Blizzard Employees Protest Company's Blitzchung Ban

[ErnstInEarnest]

Boy? Cute. Sorry I hurt your feelings, dad.

Immature? I disagree. Seeing something from a point of view as being stupid, or people being moronic and/or uneducated is not immature.

Our free speech as in America? Or free speech as in china? I need clarification from you since youve lived in both. And seeing as you lived in China for 13 years, yes, you do get a say as youve lived in their culture for a significant amount of time.

I agree. You break the rules, youre out. Period. Even if its the broadcasters. You get caught cheating (not saying thats what happened here, just making a point) you get the boot and any prize money you won gets taken away. Period.

The three of them broke the rule of not bringing politics into the tournament. They got what they had coming. Casters fired, player banned and money taken away. That is blizzards right. Im all for free speech, but as I stated in a post elsewhere here, if youre going to fight for a cause, do it on your own time, not on Blizzards in the middle of a tournament.

Someone break the rules, u throw him out. Rescind of prize money? Fire the casters who let it happened? These are heavy handed decisions, with obvious self censorship in mind.
That is against our value.
~~Speaking about free speech in China... do u know ALL KNIVES WERE OFF THE SHELVES DURING THEIR NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION? No, u won't be able to buy a knive in Beijing without prior approval. Bizarre? Nay,just another day in China. U'll be thrown into prison for questioning a fake medicine in public, let alone those in power.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Someone break the rules, u throw him out. Rescind of prize money? Fire the casters who let it happened? These are heavy handed decisions, with obvious self censorship in mind.
That is against our value.

Again, you break the rules, you forfeit everything. This is how everything has always worked in any competition. Why is it different now? Yes fire the casters who let it happen because they went against the rules they agreed upon and allowed it to happen. If you let someone into a restricted section they werent allowed in and the company found out, you wouldnt expect to be fired because of it? Same principle applies here. I disagree with it being censorship.

 

[ErnstInEarnest]

There are thousands who disagree, anyway rest assured we allow different opinions.
No, we won't tag u 'uneducated'.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

There are thousands who disagree, anyway rest assured we allow different opinions.
No, we won't tag u 'uneducated'.

Wasnt worried about it.

 

[Space Lynx]

The Chinese gaming market is huge. The last I read was that it was up to 42 billion dollars annually.

Blizzard Finally Comments On Hearthstone Debacle, Reduces Suspensions And Returns Prize Money

After a week of controversy surrounding its decision to boot Hearthstone pro Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai from a tournament and suspend him for a year for delivering a pro-Hong-Kong message during an official broadcast, Blizzard has finally made a statement about the situation. It plans to allow...

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BLIZZARD FINALLY CAVED LMAO

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Only partially. They still burned bridges that aren't likely to be rebuilt any time soon.

 

[tfdsaf]

Why does everybody go up in arms about everything these days?

The esports rules state that you dont bring anything political into the sport. Someone did, they got punished for it. Good cause or not, he broke the rule that he (and everyone else playing) agreed to.

Because the punishment was way too severe, China is trying to take over a sovereign city-state, China is a communist hell hole with the same families in power for over 50 years now, Blizzard response inside China was how they would never ever allow someone to bad talk dear heavenly China.

So a heavy handed punishment to a guy who said something mild for 5 seconds in an interview, apologetic and ass kissing to China, couple that with the fact that China is a communist run hell hole of a bunch of corrupt families who've held power for over 50 years now, the fact that China are trying to invade Hong Kong and take it over and the fact that a Western company values money more than freedom.

 

[ErnstInEarnest]

BLIZZARD FINALLY CAVED LMAO

Technically we call this ' DAMAGE CONTROL' ; playing the appeasement card is the best they can do on a tight rope.
Apology will alienated the Chinese ; silence will hurt their revenue from the West.

 

[klf]

nuffing happen, EAST have money , 100% for blizzard and CHINA.

 

[remixedcat]

eff china. I'd say cut em off and build a wall around em. the fact they force companies to test on animals in order for cosmetics to be sold there is terrible They also so bizarre experiments there that not enough ppl talk about. How anyone can stand up for china and call themseles progressives are the biggest hippycrites known to man