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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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Wow that's gonna stop a lot of companies from ever releasing games in China. But seems like a dream for Nintendo lol.
At the moment this type of ban isn't very strict I think. You can get almost any new game on day one online, including games that would ostensibly violate these content policies.
They only games I haven't been able to get online are Yakuza and RE2 Remake. But in those cases I just went to the shop and they had them.
They only games I haven't been able to get online are Yakuza and RE2 Remake. But in those cases I just went to the shop and they had them.
Sorry, but it's completely fake news.
bbs.a9vg.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=5438923&mobile=yes
Original source came from a unverified social media account and it has deleted the report since the report caught public attention.
http://tech.ifeng.com/c/7m5H1oORGEq
No official announcement has ever been published.
bbs.a9vg.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=5438923&mobile=yes
Original source came from a unverified social media account and it has deleted the report since the report caught public attention.
http://tech.ifeng.com/c/7m5H1oORGEq
No official announcement has ever been published.
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EDIT: Thanks for the verification ZhugeEX. Appreciated.
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Lol. This comment makes me think you probably know nothing about China or the Chinese people
Gonna go back to old school enemies flash and just banish upon being defeated!
Huh. That's that then.
Still worth it for the game proposal on the first page though.
Official Staff Communication
Thread reopened because this is actually true.
The author is incorrect. The changes were communicated at a conference on April 10th and the new application files are listed here-
http://www.sapprft.gov.cn/sapprft/channels/7063.shtml
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God damn it, I can't enjoy a game unless it's full of blood-drenched gamblers hatching imperial schemes.
OK but could you actually Kickstart this for real though?
I was going to be corny but it turns out the last Winnie the Pooh game came out 12 years ago. Which, uh, wow.
Blizzard has an easy answer. Bread!
I love how dumb the censored Chinese WoW client is.
Lord Marrowgar is incredible:
The uncensored version, for comparison:
I also love the corpses in dungeons being replaced with straw men, and player skeletons being gravestones.
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Luckily I messaged the mods with a request to confirm whether this is true or not. Thank you Zhuge.
NOoooooooooooooo!!! How am I going to get my Chinese poker fix now!?!?! T-T (I play that same game in the Tech Crunch article T-T ).
This is what I get for not expanding the second quote lol.
Anyway sad that this is true
I wonder if SEGA will start putting their chinese translations in the Yakuza Steam releases. Since its the only way to play these games there now.
tbh i'm surprised the PC version doesn't already HAVE the chinese translation included, huge missed opportunity unless there's something stopping them from including it.
tbh i'm surprised the PC version doesn't already HAVE the chinese translation included, huge missed opportunity unless there's something stopping them from including it.
It actually sucks for a lot of people.
Certain games / genres sell pretty well in China. So developers might have to start taking China's policies into consideration from the get-go and thus altering their creative vision for everyone to meet those standards. Especially since you can't just put a green blood filter.
Are they referring to human corpses or all corpses in general? Just like in Japan you can behead beasts but not humans.
Can anyone sum up all banned content for fictions in China?
Last I heard they banned transmigration(time travel by death/possession) and explicit sex scenes for webnovels and its adaptations.
Last I heard they banned transmigration(time travel by death/possession) and explicit sex scenes for webnovels and its adaptations.
I REALLY hope that devs don't start catering to this for the rest of the world for their releases, like how some games already have done in tihe past.
How do you even get around the corpse thing? Just go old school 16-bit era and have like a "poof" of smoke and the enemy is just gone or something?
I don't get WHY they'd ban games about the imperial schemes and things, I mean isn't that like one of the biggest genres when it comes to movies and things there? Seems strange to me for them to want to ban that when most historical or mythological stories revolve around that kind of thing.
How do you even get around the corpse thing? Just go old school 16-bit era and have like a "poof" of smoke and the enemy is just gone or something?
I don't get WHY they'd ban games about the imperial schemes and things, I mean isn't that like one of the biggest genres when it comes to movies and things there? Seems strange to me for them to want to ban that when most historical or mythological stories revolve around that kind of thing.
China: bans many mature and youth inappropriate factors in video games, thereby making it much harder for the most popular video games to enter the market in its current forms
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