Plague Inc. has been removed from the China App Store
Statement on the Removal of Plague Inc. from the China App Store We have some very sad news to share with our China based players. We've...
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Plague Inc. has been removed from the China App Store
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Excuse me? I knew it was popular but not " the most popular paid game in China for many years" popular. Is there something I'm missing here or is that true?
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On a barely related note, here in Italy the government forced me (and countless others) to shut down my commercial activity (a boxing gym) for a whole week (unless they prolong it in a few days) as a last-minute emergency measure to "contain the spread of the virus".
Can't deny I'm fucking bitter about it.
P.S. Count me in the group of people who had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA Plague Inc. was that popular.
Can't deny I'm fucking bitter about it.
P.S. Count me in the group of people who had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA Plague Inc. was that popular.
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China's beer market is huge and extremely competitive so I wouldn't be surprised.
Plague Inc. has been removed from the China App Store
Statement on the Removal of Plague Inc. from the China App Store We have some very sad news to share with our China based players. We've...www.allgamesdelta.net
i understand why after reading this:
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www.theverge.com
Plague Inc. developer reminds players it is just a game amid coronavirus outbreak
The viral game developer wants people to know that their video game is not a scientific model
www.theverge.com
Yeah, that should solve the underlying issues. China as always more worried about the optics of people dying than the mere fact people are dying.
Wow, problem solved.
Good job keeping the minds of the citizens pure and filled only with the wisdom and guidance of glorious leader Xi Jinping, China.
Good job keeping the minds of the citizens pure and filled only with the wisdom and guidance of glorious leader Xi Jinping, China.
It's probably not true to be fair. Or if it's true, true with some sort of fine print that isn't be shared aka "the most popular paid game about plagues!"
I'll be honest.. I don't think this is necessarily totally out of line by their government. Right now it seems a little callous to be profiting off of something that is ravaging their country.
The game existed long before this outbreak, and it's not meant to mock it or make a profit of it. It just happened to explode even more because a viral outbreak is on everyone's mouths. Imagine if they temporarily banned all videogames with guns and action movies every time a mass shooting happened in the US.
people here are ignoring the effects of histeria, panic, and depression something like that could make, the game got extremely popular now because it reinforces people's fears in the mid of this pandemic, and not because its a good fun game, the effects of the game can be worse to the population health in the mid of this health crisis full of doomers and world end news, than to allow this bad game that nobody will really miss it. Crowd control and mind health are important in times of a pandemic.
Just to be clear, before anyone quotes me, i'm in favor of censorship in this specific exceptional case, not in every case.
Just to be clear, before anyone quotes me, i'm in favor of censorship in this specific exceptional case, not in every case.
It's not a "bad game", it's great, and how this is different from selling a war shooter for example?
War movies/games in war times are generally to boost morale and to incentivize enlistment. Not to generate panic with the end of humanity during the war, if you want my opinion if it existed a game that got extremely popular during a war in our state, thats about we gonna lose the war and everyone is gonna die, i would also be ok to ban that game. And the situation is very different when you are in the mid of the situation happening to people close to you, then far from it.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. This has been one of the most popular mobile games for years and is great.
So you have played or been aware of the game in the almost 8 years since it's launch? You know it's success both critically and commercially? If you do then your previous posts are not doing you justice.
I think a better example would have been if some sort of flight simulator that existed prior to 9/11 reflected what happened if you crashed into a big building. A game like that probably would have been banned in retrospect in America too.
The scale of this can't really be understated. It is fundamentally changing their country right now in unimaginable ways -- 780m people were under quarantine effectively at last count and I'm sure that is growing. A game making money off something that is reflecting these people's real concerns and issues right now does feel callous to me. I'm sure there is no ill-intent, but the developer should have taken it down temporarily IMO.
i played a similar version of that game in early 2010, it exploded in popularity in china as i pointed in the article above due to the panic of the disease, not because its a good game found out now, that even the developers of the game had to calm people down and alert this game is fiction not reality.
SEGA cancelled Propeller Arena on Dreamcast for exactly this reason even though the game was complete.
I doubt this has to do with the mental health of the country. It's all about the image of the communist party. These are the people that banned Winnie the Pooh because some people on the internet said that their leader resembles him. This is also the same government that is trying to censor online discussion about the virus and the same ones who sent agents to silence whistle blowers early on in the outbreak.
You ever play Spec Ops: The Line? That's a "war game" that I highly doubt was created to boost morale or incentivize enlistment. By the way, heads up: The U.S. has technically been in war-time for the past two decades.
Your claims sound like looking for a conspiracy where there isn't one.
US never had a war in its territory in a long time how crowd control and morale works during an external war is different for a war thats happening in your town/territory, and anti-war games are different of "the humanity is going to die and there's no hope" ones, the objective of this game is to eradicate humanity, very different of what an anti-war movie/game proposes that's to save lives and end the war, not to destroy hope, and be a doomer during times of crisis.
Now this is an overreaction to the corona virus but my guess is this thread won't gain nearly as much traction as the ones where companies were simply trying to protect their employees.
On iOS at least, the game has been consistently in the top 3 paid games for years, actually. No sub genres or anything, it sits right next to Minecraft.
