Activision Blizzard saw its stock price drop nearly 4% this week after the U.S. video game maker's move to ban a star gamer for publicly expressing support for Hong Kong protesters prompted outrage and calls for boycotts from the online gaming community. 

"It's really unlike anything I've seen in games, which I've been competing or designing or commenting on for 20 years now, and this is by far the biggest incident I've seen," said Brian Kibler, a broadcaster for online video games. 

Kibler was slated to host an online broadcast of the tournament finals for Hearthstone, the same game that Hong Kong player Ng Wai Chung was competing in, at Blizzard's biggest annual video game convention next month. But he said he pulled out in protest of Blizzard's decision to ban Chung, known in gaming circles as "Blitzchung," from the Hearthstone Grandmaster card game for a year after Chung shouted "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" last weekend during a post-game interview with two Taiwanese online video game show hosts.

Blizzard also seized Chung's earnings from the tournament, which amounted to $10,000. As of November 2016, Chinese technology giant Tencent had a 4.9% stake in Activision Blizzard. 

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

We have been talking about this one in the NBA DB thread, which has morphed into a DB'ing of pretty much everyone kissing China's ass

I'm hoping South Park does a follow-up to their Warcraft episode from 2006.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

They banned a gamer and revoked his winnings because he supported Hong Kong protesters....


They seized his earnings? I'm sure that will be a lawsuit.

Nomination denied until Lakemoor fest is reinstated.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.