Found this on r/LeftistGamersUnion. These are not my own words, just a cross post.
“Some clarification for gaming ban in China also AMA
TL;DR As a Chinese gamer, I truly support the ban because the ban ONLY applies on trash games like gatcha and WOW rip off games. It also only applied on Chinese EA, which is Tencent.
Chinese gaming industry is plagued by Tencent monopoly. Except Tencent, most other companies only make WOW rip offs Since it was popular in 90s and there are tons of middle-aged dude pay to play it.
Tencent gaming only have rip offs and 2 moba games, LOL and it's mobile vision. Its main income come from mobile lol, which unlike lol you guys know, is full of pay-to-win mechanics. Yet it provide most of profit for Tencent gaming.
Tencent, killed all hope of Chinese gamers. Chinese companies made some cuttin edge games in 2000s but most of them die off because of piracy, which is no surprise Tencent was in it.
Some times Tencent rip offs perform even better than the original. Why? Tencent monopolized social media as well.
It's also the reason most Chinese hate the company. People who don't want to play arr forced to play due to peer pressure. It also create a huge problem on kids because Tencent targets kids as young as 10 start to play and pay. And that's the main reason behind the ban.
Steam on the other hand, is in a gray zone. CPC allowed steam to operate with minimum oversee in China, but it technically not under Chinese administration, so the ban DOES NOT apply on steam games.
I know gate keeping is bad, but the problem is beyond imagine for western gamers. Tencent, which is the main target of the ban, already destroyed gaming in China. I fully support CPC on this. CPC had lots of new policies support gaming industry in China recently, so the ban helps gamer get rid of Chinese EA.“
It was pretty explicitly stated that is what they were targeting, just the US news misquoted the shit out of it. good to know that's what is happening then.
Can you pull up a source for it just so I can read it more thoroughly?
I've completely lost it and googling is impossible after the press had their field day with it.
I need to start keeping URLs saved, been happening a lot more lately
US news is real scared because China is specifically targeting Big Tech.
Idk who owns Tencent but maybe it’s time Xi had a chat with them like he did with his good friend Jack Ma
Ok so, china is cringe because its anti-g*mer policy
is actually Pro-g*mer
Smdh critical support withdrawn
Attempting to short circuit the Gamer Brain by overriding China Bad with EA Bad. Worth a shot I guess.
Yeah online gaming in China is a bunch of gambling shit aimed at kids, that's why I think this limit is tepid, they should outright ban it. Same for the US and the rest of the world, it's deeply predatory and evil.
The US propaganda machine is so strong I thought Reddit was banned in China.
My understanding is that it's not strict for users, but they'll crackdown on providers whenever there's a "sensitive time". Foreigners basically get a free pass.
It is, I looked it up and it’s been blocked since 2018. But afaik that’s pretty easy to get around with a vpn
Sure here ya go. Threads now unfortunately locked but you can read through the comments and maybe dm the op.
I saw a post on Instagram about how game companies were going to "outsmart the CCP" by making good single player games instead of skinner box online trash. Like... gamers just immediately assume that one good thing can only come at the expense of China. It's not like China, you know, caused that to happen
China is creating benefits for the world?
Must have been through their own incomeptence!
Breaking news: Xi mandates that all Chinese citizens go on reddit and circlejerk over the witcher 3 and fallout new vegas
It's really incredible and heartwarming how the internet has made it possible to call out bullshit reporting by Western outlets about the rest of the world. It was always bad, but when you can actually here from people who live in China, everything the media puts out sounds like a Yellow Peril sketch (not to mention the explicit Orientalism that gets used to twist and distort every translation).
Well shit that's a significantly different side of the story then what's been posted here lately. I had put this solidly in the China Bad category but fucking up Tencent is good. I think it would have been better to specifically censor Tencent then use authoritarian shit on kids but I'm willing to stick this in the China Neutral category.
Meanwhile the west is happy to let gaming be fucked by shitty companies
I would be interested in seeing some other Chinese gamers corroborating if it’s only tencent
