Blizzard suspends Hearthstone player for Hong-Kong support.

[Tisky]

Wow. This is pretty sad, i get that political views should be separate from a game competition but it feels like a pretty harsh punishment really.

https://kotaku.com/blizzard-suspends-hearthstone-player-for-hong-kong-supp-1838864961

 

[fewseb]

What? Blizzard being fuckos and caring more about their share prices and market value then their players? Theyve never done that before. An American company pandering to the Chinese? Unthinkable.

[blackdog]

I can’t say I’m surprised at all by such a rule existing in this time of outrage culture.

Kotaku not expressing how offended they are by Blizzard’s decision, is what’s really unthinkable.

[MikeGon]

Our boy Jimmy explains the thing

 

[blackdog]

In the meantime someone has… tegrity

 

[AlexM]

Southpark still manages to have impeccable timing after all these years

[blackdog]

5 hours ago, AlexM said:

Southpark still manages to have impeccable timing after all these years

I was so well impressed with the whole Red Dead Redemption storyline…

and what about all the gender craziness? Yesterday a friend sent me that girls are skipping school because of gender neutral bathrooms

Do you ever wonder how it would be to be a dolphin?  

[Radu]

Some of the memes though

Edited October 9, 2019 by Radu

[Buddy]

memes are dope tho ahah

[Tisky]

Wonder if Bobby Kotick will even read it

Also, speaking of memes:
 

[AlexM]

I tried to delete my blizzard account today but they want me to send them a photo of my ID in order to do it

 

[AlexM]

EDIT : Update I found another way but suddenly out of nowhere Blizzard is having network issues and I can't delete my account. They contacted me acknowledging the issue and saying they have no ETA.

 

meanwhile......

 

 

[blackdog]

What disgusting shit company does something like that.

Not much more info on top of what @AlexM has reported, but here's a brief news article describing the issue

https://www.techpowerup.com/259987/blizzards-account-deletion-mechanism-conveniently-breaks-down

I'm trying to find a way to report Blizzard to some authority, found this for now

https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

kudos to Blizzard employees

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20907075/blizzard-activision-walk-out-player-ban-hong-kong-epic-games-fortnite-blitzchung

Reddit thread where employees standing up have posted the picture of the protest

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/df52sw/blizzard_employees_standing_with_hk/

one of the first comments is scary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hannarks_the_Hunter

11 points·19 hours ago

And it absolutely sucks. I have been "suspended pending investigation" for 7 weeks now. No pay. No communication. All because I dared email corporate with a detailed list of how our facility WAS going to kill somebody.

3-weeks after the suspension began somebody died due to the exact preventable situation I described.

They're trying to get me to sign an NDA

 

Edited October 10, 2019 by blackdog

[blackdog]

Edit: dunno what happened with the quote, and now I can't edit the post eek

[PogoP]

Wow, I know Blizzard is just a company, but I thought they might have more balls than this. Im letting my wow classic subscription run out to show a bit of support.