Banned Hearthstone player Blitzchung says Blizzard never apologized to him

blitzchung, the banned Hearthstone player who received a 6-month suspension for uttering a pro-Hong Kong statement in a post-match interview, says that he never received an apology from Blizzard Entertainment over the incident.

[Fist4achin]

Not going to support Blizzard anymore. Not after this.. No thanks and i have plenty of other games to play.

[xTonyMontana]

I wished I could take this stance but I know probably some time in the future they will release something I can't say no to, Diablo 4 probably. Still, this never would have happened under the Blizzard of old.

[UnbreakableAlex]

Show some integrity man. Nobody should support censorship companies.

[UnbreakableAlex]

Same here. I’m not going to support any blizz games anymore. Actually I never really liked them so much. I have enough games on my pile of shame and in the future to play.

[Fist4achin]

Ha! I love that you called it a pile of shame. Holiday sales killed me this year.

[Fluttershy77]

I know that all of you will disagree with me... But even though I support him and I think China is nothing but a communist dictatorship, Blizzard is a video-game company, and he expressed his political view on a Blizzard tournament (where your political ideas, or religious ideas were not allowed)
He knew this when he signed up.

[Gamehard]

That's kinda how I feel about it too tbh. It's not popular opinion, but he used the tournament publicity as a platform to express political protesting. Don't shit where you eat.

[jznrpg]

They could have have done it in a much better way . It’s not hard to say “we are sorry for having to ban you but these are the rules” because they just banned him immediately it makes them look like they support China. Obviously this is about money and they have to do what China wants to be in that market , but saying your sorry isn’t that hard to do .

[brrdat]

dude, are you new to this discussion? it isn't about him getting punished, it's the way and the duration he was punished, not to mention the completely atrocious punishment of the casters. stop with the dumbfounded
"blizzard is a game company" blah blah blah bs. yes, they're a video game company, taking advantage of the least regulated multi-million dollar industry on earth.

[grifter024]

I wonder if he'd have gotten a suspension if he said he was pro China.

[porkChop]

They never will.

[-Foxtrot]

Of course

Did you see their shitty Blizzcon opening where they apologised without actually apologising

[Knightofelemia]

Just another company to avoid besides EA

[UnbreakableAlex]

I didn’t buy EA games all my life. It’s actually pretty easy to do because there are so many other great games on the market.

[BlackIceJoe]

Unlike Blizzard I support a free Hong Kong and Taiwan. We gamers need to support games developers that want freedom and to get away from the Chinese government. One such company is from Taiwan, that goes by Red Candle Games and made the game Devotion.

Unfortunately because of the Chinese government the game was forced to be delisted and so you can't purchase it anymore. This is a problem, when China is telling other countries what they can or can't bring out and if you don't think it can happen in America or Europe, unfortunately you'd be wrong, because we already are seeing it, be it movies being changed to how we even use social media.

I personally feel for the people of China, because the government is a very dangerous one and as much as they'd like to speak out against the Chinese government, they don't have the freedom, like Americans or Europeans to freely speak out against their government.

[Rimeskeem]

Blizzard and EA, owned by corporation for corporations. They aren’t gamers.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

The head of Blizzard who called that shot should be taken out, and if it was multiple people working there who agreed with that. People like this deserve this, to me this is the only justice in my eyes. To me if that did happen would be a clear message sent, do not ban free speech, and human rights are more important than any tournament or $$$. This is the Way. I have spoken.

[Skuletor]

Like taken out of the company or Agent 47'd?

[Shane Kim]

😂

[Blu3_Berry]

Not surprised in all honestly. Their attitude tells it all to how they look at their community. We're nothing but walking $$$ to them.

[AK91]

Of course they didn't its Blizzard

[NegativeCreep427]

Perfect timing; The irony in how today I've been watching the entire latest season of South Park: "you gotta lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suck on the warm teat of China."

...When a cartoon does more for humanity than all the virue-signaling humans.

[rainslacker]

South Park is often pretty on point with their perspective on the events, and does better than most of the mainstream press, or people on social media, to look at both sides of the issue. Occasionally they get preachy with the moral of the story, but they seem to be able to be conservative and liberal at the same time by looking at how to resolve problems or issues by the simple act of not being a jack-ass.

[plmkoh]

No need to apologize when you are right.

[SamPao]

They took bake half of the ban becaude they realised its out of proportions. So they know they fked up they even said it on stage ^^

[harmny]

Why would they apologize? They banned him

[King_Noctis]

Instead of the useless apology, they should have just unbanned him outright. There are absolutely no real reasons whatsoever to ban him in the first place.

Companies like EA, Bethesda, Activision/Blizzard, Take Two/2K, and Ubisoft are starting to go down a hole, and as a gamer I am really happy to see this.

[zelent]

He broke the rules... why should Blizzard apologize?

[BioShockGX]

cool cool.
Now release diablo 4 already.