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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: 0.201s | 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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JumpCrisscross ◴[08 Oct 19 12:10 UTC] No.21191321[source]▶
> I feel like the majority of gamers won't care

The simultaneity of the NBA and now Blizzard so publicly siding with Beijing may elevate this out of the realm of commercial issues (subject to boycotts) into a political one.

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vonmoltke ◴[08 Oct 19 12:20 UTC] No.21191402[source]▶
> the NBA ... so publicly siding with Beijing

I must have missed something, because all the coverage I have seen is of Adam Silver publicly supporting Morey and Tsai. Additionally, the Nets cancelled a media event in Shanghai over this.

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dependenttypes ◴[08 Oct 19 12:30 UTC] No.21191489[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184008
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1. vonmoltke ◴[08 Oct 19 15:42 UTC] No.21193479[source]▶
Silver says that is not an apology[1], and the message quoted reads more like a diplomatic version of "Sorry this upset you, but tough shit". I'm not sure where the author of that opinion column got the idea that the message was an apology.

[1] https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/10/8/20904593/nba-china-co...