Currently trying to avoid as many products as I feasible can that are owned directly by China, plus with the controversy of their review tactics being kind of about, I’ll pass on this game and wait for the seas to calm
CCP product. Looks cool but I’ll skip it or pirate it later.
Well
I must be sincere, and say I would never expected this
It’s more players than Elden ring or Baldur’s gate 3 at launch.
Is that true? That’s pretty nuts.
Is it, though? The Chinese “government” decides which games their subjects are allowed to play, and this game is one of the handful of new games allowed each year.
Isn’t this the game where reviewers/streamers(?) are not allowed to mention feminism?
It’s funny to me that they even felt a need for this clause. What does the game have to do with feminism or Covid? It’s based on ancient Chinese mythology in ancient China telling a fictional story featuring Chinese mythological beings that are not real. Why would there be any reason to bring feminism or Covid into that in the first place?
It’s so weird and seems really snowflakey to me.
Why would there be any reason to bring feminism or Covid into that in the first place?
From another article:
The cautionary note against “feminist propaganda” is a reminder that Game Science have yet to respond to allegations of pervasive sexist behaviour from November last year. In a lengthy report for IGN, Rebekah Valentine and Khee Hoon Chan described “a studio plagued by claims of sexism”, linking this to misogyny elsewhere in the Chinese games industry and on the government-firewalled Chinese internet. The developers have raised the drawbridge in response: when Edders attended a preview event earlier this year, they refused to say anything on the subject in advance.
The irony is that without the warning to attempt to suppress discussion about that, people might have just forgotten about it.
This is possibly fake as noted on another thread.
It’s real according to someone from Forbes: https://nitter.poast.org/PaulTassi/status/1825193786273681489 . Reviewers didn’t get these guidelines but some content creators did, which is why everyone’s confused.
Also confirmed by SI.com (which I didn’t know had video games writing, and it’s surprisingly good as it turns out). GI dot biz published a recap yesterday.
It’s been long enough that the publisher would have put out a statement by now if it was false.
Shoutout to people in the other thread fighting about how nobody has heard of this game and that it isn’t highly anticipated
I’m surprised so many say they never heard about it. It was all over the place when a gameplay trailer was shown a few years ago. David Jaffe even made a video about how he didn’t understand the hype, and then took it all back once the trailer reached the boss fight.
I’ve never heard of it. But we all live in our own spheres
