Isn’t this the game where reviewers/streamers(?) are not allowed to mention feminism?
Reviewers were also forbidden from using trigger words such as “COVID-19” and “quarantine”.
So if I posted a review saying that Black Myth: Wukong is as badass as when Rosie the Riveter invented COVID in a Chinese lab, would they be upset?
It’s funny to me that they even felt a need for this clause. What does the game have to do with feminism or Covid? It’s based on ancient Chinese mythology in ancient China telling a fictional story featuring Chinese mythological beings that are not real. Why would there be any reason to bring feminism or Covid into that in the first place?
It’s so weird and seems really snowflakey to me.
Why would there be any reason to bring feminism or Covid into that in the first place?
From another article:
The cautionary note against “feminist propaganda” is a reminder that Game Science have yet to respond to allegations of pervasive sexist behaviour from November last year. In a lengthy report for IGN, Rebekah Valentine and Khee Hoon Chan described “a studio plagued by claims of sexism”, linking this to misogyny elsewhere in the Chinese games industry and on the government-firewalled Chinese internet. The developers have raised the drawbridge in response: when Edders attended a preview event earlier this year, they refused to say anything on the subject in advance.
Lots of streamers will play games while discussing other topics, and those topics can often be seen as controversial. Clearly the company wanted to avoid any video existing where someone was discussing unrelated controversial topics over the top of their gameplay.
It backfired on them cause obviously you can’t control everyone and everything but I can understand from a business standpoint their desire to remain neutral and not be part of that crowd.
Look at gamergate. The video game internet world is still not far removed from immensely controversial and offensive behaviors. Maybe they just wanted to avoid any association that could theoretically occur.
I’m not excusing them. Just attempting to understand it in any practival sense without immediately becoming alarmist like everyone does.
Setting aside the CCP angle, it comes off kind of like back when Michael Jordan says all political parties buy Jordan’s.
It’s real according to someone from Forbes: https://nitter.poast.org/PaulTassi/status/1825193786273681489 . Reviewers didn’t get these guidelines but some content creators did, which is why everyone’s confused.
Also confirmed by SI.com (which I didn’t know had video games writing, and it’s surprisingly good as it turns out). GI dot biz published a recap yesterday.
It’s been long enough that the publisher would have put out a statement by now if it was false.
AAA Chinese game, not surprising that it would be so popular but a majority must be Chinese player as it didn’t get that much coverage in the rest of the world as far as I understand from everyone’s reaction…
The majority of coverage I heard about it were about the scandals at the studio.
Not sure why people downvote you, but most must be. Because I checked the player count this morning in Europe and it was also at 1,5 million. The only ones that play games in early hours of Europe are a majority in Asia, more specifically China. This has also been my experience with online matchmaking in early hours of the day, it’s 9 out of 10 chance I got matched with either Chinese or Koreans during those hours.
I knew of this game but had already forgotten about it. Just got notified recently because the benchmark was downloaded a lot past week.
China supports in country stuff, most countries do really, so long as quality is comparable, and its been slowly but steadily getting there. Saw an article posted on lemmy somewhere earlier today how a locally made movie is topping their box office while Deadpool and Wolverine isn’t even top 10.
Currently trying to avoid as many products as I feasible can that are owned directly by China, plus with the controversy of their review tactics being kind of about, I’ll pass on this game and wait for the seas to calm
Hell I’d be afraid to protest torrent this one. At least on consoles their software could only spy on so much.
Seriously guys, you think every digital product coming from China is done specifically to spy on your petty porn habits. Witch hunt 101.
Fuck CCP.
CCP product. Looks cool but I’ll skip it or pirate it later.
