Black Myth: Wukong developer Game Science is reportedly trying to ban content creators from discussing certain topics in exchange for game codes.

In a leaked document, which at least one content creator has publicly stated they received from Game Science, there is a “do’s and dont’s” section, telling those who receive a code what they cannot discuss in their content. Here, the document informs those with Black Myth: Wukong codes that they cannot include “politics” and “feminist propaganda” in their coverage of the game, among other topics.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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    3 months ago

    I was just going to write “China’s gonna China”, but then I remember this particular studio goes a little further than that:

    In one instance, a lead is said to have written that men and women play different games because of “biological conditions”, following up his comment by writing: “Fck sissies, fck tragic love stories, fuck moon-lit peach blossoms and flute-playing scholars! […] Some things are just for men, their depression, their anger, their pain…”.

    The studio is also said to have shared job recruitment posters that boasted “friends with benefits” as a job perk. Another was reported to have read, “Fatties should f*ck off.”

    Charming.

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      3 months ago

      So a 4chan edgelord is somehow running part of a company. Lovely…

      I wasn’t aware that only men have depression, anger and pain. 🤔

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        3 months ago

        Lots of bigoted edgelords have lots of management positions… they just aren’t actually on 4chan.

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      3 months ago

      “China’s gonna China”

      Fuck China, but I really don’t see how this is specific to them. Lets not pretend this shit couldn’t happen (and is happening) pretty much anywhere else on the planet.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Some things are just for men, their depression, their anger, their pain…”.

      I mean, you can just ask for suicide watch straight up, instead of veiling it like that?

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        3 months ago

        Except he’s not saying people have different tastes. He’s saying genders have different tastes, of which only that gender can enjoy and they should enjoy them. He’s saying the opposite of what you’re implying it says.

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    3 months ago

    The guy who sent this was apparently using a gmail domain, not Game Science domain, this might be fake.

    The article itself says that they never received any such requirements.

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    3 months ago

    Others have already pointed out important things about what the dev has said; I would like to add that the book the game is based on has a number of female characters which are simply not in the game.

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      3 months ago

      Not for most of the Dark Souls crowd.

      But what I’m thinking is that they don’t really have much leverage, I don’t know who is expecting this studio to put out more than this one anticipated game before returning to relative obscurity. At most they can provide a shorter demo and deny the full game codes to reviewers that didn’t obey.

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    3 months ago

    Seems reasonable. They are to review the game so the player know what’s the game like.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I would quarantine that game in my review bucket based on it’s isolation of specific trigger words such as ‘COVID-19’. I’d rather talk about Winnie the Pooh, tbh.

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    3 months ago

    Oh no! You can’t talk about politics. When talking about the game. Who haves nothing do to with politics.

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          3 months ago

          Why did they forbid talking about stuff that isn’t about the game? Why do they need to talk about this stuff?

          The game studio brought this up, not the reviewers. The reviewers are just pointing out that the devs are clearly woke obsessed piss babies that can’t not talk about politics, even when it doesn’t have anything to do with their game.

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          Why do they feel the need to forbid that speech if it isn’t related to the game. If the content of the game inspires people to discuss such issues then they should be allowed to discuss them. If it’s extremely misogynistic, they should be allowed to point that out.

        • Vittelius@feddit.org
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          Because I am a believer in death of the author. That means that a developer doesn’t get to decide what their game is or isn’t about.

          A dev could have put in a theme unintentionally. Does that mean you are not allowed to talk about it?

          Why do they get to decide what a work of art means to me?