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Edited by Kanashimi510:
10/9/2019 10:46:45 PM
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Blizzard Taiwan deletes Hearthstone Grandmasters winner's interview due to his support of Hong Kong protest. Revokes prize money, bans him from game, and fires both casters involved.
Given bungie's ties to the Chinese company NetEase, I am wondering where they stand on this topic.
Bungie puts themselves out there as a company that believes "everyone's voice matters". Would they back that up in this case or would they side with blizzard?
I would like to think that bungie wouldn't sink to blizzard's level of hypocrisy, where social issues are high priority...... up until it threatens to cost them a little communist cash.
[u][b]Edit/UPDATE:[/b][/u]
Apparently, some Blizzard employees have staged a walkout because of the company's actions. Nice. Hopefully, they don't get fired as well.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer
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5 RepliesIt honestly breaks my heart to see Blizzard go down this path. They used to be my favorite developers as Starcraft: Brood War, Diablo 2, and Warcraft 3 are some of my favorite games of all time and are timeless classics. I held them in such high regard compared to other developers. The deal with Activision hurt their reputation a little bit but I was still there playing the games and supporting them. I began to see through them once Overwatch was released, the #223123 expansion for WoW, and the constant disregard towards Starcraft and Diablo year after year. Once Mike Morhaime and Chris Metzen left the company I knew things wouldn't be the same and things have gotten consistently worse since both of them left. This is just icing on the cake. BlizzCon is next month and I expect Blizzard to do a ton of damage control from all the panels.
