Korean Overwatch Channel Banned From Twitch
The start of 2022 has already seen a batch of high-profile bans doled out by Twitch to some of the platform's biggest creators and talents. The start of the year saw the massively popular Pokimane receiving a 48-hour suspension for watching Avatar: The Last Airbender on her stream and more recently, community icon and chess grandmaster GMHikaru was hit with a 3-day ban. Now, it looks like an official channel for one of the platform's formerly most popular games, Overwatch, wasn't able to escape the ban hammer.
While Overwatch's popularity on Twitch may not be today what the game saw at the peak of its success, Activision Blizzard's team-based hero shooter has remained prevalent among fans concerned for the franchise's future. The highly-anticipated Overwatch 2 has seen numerous delays since its reveal in 2019 and Microsoft's high-profile acquisition of Activision Blizzard has raised several questions about how the purchase would affect the popular shooter and its competitive scene. Now, in a baffling and unexpected twist, the official Korean Twitch channel for Overwatch has been hit with a surprise ban.
Twitch Streamer GMHikaru Banned
The automated StreamerBans Twitter account reported on Thursday that the official Korean-language channel for Overwatch has been hit with a surprise suspension from Twitch with seemingly no explanation or reasoning behind the ban. The channel had last gone live almost a week prior with a broadcast of a match between professional teams Talon and O2 Blast. The ban stunned fans and viewers of the channel struggling to fathom a reason why the channel would have been hit with such a hefty punishment, especially coming six days after the channel had last gone live.
Some fans took the suspension as a
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