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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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1 ReplyEdited by Caggus: 10/10/2019 6:09:15 PMAnyone remember when that one guy asked during an event with blizzard if they’ll consider bringing legacy servers back and they literally went “nooooo, you think you want it but you don’t. Trust us.” And then proceeded to shut down nostalrious which was created for the love of the game and was totally non profit. Or what about “you guys don’t have phones?” Where blizzard basically said -blam!- you to a huge PC player base. This is a long time coming, blizzard is not the company it used to be and hasn’t been for years.
