First of all, based

Second of all, what’s the read on firing this guy? Did he just fuck up the messaging or are they refusing to double down on the regulations?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    ·
    11 months ago

    idk, it's reuters and idk if there china reporting has any relation to reality.

    Stopping approval of any new games for eight months, is that all games? Certain categories of games? Sounds like it couldn't be that simple or the entire inudstry would crash.

    • D61 [any]
      ·
      11 months ago

      If the bits and peices of news about "video games in China" are all connected, it seems like its online video games with loot box mechanics or daily incentives to try to lock a person in psychologically into the loop.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        11 months ago

        Good on them, then. I have really, really mixed feelings about media censorship, but if the goal is to limit the harm of gambling I support it. The MediaTM tends to conflate China's attempts to limit the abusiveness of pay2win gaming with outright cultural censorship which really sucks.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
          ·
          11 months ago

          There are some legitimately good games that come out of China and I believe a lot of them get some sort of public funding (the ones from smaller devs). The bigger groups tend to just shovel out gatcha trash though, so if this clears the way for more investment in small development teams and culturally relevant or interesting things as those devs who were trapped making gatcha are freed, there could be a Renaissance.

      • sovietknuckles [they/them]
        ·
        11 months ago

        lea-think All these reporters based in Hong Kong seem real critical of the rest of China