Posted on 05/09/2019 12:01:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Despite having around 70 million average daily active users in the mobile version, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China is no more. Instead, we’ve got Game for Peace now, which, while almost identical to PUBG in many ways — it’s Tencent’s replacement for the battle royale sensation — the finer details are a little absurd.
Take, for instance, Game For Peace’s new dying animation, where your enemies wave goodbye at you after you slaughter them.
Tencent has now resorted to outright taking PUBG down in China, and replaced it with a more government-friendly socialist game.
As they describe it, Game For Peace — which still includes murder — “pays tribute to the blue sky warriors that guard [China’s] airspace.” PUBG users are finding that their previous progress in PUBG has carried over to Game For Peace, despite Tencent’s insistence that “they are very different genres of games.”
China has banned video games that contain violence, sex, or gambling, as well as titles that put the country in a negative light.
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Doesn’t look like there’s going to be a “GTA Peking” anytime soon.
How about “Grand Theft Rickshaw”?
Im hoping all the Chinese hackers can no longer cheat on the north American servers.
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