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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 3 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source
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alimbada ◴[08 Oct 19 11:24 UTC] No.21191021[source]▶
It's a shame but I feel like the majority of gamers won't care. They'll either be ignorant of this or they'll just shrug and continue playing. I boycotted Activision and by proxy Blizzard when Activision acquired them a long time ago but their continuing success shows I'm part of an extremely tiny minority.
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1. ehnto ◴[08 Oct 19 11:29 UTC] No.21191050[source]▶
What was it about Activision that caused you to boycott them?
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2. alimbada ◴[08 Oct 19 12:03 UTC] No.21191266[source]▶
It was the CEOs attitude towards gamers and his derogatory comments about them as well as the way Activision treats/treated its developers. There was a lot of controversy around these issues and after reading quite an in depth article about it around 10 years ago I've avoided buying anything developed or published by Acti-Blizzard.
3. Fnoord ◴[08 Oct 19 12:31 UTC] No.21191495[source]▶
Isn't that the guy who hates gamers? It wasn't difficult to figure out why people dislike him [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick#Business_strategy...