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Games / china's impact on the future of videogames
« on: October 08, 2019, 02:52:28 AM »
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/deviwm/blizzard_ruling_on_hk_interview_blitzchung/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/dej74n/blizzard_taiwan_deleted_hearthstone_grandmasters/
china is really big to companies like blizzard and riot games, who coincidentally also own the statistically most played videogames like league of legends
if blizzard responds like this without a single forget given, banning the player and taking all rights, and firing the announcers.
i can imagine a company like Riot doing something very similar, their Chinese player base is way bigger than any other region, plus they are owned by TenCent.
its early and i havent had my coffee but i wanted to talk about this here because if a player decides to speak about hong kong @ the Worlds events happening right now, and not at some Heartstone event no one cares about, i think we will really feel the effect of corporation censorship in a place that actually matters. (as opposed to the gunk posted here crying about corp censorship on YT&Twitter.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/dej74n/blizzard_taiwan_deleted_hearthstone_grandmasters/
china is really big to companies like blizzard and riot games, who coincidentally also own the statistically most played videogames like league of legends
if blizzard responds like this without a single forget given, banning the player and taking all rights, and firing the announcers.
i can imagine a company like Riot doing something very similar, their Chinese player base is way bigger than any other region, plus they are owned by TenCent.
its early and i havent had my coffee but i wanted to talk about this here because if a player decides to speak about hong kong @ the Worlds events happening right now, and not at some Heartstone event no one cares about, i think we will really feel the effect of corporation censorship in a place that actually matters. (as opposed to the gunk posted here crying about corp censorship on YT&Twitter.)
