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konokonohamaru
11/21/19 11:12:27 PM
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/one-of-2019s-best-horror-games-devotion-is-still-m/1100-6471497/

For those who missed the controversy that Red Candle found itself in earlier this year, here's a quick refresher. In February 2019, Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games came under fire for an art asset in its sophomore effort, Devotion, that compared Chinese president Xi Jingping to Winnie the Pooh, a joke that is forbidden in the country. Upon the discovery of the asset, the Chinese playerbase on Steam began heavily review-bombing the game. Red Candle managed to implement a patch that removed the asset almost immediately and then apologized for its inclusion in the first place--adding that the asset wasn't even supposed to be in the final product.

However, after the Chinese government forced the removal of the game from the Chinese version of Steam and Red Candle's partners (publishers Indievent and Winking Skywalker) cut ties, the developer ultimately removed the title from Steam entirely. Devotion hadn't even been available for a week. In July 2019, Red Candle followed-up the takedown with a written statement that, though it didn't outright say, heavily implied that the game will never be released on Steam again--an assumption that has held true months later.

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Bad_Mojo
11/21/19 11:12:50 PM
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Mystery_Mission
11/21/19 11:16:21 PM
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fuck china
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PopOutAtYoParty
11/21/19 11:21:59 PM
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The entire AAA gaming industry is majority staked by China, most notably by Tencent games. It's the same reason why criticisms on AAA gaming subs get downvoted to hell.

The sooner you realize you literally have zero say in mainstream gaming, the better.
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Zikten
11/21/19 11:31:40 PM
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OneyPlays played that Devotion game over Halloween. shame what happened. it seems like a decent horror game. but china totally ruined it utterly and completely
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apolloooo
11/21/19 11:31:53 PM
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EIiza posted...
Mystery_Mission posted...
fuck china

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Garioshi
11/21/19 11:32:16 PM
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No shit.

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ssjevot
11/21/19 11:33:10 PM
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Blizzard made changes to WoW to please China. Mainly involving skeletons.

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Zikten
11/21/19 11:39:42 PM
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ssjevot posted...
Blizzard made changes to WoW to please China. Mainly involving skeletons.

yea but that only is in the chinese version of the game. the only part of the game that effected the international version of the game outside china, by china, was the Mists of Panderia expansion being Blizzard sucking up to China. but the art stuff about the undead is only changed in the chinese client
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