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Lonely_Dolphin said:

Update: Blizzard finally speaks!

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23185888/regarding-last-weekend-s-hearthstone-grandmasters-tournament

"I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision."

lol pure bullshit. We can even see this article was put up from China as it's still the 11th here in the US yet the date says it was posted on the 12th, which it is in China.

"If this had been the opposing viewpoint delivered in the same divisive and deliberate way, we would have felt and acted the same."

You heard it hear first folks, freedom from oppression is a divisive subject!

Incase anyone is still fooling themselves into thinking this is about upholding rules:

If that's true, then it looks even worse for them. At least in the case of trying to please the Chinese government, I could see that maybe they felt like they had to do it for the good of company.  But, if that didn't factor into their decision, then they just must be sympathetic to the brutal, communist, scumbag regime.  

Of course, there's no way it's true.  The statement is just further evidence of the pressure they're feeling from China, and that they're not interesting in pushing back.  It's also evidence that their PR team sucks.