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International news: “Coronavirus Attack” game from Steam
(26 Apr) A few days ago, a game called "Coronavirus Attack" was launched on Steam, the game features a virus that causes people to become selfish zombies. The virus have spread throughout the country. Many carriers have fled, in order to control the outbreak, a lab produced a coronavirus to destroy the zombies.
The Easter eggs in the game include the secret number "198964", "Taiwan is not China", "Free Hong Kong", and other achievements. The game is also priced at 64 yuan, so it attracted many Chinese players to leave negative comments about how the game is humiliating China, insults to Taiwan and Hong Kong citizens and other reviews.
Yesterday, some Chinese players found they are unable to search the game on Steam. At first, they thought their protest finally made Valve Inc take the initiative to take “Coronavirus Attack” off the shelves.
Surprisingly, Steam blocked any Chinese IP from accessing the game’s webpage and netizens outside China can still play.
The Chinese players were infuriated as they think Valve Inc is protecting racist views and they called for resistance.
However, interestingly, a few weeks earlier, Steam marked Taiwan as a country, which caused many Chinese netizens to be dissatisfied and called for a boycott, but it caused another group of players to rebound because they were worried that there would be no games to play in the future, resulting in arguments between the two groups on the Internet.
Source: Facebook (台灣也有一個騰訊)
https://bit.ly/2W2xIIe
#Game #Steam #CoronavirusAttack #Taiwan #HongKong
International news: “Coronavirus Attack” game from Steam
(26 Apr) A few days ago, a game called "Coronavirus Attack" was launched on Steam, the game features a virus that causes people to become selfish zombies. The virus have spread throughout the country. Many carriers have fled, in order to control the outbreak, a lab produced a coronavirus to destroy the zombies.
The Easter eggs in the game include the secret number "198964", "Taiwan is not China", "Free Hong Kong", and other achievements. The game is also priced at 64 yuan, so it attracted many Chinese players to leave negative comments about how the game is humiliating China, insults to Taiwan and Hong Kong citizens and other reviews.
Yesterday, some Chinese players found they are unable to search the game on Steam. At first, they thought their protest finally made Valve Inc take the initiative to take “Coronavirus Attack” off the shelves.
Surprisingly, Steam blocked any Chinese IP from accessing the game’s webpage and netizens outside China can still play.
The Chinese players were infuriated as they think Valve Inc is protecting racist views and they called for resistance.
However, interestingly, a few weeks earlier, Steam marked Taiwan as a country, which caused many Chinese netizens to be dissatisfied and called for a boycott, but it caused another group of players to rebound because they were worried that there would be no games to play in the future, resulting in arguments between the two groups on the Internet.
Source: Facebook (台灣也有一個騰訊)
https://bit.ly/2W2xIIe
#Game #Steam #CoronavirusAttack #Taiwan #HongKong