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Blizzard has removed Hong Kong Hearthstone player blitzchung from Hearthstone Grand Masters and rescinded all his prize money
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The only thing you can really deprive them of right now is a WoW subscription and a WC3:R preorder. It's like we're back in the 00s again.
User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing Concerns of Human Rights Abuses Over Multiple Posts in this Thread
"It was formed by 'The International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China' (ETAC), a notfor-profit coalition of lawyers, medical professionals and others dedicated to ending what they assert to have been, and to be, the practice of forced organ harvesting in China.1"
ETAC is run by many Epoch Times journalists. Their Executive Director, Co-founder -Susie Hughes.
You can search some of the members with Epoch Times to get the links.
Epoch Times is run by FLG members.
Recent news of ET - Sneaking pro-trump propaganda on facebook.
We can hate CCP all we want, but it is just too convenient to blame them with evidence from FLG which is known to spreading these propaganda since last 2 decades.
When you unsubscribe from a WoW subscription you can write out your personal reasoning, I'd really recommend everyone who can do that does it, it's probably the most direct way of getting the message heard because it's directly affecting the heart of Blizzard's execs - their wallets.
That stupidly naive assumption (supported by politicians in both parties in the US, no less) continues to have massive fallout for the entire world.
OT: The worst part is that I'm not all that surprised. These big corporations have gone all in on China and will sit and roll over like dogs on the government's command to keep getting paid. It's pathetic, honestly.
Edit: never mind.
Nor does any corporation. The China market is far more lucrative than the American market. China's bullshit is going to cause more shit like this.
Also wtf is Activision saying in all this?
Good on the NBA. Don't bend the knee.
Already uninstalled Battle.net. Can't support Blizzard with their current stance. Shame really. Used to like their games.
Blizzard is probably already re-skinning all the skeletons in the game
About time I delete by battle.net account. Also, I feel like only way this companies would learn is if we get the games somehow banned in China like how pooh got banned. Make memes about comparing xi jinping to solider 76 and overwatch will get banned.
It's pretty sad that in order to prevent Vivendi from taking over Ubisoft they needed help from a company like Tencent to resist but now are under even a more nefarious form of control despite how small that stake is (which is the same size as Blizzard's stake)
The more I think about this the more I'm upset moreso over taking away his title and prize money. Banning him is just a restriction on his future as successful gaming professional but to take away his title and prize money for this reason? He EARNED that. All of his hardwork disregarded over a very important issue. In support of the wrong side of that issue.
The Chinese market is rarely more lucrative than the US market, but it is an incredible money maker that is growing rapidly. And pandering to China's whims doesn't cost companies anything domestically.
I only know the right one.. he's "Virtual" Taiwanese HS player.
At least Firebat is a bit more level headed on this issue, and not sweeping in under the rug
Basically, he knows it is serious, and does not want to rant, but will talk about it on the podcast later
Basically, he knows it is serious, and does not want to rant, but will talk about it on the podcast later
After what Blizzard did in all of their Professional Tournament I don't understand why Pros would still give them the benefit of the doubt. They keep getting screwed over and over and over and over and over again. How much is enough?
I love Blizzard's games, I grew up with them, I revere them but this isn't a company I'd be willing to put a career on the line for.
I love Blizzard's games, I grew up with them, I revere them but this isn't a company I'd be willing to put a career on the line for.
I'm not going to excuse their behavior just because it's becoming more common.
Scary thought. But it would work. And leave it to gamers to meme shit effectively.
So can we start treating Blizzard/Acti like people treat THQN now? I mean this feels far more disgraceful and corrupt than holding an AMA in a shitty attempt to be edgy. I hope so because fuck Blizzard and Activision, this should not be forgotten.
Yes. I actually feel more strongly about this..
Fuck Blizzard.
The very specific report I linked to wasn't written by Epoch Times journalists. It was written by
Geoffrey Nice, a british barrister who co-authered the 2014 Syrian detainee report.
Martin Elliot, a british cardiothoracic surgeon who, among other things, is the co-director of one the world's largest centers for heart transplantations in the world.
Andrew Koo, a Malaysian attorney who was the chair of the Human Rights Committee of Bar Council Malaysia
Regina Paulose, a US attorney who was the chair of the Steering Committee of the United Kingdom Child Sex Abuse People's Tribunal
Nicolas Vetch, a businessman who I can't find too much about
and
Arthur Waldron, a US historian who was a founding member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission and is the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nothing you write has anything to do with this report. Unless you think that everything these people I just listed wrote and collected was forced upon them by pro-trump cultists or that they themselves are pro-trump cultists who simply were able to hide their true intention for the last 20 - 50 years, it has nothing to do with their findings.
The biggest result of this event and the NBA stuff has to be any companies that do significant business in China scrambling as we speak to make sure nothing like this happens to them. China has let it be known that they will go scorched earth on any company that crosses them on this issue.
Question: if I bought COD MW, how much of my money would go to Activision? I was interested in the game but I can certainly live without it after this shit
The streamer dude's intentions worked. I have lived under a rock and didn't know about this whole thing at all until this thread. He definitely brought attention to a topic that many people in the west didn't know about.
Well I'd imagine all of the revenue would fall under Activisions umbrella.
I've been fuming about this all morning, I'm surprised at how much this hit me. This is actually disgusting.
That's (of course) true, but unfortunately a company's integrity rarely impacts its bottom line in a way we would hope it does.
hah I doubt that will happen but Blizzard would be in full panic mode if it did.
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