So, last week, Blizzard messed up pretty bad. They banned a Hearthstone player, took away his prize money and fired some casters, all because the player chose to speak his mind about the political climate in Hong Kong.
You’d think that by now, they would have fixed their mistake and tried to make things right with everyone who’s mad at them.
And you’d be wrong.
Over the weekend, Blizzard issued a pretty weak statement that only served to get everyone even more pissed at them. And trust me, people are pissed.
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Hosted by: Daniel Rosen (@Daniel_Rosen)
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36 comments
Speak his mind? Free Alaska then~~ =)
I can suggest to the gamers around the world. Try type fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong in any games that you play. Then find out if you are ban in their chat room. If so, those games are communist games and should be boycotted.
The buzzfeed guy is back
Y'all have a phone right?
Algorytm pls boost this vid
yeah duck blizzard
this post was made by the skeleton king gang
0:59 Why has the castors got banned???
why where the casters banned???
I gotta say… Bungie got out of Activision/Blizzard at the exact RIGHT time.
China owning many things but Chinese communist no FREEDOM Of Speech ain't good for the world
Nice content… Btw, can u make a vid regarding blizzards action this past few weeks and how it affects their stocks… Thanks….
From EU Finland, Idc if it's only me but i stopped supporting this disgusting Blizzard in any way.
You guys are morons. Blizzard did the right thing.
Blizzard con is going to be interesting this year
#fuckchina
Bootlick Bootlick
Seriously, all Blizzard had to do, was treat Blitzchung's bit as…well…a bit. In the grand scheme of things it'll affect nothing. You won't see millions more march in the streets because of it. The Chinese Communist Party isn't going to crumble because of it. It's just a bit. Someone using their 5 mins with the mic to say something. The Globe continues spinning. The end.
This is why Blizzard is getting all this backlash. Not just the nature of the reaction, but the speed of said reaction, the severity of said reaction, and the 800 pound gorilla question of "was all this really necessary?" This is also why Blizzard's subsequent lowering of penalties and statement ring hollow. No one sincerely believes that Blizzard's relationship with China had nothing to do with China. And at this point, even if there wasn't, the optics don't really allow for that interpretation.
In short, Blizzard screwed up. Bad.
uninstalled all my Blizzard games. Never going back.
While I am in support for the protest in Hong Kong and think it was shitty what blizzard did, I am shocked this channel and mainly this host is not okay with what blizzard did even though it was in their policy but the 'okay' symbol was NOT ok and an obvious 4chan bait.
I don’t agree with what blizzard has done don’t get me wrong but this statement takes it out of context. The pride comparison to the Hong Kong comparison is like oranges and apples. I totally understand keeping it about the game. When did you see Lebron James after a basketball game go off and say something political like BLM. Never that’s right he talks about the game and makes his political points on the side out side of his work so to speak. I think the player should still be banned keep his hard earned money but blizzard still messed this up. I still lost a ton of respect for blizzard.
I'm fully against blizzard but some misinformation, the post that is claimed to be made by blizzard was actually a hearthstone account that is entirely controlled by net ease, although it does still use blizzard so they are at some fault it was not made by blizzard
Great upload.
a chinese player flamed me in a game and i asked him why he’s not rioting in hong kong and got perma banned on LoL
I would love to see a boycott but that would never happen
The people over at Blizzard make games that people want to play, they have good games that people won't stop playing because of this drama.
This situation will be irrelevant in a few weeks/months
this should be part of gaming industry history like the PR shitstorm that is Blizzard
Homosexuality is not political
So blizz is bad now. But are they still your secrect hero for banning the OK ?symbol?
Selective support for freedom is no support at all.
#FreeAfghanistan where people get murdered by USA government everyday.
Blizzard wants to know your location
Karma to you China and Blizzard! Free Hong Kong and don't invade other countries and steal endangered animals plus resources!
Gamers will burn companies to the ground for a twitter post.
But refuse to take a stand when they rob them blind and repay for the same game every single year ?♂️
Q&A on Blizzcon will be interesting! ??
When riot is getting better but their competitors doing stupid sh1t helping them more
The comments pointing at Riot's new fps games and card games are cynical
since at the end of the game Riot is own by Tencent wich is the company making American Developers bend the knee to China. So if you play Overwatch, Fornite, LOL, Call of Duty, ETC. You are giving them your money.
#FREEHONGKONG #FIXBLIZZARD
Lul