• Dirty Chinese Restaurant mobile game cancelled after racism criticism
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[url]https://arstechnica.com/?p=1182261[/url]
[quote]Official trailers for the game have been removed from YouTube, but archived copies show the planned games' depiction of two Asian caricatures, named Wang Fu and Wong Fu, managing a restaurant by chasing stray animals for meat, finding produce in trash cans, and being threatened for deportation by immigration officials.[/quote] lmao stay classy
i don't get why developers cancel stuff over shit like this, the people who complain (about everything) are the people who would never play the game in the first place
I mean yeah calling it offensive is pretty much an understatement. But that still doesn't negate the fact that the concept is still pretty fucking hilarious so long as you take it in a "this is what racists actually believe lmao" kind of way, which is entirely possible if the game was full of enough stereotypes to make it blatantly satire to even the most fucking head and stick up arse kinds of people. I can guarantee that there's a lot of equally or more offensive stuff going on in mainstream media that no one bats an eye at because it's being used in satire. I mean look at the whole City Wok fucking concept from South Park. That said I do understand why they cancelled it in the end.
[QUOTE=Zaure;52753089]i don't get why developers cancel stuff over shit like this, the people who complain (about everything) are the people who would never play the game in the first place[/QUOTE] Sure, many Asian-Americans are probably not going to want to play a game that might as well have been titled "Ching Chong Simulator." That doesn't mean they don't have a right to complain about it.
[QUOTE=CyclonatorZ;52753251]Sure, many Asian-Americans are probably not going to want to play a game that might as well have been titled "Ching Chong Simulator." That doesn't mean they don't have a right to complain about it.[/QUOTE] I think he means that it's weird that devs who are going for the edgy demographic would shut down their game when it gets a negative response from the public at large. Like what the hell did they think would happen?
[QUOTE]Back in 2011, Owlchemy Labs faced a somewhat similar controversy over Smuggle Truck, a physics-based game about transporting illegal immigrants over the border. "The idea for the game was a reaction to the frustrations we felt as our friends struggled through a long and winding immigration process," Owlchemy wrote in a Q&A. "We understood that creating a satire would be the best way to bring the issue to light and kickstart the process of getting people discussing immigration reform."[/QUOTE] [I]Clearly[/I] this game was a reaction to the frustrations of eating at an oriental restaurant and consistently getting food sickness after your friend convinced you time and time again that eating at these places was perfectly safe. Creating satire is the best way to bring to light the issue of oriental restaurants disproportionately failing health inspections in comparison to non-oriental restaurants across the US. /s
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