Fans are indignant because they suspect Riot Games not to mention “Hong Kong” in Worlds

Not long ago, a player attended Hearthstone Grandmaster was Blizzard stripped of all awards and banned from competing for one year when speaking out in support of the competition protest against the extradition law in Hong Kong. However, then Blizzard was stoned by many gamers because they thought it just wanted to appease the Chinese market. It can be seen that political issues are always very sensitive and no game studio wants to get involved in it.​

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Recently, Riot Games – “father” of League of Legends is also suspected that deliberately letting the caster avoid mentioning the word “Hong Kong” in Worlds. This news started circulating yesterday when a League of Legends caster stopped talking about the team Hong Kong Attitude, the caster changed his mind instead and said the team’s initials were “HKA”. Many gamers believe that Riot Games is controlling the program and not letting the casters mention Hong Kong to avoid sensitive issues.​

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Faced with the doubts of players, Riot Games’ Head of Dialogue Ryan Rigney explained:

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There are still quite a few questions surrounding this incident: for example, why Hong Kong Attitude was not interviewed after winning the match or how Riot Games will solve the problem. It must be known that currently a large part of the shares of Riot Games are in the hands Tencent – a Chinese company, they once stopped broadcasting the NBA after the management of the Houston Rockets spoke out in support of the Hong Kong protesters over the weekend.​