Gods Unchained covers lost prize money for player banned from Hearthstone for expressing his opinion on the Hong Kong situation

By CryptozNewb | Web3 Gaming News | 8 Oct 2019


In a marketing (and moral) power-move today, the Gods Unchained team has decided to pay for all the lost earnings for well-known Hearthstone player blitzchung. blitzchung had their tournament earnings confiscated and were banned from Hearthstone for a year for simply saying the words "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!" during a post-match interview.

 

Blizzard, the corporate behemoth, decided that such an action was reprehensible enough to warrant sever punishment. One would think that a gaming company might understand the values of freedom of speech, but as with many companies, money rules over all, and I imagine they didn't want to risk getting banned in China.

You can read the official Gods Unchained response here - https://twitter.com/GodsUnchained/status/1181487505180258304

 

 

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