Obviously a lot of people care. I don't know why you seem so intent on minimizing the issue just because you don't care.
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[PCGamer] Rainbow Six Siege review bombed amid China censorship backlash
- Thread starter dex3108
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Obviously a lot of people care. I don't know why you seem so intent on minimizing the issue just because you don't care.
I mean, it's not just about some aesthetics. At least, not to me anyways. It's that Ubisoft is fully okay with a foreign government's draconian, nonsensical rules changing the game experience for people all over the world. So what's next? China doesn't like a certain operator's talents, do those change? What about if china wants entire map removed from the rotation because of it's aesthetic? etc etc. It's just a crock of shit that they would bend to this, especially with some of these ludicrous changes (ie. removing a blood smear, from a game that is 5 v 5 gun warfare, with blood spraying off of every shot).
People don't seem to get how user reviews for service games work. They're always just a reflection of the current mood of the community. Most of the time it's complaints about balance patches, skins costing too much, updates being too slow, and the like. This really isn't any different. The idea that this is tarnishing the sanctity of Steam reviews is frankly ridiculous.
China is not an unproven market at all. It's now by far the largest market for games spending in the world ahead of even the United States. China also eats up military first-person shooters. Crossfire, a Counter-Strike-like, has been one of the highest grossing games in the world for years with revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars.
I didn't think military fps was huge in China. Are there any other examples?
Crossfire is one of the top 5 played games in China from what I can remember.
They're appeasing the whiners: https://rainbow6.ubisoft.com/siege/...ate-on-the-aesthetic-changes-coming-with-y3s4
Were there actually people who found the changes being made preferential to the original game? It just seemed like they threw the baby out with the bath water because it's an easier development move, not because they were making deliberate choices intended for all regions regardless of China.
Glad to hear this. Its ridiculous that they were so willing to impact other users over this. In the grand scheme of things is it a small thing? Sure. But the thought of rolling back all regions because of one regions censors wagging their fingers is absurd to me.