{"id":71777,"date":"2019-10-12T03:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T10:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/blizzard-breaks-its-silence-on-controversial-suspension-of-pro-hong-kong-hearthstone-player\/"},"modified":"2019-10-12T03:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T10:10:06","slug":"blizzard-breaks-its-silence-on-controversial-suspension-of-pro-hong-kong-hearthstone-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/blizzard-breaks-its-silence-on-controversial-suspension-of-pro-hong-kong-hearthstone-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard breaks its silence on controversial suspension of pro Hong Kong Hearthstone player"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Video game developer Blizzard Entertainment <\/em>has finally broken its silence after banning a professional player of popular virtual card game Hearthstone<\/em><\/a> for voicing support for the Hong Kong protests. In a lengthy statement<\/a>, the company says it will reduce the one-year suspension of player Ng \u201cBlitzchung\u201d Wai Chung to a six-month one, and it will restore the prize money it withheld from him. <\/p>\n

Blizzard claims that its initial decision was not influenced by its relationship with China. \u201cThe specific views expressed by blitzchung were not a factor in the decision we made. I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision,\u201d writes J. Allen Brack, the president of Blizzard Entertainment. <\/p>\n

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Photo by Maik Boenisch\/Pacific Press\/LightRocket via Getty Images Video game developer Blizzard Entertainment has finally broken its silence after banning a professional player of popular virtual card game Hearthstone for voicing support for the Hong Kong protests. In a lengthy statement, the company says it will reduce the one-year suspension of player Ng \u201cBlitzchung\u201d Wai… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t