Chinese Players Review-Bomb Life Is Strange: True Colors Because of a Flag

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Image: Deck Nine



Video games are traditionally review bombed for reasons that include poor gameplay, lack of playtime, and glitches or bugs, but for the Chinese, all it takes is a flag that they don’t like.



This has been observed with the release of Deck Nine’s Life is Strange: True Colors, a new installment of the series that centers on a psychic named Alex Chen. The game is being review bombed by China because one of the shops that can be seen, Treasures of Tibet, features a Tibetan flag above its entrance. China doesn’t like this addition too much; the flag is banned in the country for being a symbol of the Tibetan independence movement.



“The game contains elements of Tibetan independence, implying a split of China,” reads one complaint.



“Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and...

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[MadMummy76]

poor gameplay, lack of playtime, and glitches or bugs

What? Those are legitimate reasons to give a negative review to a game, not a review bomb.
Review bombing means downvoting / upvoting a game for reasons that have nothing to do with the game's quality or playability.

 

[Brian_B]

Well you would likely see the same thing in the US if a game revolved around the Confederate flag today…

 

[MadMummy76]

Well you would likely see the same thing in the US if a game revolved around the Confederate flag today…

What do you mean revolved around? It's literally just featured on a building in the game.
This is like review bombing a WW2 game for having nazis.

 

[Brian_B]

What do you mean revolved around? It's literally just featured on a building in the game.
This is like review bombing a WW2 game for having nazis.

I don’t mean anything by it - was just a word. Goddamn

 

[GunShot]

This mess didn't need no excuse to fail in sales numbers, it was designed to flop.

Here's 2021 biggest MSM overhyped/overrated super failure title that goes beyond CP2077 flop.