It’s the outrageous penalty that upset Blizzard supporters. Initially announced penalty to Blitzchung: [1] (1) banned from the current tournament (2) forfeit a

It’s the outrageous penalty that upset Blizzard supporters. Initially announced penalty to Blitzchung: [1] (1) banned from the current tournament (2) forfeit any prize money (approximately US$4,000 by that point) (3) banned from other Grandmaster tournaments for one year By contrast, Overwatch League player Josh "Eqo" Corono made a racist gesture and said "I am Korean" on a stream, and was suspended for three games and fined $3000. [2] Not that Blizzard cannot penalize Blitzchung. Just not out of proportion. > Millions of Chinese people (lot of whom have nothing to do with HK or goverment or human right violation) instantly lose access Blizzard products. Their lives become unequivocally shitter. Judging from China’s ban on NBA’s that lasted only two days, China’s ban on Blizzard may be equally short-lived. [3] > Blizzard loses a ton of money and have to downsize significantly firing half of their staff. They can't affort investing in new projects at the scale they used to. Their products become cheaper and lose in quality. Maybe the company even have to shut down due to not being able to sustain itself. It's pretty shitty for Blizzard on all fronts here. Only 12% of Blizzard revenue comes from Asia-Pacific, which includes China but also South Korea, Taiwan, etc [4]. Some sources say only 5% comes from China [5]. Even if Blizzard loses Chinese market completely, I don’t see why they need to downsize significantly and fire half of the staff. The same goes for your remaining claims. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy [2] https://www.usgamer.net/articles/blizzard-is-in-an-international-mess-of-its-own-making https://www.usgamer.net/articles/blizzard-is-in-an-internati... [3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-basketball-nba/excited-china-fans-cheer-nba-game-despite-row-over-hong-kong-tweet-idUSKBN1WO017 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-basketball-nba/exci... [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/dfezlv/activision_blizzard_revenue_by_country_boycotts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/dfezlv/activis... [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/dp1py7/blizzard_lost_a_big_sponsor_after_the_hong_kong/f5s6rr8/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/dp1py7/blizzard...