• atro_city@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    What is “feminist propaganda” and what would COVID-19 have anything to do with the game? What would either of those have to do with the game? Isn’t it based on the legend of the monkey king? Are they afraid they’ll make a meme of him spreading COVID to kill his enemies or something?

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      2 months ago

      In the conspiracy theories groups China is a hot topic, and I believe this is them telling influencers (who they give a free copy) to stick to the game instead of talking about the country they happen to live in. And I would assume if people stuck to the game few of these topics would be relevant.

      Now if an influencer had an issue with say, allegations misogyny at the studio, I would expect them to -

      1. not accept the game from the studio

      2. maybe create content on why they refused the offer of a free game and things they think would need to change to allow them to work with the studio in the future.

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        1 month ago

        You would have thought that by now they would have realized that explicitly banning people from talking about a subject is basically a method to guarantee that they do.

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      2 months ago

      It’s a Chinese game developer. These are the things they’re sensitive to. COVID started in China and I guess feminist is a big fucking red flag for women in China?

      Hehe, red flag, China…

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        2 months ago

        It’s a Chinese game developer. These are the things they’re sensitive to. COVID started in China and I guess feminist is a big fucking red flag for women in China?

        The Black Myth: Wukong sexism controversy stems from employee reports that developers at Game Science have been making sexist comments for many years, and there’s a suggestion the company doesn’t want women playing its games.

        https://dotesports.com/black-myth-wukong/news/black-myth-wukong-developer-controversy-explained

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          2 months ago

          I wonder if any of this has been corroborated. I feel more conflicted about this kind of stuff recently because for every one asshole saying awful shit there are hundreds of other people that poured years of their life into making a game like this.

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        1 month ago

        It’s Chinese developer so I wouldn’t be that surprised that their sexist it just seems to be a very common viewpoint in China.

        They obviously know it’s unacceptable because they don’t want to be brought up on it. But rather than improved they’re just going to ban discussion of it or at least try to it won’t work of course. We’re talking about it after all.