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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: 0.314s | 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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knodi123 ◴[08 Oct 19 15:07 UTC] No.21193079[source]▶
> the thing is they do not care about free speech. All these companies care about is revenue.

Nature of a publicly traded company in a nation that deifies capitalism. Blizzard is on the S&P 500, for pete's sake.

If the CEO prioritized something other than profits, he'd be replaced by the board for breaching his obligations to the shareholders.

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xtian ◴[08 Oct 19 15:18 UTC] No.21193205[source]▶
This isn't actually true. Look up the legal definition of fiduciary duties for US corporations.
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1. pgcj_poster ◴[08 Oct 19 16:27 UTC] No.21193995[source]▶
I think the person you're replying to was just saying that the CEO would probably be replaced if they prioritized something other than profits, not that it was legally mandated.