Recent content by American McGee

Yes, it is actually me. I frequent this site, mainly to watch Fully Ramblotic, but also to defend myself again accusations of being "fishy" or a shill for the Chinese government. The Internet is filled with suspicious and creative theorists. If I took the time to fight them everywhere... well...

We just launched the game into Open Beta. Thought you all might like to take it for a spin and form opinions based on the actual product: http://spicyworld.spicyhorse.com/world/game-akaneiro.html As for some of the more interesting conspiracy theories floating around here and the rest of...

Robert, Thank you for the personal response on the topic. Truth is I'm not certain we have a difference of opinion since most of what we're talking about is based on facts about Chinese regulation and censoring of media. No denying those things exist and should be labeled "bad". Where we...

Yes and no. Actually, one of the really interesting things about the internet in China is that the PRC government is *afraid* of its power. Of course they try to monitor and control it - to a ridiculous degree. But what's really beautiful is that people here find ways to use it as an instrument...

It gives the local (inferior) producer time to build an audience and improve their quality without having to fight competition. In some industries this works - again, take a look at Tencent and the game industry here. In other cases it does not work - Chinese domestic cars are still crappy...

Because the Chinese government wanted to block foreign corporations from establishing a monopoly for game distribution in their country. See retail game distribution in the US as an example. It's anti-competition, pure and simple. Same goes for why they block Facebook or disrupt Google's...

Seriously? We're talking about video game censorship and you guys take it to something horrible and unrelated like that little girl getting run over? You equate my article with defending *that*?! This is exactly why I started off by saying that my initial reaction was to not respond at all...