China pandering in games about to go into overdrive.
Edit: when a Chinese game made for Chinese people sells as well as this, you can bet your britches more western studios will try to get in on those sales. How do you do that? Give a bit of a nod towards China in your games and don’t add anything that will piss them off. I wonder if Ubisoft will put assassin’s creed in China next.
It doesn’t matter to me, but I’m just saying expect it.
It’s a game made by China for China, how is that pandering?
Pandering is more like “We included a character who is a ripoff of that character from that other thing because said character is popular!” or “This is an important social issue right now, let’s hamfist a take on it we think will be popular without doing any real research on said issue or how to approach it competently”
i’m pretty sure as a chinese game developer it’s pretty easy to rent a few 10k people to install the game. still, so far i have heard and seen only good things about the game, so i guess it will be a huge success worldwide when it comes out.
Yeah I mean, most westerners have never heard of wukong and aren’t really interested in a soulslike game centered on him from a brand new studio. It’s cool that Chinese devs are starting to release games internationally, but this concept was never going to be that popular outside of Asia. The fact that they shot themselves in the foot with their advertising didn’t help.
I expected it to be popular in China, but I didn’t expect the ratio to be that skewed. Haven’t we been hearing about this game for years?
I don’t often buy new releases, especially not if I have a big backlog, but I’ve been interested in this game for quite a while.
Same for me. I’ve been super interested since I heard about it a year ago. I’ll buy it in a week or two to make sure any launch bugs are worked out.
6 hours in and I have only experienced one issue: crash to desktop with no error just after the intro sequence. It didn’t happen on second launch and it allowed me to skip cutscenes I had already viewed easily, so that was good. I am not on the most powerful machine and it runs perfectly fine on the high graphics preset, so despite the huge focus on visuals it seems like enough optimization work was done.
Would that generally be enough to fix launch bugs? Genuine question; I almost always buy games when they’re over a year old.
Wasn’t there controversy about the conditions of the press release?
If you’re referring to what I think you are, it was surrounding ‘streaming rules’ for the game.
I didn’t even know steam was available in china.