In 2013 ActivisionBlizzard was looking for investors to help them break away from Vivendi, a French company that has a bad reputation in gaming circles. In pursuit of that, they were helped by a company called Tencent, this is a giant Chinese company, many of the top gaming companies have some type of tie to this organization. See this article for all the companies: https://bit.ly/30PdBOe
Over the weekend, there was an interview with a GrandMaster player of a game called Hearthstone, this player made statements supporting the release of Hong Kong from mainland China. This announcement from Blizzard has caused quite the fiasco.
The following subreddits have become a twisted knot of anti Blizzard spiel. I am linking a few of the sub reddits below:
This, naturally, has sparked a lot of... let's call it "discussion". As of writing this it's the top thread on r/worldnews, r/gaming, r/hearthstone as well as other Blizzard subreddits including r/overwatch, r/starcraft, r/heroesofthestorm and r/warcraft3. It also makes up nearly the entire frontpage of r/Blizzard.
Over the weekend, there was an interview with a GrandMaster player of a game called Hearthstone, this player made statements supporting the release of Hong Kong from mainland China. This announcement from Blizzard has caused quite the fiasco.
The following subreddits have become a twisted knot of anti Blizzard spiel. I am linking a few of the sub reddits below:
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This, naturally, has sparked a lot of... let's call it "discussion". As of writing this it's the top thread on r/worldnews, r/gaming, r/hearthstone as well as other Blizzard subreddits including r/overwatch, r/starcraft, r/heroesofthestorm and r/warcraft3. It also makes up nearly the entire frontpage of r/Blizzard.