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Blizzard has removed Hong Kong Hearthstone player blitzchung from Hearthstone Grand Masters and rescinded all his prize money
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Really hope everyone remembers their proper time and place to protest for now on. I mean, you're allowed to criticize China and support the protesters only....
...uh...
...well, seems like never. Go figure.
Fuck Blizzard, but after the shenanigans with the missing witch doctor from Diablo Immortal, I'm not surprised at all.
And gamers will really defend anything to protect their hobby.
"Politics has no place in sports" shows a remarkably ignorant point of view.
Turns out China has all the money now, who knew? Plan backfired.
I hope you'll never have to experience what it is like to be afraid for your livelihood for speaking up (in a very mild way mind you) against fascism
Why is it always the low post count trolls in threads like these?
The casters are ethnically Chinese and they didn't automatically react in outrage to someone questioning the actions of an ethnonationalist regime that they are "supposed" to support by the CCP's rules (never mind that they are in a free fucking country and didn't say a damn thing). The CCP can't let people of Chinese background be publicly noncompliant, otherwise people start getting ideas about different ways to live.
I used to love and respect Blizzard so much. In many ways they were the reason I really got into gaming as a hobby, got into PCs seriously, and have the job I do today. Diablo 1 was the inspiration for my first coding projects. StarCraft might be the greatest game I've ever played.
But I have some familiarity with the issues here, and I'm done with Blizzard now.
But I have some familiarity with the issues here, and I'm done with Blizzard now.
reminder that Blizzard forces Taiwan to be called the 'Chinese Taipei' in the Overwatch World Cup and players are not allowed to use the Taiwan flag icon while competing
Our everyday life is constantly affected by politics. You are foolish if you don't think politics doesn't has a place in [fill in the blank]
People love to write love letters about how great Blizzard are because they included POC and LGBTQ characters in Overwatch, but it seems that they happily side with violent repressals if the money leads there. Hopefully this will be a solid wake-up call about the fact that billion-dollar-companies like these don't play the inclusion card because they're so kind, they do it because they expect to find an audience. Now they've shown their teeth.
You're right, it's totally just Era.
It's not like this kind of protest happens anywhere else outside of here when protests occur in sports.
Yep, nowhere else. Completely narrowed to just Era.
Not surprising. Firing some casters and rescinding a pro player doesn't affect there bottom line or their brand at all. China however....lol.
Don't forget Tracer is not gay in China and Russia.
Its not about representation, its getting your money.
Giant Corporations are not your friends.
Politics was in sports since begining of Olympics (so since ancient Greece). Go with your fucking shitty take elsewere.
Democracy and Free Speech doesn't properly exist in this late capitalist society. It's all an illusion. Those with money control everything and no matter what you say or want it doesn't matter, the only people who are catered to are the 1%.
He is wrong, but you are not better than him with this shitty comment.
Yeah, in no sports anywhere has anyone expressed any kind of special enthusiasm for their home country. At this rate, we'll soon be seen FLAGS in the crowd of soccer matches.
Nah, fuck him. Don't virtue signal for someone trying to apoliticize frigging everything.
politics and sports have always been intertwined. you would have to know literally nothing about sports to think that this is true.
This is one of the worst posts I've read in this board in a long time. Well done!
Yep. "I just don't think Jackie Robinson needs to play; they should keep politics out of baseball."
The notion that someone can't defend Hong Kong over what's happening does indeed feel morally reprehensible but I can't entirely disagree with what Blizzard did either. Would we be defending someone's rights to speak out as vehemently if a similar figure came out and spouted that trans rights are nonsense?
Naturally I agree there's a difference between right and wrong when standing up for something but if you're hired/part of something that doesn't want to be the judge of that publicly (and has that as terms of taking part) I can't entirely fault them for taking action if you do that anyway.
Of course , I'll easily agree that a company (like Blizzard) could have taken it upon themselves to stand up for it themselves, which they haven't as far as I know.
Naturally I agree there's a difference between right and wrong when standing up for something but if you're hired/part of something that doesn't want to be the judge of that publicly (and has that as terms of taking part) I can't entirely fault them for taking action if you do that anyway.
Of course , I'll easily agree that a company (like Blizzard) could have taken it upon themselves to stand up for it themselves, which they haven't as far as I know.
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