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Originally Posted by Regorium
I really wish the NBA stood up to them. The NBA has a product that the Chinese people crave, and is something that China can't copy. They would get backlash internally from their citizens if they come down hard on the NBA.
They had a lot of leverage to stand up and do the right thing, and they failed horribly. It's really demoralizing and disappointing.
I don't give a full pass to Blizzard, but I understand how hard that situation is because if they came out against them, China would just ban Hearthstone, steal the code, and have a new functioning version by tomorrow.
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Chinese are also pretty touchy when it comes to criticising China. That whole nationalism thing.
The bottom line is the NBA loves money. Principles tend to go out the window when it can result in the loss of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.