On one had this is shocking, on the other it’s just par for the course. Like many others, I haven’t touched Blizzard since their blatant public pandering to China began.
This A list gaming company which is a merger of two big companies has a patent in which their match making services (traditionally random based on certain parameters) can be rigged in order to influence in game purchases. If one reads between the lines, this implies that all random events in their games are determined server side.
This incident occurred within a few weeks after the company banned multiple players for speaking out against Chinese oppression of Hong Kong.
Examples of rigged events on behalf of the Chinese player included always having certain key cards in her hand by X turn, always going second when playing a deck that greatly benefits from going second, or random results from cards played always swinging significantly in her favor.
Here's a link to a tweet from the official Hearthsone Esports Twitter:
Hearthstone Esports @HSesports
A CLEAN SWEEP!! VKLIOOON HAS WON THE HEARTHSTONE GLOBAL FINALS!!!
11:14 pm · 2 Nov 2019 - https://archive.is/AiByY
If one reads between the lines, this implies that all random events in their games are determined server side.
They'd be fools not to determine random events server side. Because if you aren't rolling the dice, the players are, and that creates a much larger risk of cheating than the one you're removing.
If Blizzard had any hand in the betting on that tournament they could get fucked sideways by gambling laws in a lot of places if actual proof came out.
Big if true. As a HS player it tells me a few things. Firstly, American exceptionalism is true, because even with a huge tournament every year that filters out MILLIONS of Chinese players they couldn’t win a single game vs an American community college student (Firebat) in the first world champs and it took 6 years and corruption for them to win one world championship. It’s also kinda sad because VKLiooon (Chinese player that won the world championship) was by far the best female pro HS player and her biggest accomplishment is now a sham. Seriously, the next best one I can think of is Pathra, and her accomplishment is that she’s a good content creator, got into the pro league and had to immediately leave after going 2-14 or something like that.
On one had this is shocking, on the other it’s just par for the course. Like many others, I haven’t touched Blizzard since their blatant public pandering to China began.
Do you not have phones?
I can't believe a company of Activision's moral fibre would be caught cheating for mere money...
https://archive.is/jB1nS - Missed information from the past two months, but here's a TL;DR:
Here's a link to a tweet from the official Hearthsone Esports Twitter:
Selling out to China has reached new lows.
They'd be fools not to determine random events server side. Because if you aren't rolling the dice, the players are, and that creates a much larger risk of cheating than the one you're removing.
If Blizzard had any hand in the betting on that tournament they could get fucked sideways by gambling laws in a lot of places if actual proof came out.
So what you're saying is that I should start betting on the Chinese.
[!] This claim about Hearthstone fraud is disputed.
Big if true. As a HS player it tells me a few things. Firstly, American exceptionalism is true, because even with a huge tournament every year that filters out MILLIONS of Chinese players they couldn’t win a single game vs an American community college student (Firebat) in the first world champs and it took 6 years and corruption for them to win one world championship. It’s also kinda sad because VKLiooon (Chinese player that won the world championship) was by far the best female pro HS player and her biggest accomplishment is now a sham. Seriously, the next best one I can think of is Pathra, and her accomplishment is that she’s a good content creator, got into the pro league and had to immediately leave after going 2-14 or something like that.
either you operate in china, or you operate in the rest of the world. they need to be forced to make that choice.
Lul that's actually the biggest reason I think it was rigged.