What's particularly depressing about this for people outside of china is that it shows how your rights can be violated by foreign countries using (tech) companies as proxies, on the premise that companies have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
Oh wow who knew, companies don't care about morals. Welcome to the real world kids. You can't do anything about it, none can change this fucking system where everything is based on money. It's all doomed. But oh yeah, let's forget about that fact and go on with our "happy" lowlives, working same shit every day for a boss who didn't even deserve it then enjoy your 2 week holiday while some were born not to work at all. Money rules, morals are a joke. It's good that reality hits every now and then and games are no exception. Reality hits even there.
Edit: oh yeah, now let's drink and forget about those...
I 100% agree. Grandmasters isn't the place to talk about politics, but the punishment was way too harsh and it's clear what statement they're trying to make.
I've spent several hundred on this game. I still love it. And now I'm seriously considering walking away from everything Blizzard. I really enjoy their fandoms but this is insane.
I can't dispute that they're in the right to censure Blitzchung. Their platform, their rules, so fine. But to hard ban him and zero out his pay, as well as nuke the casters? (Yes, I'm aware they encouraged him to repeat what he said in Mandarin.) That's a little much.
There's a bunch of other games that have been calling for my attention. I would miss Hearthstone and this community, but maybe it's time.
You probably should have included that Blitzchung was banned for voicing his support for the Hong Kong protests. Those cowards at blizzard, unsurprisingly, left that out of their little PR statement.
I'm not surprised at all to see Blizzard kowtowing to Winnie the Pooh. It's not like this is the umpteenth example of them bending over backwards to accommodate Chinese diktats, as with the recent art changes. From a business perspective, it makes perfect sense why they'd sell their principles for a slice of the chinese market, but it's still depressing as hell.
"This is certainly troubling that a single country, China, can have this much of an effect on Hearthstone when they quite clearly violate basic human rights."
Agreed. Money shouldn't be more or as important as treating people fairly and respecting their rights (which do not include non self defense violence from a small minority).
I sometimes wonder what intelligent alien life would think of our species if they came to peacefully visit. So you guys destroy your planet, kill each other and spend huge resources on defending your bit of land against members of your own species on other bits of land. You reward vapid "celebrities" and sports/entertainment stars obscenely whilst those that actually help humankind get far far less. Oh and many of the people on your world don't have enough food, clean drinking water or medical care and die/suffer as a result.
This article went up before Blizzard had announced Blitzchung being removed and when they did announce it, we had not yet seen it due to sleeping and such.
The most obvious lie that has ever been told lmao.
I remember reading the comment Dave Kosak made about it and was extremely disappointed. Now, it's quite possible he or other members of the Hearthstone team were not aware where the concern around those cards came from, so I won't blame any of the developers who work on the game, but damn was that unfortunate.
i gonna have a unpopular opinion but i am agreeing almost totaly with blizzard in this rulling
Dont get me wrong its awfull what happening there and i can understand he wanna making a statement but first at all GM is not the place to make this statement and for sure not the way he did GM is the highest level of Hearthstone esports that should not be use to make statements like this Make a youtube video do it on your own stream but GM is not the place and he also signed and so agreed with al rules in the blizzard handbook
on twitter roger names is also called a lot that he did worse and get less punishment and yeah this is true blizzard fails there hard they should be banned for life in the esports hearthstone scene I mean cheating there is colance for that but that this was a bad rulling does nothin to do with this rulling
as last almost forgot i dont agree the part that he get no money at all i mean he haves put his time al the weeks in it and he should be get the money
As almost everyone knows blitzchung is kicked out of gm and is not allowe to play competive hearthstone for a year also hes dont get any prize from this season
I believe in a deathrattle Rogue too, but i think there is also something to do with deathrattle hunter ! (Say the guy who regrets crafting Oblivitron at the beginning of RoS...)
Now that Blizzard unceremoniously dumped Blitzchung from the GM, will Pathra take his slot, or will the slot be free and we'll have two new GMs in their division?
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
What's particularly depressing about this for people outside of china is that it shows how your rights can be violated by foreign countries using (tech) companies as proxies, on the premise that companies have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
Oh wow who knew, companies don't care about morals. Welcome to the real world kids. You can't do anything about it, none can change this fucking system where everything is based on money. It's all doomed. But oh yeah, let's forget about that fact and go on with our "happy" lowlives, working same shit every day for a boss who didn't even deserve it then enjoy your 2 week holiday while some were born not to work at all. Money rules, morals are a joke. It's good that reality hits every now and then and games are no exception. Reality hits even there.
Edit: oh yeah, now let's drink and forget about those...
