Square Enix Sued Over Kane and Lynch 2

[Vampire cat]

I think it would be awesome if they set the next bland shooter in Norway, or even Bergen. I don't know why X3, it just sounds like something I'd buy just because it was set in my town Oo. And one must admit, it WOULD be a nice change of scenery from New York and Iraq, wouldn't it? Some nice north-European wooded areas and many wooden houses in varying shapes and sizes. Not to mention Bergen's impossibly confusing road network!

 

[ThunderCavalier]

If he wins this case and uses it as a 'precedent' to sue other companies or countries for insulting the glory of China, I would not be surprised whatsoever if Microsoft or the guys behind Civilization got a lawsuit for including the option for their great and noble civilization to be pounded into the dust.

 

[sideshow]

*points to every single army shooter* And these get a pass?
*points the the Modern Warfare games* THESE! Get a pass?

but satirical joking aside, I was waiting for this to resurface. This is a country who banned Football Manager (cannot remember what year) simply because it recognised Tibet as an independent country.

 

[nondescript]

Hand the man a cup of scalding coffee and invite him to pour it in his lap.

 

[Astrixzero]

China is pretty much the most backwards, tyrannically ruled bomb of a first world country. Poverty is common place, the rich rape the people for all their worth and the "government" goes to great lengths to murder silence and arrest anyone who speaks up. They have the highest ratio of executions of any country on Earth and an utter joke of a criminal justice system, all but ensuring innocent people and anyone the government doesn't like go missing or have their head blown off on a daily basis. They give new meaning to the term political prisoner. Nothing that comes from that country surprises me.

And and I'd well bet China is one of the more racist and xenophobic nations of people on Earth as well--irony.

What does his nationality has to do with anything? Let's see, an overzealous Chinese nationalist attempts to sue Square Enix, and somehow he is reflective of every 1.34 billion Chinese citizens? This lawyer guy is no more representative of the Chinese that Jack Thompson being representative of Americans. Chinese nationalists like him are commonly referred to "fenqing" (angry youth), and are commonly mocked amongst Chinese society, while foreign products from Korea and Japan, such as TV dramas and anime are frequently consumed amongst the Chinese populace. With everything said, your ethnocentrism is disgusting, don't complain about media bias against gamers when you're doing the same to people of other nationalities.

And yes I'm Chinese from the PRC, and I can safely say that you're full of it. Most Chinese people are far more concerned with getting on with their lives/getting rich rather then caring about the government, and contray to popular Western portrayal, China isn't Nazi Germany or North Korea where everyone get evesdropped, nor citizens get arrested or killed for simply disliking the President or Premier. The Chinese political system is rather decentralized, with many provincial and county governments making their own policies. At least in major cities, government regulation is virtually non-existant, including those on social services, healthcare, and businesses, while very few taxes exist. Virtually anyone can set up their business with very little permits required, and I've seen police beating up criminals in the streets and letting them go because locking them up wastes money. Frankly, the PRC government really don't give a damn about what you or anyone think about them unless you actively call for political change in ways that embarasses the government.