Re:Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online gam...
by yorwba on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:33AM
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The Chinese source says 追求血腥, which I'd translate poetically as "pursue the smell of blood". So there wouldn't have to be any blood visible on screen, as long as you can "smell"/imagine it. Essentially "overly violent", as you guessed.
This is really targeted at China's domestic game industry and various tendencies the Party disapproves of because they believe those games to "corrupt the youth" or something like that. The leadership is full of very conservative people for whom a chainmail bikini verges on pornography.
Re:Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online gam...
by realusername on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @02:54AM
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You could argue about that but what about blood and gore? There's not even any blood in the game.
Personally, I enjoy that kind of games, but the fact that they display smiling cartoon characters killing each others can make some people even more uncomfortable.
On steam, a game where you play a school shooter was recently banned. Can cartoon graphics and absence of blood make a school shooter acceptable?