Player anger over Rainbow Six Siege changes
Rainbow Six Siege players have complained about proposed changes to the game before its wide release in Asia.
Ubisoft said it had altered artwork in some "maps and icons" to ensure the game complied with local regulations. The alterations tone down or remove blood spatters, gambling machines and some sexual images in many of the game's locations. It said the changes were "aesthetic" only and would not affect gameplay.
Wide-ranging Chinese state rules on what video games can depict are believed to be behind the need to modify Rainbow Six. The revamp would mean Rainbow Six had a "single, global version" so it would be easier to maintain and introduce new features, said Ubisoft.
[...] Thousands of players voiced their anger about the alterations on the Rainbow 6 forum on social news site Reddit. Many called on Ubisoft to maintain separate builds of the game so long-term fans could play the version they knew and recognised.
[...] Ubisoft's announcement comes soon after Tencent, with which it is partnering for the Rainbow Six launch, revealed it would take steps to verify the ages and identities of every person playing games it offers. The move is intended to catch under-age players who, under Chinese law, are subject to restrictions on how long they can play.
Also at Engadget.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @07:31PM (5 children)
Yeah, so what, as long as most of them keep paying. This is just one of those times when they need to seek out alternatives, because with the increased market share, what incentive would there be to produce what 'western' fans want? Eh, whatever, try voting with your wallets, and hope that enough people go along...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:27PM (4 children)
So all this proves is that as "bad/evil" as China is, they have MORAL STANDARDS, which America has lost. Problem comes when game-addicted Johnny can't tell the difference between game blood and shooting up a school or mall, then pleads via his squirming defense lawyer that he had a bad childhood and the judge lets him off with a paff on the hands, poor (28 y.o.) child.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:31PM (2 children)
they have MORAL STANDARDS
No they don't. This is merely to preserve the existing power structure. It's thought control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @11:13PM (1 child)
Ummm... I'm failing to detect any difference in nature with what emanates from US. Other means perhaps, but the same shitty stench underneath.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @11:23PM
Yes, that is what I said. I responded to a false statement. This is business, and business, at best, is amoral...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:45PM
"then pleads via his squirming defense lawyer that he had a bad childhood and the judge lets him off with a paff on the hands, poor (28 y.o.) child."
Fairly certain that the few shooters that survive their experience ever get off with a "paff on the hands". And even fewer still actually have any credible link to games to begin with no matter how much the news would like you to think otherwise.
This is indeed China just creating roadblocks to maintain control. ie: You can not jail an innocent man, but you can certainly create enough criminals with the right laws.
As has been seen in the past, whenever China wants to hurt a foreign company doing business in their territory they suddenly become more strict with existing cultural and behavior laws - and if the "offending" company isn't breaking any of those, they create new ones that they will definitely be breaking.
(Score: 2, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday November 06 2018, @07:51PM (2 children)
Cutting out softcore porn environmental elements: 2018 pointless whiney incel gamer concern
Cutting out getting your team killed by not building a perfect 30 step pre-mission plan: 2003 cool awesome person who likes good things concern
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @09:05AM (1 child)
Cutting out anything because moral authoritarians pressure the artists is wrong not because of the nature of the art but because people are being forced to do things against their will by intolerant zealots whose only interest in the work is denying it to others.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday November 07 2018, @05:27PM
Eh, still pointless whining from incels.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:00PM
They're cutting cosmetic stuff to make a few people happy, since those people are the gateway to a lot of customers.
Those are a marginal part of the experience.
One day you'll have to fight only with guns legal in China, or strive to save the world from evil Uighur terrorists.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:08PM (2 children)
Ubisoft, and their ilk, ruined gaming for me long ago. I refused to continue to fight bullshit DRM, and I wasn't impressed with all the online bullshit. Evercrack put the writing on the wall for me, illustrating that it was no longer going to be possible for multiplayer to escape paid walled-gardens where I could play with friends. Same with M$ and Sony's online play, and that also very much includes Steam.
No privacy, I can't play without checking into a server, no real stand-alone native code games anymore, FREEMIUM, fucking FREEMIUM, etc. Sorry, but fuck all that noise. All the gamers who bought into that crap, paid exorbitant fees with their parents money, are responsible for the shitty state of gaming today.
It's just so fucking sad. Video games started out as quarter eating machines, but then we had the golden age. One nice, and affordable on an allowance price, and you could play the damn game till the cartridge wore out and you were you blowing on it praying for magic. When the Internet just started, we had multi-player that worked on dial-up too. Duke Nukem 3D I played for hours simply because I could link up a lot of players together. For just a little while, multi-player didn't require you surrendering so much of your privacy and control to a megacorp.
That's all over.... until recent years. I've had a huge amount of enjoyment in the Indie game scene. No DRM, wonderful creativity, and surprisingly high quality games.
Firms like Ubisoft will continue to gamers pull their heads out of their asses and vote with their wallets. Which is really, really, fucking hard since so many of the sheep like dipshits have that wallet in their dad's pockets. To be clear, I'm not denigrating gamers. I reached the age where everyone under 30 are dipshits :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday November 06 2018, @11:40PM
Parents' money? That's so 2004. The addicts they created a generation who came to the age of credit today.
How to maintain your addicts bound [google.com.au] - no, it's not about big pharma and opioid crisis, that's the experience of a young professional lucky enough to have landed a job where his gambling in games addiction is an advantage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @09:52PM
I switched to buying games from HumbleBundle
Now I have a large backlog of games to play through. So happy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:23PM (1 child)
More gaming submissions? Is this to slop the Windoze addicts? Chinese sensibilities? How is this news? Shouldn't we be waiting for the next mass murder episode in America?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:58PM
Wait? This is America! You'll be waiting about 12 hours, tops.
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday November 06 2018, @09:03PM
Killing okay, sex bad, mmmkay?
...and then people have the nerve to try to use "morality" as justification for bowdlerizing.
I'd be laughing at the level of idiocy, but it's just too disturbing to watch the neurally-challenged wave their modern equivalent of pitchforks and torches.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @09:38PM (1 child)
I guess they're as artful as American laws need them to be for "freedom of speech" to kick in and not artful enough to prevent making money in China.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @01:58AM
This is Ubisoft [wikipedia.org] we're talking about. The only boundaries they want to push are monetary in nature.
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