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A secret Blizzard PR interview. Was redacted after few hours. Must watch.

00:00 - 00:05 Tencent is on the phone, quick quick,

00:05 - 00:07 answer, they are very pissed off

00:07 - 00:10 They say, this player won a Hearthstone tournament

00:11 - 00:16 was about to win 10,000 dollars but was was pro Hong Kong

00:17 - 00:21 So we took his prize and banned him for a year!

00:21 - 00:24 No prize, 1 year ban.

00:29 - 00:31 Fired the 2 Interviewers also.

00:31 - 00:34 This kid was practicing for years, and just like that

00:38 - 00:40 1 Year ban. No prize.

00:41 - 00:47 Western gaming community was real upset, so we closed the

00:47 - 00:50 official Blizzard Sub Reddit to make it go away

00:50 - 00:56 Random technical error we said

00:58 - 00:59 People are rushing to close

00:59 - 01:01 all their Blizzard accounts but can't

01:04 - 01:06 We told them, you have to send a

01:06 - 01:08 picture ID, notarized letter and

01:13 - 01:14 dental records for us to even

01:14 - 01:16 consider it

01:16 - 01:20 They didn't need to do all that to open their accounts lol

01:21 - 01:27 Social security numbers, banking security questions, not enough

01:35 - 01:36 everyone is pissed off

01:36 - 01:39 but can't close their accounts

01:41 - 01:44 But seriously

01:44 - 01:47 This player and his family are

01:47 - 01:49 being beaten, fighting for their life

01:50 - 01:53 So we wrote an apology

01:54 - 01:56 letter to the Chinese

01:56 - 01:58 sorry we hurt your feelings

01:58 - 02:02 Hong Kong folks are dying in riots but

02:05 - 02:07 China's market potential more important

02:10 - 02:11 We are an American

02:11 - 02:13 company. Our motto is

02:15 - 02:17 Our motto is Every Voice Matters

02:17 - 02:20 Think Globally, Every Voice Matters

02:21 - 02:28 An American company pandering to a Communist party

02:29 - 02:30 Lots of Yuans? Lots

02:30 - 02:32 Worth it.

02:36 - 02:39 BlizzCon is coming in a month, no refund policy on tickets

02:40 - 02:42 Not on the convention, plane tickets or hotels

02:50 - 02:55 They think they going to start some shit but they don't know

02:56 - 02:58 Are you not afraid of bad PR?

02:58 - 03:04 Not at all, we are going to have paramilitary security, tightly controlled

03:04 - 03:09 No inflammatory costumes, no Q&A

03:09 - 03:11 Maybe we'll even cancel it the last moment lol

03:16 - 03:20 People are upset now but will forget it within a month

03:23 - 03:26 Think Globally, Every Voice Matters