cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20207166

850M$ revenue on 70M$ budget sounds a huge success.

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I guess video game companies are learning now that you should make games that Chinese gamers will enjoy.

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As the movie industry discovered, it’s a dice roll in terms of pissing off the censors. Hard to invest millions when something as stupid as a map can get your game banned.

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Pretty sure they figured that out more than a decade ago. Blizzard (RIP) certainly did.

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That’s what I’m scared of.

Catering to China’s censorship has not been beneficial to other media.

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Blizzard is already pretty infamous for adapting their games for the Chinese market, by removing or replacing certain numbers/symbolism or objects like skulls. So, it’s already been happening for a long time.

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There’s a huge difference between a publisher or two censoring their games and the industry as a whole systematically sucking up to their insane restrictions.

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as opposed to western censorship? lol.

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This is a joke right?

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