China is the world’s biggest gaming market, where a culture of creativity has flourished – so please do not conflate companies and players with a repressive regime that cracks down on individual expression
  • 520@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    If it’s on a console, sure.

    What are they gonna sell, my play time habits?

    • good_girl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Who are you that’s so important that the government of China wants your information so badly they’ll track your every habit through… a video game?

      • 520@kbin.social
        13·
        1 year ago

        You do realise the CCP monitoring systems are known to be completely indiscriminate, right? They try to monitor everyone they can

        • Black AOC@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          And? PRISM’s been doing that for more than a decade now, and you never had an issue with that.

          • 520@kbin.social
            12·
            1 year ago

            What do you expect me to be able to do about PRISM, exactly? American made software and services aren’t exactly avoidable like their Chinese equivalents are.

          • 520@kbin.social
            32·
            1 year ago

            That’s why I’m fine with it on consoles. That and I don’t live in China, so I don’t have a social credit file that I care about being affected.

            PC games though? Whole 'nother story. People often use their gaming PCs for more serious stuff too, plus it isn’t nearly as big an opportunity cost to later ship a PC update granting remote code execution.