https://reclaimthenet.org/blizzard-disables-authentication-user-accounts/
Over the weekend, video game publisher Blizzard banned professional
Hearthstone player Ng Wai “blitzchung” Chung from the 2019 Hearthstone
Grandmasters Official Competition after he showed support for the Hong Kong
protests in an interview. The move was seen as an example of yet another US
company bending the knee to China and led to heavy criticism and a mass
boycott. Now Blizzard users who are attempting to participate in the boycott
by closing their accounts are reporting that Blizzard has disabled all
authentication and is preventing them from deleting their accounts.
前言: 炉石选手因在官方比赛中公开支持反送中遭禁赛。这是美国公司跪舔中国的又一例
，因而导致舆论挞伐和抵制。然而想透过删除帐号抵制暴雪的玩家发现暴雪停用了他们的
所有登入验证以避免删帐。
Multiple Blizzard users are saying that when they try to close their account
or request a copy of their personal data, they’re being presented with a
message that reads: “Due to too many attempts. [Authentication method] has
been locked. Please try another method for verification.”
多名玩家表示当他们试图删除帐号或要求个人资料时，萤幕出现这样的讯息：基于过多的
尝试，"验证方式"已被锁定，请尝试其他的验证方式。"
Some of these users are also suggesting that Blizzard is doing this
intentionally to stop people from closing their accounts or canceling
subscriptions as the boycott against the company ramps up.
有人说是官方为了避免大量的删帐退订潮而采取的手段。
Other users have proposed an alternate theory – that Blizzard’s systems
have been overloaded by mass account closure and data requests in the midst
of the boycott.
也有人提出相反的理论：过多的删帐退订请求导致服务器当机。
Regardless, the development is likely to add to the growing backlash the
company has faced since banning blitzchung. In addition to the mass boycott,
members of the Hearthstone community have proposed flooding Blizzard with
General Data Protection Requirement (GDPR) requests and two US senators have
called out the company.
无论如何，这都是当初禁赛惩处的反扑。在大量抵制之余，炉石社群也透过GDPR来向暴雪
抗议，两名美国参议员也附和。
Blizzard employees have also reportedly walked out to protest the company’s
ban of Blitzchung. And an American University team has protested by holding
up a “Free Hong Kong, boycott Blizzard” sign during the Hearthstone
Collegiate Championship.
暴雪员工也为禁赛事件发起罢工。美国大学炉石比赛也有队伍举出撑港标语。
Epic Games has also weighed in on Blizzard’s decision and said that unlike
Blizzard, it won’t censor for China. However, given that Chinese
conglomerate Tencent owns a 40 percent stake in the company, it remains to be
seen whether it will follow through when tested on this principle.
Epic则表示他们不会为了中国而屏蔽异音。附带一提，腾讯拥有该公司40%股权。