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Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Woof, what a bad response.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 days ago (3 children)

As the article says, since his comments were run through machine translation, it's possible they're meant more in jest rather than seriously. I'll keep a charitable perspective on this until we learn more.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

except we know Chinese people have been review bombing other games because BMW didn't win. Sure doesn't seem like a joke to them.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is based on a shit article from the shitrag "TheGamer" that calls 500 players downvoting a game a movement. There's 1,4B people in China, 500 votes don't even register. TheGamer is a clickbait/ragebait shitrag that weaponises xenophobia/culture wars/ignorace to generate traffic. They are the precise example of the enshitification of the Internet. Veritable parasites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I got heavily downvoted for pointing out "TheGamer" as a poor source of gaming journalism in a post specifically linking to that article. So I guess that tells me everything I need to know about Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

i read the original on weibo and he appears to be (to me at least) fully serious. tried to invoke nationalistic pride as well

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Since last night, I've seen a lot of strong dissatisfaction and frustration in players' comments - often expressed humorously or ironically, which made me laugh,"

Jest or not, this one statement is irresponsible because this will only serve to encourage bad and toxic behavior and you know that's how immature gamers will take it, as condoning their behavior.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The comment you responded to covered all that. It's possible it's a translation/tone error. No reason to assume face value given the stakes.

If that ends up being not the case, then ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No the OP did not. I'm literally saying tone does not matter and even if it was a flippant remark, gamers will take that as approval of their bullshit behavior.

Let's face it, gamers are all too often immature assholes, Westerner, Easterners, wherever.

But whatever, people disagree and that's fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Then that would be the gamers' fault, not the producer's. They're not responsible for how their comment may not only be taken out of context but also translated in a disadvantageous way.