PUBG and Fortnite just got banned by the Chinese government

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According to a Reddit Thread documenting the review process of this committee. The games on the list are League of legends, Fortnite, PUBG, Overwatch along with many popular titles produced by companies like Tencent and NetEase. Riot's games "overly revealing female characters" and “inharmonious chatroom”, Blizzard’s “game visuals [that] promote incorrect values,” and Diablo’s missions that “include fraud.” are one of the many features that require “corrective action” according to this committee.

Meanwhile, games like PUBG, H1Z1, Fortnite got banned for featuring "Blood and Gore". Paladins got itself in the mess too for featuring “overly revealing female characters, blood and gore, and vulgar content.” The only studio that got hurt the most from this is Tencent which got featured six times in the list where Blizzard and NetEase appear three to four times.

And what is Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China behind this whole action? According to Wikipedia:

The Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, or CCPPD, is an internal division of the Communist Party of China in charge of ideology-related work, as well as its information dissemination system. It is not formally considered to be part of the Government of the People's Republic of China, but enforces media censorship and control in the People's Republic of China.

It was founded in May 1924, and was suspended during the Cultural Revolution, until it was restored in October 1977. It is an important organ in China's propaganda system, and its inner operations are highly secretive. Its current head is Liu Qibao.

RedofPaw on December 12nd, 2018 at 16:14 UTC »

They don't want them to compete with the real live Battle Royale they're setting up for people who come out lowest on the social score system.

yohojones on December 12nd, 2018 at 15:53 UTC »

New game plan.

Make game that's offensive to China. Game Gets Banned in China Chinese Hackers Removed From Games.

ArcOfRuin on December 12nd, 2018 at 15:38 UTC »

Fortnite got banned for “blood and gore.” There is no blood in Fortnite afaik.