Best-selling Taiwanese horror game review bombed due to Xi-Jinping easter egg - Sensationalist Headlines

So basically Taiwan #1 at China'ing Chinese consumers. It's perfect.

What you have to understand is that most Chinese people don't consider the CCP to be a bad thing, especially the older generation which has seen China go from a starving shithole to an economic powerhouse with decent standards of living for the middle class. Seeing your country change like that makes it easy for people to learn to deal with the darker side of their government.

First pic says Tienanmen and all that forbidden crap pn the second pic he literally says ”Deleted comments that looked like they’re spreading religion” like what LMAO

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Way to evict all the chinese lurkers

I should buy this game before something happens to it. I'm down for any opportunity to make China's government mad.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/185046870958014464/548877821112614942/1550924224166.png one of the mainland responses to this Devotion blowout that is now a meme He says "If people say that these are just oversensitive red guard netizens and word-censorship then they (Taiwanese) should go get tased". the thing is every red-underlined word in the image is him bypassing censors on words like Taiwan, Xi Jinping (and one of his nicknames), Winnie the Pooh, Red Guard, and Word-Censorship.

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. Well according to one-china policy, isn't this correct? Wouldn't anything made in Taiwan be truly, actually really made in the PRC?

Congrats, now Garry can't sell Gmod and Rust to the Chinese Market.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/247204/61f04001-d1c2-4a20-a96e-b83ae4c51ac1/1548832109113.jpg Oops, sorry Garry, now Facepunch is outlawed in China.

The whole Winnie the Pooh thing is so weird to me, I get that it makes Xi look kind of silly, but it's such a harmless joke. It won't persuade anyone of anything, it's something that a politician from another country might embrace. Of course they have to ban it though, can't allow anything that humanizes the leader.

I don't even see how this is supposed to be insulting to the guy. Pooh is a nice bear and a true friend, there is really nothing insulting with being compared to him.

From what I've heard it's simply because anti government advocates (or, literally anyone with any sort of negative opinion on the PRC) frequently posted it to mock him. Now it's a crime. Go figure.

hell iirc the first image was first used to joke Obama is Xi's sidekick rather than actually insulting Xi. It's just that the image got popular and people start using Winnie the Pooh to refer to Xi to discuss his doings since Xi's name is censored, and so they banned this word as well. I wonder how many of these dislike are people worrying that "oh shit I might get into trouble for buying/playing/recommending this game" and just talk shit to protect themselves.

While I do love this seeing this posted every time China is mentioned, I do wonder if it actually works. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58120/bced87ea-a12a-47df-88c3-617c135c378c/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58120/aed8d449-dc96-4ab9-bda0-bd66cdfd7549/image.png Because to this very day, Facepunch seems to be perfectly accessible from China.

The only Chinese people I've ever seen using FP, that I can remember, are idiots who play Rust and who are either complaining that they were banned when they "didn't hack" or complaining that FP isn't psychically detecting and banning hackers fast enough.

hey guys look how bad the epic store is for not having mandatory user reviews, why would they ever elect to not have user reviews

yeah, individual instances of it going wrong are complete justification to ignore the vast majority of the time it goes right!

if it had been on the epic store tencent would just have it outright taken down but hey at least we wouldn't get to laugh at an absurd review bomb story that may or may not have actually helped the dev gain some recognition in the sane half of the world

There actually were quite a bit of Chinese people back in the oldpunch days but they were mostly pretty illiterate when i comes to english so i think they just dropped facepunch

I know that tencent owns part of epic, I was moreso trying to point out how user reviews aren't automatically ~pro consumer~ like everyone acts like. They're the videogame equivalent to yelp and amazon reviews, they just haven't been around as long to develop the same reputation.

I don't see how review bombing is a problem for Steam user reviews since you can, you know, actually read the reviews?

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1614/b24b5850-1929-42de-8bf3-9d98a5877c51/64FF6E0B-95BD-4474-913A-BFF982CDA6E7.jpeg Lol

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. I mean, where's the lie? That's some high level banter. I love it

It really only took off because he banned it. Same as Peppa Pig and the letter n.

The word Steam遊戲 (Steam Games) have been banned in China lol. Steam alone is okay, just not Steam遊戲. That was fast.

What the fuck?

the letter n is banned for a very short period of time when Xi abolished his own term limit since n is very commonly used in algebra and people jokes about the news with stuffs like n>2. The news was on Facepunch as well iirc, and people joked about how Xi's name's spelling without N

No fucking spine as usual I see, pathetic.

Mind that Steam didn't take them down, their Chinese publisher abandoned them.