China & Starcraft: Ghost - What the...

[handclaw]

http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=141178_0_5_0_M

The State Administration of Industry & Commerce (SAIC) has rejected an application by Blizzard Entertainment to use the name of its XBOX-supportive video action game "StarCraft: Ghost" as an e-sports brand, claiming the ghostly name "promotes feudal superstitions," reports chinacourt.org. Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games and Activision merger Activision Blizzard, appealed to the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court to reverse SAIC's decision, but the court decided on Friday not to hear the case, said the report.

I'd have here some witty or funny comment, but after several thoughts I came to the conclusion it would be lame, so I just ask:

What the heck?!

[Xarthat]

Ghostly name promote feudal superstitions? Since when?

[Omacron]

They're still making it?


Wait. Maybe they're revitalizing it as a downloadable game?

[handclaw]

They never really canceled it.

[Lon-ami]

Yeah, they only froze it.

Hm... this China guys are weird. They told something about a StarCraft MMO.

1-They believe they're godlike and nobody gives them orders and don't care about Blizzard policies.

2-They're just lying stuff.

Anyway, they're mad, assume it. After the pandas and bones being dangerous, this was expected.

Next issue: Starcraft has the name star, which can be related to a ninja-star, which is a weapon that kills peoplez.

[Mark_Romaneck]

Laaaaaaaaaaaame

[Daiol]

This is a recurring theme with Chinese bureaucracy. They (to a western point of view) are paranoid about anything that might rile up the rural peasantry (where animism and ancestor worship (and thus ghosts) still holds quite a large sway), because that's what keep's them in power, not annoying/pissing off the rural masses (which is where revolutions typically start that topple Chinese dynasties).

[Omacron]

This is a recurring theme with Chinese bureaucracy. They (to a western point of view) are paranoid about anything that might rile up the rural peasantry (where animism and ancestor worship (and thus ghosts) still holds quite a large sway), because that's what keep's them in power, not annoying/pissing off the rural masses (which is where revolutions typically start that topple Chinese dynasties).

Yeah, but... do the people who believe in animism and stuff have the cash and sophistication to play video games?

[Walter Black]

Blizzard will probably just rename the Chinese version, like when Biohazard became Resident Evil.

[Vicious]

Wow, if anything good comes out of this is a semi-confirmation that the game isn't dead.

[Warlock]

Once again, Chinese communism prevails.. how much shit have they censored in that country now? I don't even think they are allowed to show Skeletons in WoW - when you die you turn into a little grave stone.. haha..

[Daiol]

Yeah, but... do the people who believe in animism and stuff have the cash and sophistication to play video games?

No, but that's irrelevant to them. It's a possibility, and therefore it's verboten.

[Kerrah]

Once again, Chinese communism prevails.. how much shit have they censored in that country now? I don't even think they are allowed to show Skeletons in WoW - when you die you turn into a little grave stone.. haha..

That also happens in Worms.

[Drz]

Once again, Chinese communism prevails.. how much shit have they censored in that country now? I don't even think they are allowed to show Skeletons in WoW - when you die you turn into a little grave stone.. haha..

Not to mention Forsaken are fully fleshed in the game. :P

[Lon-ami]

And Blizzard had problems with them after giving a Pandaren Samurai outfit.

C'mon, it's just a fucking game. It doesn't matter what outfit do you give 'em.

It's just lame, and even the players agree with us. It's just the dumb politicians.

Uh, and I don't need to explain the reasons of the expansions arriving months later, do I?

[Wabbajack]

They just need to do the same as Wizards of the coast. Recently they finaly got enough balls to show skelletons on chinese magic cards and nobody really cares.

And btw. china has banned porn. I think most chinese people aren't really happy about that^^

[Orcish_Warrior]

Not to mention Forsaken are fully fleshed in the game. :P

The forsaken actually kinda look better fully fleshed, for me anyways. The bones look too "cartoony" if you know what I mean...

[Warlock]

And btw. china has banned porn. I think most chinese people aren't really happy about that^^

Dear God... I predict bad things in China's future...

[Orcish_Warrior]

Dear God... I predict bad things in China's future...

They're banning porn? Sick bastards! Next thing you know sexual intercourse is banned and new Chinese people are "spawned" using cloning technology.

[Krucifire]

They're banning porn? Sick bastards! Next thing you know sexual intercourse is banned and new Chinese people are "spawned" using cloning technology.

Please don't go there, or everyone will look the same the sense of being an Individual will be lost. :sweatdrop

[Orcish_Warrior]

Please don't go there, or everyone will look the same the sense of being an Individual will be lost. :sweatdrop

Just like the Accretians from RF Online...

[Xarthat]

Please don't go there, or everyone will look the same the sense of being an Individual will be lost. :sweatdrop

And that's exactly what PRC are aiming to.