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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 1 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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KaoruAoiShiho ◴[08 Oct 19 13:22 UTC] No.21191959[source]▶
Absolutely agree, it's time for American video games to stop publishing in China. It's not worth the Chinese influence on our society.
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ndury ◴[08 Oct 19 14:20 UTC] No.21192581[source]▶
These studio's should not stop publishing their games in China. The issue lies that these studio's happily comply with whatever restrictions a govt is willing to oblige due to possibly playerbase loss. Think lootboxes, forbidden skins in regions, exc... exc..

Companies as big as Blizzard should be prepared to lose 5/10/15% of their playerbase to defend free speech, the thing is they do not care about free speech. All these companies care about is revenue.

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Aarostotle ◴[08 Oct 19 15:05 UTC] No.21193059[source]▶
This one is tricky. I always thought they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, so they have to tread that line as well.

Does anyone know how that fits into the picture?

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1. rblatz ◴[08 Oct 19 15:25 UTC] No.21193298[source]▶
That is a commonly overstated and misunderstood term.