Original source is from a french youtuber that refused to review the game based on this document (video in french) : https://youtu.be/YVuo-oqw2EU?si=Js_ncc8Lwp_K9GFm
While everyone can make their own opinion on wether those are reasonable requirements or not, I found it interesting to share as it concerns all currently released reviews.
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It’s not legally binding, so I don’t know what they were thinking, not giving any document would have been better.
It’s from Chinese developers. Let’s play spot the propaganda!
They are “reasonable” under the assumption that the developer has no choice because of the Chinese government.
They are unreasonable by objective standards.
What do they mean by feminist propaganda?
The game looks amazing, but the fact it’s coming from my favorite dictatorship makes me feel like I’m downloading malware.
All they had to do was literally nothing and still fucked up
we did it, we have acheived anti wokeness. or whatever the fuck people were crying about for the past year
[Do NOT instigate negative discourse not relevant to the game] would probably have sufficed. I think I understand where they’re coming from, they’ve just phrased it poorly … I think?
And the CCP one is probably less for the CCP’s sake but their own.
I’m reading it as “keep your review about the game itself”.
Sounds great.
Yeah these Chinese studios are sketchy the lot of them. Women come out and say they are treated like shit and I believe them.
“I deeply apologize, I misread the document. I thought it said I was supposed to do the entire review stream in a full face mask and with prominent displays of Winnie the Pooh in the background.”
Thats a very amateurish way to ask players to play the game and judge it only as a game, which is … actually reasonable for a Chinese developer all things considered.
U know what they say. When in Rome, bang Kaligula
incredibly cringe.
it’s adorable when they try to control people outside their sphere of influence.
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Fuck them and fuck China.
Taiwan number 1.
Good. want to see the actual game being discussed, not all the billion political issues in the world. I don’t want pre-election discussions with US games either.
People just need to assume if the reviewer has an advanced copy of a game they will not be properly critical of it and will probably only give positive opinions so they don’t get shut out of advanced copies in the future.
Basically if they get advanced copies of games their reviews are worthless
Hilarious. I’d love to see a game reviewer title their wukong review with “The best thing to come out of China since COVID-19”
This is them covering their butts in case something the CCP doesn’t like comes out.
They can say they actively tried to stop it. They probably can’t enforce it legally. They can just cut whoever “violates” it off.
Very weird situation with this game, it’s like they decided negative publicity was the best marketing strategy available, but I don’t think it’s working out in their favor.
Maybe promote the game instead of whatever this nonsense is lol, don’t think I’ve ever even seen gameplay of it and I watch pretty much every game announcements event stream
Lotta people in here desperately want to believe art exists without context
And now the drama they wanted to avoid from negative reviews will come from this moronic document instead
I mean femininist propaganda in a long list of general things like politics, violence, nudity, fetishization, etc doesnt seem entirely out of place. Granted, those are all hot button issues (or can be) in games and are usually the source of criticism from people outside the games industry. The title of this post makes it sound singled it out like its especially focused on when thats not really the case. It sounds like they just want people to focus on the gameplay while avoiding all “controversial” issues.Not exactly western friendly but I cant blame them. They want game reviews not political commentary. Not that westerners will abide by that. The thing about china’s game industry is no doubt a measure of self preservation. If it brings negative press, the ccp may interfere with their game.
Easiest checkmarks of my life. It’s a video game review based on a monkey god, why the fuck would anyone bring up feminism or politics…
Remember when China suddenly did a 180 on their COVID lockdowns and testing overnight like the virus suddenly disappeared? Apparently it’s taboo to even say or discuss COVID and the entire country all collectively pretends like it never happened
Yeah Im sorry I don’t trust Chinese games, maybe that makes me a racist but any company that’s holds these CCP-esque values can go f themselves.
But why not comment on the actual game versus something that doesn’t involve the game?
I am gonna make an argument using IASIP as reference, “there is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by singing a song about it”
So by releasing the document, now they are just gonna invite more attention to whatever they are trying to prevent. No?
I mean, to be fair, none of those things really have to do with the game in and of itself.
I mean it’s not a good look but also it makes sense. I wouldn’t want people talking about political or social stuff in a review about my game, just review the game.
Yeah why bother grading a game purely on it’s gameplay when you get so many more clicks by politicizing the entire thing.