So apparently China just banned a lot of games

[Specter Von Baren]

https://www.foxsportsasia.com/esports/996831/996831/

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/12/12/chinese-ethics-board-orders-bans-on-several-games-including-pubg-and-fortnite/

Overwatch, League of Legends, PUBG, Fortnite, etc. have apparently been banned by the Chinese "Online Ethics Review Committee".

If true it puts an interesting new perspective on Sony's recent actions that we discussed about a few weeks ago.

 

[Lufia Erim]

To be fair all those games have extremely Toxic online communities.

Out of curiosity,how easy/hard is it to leave China as a citizen? Not over videogames mind you,but just in general?

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Must not have paid the right bribes. This is why China has their own World of Tanks client. It's likely got nothing to do with Sony.

(If it were on the up and up, "excessive blood and gore" couldn't be used against Fortnight, a game that has neither)

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

It's only China though, so it's not like it matters. Another day, another act of censorship. Those guys don't even have the presumption of innocence in their legal system and yet they have the death penalty. China is all kinds of messed up.

 

[Mcgeezaks]

That's good for the rest of the world, according to a couple developers (PUBG developers for an example) the overwhelming majority of cheaters are from China.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

It's only China though, so it's not like it matters. Another day, another act of censorship. Those guys don't even have the presumption of innocence in their legal system and yet they have the death penalty. China is all kinds of messed up.

It does matter though because some of these games are owned by Chinese companies (Lol is owned by Riot which is owned by Tenecent) and China makes up a huge amount of the player base of all these games. So they either kow tow to this or lose a huge amount of money.

Though... and here's me being a conspiracy theorist. I wonder if this isn't just the Chinese government flexing its muscle to see just how much of an impact it can have on this industry.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

China banned the roman letter N from their internet because wiibo users (kinda like a chinese facebook) were calling their president "new Mao" in english so...yeah, they're prone to banning weird things. Also they banned Winnie the Pooh, because people were memeing him and their president cause they looked alike, which caused among other things KH3 to get censored like this:

https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/winnie-the-pooh-kingdom-hearts-3-banner-censored.jpg


(yes, this is a real image)


And here's some of the horribly offensive content, one can think these banned games were similarly horrific:

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5a9598d7aae60520008b469e-1136-568.jpg

 

[Dalisclock]

And here's some of the horribly offensive content, one can think these banned games were similarly horrific:

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5a9598d7aae60520008b469e-1136-568.jpg

Man, and I thought certain people in the US were easy to trigger. The Chinese censors apparently train at this, as opposed to American idiots with nothing better to do.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Human stupidity is boundless, much like the universe itself.

 

[Abomination]

And here's some of the horribly offensive content, one can think these banned games were similarly horrific:

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5a9598d7aae60520008b469e-1136-568.jpg

Man, and I thought certain people in the US were easy to trigger. The Chinese censors apparently train at this, as opposed to American idiots with nothing better to do.

The difference there is that the Chinese censors are government propaganda, while American censors are pearl clutching busybodies. Guess which one has the armed forces of a superpower at their beck and call.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Guess the Chinese censors had to meet their weekly ban quotas and, you know, protect the people from 'incorrect values'.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

It does matter though because some of these games are owned by Chinese companies (Lol is owned by Riot which is owned by Tenecent) and China makes up a huge amount of the player base of all these games. So they either kow tow to this or lose a huge amount of money.

Though... and here's me being a conspiracy theorist. I wonder if this isn't just the Chinese government flexing its muscle to see just how much of an impact it can have on this industry.

My personal take is that this is the Chinese government reminding Chinese corporations who has the ultimate authority. A lot of these games will likely be approved once their respective publishers have paid the necessary tribute to the government.

 

[CaitSeith]

If true it puts an interesting new perspective on Sony's recent actions that we discussed about a few weeks ago.

I got the feeling this is more about the microtransactions and less about teen girl groping mechanics.

 

[Casual Shinji]

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5a9598d7aae60520008b469e-1136-568.jpgMan, and I thought certain people in the US were easy to trigger.

You mean 'easy to Tigger'. *dadum-tish*

Anyway, this seems like a case of China not wanting foreign entertainment to get too big, and maybe influence their citizens. Or maybe there were mentions in online matches about the Tiananmen Square massacre, who knows. I remember when Avatar was making waves, and the Chinese government got worried that a movie about standing up against your oppressors was getting so popular in their country.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I think that's a general aversion to anything outside of the state being popular that is exhibited by communists and other authoritarians. No matter what it is that gets too popular, as long as it's not the state it will be frowned upon.

 

[Saelune]

Fuck China. Also fuck companies that bend to China's unfair censorship.

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

I think that's a general aversion to anything outside of the state being popular that is exhibited by communists and other authoritarians. No matter what it is that gets too popular, as long as it's not the state it will be frowned upon.

I believe that's the case, they're doing this for the same reason they are going after religious people. Nothing and I mean NOTHING should even be close to the people love of the state. Pooh wants his Cult of Personality. Unfortunately they are too stupid to realize this is only going to make things worse for them. Now they pissed off a bunch of people for no reason like said gamers and religious people.

 

[BrawlMan]

Once again, the government of China are insecure bitches.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Once again, the government of China are insecure bitches.

Anything to not compromise those in power.

Comparisons to Winnie the Pooh will make the leader look like a joke and a fool and thus not taken seriously, so why should he be in power?

That's the nature of authoritarian leadership. Any slight against them no matter how microscopic is a threat to their power.

It starts with jokes, then it leads to some criticsms, then it leads to MAJOR criticisms, then it leads to discontentment, then it leads to anger, then it leads to sedition/treason/rebellion, and lastly would lead to the overthrow and usurpation of those in power.

 

[BrawlMan]

Once again, the government of China are insecure bitches.

Anything to not compromise those in power.

Comparisons to Winnie the Pooh will make the leader look like a joke and a fool and thus not taken seriously, so why should he be in power?

That's the nature of authoritarian leadership. Any slight against them no matter how microscopic is a threat to their power.

It starts with jokes, then it leads to some criticsms, then it leads to MAJOR criticisms, then it leads to discontentment, then it leads to anger, then it leads to sedition/treason/rebellion, and lastly would lead to the overthrow and usurpation of those in power.

Ah, bitches in a box stand in their natural habitat. Nothing new. You know, them overreacting makes them look all the more weaker than stronger. Their needs for censorship just makes them all the more pathetic.