• Chinese Gov't online ethics committee issues warnings/bans to 20 games
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/fortnite/fortnite-china-ban League of Legends, Overwatch, Diablo and World of Warcraft were all issued warnings and list of things to change (all of it dealing with female character designs and "inharmonious chatroom"), and Paladins, Alliance of Valiant Arms, H1Z1, PUBG and Fortnite were issues complete bans on the country for vulgar content, blood and in Paladin's case only, female character design.
Funny how besides LoL, the Blizzard games only got a slap on the wrist
Blizzard’s FPS is also criticised for having “game visuals [that] promote incorrect values,” aah, classic china
God it's great to live in America
Riot Games is owned by some Chinese company iirc.
Tencent isn't it? The politicians that shaped this bill definitely thought of their pockets.
This is why you don't try to sell media to the Chinese market, they keep doing shit like this.
Tencent has a 5% stake in Blizzard, 11% of the company that owns PUBG, and outright owns both Epic and Riot. Blizzard is also closely partnered with NetEase, the other company that has a big stake here, and they own of the Overwatch League teams and are co-developing the Diablo mobile game.
Queue shitting games up to everybody because of China.
I love how LoL was bushed for "rewards based on rank." Gotta promote a good communist gaming environment.
I'll admit I'm not the most informed, but If I didn't know better it sounds like China's becoming the new Germany when it comes to how they come off looking like complete asshats when it comes to letting games through.
Germany was just skittish about blood and guts. China's bogeymen range from your usual fundamentalist "attractive women and disrespect for authority is heresy" tripe to being outraged about skeletons and a fucking cartoon bear. And China's potential value in and control over the market is far, far greater than Germany, so companies will bend over backwards to accommodate this bullshit.
Another hero shooter, Paladins, has also been outright banned, for a combination of “overly revealing female characters, blood and gore, and vulgar content.” As with Fortnite, the cartoon aesthetics of Hi-Rez’s shooter seems to be lacking any blood effects, so I’m unsure as to why Overwatch has been given a clearer pass. Oh im pretty sure its obvious why Overwatch gets a free pass
My theory is they do this more for economic protectionism than morality censorship. China wants to make clones of these games and have the companies be Chinese based so their economy reaps all the benefit but spent none of the time developing the concepts for these games. They do this with social platforms in particular. China has an entire internet with a billion+ people using it, full of cloned platforms and software we have never seen or heard of.
promote incorrect values Lol. Fuck off, China. Less Chinese players on NA servers would be cool though. I play LoL still, and every time I see 'em they're dropping accounts or raging and giving up. Gets old fast.
Everyone keeps saying that Epic is owned by Tencent, but I've looked all over and all I see is that they own 40%. So hardly owning them.
They have a minority share in Epic, I think only 40%, Epic still holds majority so Tencent has little say actually.
For now?
Another hero shooter, Paladins, has also been outright banned, for a combination of “overly revealing female characters, blood and gore, and vulgar content. blood and gore Overwatch has more blood than Paladins.
Fun fact, Tecent's largest shareholder is a South-African company called Naspers with more than 30% of the shares. Anyway, I wonder if there's a clause in Epic's contract with Tencent regarding a scenario like this because part of the reason they sold 40% of their shares to them is to get access to the Chinese market.
This is exactly what they do, this is what China does. They let a product into their market long enough for it to get popular, then they ban it because of "values" or some other technical violation, and a Chinese clone is created to replace the product. PUBG already has a Chinese clone in developed by Tencent.
I guess the Chinese don't get to see this abomination anymore then. https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/013/794/682/large/austin-schut-djpepper1.jpg?1541112130
'Chinese' and 'ethics' in the same sentence makes me chuckle bitterly.
How does that make sense, though? Wouldn't the developers that a Chinese company outright owns receive preferred treatment over the ones the own a small stake in? So why is Fortnite getting outright banned while Blizzard games get a slap on the wrist The only thing I can think of is that NetEase has much better favor with the CCP than Tencent at the moment. I can totally believe it, given how massively corrupt the Chinese government is.
Just say: "June 4th, 1989 - Tienanmen Square Massacre" in the chat, and watch them disconnect over fear of being arrested.
The article seems to be based on a Reddit post. In any case however here you go..
"Falun Gong did nothing wrong. Free Tibet. Taiwan independence now."
Nah you gotta use the Chinese text translation because the filter automatically detects it and they get far more fucked, hopefully keeping them wary of going online at all. We've got to try and get as many Chinese off our internet before we lose more shit to their market.
"Chinese" "Ethics" :thinking:
Values such as killing those who oppose the regime at hand? Funny how Blizzard is so into making games for the chinese market, and they get warnings to correct their stuff.
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