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
I 100% agree. Grandmasters isn't the place to talk about politics, but the punishment was way too harsh and it's clear what statement they're trying to make.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
If you want to take a break from Hearthstone, MTG Arena / Magic just launched a new set! It also has a pretty awesome F2P experience.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
I've spent several hundred on this game. I still love it. And now I'm seriously considering walking away from everything Blizzard. I really enjoy their fandoms but this is insane.
I can't dispute that they're in the right to censure Blitzchung. Their platform, their rules, so fine. But to hard ban him and zero out his pay, as well as nuke the casters? (Yes, I'm aware they encouraged him to repeat what he said in Mandarin.) That's a little much.
There's a bunch of other games that have been calling for my attention. I would miss Hearthstone and this community, but maybe it's time.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
Stop watching Grandmasters, period. Damn the free packs..
Want to support a country in need, join an Activist group. Not Activision..
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
Yep not supporting Blizzard any more.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
Just another reminder in case you don't already know: Companies only care about money. They have no conscience or morals outside of money.
Blitchung kicked out of GM
You probably should have included that Blitzchung was banned for voicing his support for the Hong Kong protests. Those cowards at blizzard, unsurprisingly, left that out of their little PR statement.
I'm not surprised at all to see Blizzard kowtowing to Winnie the Pooh. It's not like this is the umpteenth example of them bending over backwards to accommodate Chinese diktats, as with the recent art changes. From a business perspective, it makes perfect sense why they'd sell their principles for a slice of the chinese market, but it's still depressing as hell.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
"This is certainly troubling that a single country, China, can have this much of an effect on Hearthstone when they quite clearly violate basic human rights."
Agreed. Money shouldn't be more or as important as treating people fairly and respecting their rights (which do not include non self defense violence from a small minority).
I sometimes wonder what intelligent alien life would think of our species if they came to peacefully visit. So you guys destroy your planet, kill each other and spend huge resources on defending your bit of land against members of your own species on other bits of land. You reward vapid "celebrities" and sports/entertainment stars obscenely whilst those that actually help humankind get far far less. Oh and many of the people on your world don't have enough food, clean drinking water or medical care and die/suffer as a result.
Humans. Just clever enough to be stupid.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
Good article, thanks Flux. Freedom of expression has to be defended, or we'll lose it.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
I'm going to go F2P after this. Who's in?
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
Dangerous...
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
Money > Human Rights
Hearthstone Grandmasters - The Lead-up to Relegations, Problems with the System
Who said it was gonna slide?
This article went up before Blizzard had announced Blitzchung being removed and when they did announce it, we had not yet seen it due to sleeping and such.
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
The most obvious lie that has ever been told lmao.
I remember reading the comment Dave Kosak made about it and was extremely disappointed. Now, it's quite possible he or other members of the Hearthstone team were not aware where the concern around those cards came from, so I won't blame any of the developers who work on the game, but damn was that unfortunate.
Card Art Censorship info for those not in the know.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/159-the-uldum-pre-order-patch-new-fire-festival-quest-details-card-art-censorship-card-changes-and-more
Blizzard Removes Blitzchung From Grandmasters, Prize Money Taken Away For Anti-China Comments
"Blizzard didn't change the card art to pander to china"
Blitchung kicked out of GM
i gonna have a unpopular opinion but i am agreeing almost totaly with blizzard in this rulling
Dont get me wrong its awfull what happening there and i can understand he wanna making a statement but first at all GM is not the place to make this statement and for sure not the way he did
GM is the highest level of Hearthstone esports that should not be use to make statements like this
Make a youtube video do it on your own stream but GM is not the place and he also signed and so agreed with al rules in the blizzard handbook
on twitter roger names is also called a lot that he did worse and get less punishment and yeah this is true blizzard fails there hard
they should be banned for life in the esports hearthstone scene
I mean cheating there is colance for that but that this was a bad rulling does nothin to do with this rulling
as last almost forgot i dont agree the part that he get no money at all i mean he haves put his time al the weeks in it and he should be get the money
Blitchung kicked out of GM
As almost everyone knows blitzchung is kicked out of gm and is not allowe to play competive hearthstone for a year also hes dont get any prize from this season
This is the official article about it
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289
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Hearthstone Grandmasters - The Lead-up to Relegations, Problems with the System
So we just gonna let the censorship slide? Ya know about the hong kong incident during grandmasters match? Ok cool...
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I believe in a deathrattle Rogue too, but i think there is also something to do with deathrattle hunter ! (Say the guy who regrets crafting Oblivitron at the beginning of RoS...)
Hearthstone Grandmasters - The Lead-up to Relegations, Problems with the System
Now that Blizzard unceremoniously dumped Blitzchung from the GM, will Pathra take his slot, or will the slot be free and we'll have two new GMs in their division?
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