere down past complaint 100.
- Firing some Hearthstone player for supporting the Student revolution in Hong Kong.
Nope, the casters just giggled and ducked their heads.
There’s clips of the video if you want to check it out.
I think firing them was overboard, but they knew what was about to be casted.
Of course they don’t.
However, “if human rights are being violated, any platform at any time is acceptable.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/dffxpm/norwegian_parliament_member_grunde_almelands/
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I see you don’t really do anything to disprove him or support your point. Your just passive aggression at it’s finest.
Blizzard Chinese twitter literally defended their no politics ban with a follow up saying.
~https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181926542080958464
“We will always respect and defend the pride of our country.”
So Blizz VERY CLEARLY banned somebody for a political reason, because gotta defend those Chinese interests.
And you think Blizz is doing the right thing? Really?
I’m not saying the guy had no right to protest, just like Kaepernick had every right to protest, I’m saying he made a bonehead move by doing it on Blizzard’s platform. He deserves the backlash and moderation, and it will only serve to make him look like the martyr that he wants you to make him, so bonus points on that.
He could have done this in a million ways that would have required no response from Blizzard, yet he chose the ONE way that would, oh well.
His choice.
But you can construe a lot of political speech as “human rights”. I again ask, who gets to decide what speech is allowed and what isn’t. And do you allow both sides of the speech in? Its a gaming tournament, it should not be a hotbed of political debate not matter the issue.
So we swing the opposite direction? Banned, money won taken away and firing casters? This was a show of force for China.
Which is why this is getting global attention.
While the US has been focused on military, and Russia on Cyber, China has been diligently working to undermine the rest of the world’s freedom by restrictions on games and movies.
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I certainly hope Blizzard settles this issue before Blizzcon. I have seen people making plans online to turn Blizzcon into a Hong Kong protest, I believe there is a potential for violence to erupt as a result. I personally think some people are just looking to be outraged while others want to attack Blizzard Entertainment, I don’t think Blizzard should give them a reason.
God forbid we focus on military and genuine attacks on the integrity of our country’s systems before we focus on video games and entertainment.
What is wrong with us? Where are our priorities?
Oh, yes! Totally the struggle of our time! Jim Crow reborn! A rich, whiny athlete, who gets paid millions, is being oppressed because he’s black! Hahahahaha! If the US hated black people, why would we allow those black people to get rich?
Genuine oppression always starts with wealth and land confiscation. It’s why there was a lot of black poverty in the south, while there was a thriving black middle class in northern cities like Detroit from 1920 to 1960 (before Social Justice and victimhood complex destroyed those communities to make sure that blacks voted Democrat).
But, there is a form of oppression going for black people, but it certainly isn’t the cops. It’s the welfare system and the victimology belief set: they are keeping themselves down, being pushed by scumbags like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Oh, and Colin Kaepernick, too. All of whom happen to be rich, and profiting off of the misery of their communities.
Wake up.
They do when an American corporation is being used as the mouthpiece to push Communist self-censorship on us.
Did you think for a second that he wasn’t taking the knee because he himself was oppressed? Or were you too busy being held up by thugs in a convenience store to notice that part?
He was protesting oppression. Not highlighting that he himself was oppressed. GG though.
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Company = A neutral party that exists to provide a good or service.
1 Guy just loss a lot to bring us a message that he felt very deeply about. If you agree with it then it’s up to you to go to the right thread and support him.
Blizzard is not your Mom, don’t hide behind it and then complain when it doesn’t do what you want it to do. If you don’t like what is happening then you should go do something about it on the correct forums.
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I would be more concerned with the overzealous folk attacking employees that had nothing to do with these decisions, the devs, the art team, the music team, the VA team, and all other teams that push a product out are not to blame for the mess up that the PR department placed blizzard. I kinda wish I where a fly to see how the PR/Marketing department is like right now.
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