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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 10 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.87s | source | bottom
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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. propter_hoc ◴[08 Oct 19 11:46 UTC] No.21191153[source]▶
Well, currently the Hearthstone and Blizzard discussion forums on Reddit are up in arms.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/blizzard

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2. cooljacob204 ◴[08 Oct 19 12:31 UTC] No.21191499[source]▶
Yup, I'm cancelling my wow sub over this and read about it first on Reddit.
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3. Beltiras ◴[08 Oct 19 12:57 UTC] No.21191720[source]▶
Cancelled and just sad I only had 500 characters to rake them over the coals with.
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4. ahi ◴[08 Oct 19 13:47 UTC] No.21192231[source]▶
r/blizzard is now locked down.
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5. hdfbdtbcdg ◴[08 Oct 19 14:39 UTC] No.21192806[source]▶
What? What is happening there?
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6. flohofwoe ◴[08 Oct 19 14:47 UTC] No.21192883{3}[source]▶
The last message I saw before it was switched to private was a message from the moderators along the lines that r/blizzard is not the right place to discuss politics, and that they'll ban people who post politics there.
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8. shadowgovt ◴[08 Oct 19 15:16 UTC] No.21193173{4}[source]▶
It's inconvenient for moderators of fora when the topic of the forum suddenly takes a political action, if they don't want politics discussed in their forum.
9. twno1 ◴[08 Oct 19 15:21 UTC] No.21193247[source]▶
/r/classicwow too. Just saw this post and let me start to cancel my account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/dez4yc/breaking...

10. cthalupa ◴[08 Oct 19 19:29 UTC] No.21196173{3}[source]▶
Yep. It's not much, but I cancelled and was quite explicit on why.