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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is one of 2017's most popular video games, and it's getting a makeover for the Chinese market:
Chinese gaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd is bringing "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", the world's hottest video game, to China, but with a twist. The gory, battle royale-style game will get a socialist makeover to meet stringent Chinese rules. The move comes after China's content regulator slammed the South Korean-made game, PUBG for short, last month for being too violent and said it would likely be blocked because it "severely deviates from socialist core values".
The PUBG game where players fight for survival on a deserted island is currently the world's top-selling videogame, having shipped more than 20 million copies since its launch in March. It has been developed by South Korean firm Blue Hole.
Tencent, which recently outstripped Facebook Inc in market value, said it had won the exclusive rights to the game in China, and that it would modify the game in order to meet the requirements of China's regulators and censors. "(Tencent) will make adjustment to content ... and make sure they accord with socialist core values, Chinese traditional culture and moral rules," it said in a statement on Wednesday.
Also at Engadget.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 23 2017, @09:55AM (6 children)
I'm just happy to know that I'm banned in China.
There are a number of games that China doesn't like. They don't like the idea of killing your fellow human beings. Better to sacrifice yourself for those human beings, or some such thing. Always put the social welfare ahead of your own.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:29AM (4 children)
Yeah, I know. In the great america, you prefer to have someone murder 500 people with guns at a concert, dozens of people murdered at a church, or murder kids in a fucking kindergarden than to take instruments of murder away from people. Then the americans look at unstable parts of the world they helped create and watch in fear how suicide bomber kills themselves and 50 others ... and at the same time continue to be apathetic with regards to their systematic problems.
So yes, the rest of the world would like to put social welfare ahead of idiots with guns. Rest of the world understands that guns are for killing and it is best that it is difficult to get those things. But not in America. because you know, the British are coming? Idiocracy is what America is today, with Trump being your perfect representative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:57AM (2 children)
YOU FUCKING COMMIE!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @12:43PM (1 child)
Yea, dawg, what's up?
U feel the itch, u up for being fucked once more? Git 'ere, bend'over.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:25PM
funny how queers and socialists have so much in common
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:32PM
Yeah, actually. But really, there is a way to decrease violence (not really from mass shootings, which only make up a fraction of the problem anyway) while also increasing individual liberty: Legalize all drugs. The black market causes a lot of violence, so by shrinking their influence, you can decrease the amount of violence. It would also likely decrease deaths from overdoses, since people would know what they are getting. I prefer that solution to banning/restricting guns, and will tolerate some gun deaths.
Which Americans? I'm not afraid of terrorists, and I'm vehemently anti-war. Maybe you should speak more precisely, rather than making it appear as if you are making sweeping generalizations.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by crafoo on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:33PM
Ah yes. If I was the ruling class of a massive population I would push pretty hard on the self-sacrifice and pacifism system too. Maybe mix in a little masochistic love for domination and following the rules for the sake of being a well-behaved rules-follower too.