Blizzard Entertainment Under Fire
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TheDailyBeastA small group of Activision Blizzard employees walked out of work Tuesday afternoon to protest the company’s actions against a gamer who expressed support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong during an official Livestream.
The game publisher behind online multiplayer hits like World of Warcraft and Overwatch banned Hong Kong-based professional Hearthstone player Chung Ng Wai from the game's lucrative pro league for a year on Tuesday. Chung, who uses the handle “Blitzchung,” prompted the ban after saying “Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times” during an interview about his tournament wins. Blizzard’s actions forced him to forfeit $10,000 in prize money he had already won. (See Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Ban of Pro-Hong Kong Gamer)
Red Flags
Many are angry about what Activision Blizzard Employees have done to Chung Ng Wai and have had a lot of players around the world unsubscribed to their subscriptions, and now even that Blizzard is even denying players the inability to delete or unsubscribe from their services.
Evidence?
Espsilverfire2 (Charlotte Mather) Twitter Post
Theories/Excuses
People are making theories up server overloads or that it's a bug from the company.....all this is too much of a coincidence to be happening over hours upon hours, some are now reporting after calling out Blizzard they are able to delete their account or delete their data or unsubscribe from them, but at this point it seems Blizzard has taken a MAJOR blow to their player base and that as we speak many player leagues are now disbanding because of this incidence.
