SteamDB chart showing 1.4 million people playing now

  • Eggyhead@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    It’s funny to me that they even felt a need for this clause. What does the game have to do with feminism or Covid? It’s based on ancient Chinese mythology in ancient China telling a fictional story featuring Chinese mythological beings that are not real. Why would there be any reason to bring feminism or Covid into that in the first place?

    It’s so weird and seems really snowflakey to me.

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      1 month ago

      Lots of streamers will play games while discussing other topics, and those topics can often be seen as controversial. Clearly the company wanted to avoid any video existing where someone was discussing unrelated controversial topics over the top of their gameplay.

      It backfired on them cause obviously you can’t control everyone and everything but I can understand from a business standpoint their desire to remain neutral and not be part of that crowd.

      Look at gamergate. The video game internet world is still not far removed from immensely controversial and offensive behaviors. Maybe they just wanted to avoid any association that could theoretically occur.

      I’m not excusing them. Just attempting to understand it in any practival sense without immediately becoming alarmist like everyone does.

      Setting aside the CCP angle, it comes off kind of like back when Michael Jordan says all political parties buy Jordan’s.