Yeah, i laughed my ass off when few years ago China was implementing their first restrictions giving no fuck whatsoever to the entire western gaming industry and teh gamerz cried wolf about not happening, commies eating bitter pill because corpos will make them ultimatum etc etc.
And what happened in reality is that entire western gaming industry humbly follow every single regulation because China is currently the biggest market for games in the world (and it also confirmed that even without many scummy practices producing games is very profitable).
Whenever news like this gets posted on social media I get a kick out of all the gamers absolutely incensed that a company would “kowtow to the CCP” to continue making money in China. Like, yeah no shit these multi-billion dollar corporations will follow the regulations and don’t care about “making a statement” or whatever lol.
My favorite so far was that one esports guy who said some kind of pro-HK riots comment in an interview and Blizzard dropped him like a hot potato. Stuff like that wouldn’t happen if capital ran things in China like they do in the US. I wish I lived in a country with a communist party powerful enough to make foreign companies scared of getting on its bad side.
Schrodinger’s gamer, simultaneously pissed about predatory addiction baiting and lootboxes in gaming and pissed at the only people on the planet actually doing anything about it
I’m not sure it’s the biggest market in the sense of being profitable but it’s certainly a giant market and it’s like, why would you limit yourself to just one market when you could literally double your profits by publishing in China too?
Yeah, i laughed my ass off when few years ago China was implementing their first restrictions giving no fuck whatsoever to the entire western gaming industry and teh gamerz cried wolf about not happening, commies eating bitter pill because corpos will make them ultimatum etc etc.
And what happened in reality is that entire western gaming industry humbly follow every single regulation because China is currently the biggest market for games in the world (and it also confirmed that even without many scummy practices producing games is very profitable).
Whenever news like this gets posted on social media I get a kick out of all the gamers absolutely incensed that a company would “kowtow to the CCP” to continue making money in China. Like, yeah no shit these multi-billion dollar corporations will follow the regulations and don’t care about “making a statement” or whatever lol.
My favorite so far was that one esports guy who said some kind of pro-HK riots comment in an interview and Blizzard dropped him like a hot potato. Stuff like that wouldn’t happen if capital ran things in China like they do in the US. I wish I lived in a country with a communist party powerful enough to make foreign companies scared of getting on its bad side.
Schrodinger’s gamer, simultaneously pissed about predatory addiction baiting and lootboxes in gaming and pissed at the only people on the planet actually doing anything about it
In the end racism and anti-communism are more pressing needs to gamers than actually getting better games.
I’m not sure it’s the biggest market in the sense of being profitable but it’s certainly a giant market and it’s like, why would you limit yourself to just one market when you could literally double your profits by publishing in China too?
It’s first in both revenue and number of players. Note though how number of players is over 3 times the next one, but revenue is only slightly more. Still completely worth it.
Ayy finally surpassed the US