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ESL sold for $1B to Saudi-backed Savvy Gaming Group - Page 5

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tili
Profile Joined July 2012
United States1332 Posts
February 01 2022 15:31 GMT
#81
On January 25 2022 06:01 luxon wrote:
demuslim sweating right now about his handle choice lol


Hahaha. this is very funny.

That feels like an extremely high valuation, no?
vyzion
Profile Joined August 2016
308 Posts
February 01 2022 20:35 GMT
#82
On January 26 2022 20:27 J. Corsair wrote:
So many pretend to care... Bigger countries that produce far more of your consumer goods do things just as morally objectionable. They have a big red flag, it's just not as hip to speak against what they do publicly.


how dare you question my virtue...signals!!
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26255 Posts
February 02 2022 01:53 GMT
#83
On February 02 2022 05:35 vyzion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2022 20:27 J. Corsair wrote:
So many pretend to care... Bigger countries that produce far more of your consumer goods do things just as morally objectionable. They have a big red flag, it's just not as hip to speak against what they do publicly.


how dare you question my virtue...signals!!

Preferring a big org in one of my main hobbies not being owned by the PFI of Saudi Arabia is virtue signalling nowadays? :S
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Crocolisk Dundee
Profile Blog Joined October 2015
870 Posts
February 07 2022 20:44 GMT
#84
On January 26 2022 19:46 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
ESL is not just owned by some people who happen to be from Saudi Arabia, it is owned by the government of Saudi Arabia. It's one thing when a gamer happens to come from an authoritarian country, or a company is owned by people who do. It's something else entirely when an actual authoritarian government owns a gaming organization. The gains of ESL, financial and reputational, will now accrue to the rulers of Saudi Arabia, which makes support for ESL indirectly support for that regime.


On January 26 2022 12:52 PPN wrote:
This is very uncomfortable. There are countless reasons I don’t want to support that, the most recent one being Jamal Khashoggi. We are talking about a country that is approving sending a bunch of hitmen to murder a journalist in another country‘s embassy and to cut their corpse down into small pieces to deliver them from the back door. This is beyond barbaric and I don’t want to have that in the back of my mind when I watch Clems, Serral or Reynor doing awesome things. It is not worth it.


I agree with this. I can't see myself watching ESL content anymore.
Stopped watching ESL content in 2022 when the company was acquired by Savvy Gaming Group. Also object to sponsorships by the U.S. Air Force. Thanks for the lively discussions about sportswashing. StarCraft II is not for me anymore.
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