In the past few days, there has been a lot of controversy about the true identity of MagicAmy, the com­pet­i­tive Hearthstone player.

People have stepped forward claiming that Amy is a Korean girl as a front, but a Canadian man in the background actually playing the game. They also have been revealing anecdotes about how Amy has cheated and manipulated them out of money.

If you don’t know the further details about the controversy, and are actually interested, you will probably want to go to the Hearthstone subreddit to learn about all the elements of this situation, as my post is directed at the people who already know what’s going on.

I strongly believe that the claims of manipulation should not have been released to the public, and it is mostly irrelevant to the problem of her real identity. From my perspective, a bunch of guys who fell in love with Amy over the Internet are now regretting giving her money because she is no longer giving them the attention that she used to. In retaliation, they are opportunizing on this drama to “get back” at Amy.

As for her true identity, I have a feeling that she actually is who she claims she is, and all this evidence just happens to be the unfortunate coincidence of account sharing*. However, because it’s logically pos­si­ble for all this controversial stuff to be true, people are more likely to believe the story that leads to the more interesting outcome.

According to the Tempo/Storm announcement, MagicAmy was released from the team because she chose to leave.

To me, this looks more like a case of reddit scaring Amy away from the Hearthstone scene through ha­rass­ment and abuse, rather than her leaving because she was “found out.” Because of what reddit’s Hearth­stone subreddit did to her, Amy most likely no longer sees Hearth­stone as a safe community in which she can exist.

Of course, I don’t know Amy personally, and even if I did, I wouldn’t really have much of an interest to pry into her past personal history. So, I most likely won’t ever know 100% what the real story is. However, I trust Reynad and Frodan (the administration of Tempo/Storm) enough that, after their investigation found nothing suspicious, this whole controversy was just some coincidencial occurrences blown irrationally out of proportion.

*Edit: When I say account sharing, I am referring to her other accounts, such as email and Skype, and not her Hearthstone account. A lot of the evidence is on the basis that she shares usernames with this Ca­na­dian man.