Activision Blizzard Softens Player’s Punishment After Backlash
- Company will reduce the ban and restore the gamer’s winnings
- Blizzard customers have threatened to boycott the game maker
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Activision Blizzard Inc., facing the threat of a boycott, reduced the punishment it meted out to a tournament player who voiced support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrators.
The company’s Blizzard Entertainment division originally barred the player from events for a year and stripped him of some $10,000 in prize money. But it said at the end of the week that it would cut the ban to six months and pay his winnings.