For some reason, gamers appear to care about Hong Kong but didn't bat an eye when other gaming companies shut their servers down in Syria/Iran in order to comply with the U.S..
If a large portion of Blizzard's players hadn't been Chinese they wouldn't have reacted that way. So to me, Blizzard is the victim here, they were put in a lose-lose situation.
Regardless, I don't see how a company refusing to have its events politicized is considered so bad.
If people are so adamant about sticking it to China, they should boycott their actual products instead.
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