@AaronMk
I never played nor care about Battlefield 1.
Also,
this article points out how Chinese officials and Tencent are categorizing homosexual relationships as “wrong values.”
Word of the slowdown followed a meeting between Chinese officials and representatives of Tencent and NetEase, an internet technology company. The purpose of that meeting was to reinforce the need to enforce restrictions, and also to lay out other content guidelines: Games with a “wrong set of values,” including “gay love,” are to be avoided, according to the report, and the companies were also instructed to ease up on monetization and profit-focused game mechanics.
Funny, because I’ve heard officials also say the opposite. Because guess what: despite Beijing’s best efforts or self-proclaimed China watchers in the US, China isn’t a monolithic entity. Which comes back around to the original points I made in the prior discussion: you have two government groups acting towards roughly the same goal, and they will willfully do collateral because they imagine they may clean it up later, since they are trying to Jiang Jemin consensus building and loop-hole construction. The material reason for this? China is a patchwork of provincial governments working as more of a federation as the US does, than the straight top-down autocracy it poses itself as.
In his memoirs Chinese novelist Yu Hua describes the current and contemporary historical image of China as marked by severe disparities. Confirmed by folk I know with professional ties to China, the shape of this political disparity takes on refined shape. Provincial - and even city - governments run the gamut of ruling autism as AnCap to severe orthodox Maoist and all points between. Often the act with such severe independence of Beijing they do wildly redundant things. In a case Yu Hua’s talks about: ten cities have built ten super-ports for freight, when Beijing advised for only one, and one would have done.
Amending 1910’s style decency laws however will not, regrettably: achieve the end goal of China which is ascend into being a European and American styled service economy which as far as the Standing Politburo has decided requires some preening of its gardens. It will take out things, and the only thing they can do is to do the bad look of “shut up and stay clear, we did you a good earlier”.
And it does not matter whether or not you play Battlefield 1, or ever have. Because you are not a part of the China market, you have no influence there. But the point remains: what are your thoughts on women in Battlefield 1. Do not deflect my deflection; it is important.