Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says that so long as he's CEO, Epic will🥃 never take action against protestors expressing support for Hong Kong independence.
We don’t normally see a lot of world politics making its way into gaming, but ever since Blizzard banned a professional Hearthstone player for expressing his support of a free Hong Kong, it’s basically the only thing gamers are talking about 🦹on social media.
As a quick recap, earlier this week 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blizzard banned Blitzchung for one year after he briefly offered his support for Hong Kong protestors fighting against Chine🍸se autocracy. Not only did they ban him, but they also took back his $10,000 prize winnings from the tournament and then f🅷ired two commentators who interviewed him.
If that seem📖s a little heavy-handed and that Blizzard is tacitly supporting a brutal dictatorship that is (allegedly) , 🐷congratulations! You’re a decent human being. You’re also one of the many millions of people who have come down hard on Blizzard for their response.
When US Senators are of Blizzard’s behavior, you know it’s🌳 gotta be bad.
But it wasn’t just US Senators that came down on Blizzard. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney also threw his hat into the ring by saying that he would never allow Epic𒀰 to take such punitive action against a professional Fortnite player just for expressing their opinion on China.
Which is an odd thing to hear considering Epic Games is by a massive Chinese gaming conglomerate called Tencent. Epic is still trying to break into the Chinese market with Fortnite Mobile, and yet Sweeney was confident enough to express his tacit support for free spಌeech and a free Hong Kong.
Stranger still when you consider that Activision Blizzard is just 5% owned by Tencent and that was apparently enough to go absolutely insane after a single Hearthstone player mentioned Hong Kong once in an interview.
Twitter users were also incredulous🅺, but Sweeney stood firm in his convictions even when people pointed out that his company is 40% Chinese-o🐓wned.
, with comments on a recent post expressing a “wait and see” attituꦚde. With Sweeney’s public remarks, we might not have ไto wait long for a response from his Chinese shareholders.