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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

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Hong Kong Netizens Help China Fight Pornography Addiction! China Remove Game “Dream Girl” From The Steam Library

(01 Jul) There is a game called “Dream Girl” on Steam in China. It is very similar to "Minesweeper": once all the non-mine cells are uncovered, winner will be rewarded with a picture of a pretty woman as a background for the game. The pictures materials underneath the mines can also be replaced to any pictures by the players themselves, which is why a lot of Chinese netizens have uploaded many pornographic pictures and videos for share. Thus, it becomes a hugely popular game for the Chinese netizens who do not know how or do not want to bypass the censorship program (a.k.a. government firewall) in China to receive “obscene content”.

Yet, the game was recently discovered by Hong Kong Netizens, who thought that such obscene content would be harmful to the physical, mental and spiritual health of Chinese netizens. Thus, they reported “Dream Girl” to Steam and even to the Cyberspace Administration of China “to Combat Pornography Addiction in China”. As a result, Steam in China officially announced to remove the game “Dream Girl” from the library, accepting unconditional refunds.

Chinese netizens collapsed and said, “Oh my f**king god, who’s the worthless idiot who reported it? You don’t let others to enjoy it when you can’t enjoy it, are you the reincarnation of Buddha?”

Source: NOWgame News
https://reurl.cc/b5rEZX

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#China #Censorship #InternetFreedom #Steam #PornAddiction