player for his pro-Hong Kong statements during a broadcast.
The decision sparked outrage from fans and even elicited a letter from a bipartisan group of U.S. Congress members, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Marco Rubio . The Chinese game market is one of the largest in the world, and telecom giant Tencent owns a 5% stake in Activision Blizzard, among numerous other investments across the industry.
Call of Duty, and especially the Black Ops entries, tell alternative geopolitical histories, with its 2019 reboot, which promoted itself as a stark, realistic portrayal of war, sparking controversy by essentially blaming a real-life U.S. military incident called the"Highway of Death" on Russia.Call of Duty: Black Ops IIKey Background
In 1989, students protesting for more autonomy under the Chinese government were attacked by the military, with hundreds to thousands estimated to have been killed. Discussions of the event are highly regulated and censored within the country. A photo of a single protester standing before a line of tanks has become an iconic image of the protests.Call of Duty is one of the most popular video game franchises ever.
While y’all at it.. take few mins check this!! 🙏🏾❌🧢
If they bend and censor this I won't be buying the game.
Good for Treyarch finally a studio standing up to china