Why would Google hide these images? Google does no business in China. They “pulled” out of the market years ago. Well, I should say they gave up trying to enter the market. Users can’t even access the Google Play Store without VPN tricks.
This is part of a much larger crackdown by the Chinese government to solidify cultural and political norms it views as necessary to perpetuate itself. Their attacks on the ultra wealthy, tech industries, “sissy men”, non-Han Chinese such as the Uighurs, Hong Kong independence and so on.
It should only have an effect on companies that continue to do business in China. Investor groups like BlackRock that are heavily invested in China my be vulnerable but as long as American consumers are addicted to cheap(er) Chinese consumer goods, China will be just fine and will happily ignore any concerns from others outside their borders and area of economic influence such as Indochina and the Philippine Sea.
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Wows China version if a bit different that our version. If anything, any changes would be for that market alone.
TenCent is also a Chinese company and saw a steep overnight stock decrease.
Gaming companies and their sponcers.
Which part of this is how these companies are required to enforce this rule.
Only one Playstation game topped 10,000 units sold last month in China. Offline gaming is nowhere near as big there.
Piracy and Roms are rampant in China.
Yeah, the silver lining is that if China’s regs have enough of an impact, video game publishers will have an incentive to include offline play mode in more of their games.
china actually has government that cares unlike ours.
curiously … I’m with china on this one, not all of it, but in general
hopefully it will force the hand of the corporations to make games again, instead of … less productive forms (token selling schemes, lockbox selling schemes, other bad stuff)
That doesn’t change that offline games are nowhere as big as online gaming. Both Microsoft and Sony said their console sales in China were “disappointing”.
They’ll have to tweak/change things for china-release.
But it won’t seep into the US, no reason for it to.
These are rules within China. So if you want a game to do well there, you’ll need to do the aforementioned changes.
Tencent is 10x bigger than Netease in market cap. They could swallow Netease easily if the CCP allowed it (to get a sense of scale, Netease is bigger than ActiBlizz!).
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Yes… .
Hopefully you’re just trolling
I get China is a huge market for video games, but maybe they would relax their views a little if everyone stopped caving to their demands for every little thing.
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You should ask the Uyghurs how much the CCP cares…
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Well to be fair, the way games are run over in China are very different. They are all about cash shops and micro transactions.
I’m going to guess that people in America and Europe who are concerned about video game addiction tacitly approve of China’s effort to reduce the amount of time and money that kids spend on video games.
I’m sure there is an ulterior motive in place here, but at least in the short term, this should prove interesting for the mobile market.
I have no idea how mobile games are so successful despite the vast majority of them being utter trash.
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