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China's New Video Game Rules Officially Bans Pools of blood, Corpses, Mahjong, Poker and Imperial Schemes
- Thread starter Sun's Resting Place
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fresh off the heels of Nintendo announcing bringing the Switch to the Chinese market. Good thing like 90% of their content meets these criteria.
It's like poker. My dad used to gamble playing it at a mahjong club all the time.
Wait, just to make sure, you aren't confusing the matching two tiles in giant pyramid with mahjong right? Since they both go by the name Mahjong.
If you have a censorship bureau and you want it to be effective against adults, censoring metaphors is pretty much the bare minimum, as otherwise symbols get established pretty much immediately, and censors are not stupid enough to not realize that.
Remember that Soviet block has effectively made a trope whitelist a state doctrine with socrealism. Blanket censorship of particular metaphors may sound crazy but isn't anywhere near this level of suppression.
This is what I'm talking about.
So the pyramid match two game, I guess. Is this like Chinese Solitaire, and Chinese Poker is the other version of Mahjong?
When you know your grip on power is entirely illegitimate and dependent on indoctritating your sizable population into not kicking you out of of power, there is no shortage of things to be afraid of.
This is what I'm talking about.
So the pyramid match two game, I guess. Is this like Chinese Solitaire, and Chinese Poker is the other version of Mahjong?
The gambling one is like this, and yes it is like poker. I have very basic understanding of it, and can play on rookie level. However it is very complex game.
Yeah, pretty good analogy. Mahjong as a game is inseparable from gambling, to the point where its rules fall apart if there's nothing at stake.This is what I'm talking about.
So the pyramid match two game, I guess. Is this like Chinese Solitaire, and Chinese Poker is the other version of Mahjong?
If you understand Chinese and read the official documents from government, it does not contain any detailed policy standard in the news mentioned...
All the official documents in the website does not even have mentioned the "new standard"" http://www.sapprft.gov.cn/sapprft/contents/7063/397559.shtml https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/63386022
Original news came from two screen shots from a wechat account from an Chinese Game Dev, in April 18th, but its unverified and they deleted the post in less than one day. Then it was disputed and spread across internet by Chinese STEAM forum and Tieba(China Reddit) in April 19th. All the news circling around "new policy" are either rumor or "it's fake".
http://guba.eastmoney.com/news,cjpl,819240272.html (it explained how the rumor start)
http://tech.qq.com/a/20190422/006231.htm （This is Tencent News website,it retweeted the denial news from Beijing newspapers)
Ok. And we got the news from the conference on the 10th and also confirmed it with video game execs.
The policy isn't even anything new tbh. China has approved zero poker and mahjong games this year but last year over 900 were in Q1 2018.
Developing games for a region where the government can pull the plug out from under you on a whim has to be nerve wracking. If mtx or loot boxes get the ax next then where would that leave publishers like Tencent?
Creating games with proper gameplay and story that they would charge a decent price for? Although, to be fair, that will get pirated to the wazoo in the Chinese market. That said, could always have online activation.