Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament

Post by mullingitover » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:02 AM UTC

Post by aasasd » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:04 AM UTC

ayakura wrote: post #12

My own take throughout the whole thing is similar to Brian Kibler's [1]. To me, even though it made sense that Blizzard wanted to stay neutral, the punishment was too severe for all of the people involved (zero prize money, 1 year ban) so it's nice that at least one of them was reverted. [1]: http://bmkgaming.com/statement-on-blitzchung/ Sidenote, Linus is reading the statement on the WAN show and he mentioned that B…

Post by cpeterso » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:09 AM UTC

Post by aasasd » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:12 AM UTC

aasasd wrote: post #35

> If this had been the opposing viewpoint delivered in the same divisive and deliberate way, we would have felt and acted the same. So now some Chinese player should make a statement praising China and condemning Hong Kong. (But I've already said it: with Blizzard controlling a huge money market in WoW and China being big on farming that gold all day every day, there's zero chance Blizzard would give that up.)

Post by taneq » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:14 AM UTC

mullingitover wrote: post #41

Command + f "sorry": 0 results Command + f "mistake": 0 results Command + f "apologize": 0 results They still aren't listening to a PR expert, and this is only going to throw gasoline on the fire. This blog post [1] counseling Burning Man back in their dumpster fire of pain when they switched to a lottery system is very instructional, Blizzard should be following it to the letter if they intend to get out of this hol…