• Red candle games pulls Devotion after nonstop Chinese review bombing.
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https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/25/18240318/devotion-steam-pulled-review-bombing-winnie-the-pooh-taiwan Can publishers choose not to release to certain countries on steam?
Don't know why they pulled it. It's pretty sell known salty communists are review bombing it. Streisand effect and all.
They didn't pull it because of reviewbombing. Quote from a friend on the matter: No one is offended by Winnie the Pooh. People are offended that the game cursed everyone in mainland to die on top of cursing Xi after selling the game as being made by compatriots. First, they put Xi’s name and Winnie the Pooh on a dark magic spell paper. It’s the Chinese equivalent of having a stabbed voodoo doll. It is not a generic duly done by normal Taoist monk. It’s a curse spell that is considered very evil in traditional Chinese culture. Second, the antagonist cult leader is called Lu Gongmin. Lu 陆 means mainland. Gongmin is homonyms with the words for “ citizen” or “populace”. Under his leadership, the cult sacrifice is committed on October 1. One of the main characters also with the last name synonymous with mainland was killed on his 49th birthday. Chinese Independence Day is on 1949, October 1. In addition there was another piece of writing in the scene with the paper that translates to something like you dumb shit. Finally, in mainland, multiple social media influencers were paid especially to promote the game as a “made in China” game with traditional Chinese culture elements to sell it. Basically people felt like they were tricked into paying for something that was literally cursing them in both sense of the word. Also note that no one in mainland even picked up on any of the above until someone posted on a Taiwanese forum gloating about how mainlanders got tricked into paying for it without noticing the “Easter eggs “.
Instead of pulling the game, can we pull mainland china instead?
That is amazing holy shit.
It's not communists, it's chinese nationalists and chinese supremacists.
ROC is real China. That's the whole point of these easter eggs.
I regret not getting around to buying it. I hope they manage to re-release it again without it being censored.
The people review bombing are communist mainlanders.
I think the point he was making is that very few people in China are actual communists, if you look at how they actually act and not the political labels they give themselves.
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