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Immersiveunreality on 13 October 2019
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Azzanation said:
DarthMetalliCube said:

I simply do not understand why so many in this thread are acting like this is a remotely controversial issue. IT'S NOT. It's common decency. Blizzard are the ones bringing real world drama into gaming in their support of an oppressive communist government - to the point of banning a young man merely voicing his support to freedom fighters and even firing 2 broadcasters who simply brought it up! That is utter lunacy from where I sit. THEY put THEMSELVES in the gd firing line when they began licking the boots of China. It also sets a frightening precedent in terms of free speech. 

And you have the "equivalent of censorship" thing entirely backwards.. This IS the censorship! That's why Blizzard fired 2 broadcasters, suspended a player for the mere utterance of a harmelss statement, and (initially) revoking his rightfully earned prize money. 

And wow that's a stretch - having a single esports player express support of the downtrodden Hong Kong citizens is "bringing reality into games." What skin is it off a typical gamer's back that a man simply said "the Hong Kong protests are the revolution of our age." Oh the horrors! Get this horrid reality out of mah games!

Seriously, wat?

Blizzard didn't go out hunting these guys for speaking up in the street. These guys used Blizzard's event, Blizzard's game and in front of Blizzard and ESport gamers and fans and voiced an opinion unrelated to the scene. They broke the rules and got punished and that's exactly what happened. If the guys at the show were smart enough they would have done it somewhere else. 

Just imagine at the next E3 2020, some host decides to voice his opinion on legalising Incest marriage? At a show about showcasing games.. would you be upset that someone decides to just bring it up at a show unrelating to the topic with your brand behind it? I would suggest he/she should be banned as well.

Don't bring this crap into the gaming industry, I don't want to watch shows and have people bringing up topics outside the show I am watching. Its as simple as that and these guys that did it got punished. Common sense is common sense. Like I mentioned before, gaming is an escape from reality, and these things don't belong in the gaming industry. Speak up somewhere else. That's all I am saying, but it seems people just want to hate Blizzard because they enforced the rules at a show they were running.

You think that Blizzard never ever cross their own rules on this,they just thought it would suit them to act against it this time and it should have been a real punishment and not an overblown "pretence" for political pandering to china and even then it would have been idiotic to punish for that.

And that shows in how it all backfired,common sense is not present with the higher ups at Blizzard it seems.