Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

The only problem is China is too big to care. Streisand effect only affects those people where a spotlight from a small percent of the internet heavily affects them

I interpreted it as in relation to Blizzard.

Yeah. China won't ultimately care whatever we do, but Blizzard can me made to feel it. Their own annual gaming convention is coming up in less than a month, and hopefully this will backfire on them badly.

I assume Blizzard were under pressure from China, as why else would they do this. So if this assumption is true they were cornered in they had to 'offend' someone and felt China has a longer memory than the rest of their market + China would likely ban their games whereas how many ROW people will do this?

From a pure business decision it seems to make sense as the lesser of 2 evils.

I was also mostly referring to potential bad effect on Blizzard.

However, I would find it funny if the whole episode made some of your "average" Blizzard-gamer care about China and HK.

(Emphasis on the "average" here: I obviously have no data, but I suspect that the average Blizzard-game player is a young teenage boy who's spending too much time playing with friends to be passionate about international Asian politics. Again, using an hyperbole here. I know you exist, DoTA-geopolitics-nerds.)