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@kyonshi The legislation asks for labelling on pornography, violence, and vulgarity and the restriction on including minors in games that include them.
What’s the problem here?
@lategamer @kyonshi@lemmy.ml actually not much as such, but one barely hears about roleplaying games in that part of the world, and to have it big enough to elicit a government response is interesting, don't you think?
@kyonshi @kyonshi@lemmy.ml are we saying it’s an untapped market for western games? 😉
China is so big that the untapped extremes of behaviour in smaller countries become reality. The problem must be serious if the government is stepping in. What triggered it, I wonder.
@lategamer @kyonshi@lemmy.ml why does it always have to be a market?
I'm more interested in the mindshare rpgs have there. How are they playing? What are they doing? Is it only larps?
Call of Cthulhu is the big success here. D&D/Pathfinder and FATE are distant second places, by appearances. I've never even seen a LARP, but that could very well be just a matter of circles.
@kyonshi @kyonshi@lemmy.ml why do people take stuff so literally when there’s literally an emoticon. Nice one. 🙄
One barely hears about role-playing games in China … unless you search for "TRPG" on Taobao.
I think you are misconstruing what I wrote there quite creatively so you can do a little one-upmanship, hmm?
The other option is that I am responding to what you wrote and if there was misunderstanding it could very well have been that you didn't communicate well, n'est-ce pas?
(And before you "well akshually" … this is a single search of a single term. If I use the actual Chinese terminology you'll get a lot more.)
You know that how?
@DerPapa69 because in my survey of English and German (and sometimes French and Polish) articles this topic in general doesnt come up. Sure there might be lots of articles written about it, but if they are all in Chinese I won't he able to find them.
(Same reason why a lot of roleplaying scenes are kind of a mystery. If something is written about only in one language it's not really easy to find it, even if translation apps exist)
The Legislation and basically every Chinese artist want this. Some legit criticism is that China enforces every media to not be +18, instead of a lavel of different ages.
But the ban on not promoting religions and supersticions shiuld be conserved at all cost, frankly.