My backlog is full of those. Purely getting it due to backlash from China and especially Taiwanese response.
My backlog is full of those. Purely getting it due to backlash from China and especially Taiwanese response.
Nooo.
They could have released a patch that removes that easter egg.
WTF, I bought Devotion last Friday and I just recent played it yesterday!
They did I think. It didn't stop the fallout.
This is such a goddamn shame.
You know how in the states there are people here who will supppet trump no matter what he does and there are people online who be over every late night comedian's video whenever they talk about trump to try and make them seem like the bad guy? It isnt a american exclusive thing
I hope they never realize that the angrier they get over this Pooh stuff, the funnier it gets and the more people will do it.
No it isn't. Their statement would be along the lines of "Don't ask us, we had nothing to do with it".I hope Valve will be pressured for a statement, because this is embarassing for the company.
Mate, I appreciate your appreciation and respect that you know what's exactly going on unlike some stupid posts knowing nothing but pretending wise and talking my people.I really appreciate sxiebonjour's take on the censorship and the general happenings in the mainland.
It's a very good point that Steam could easily be completely banned tomorrow and nobody could do anything about it. So from that sense, yeah, stirring the pot so to speak is dangerous.
Also, to the same point, this sort of a dig could easily and people in jail (ie their partners in China) or drove them out of business.
Considering how brutal and also efficient Xi's regime is at stomping out all dissent, there is nothing people could do other than become a blip on a police report.
At the same time, it's a ridiculous situation where the rest of the world has to tow Xi's line basically.
https://twitter.com/KulonheimSuka/status/1099199771804401664
This tweet is amusing:
"Devotion should totally get a nomination for the most successful horror game of this century. Even Silent Hill and 异灵(no idea what game this is) can't turn in-game horror into real-life Red Terror and spread it into the real world"
Mate, I appreciate your appreciation and respect that you know what's exactly going on unlike some stupid posts knowing nothing but pretending wise and talking my people.
But again at this gaming forum all I care is the well being of the developer. My stance is actually with the xiaomi fellow. I hope west players can find the game appealing and support red candle going through this.
The developer is certainly being treated unfairly.Cool post. I have no idea what issue you take with my stance that Red Candle are being treated unfairly (it seems like you agree) but go ahead and keep equivocating.
The developer is certainly being treated unfairly.
On the other hand, China is a country where your jail sentence for a Weibo/qq post may depend on number of forwards and your credit score may be impacted because you friend wrong people on social media.
You have to anticipate certain situations when dealing with China as unfortunate as it is. Before Xi came to power things were more relaxed. Now days though Winnie the Pooh don't mess around.
Guess Valve got scared of being caught with their hand in the honey pot.
From the very beginning I have been no less pissed than you for the developer being treated unfairly. It's just not like I can talk these topics as audaciously as you did , so yeah, I'll keep equivocally be with you, lol.Cool post. I have no idea what issue you take with my stance that Red Candle are being treated unfairly (it seems like you agree) but go ahead and keep equivocating.
You know, as much as I think the Chinese are overreacting to this. I don't see how the dev could possibly think calling Xi Yinping a moron in an easter egg (basically stating that that is what the devs think of him rather than a character in the game or something) would have absolutely no consequences.
sxiebonjour said:From the very beginning I have been no less pissed than you for the developer being treated unfairly. It's just not like I can talk these topics as audaciously as you did , so yeah, I'll keep equivocally be with you, lol.
You know, as much as I think the Chinese are overreacting to this. I don't see how the dev could possibly think calling Xi Jinping a moron in an easter egg (basically stating that that is what the devs think of him rather than a character in the game or something) would have absolutely no consequences.
You would be right if it were a deliberate provocation, but everything seems to indicate they didn't know it was in there. It's not even clear that the level artist who placed that asset was aware of it, only that whoever made the poster had done it as a joke that probably would not fly with the project leads given the serious nature of the game's narrative. When they found out they instantly removed it and apologized. The dev's previous game has more anti-mainland sentiment as it is highly critical of the mainland culture brought to Taiwan by the KMT, but because it didn't get an official release and didn't insult the current leadership of the mainland, it managed to squeak by.
Except the art asset didn't state he's a moron.
It's two seperate meme/joke in the talisman.
First one is XiJinPing is Winnie the Pooh
And the second one is a sound based joke that if you say it out it say your mom is an idiot, a varation on the various your mama joke from western media.
I not sure when you talk bully you mean online attack or in reality. Cause IRL I never felt the hostile towards each other, at least where I live in the states.Sorry, I was not clear. "Equivocating" means being deliberately vague in your arguments as to hide your real opinions. I respect that you don't want to argue as "audaciously" as I do, but I don't really mince words about this sort of thing. I gotta live here and see my friends and colleagues bullied by the mainland's reactions to Taiwanese success all the time. It gets old.
And this, RIGHT HERE, my friends, is why we'll never have a game with an explicit political statement or manifestation of ideology. Nothing more than some subtle cues is what we'll get, both here and in China.
But we have freedom of expression, right?