Plague Inc Game Banned in China

[What's the sitch?]

I had been thinking about this game the past few days, due to the Corona Virus, so I finally went to log in and see if anyone had made a scenario or level for it.

News for the game popped up when I went over to pick it in my library.

In retrospect I cant say I'm surprised. They have been banning everything that could be negative and in anyway related to them.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

In retrospect I cant say I'm surprised. They have been banning everything that could be negative and in anyway related to them.

And the West bows down to them, maybe they'll ban it for their Chinese masters overseas

 

[Duke Nukem]

Why play Plague inc when we're experiencing it in real life lol.

 

[Terthna]

And the West bows down to them, maybe they'll ban it for their Chinese masters overseas

No; as far as I'm aware, the West never bans entertainment media banned in China. Mostly because if they did, the western entertainment media would collapse as an industry; you would have to kill an entire forest to get enough paper on which to list everything the Chinese government bans.

 

[S'task]

And the West bows down to them, maybe they'll ban it for their Chinese masters overseas

Unlikely in the least. While China is a big market, it's still not as big as the Western Markets. Sure there's a LOT of Chinese, but their individual purchasing power lags far below Americans, Cannucks, Japanese (yes, in media, Japan counts as "western"), and most Europeans, so while there's a lot of them, in raw money, they're still a secondary market.

Any company that pulled down a game because it was banned in China would find itself rapidly losing market share in the rest of the world. Look at how gamers reacted to Blizzard kowtowing to the Chinese, and that was over something that had no direct impact on them. Now imagine if Gamers WERE directly impacted. They would burn the company down.