Games @lemmy.world Alteon @lemmy.world 3 wk. ago

China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store

www.businessinsider.com China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store

The new game for Nintendo's Switch has promotional art and a title that closely resemble that of the best-selling Chinese game.

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Copyright infringement sucks when it happens to you doesn't it China
- Copyright sucks. Brought to you by copyleft gang
  
  Uh, copyleft still depends on copyright. All it means is that licenses are free so long as the terms are followed, but it still relies on licensing. The actual opposite(s) of copyright is open-source and/or public domain.
- Copyright infringement in China is awesome! It allows one to buy things at a fraction of the cost because of such competition. A lot of western brands’ factories sell the product locally unbranded for 1/10 of the price and it’s awesome
  
  Copyright infringement also means small creators get their lunch money stolen by big Chinese corporations. Copyright doesn’t just protect corpos.
  
  How does the local economy fair against Western countries? Is it on par?
  
  idk, purely copying western designs seems to be admitting they can't design anything new. Hell, they copied an entire Austrian village.
"one user wrote" *China

Man, our media really has become utter shait.
- The phrase "one user wrote" is often used to introduce a quote. One user wrote this, one wrote that, and another wrote that. Yeah, the generalisation from a single forum thread / few social media posts to "the whole of internet is crazy about this!" is crap, but media sensationalism has always been there. Media (and especially media about pop culture) has always been shit.
- I mean, when you have a few thousand two-bit internet media sites surviving off advertisement spam and hiring any freelance writer that can put together three paragraphs for $5 that's what our media becomes.
I may be wrong but Wukong itself looks a Souls knock-off, so I don't see the problem.
- I think the cultural theme of the game is more reason for the "anger" than the gameplay formula.
  
  Its based on the most famous Chinese mythological story / fairytale about the Monkey King Wukong.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King
  
  I have not deep dived into it, but I think it's a treasured and well known story in China, and I assume a lot of Chinese people are proud of their mythology being a successful story outside of China as well.
  
  Also it's what Dragon Ball is based on and it's a primary influence for most if not all Shonen anime.
  
  Its like getting upset when two different projects are made based on the Greek Pantheon.
  
  "Folktale" is a better description but I agree
  
  Just like Dragon Ball is based on that myth, no?
  
  And I love how much of it is fart jokes
  
  西游记
  
  deep dove? deep doven?
- souls is a genre tho
  
  that's the funny thing about genres and knock-offs, the only difference is scale. every game after pong is a knock-off of something that came before, and the great ones are the ones who purposefully or inadvertedly added something that made it a new standard for which to knock off, birthing a new genre. people hate terms like metroidvania or roguelike but imo those are the best genre names because they most clearly communicate the context and intent of the game
  
  The first-person shooter genre used to be called Doom Clones because they were all viewed as rip offs of Doom (which, to be fair, many were). Genre conventions are created by copying what others have done. Souls is a game series, which has been so influential that it became a genre.
The irony...
Imagine that! Popular game makes a ton of money and scam companies make shameless ripoffs to try and cash in on it? Never happened before and never will! /s
Does a company own the likeness of wukong? Seems kinda silly to be mad over that.
- No, only a dude from the Ming dynasty does lol
  
  What is the copyright system like in the Ming dynasty, I wonder.
"Let them fight"
This reminds me of Breath of the Wild's fans being upset about Genshin Impact.
Of all the reasons to be upset about this gambling game…

(I'm upset that Genshin completed to Impact on my keyboard just now…
I don’t play or have ever even downloaded the game.)
How long before the news reports the game was just stealing your data.
Is it any good?
Because I'm not allowed to read the article to know if this is mentioned: a big reason why this would aggravate Wukong fans is that Nintendo is a Japanese company.
- Nintendo isn’t the developer though. Having a hard time figuring out where “Global Game Studio” is based out of.
  
  Also, byebyepaywall.com is your friend
  
  As if random internet outrage ever cared about getting the fundamental details correct, when there is rage to be had.
  
  or bypass paywalls clean. though all this is contributing to a bit of irony...
Nintendo store's seal of quantity strikes again.

Scoop!
hey if this stops the slip that gets chugged out on the store I'm all for it
The Chinese internet is always upset about something in gaming.
whatever you do, dont visit Steam.
Are they upset or does western media constantly try to portray Chinese internet users as sensitive?
- I mean this is pretty standard fare for any gamers, anywhere. But I’m sure this question is being asked in good faith :)
  
  Meh knock offs aren’t always bad, everything was a doom knock iff at first ;)
  
  Yes I do mean my comment in good faith
- idk, but I saw some of the insane shit they were posting when Black Myth: Wukong didn't win Game of the Year at the Game Awards. It wouldn't surprise me if that anger is spilling over to other targets.
- Chinese internet users are overly sensitive
- they are upset, as upset as any normal person is against those meme clickbait garbage videos

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