The situations are different, yes. But they are they only high profile examples of Blizzard's record of punishment that we have to work with.
I would argue that compromising the competitive integrity of the game is a much worse than a person making a political statement in a post-match interview. It appears you do not, which is your right.
I would add, however, that the revolution is already happening. I don't think an e-sports player's support would really change things one way or the other.
I think most reasonable people recognize that Blitzchung broke the rules, and the Blizzard was allowed punish him the way that they did.
I think the sticking point for reasonable people (and many of the posts in this thread have certainly not been reasonable) is that the punishment was overwhelmingly draconian, especially in light of how Roger and Shaxxy were treated with kids gloves for actually cheating just a few months ago.
To use an in-artful analogy, Blizzard went full death penalty, when probation made more sense.
Blizzard's heavy-handed response (including the caster ban) leads a lot of people to understandably believe that they did not make this decision alone, and instead were influenced/directed by less-savory actors. And that's disconcerting.
US government officials (both republican and democrat) strongly object this move and investigate the issue
well done, blizz. you might as well get shut down
Not sure if you're from the US or not. More often than not, these congressional "investigations" are PR moves for the congress person without any real bite besides the PR hit for the company - see Facebook earlier this year (last year?).
You can either allow everyone to speak politics and thus risk that you suddenly are abused as a political plattform and you have to constantly say "Blizzard distances itself from all political statements" or you just ban all political speeches no matter what.
Just because a cause does align with your viewpoint (and in this case, it does for me too), does not mean it belongs to Hearthstone. Blizzards actions does not say "Hail China", it says "we dont want to be involved at all with all this". Both views have the same motivation of keeping your business alive and apolitical.
We don't need any of your rational, nuanced thinking here! This is the internet, sir, and it will not be tolerated!
Invading a country to suppress and eliminate(I fear that it will be a genocide, mark my words) a "terrorist" group (Turkey's invasion to clear out Kurds), not a single word in...HS...
I mean, that wouldn't make any fucking sense in a HS forum.
I haven't looked but I'm positive you could find it on Reddit because there's a thread about everything on reddit.
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What happens when you remove the good aggro decks from the meta when N'Zoth exists, I wonder?
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The deck literally has hard counters.
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This whole thread is made of tinfoil. It's fucking hilarious.
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Just in case people still forget.
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this
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This was my initial thought, although they are aware of it now so they shouldn't be banning accounts for it now.
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The situations are different, yes. But they are they only high profile examples of Blizzard's record of punishment that we have to work with.
I would argue that compromising the competitive integrity of the game is a much worse than a person making a political statement in a post-match interview. It appears you do not, which is your right.
I would add, however, that the revolution is already happening. I don't think an e-sports player's support would really change things one way or the other.
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I think most reasonable people recognize that Blitzchung broke the rules, and the Blizzard was allowed punish him the way that they did.
I think the sticking point for reasonable people (and many of the posts in this thread have certainly not been reasonable) is that the punishment was overwhelmingly draconian, especially in light of how Roger and Shaxxy were treated with kids gloves for actually cheating just a few months ago.
To use an in-artful analogy, Blizzard went full death penalty, when probation made more sense.
Blizzard's heavy-handed response (including the caster ban) leads a lot of people to understandably believe that they did not make this decision alone, and instead were influenced/directed by less-savory actors. And that's disconcerting.
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Not sure if you're from the US or not.
More often than not, these congressional "investigations" are PR moves for the congress person without any real bite besides the PR hit for the company - see Facebook earlier this year (last year?).
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The deck is bad tho...
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Last time they had something like this you had to do it all in one sitting.
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For people in Hong Kong, I don't think the beef between Blitzchung and Hearthstone is their biggest concern atm.
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We don't need any of your rational, nuanced thinking here! This is the internet, sir, and it will not be tolerated!
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Yeh - People forget this part.
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I mean, that wouldn't make any fucking sense in a HS forum.
I haven't looked but I'm positive you could find it on Reddit because there's a thread about everything on reddit.