Game Science Is Reportedly Making Content Creators Promise Not To Discuss Feminism, Politics For Black Myth: Wukong Codes
Game Science Is Reportedly Making Content Creators Promise Not To Discuss Feminism, Politics For Black Myth: Wukong Codes
Black Myth: Wukong developer Game Science is reportedly trying to ban content creators from discussing certain topics in exchange for game codes.
In a leaked document, which at least one content creator has publicly stated they received from Game Science, there is a "do's and dont's" section, telling those who receive a code what they cannot discuss in their content. Here, the document informs those with Black Myth: Wukong codes that they cannot include "politics" and "feminist propaganda" in their coverage of the game, among other topics.
I was just going to write "China's gonna China", but then I remember this particular studio goes a little further than that:
In one instance, a lead is said to have written that men and women play different games because of "biological conditions", following up his comment by writing: "Fck sissies, fck tragic love stories, fuck moon-lit peach blossoms and flute-playing scholars! [...] Some things are just for men, their depression, their anger, their pain...".
The studio is also said to have shared job recruitment posters that boasted "friends with benefits" as a job perk. Another was reported to have read, "Fatties should f*ck off."
Charming.
So a 4chan edgelord is somehow running part of a company. Lovely...
I wasn't aware that only men have depression, anger and pain. 🤔
Lots of bigoted edgelords have lots of management positions… they just aren’t actually on 4chan.
Glad I never intended to give money to these assholes.
With that attitude I won't even pirate it
“China’s gonna China”
Fuck China, but I really don't see how this is specific to them. Lets not pretend this shit couldn't happen (and is happening) pretty much anywhere else on the planet.
Some things are just for men, their depression, their anger, their pain…”.
I mean, you can just ask for suicide watch straight up, instead of veiling it like that?
How dare he speak bluntly about having different tastes!
Except he's not saying people have different tastes. He's saying genders have different tastes, of which only that gender can enjoy and they should enjoy them. He's saying the opposite of what you're implying it says.
The guy who sent this was apparently using a gmail domain, not Game Science domain, this might be fake.
The article itself says that they never received any such requirements.
And valid game keys so....
Others have already pointed out important things about what the dev has said; I would like to add that the book the game is based on has a number of female characters which are simply not in the game.
Red flag.
Not for most of the Dark Souls crowd.
But what I'm thinking is that they don't really have much leverage, I don't know who is expecting this studio to put out more than this one anticipated game before returning to relative obscurity. At most they can provide a shorter demo and deny the full game codes to reviewers that didn't obey.
This is fake.
https://x.com/JordanMiddler/status/1824864368342753719
EDIT: Seemingly different guidelines for reviewers and "influencers"? I'll wait for the dust to settle on this one.
Seems reasonable. They are to review the game so the player know what's the game like.
Straight up saying not to say anything that paints the game negatively or might piss someone off; that's not telling people what the game is like.
So just really worried about right-wing cancle culture?
I would quarantine that game in my review bucket based on it's isolation of specific trigger words such as 'COVID-19'. I'd rather talk about Winnie the Pooh, tbh.
Oh no! You can't talk about politics. When talking about the game. Who haves nothing do to with politics.
Good to know you like censorship.