Whats the deal with all the chinese threads.

[slysudo]

Engagement hacking much? ~200K players ain't the actual player count. Chinese steam is different platform entirely, how is it contributing this massively to a not that exciting game.

[Metro]

Nothing new here. It was the same with It Takes Two and No Way Out. Many Asians tend to be less social or don't have friends to play games with, so they often use forums to find someone to play with.

[hush]

Originally posted by Metro:

Nothing new here. It was the same with It Takes Two and No Way Out. Many Asians tend to be less social or don't have friends to play games with, so they often use forums to find someone to play with.

that's what i'm telling this guy. but he doesn't understand how asian gamers tend to behave and blame it on chinese cheaters, because he encounter cheaters in counterstrike 2

[slysudo]

Originally posted by hush:

Originally posted by Metro:

Nothing new here. It was the same with It Takes Two and No Way Out. Many Asians tend to be less social or don't have friends to play games with, so they often use forums to find someone to play with.

that's what i'm telling this guy. but he doesn't understand how asian gamers tend to behave and blame it on chinese cheaters

You never actually bothered to explain how there is a chinese version of steam that never contributed to any sort of engagement between western countries and china until much recently and even more so with this game. Its all a bit fishy and only bots like yourself dont really care to see it even when its right in front of your eyes.

I could pay for 10,000 comments to be made from chinese engagement farms to say that meth is healthy and you would eat it up if your favorite influencer spoke about it.

[[JRE] Joe Rogan]

This same accusation was never brought up with Black Myth Wukong which was sold to people as a game that's a "easier" Souls game and more like God of War which was clearly false after I played it for a bit.

[slysudo]

Originally posted by TalkTV Piers Morgan:

This same accusation was never brought up with Black Myth Wukong which was sold to people as a game that's a "easier" Souls game and more like God of War which was clearly false after I played it for a bit.

Wukong was an anomaly when it released and since then china seems to be heavily investing into astroturfing the internet with bits and pieces of what it approves of. Also the fact that soulslike games are notoriously glazed regardless of what the actual game is like, I dont hate Wukong like I said its an anomaly.

In general it allowed for people to trust china way too much. Marvel Rivals is a perfect example since they heavily influence the game via bots. Yet no one seems to care or whatever resistance to this is silenced or pushed away from algorithms of modern social media unless you really look for it.

[hush]

Originally posted by slysudo:

Originally posted by hush:

that's what i'm telling this guy. but he doesn't understand how asian gamers tend to behave and blame it on chinese cheaters

You never actually bothered to explain how there is a chinese version of steam that never contributed to any sort of engagement between western countries and china until much recently and even more so with this game. Its all a bit fishy and only bots like yourself dont really care to see it even when its right in front of your eyes.

I could pay for 10,000 comments to be made from chinese engagement farms to say that meth is healthy and you would eat it up if your favorite influencer spoke about it.

If you really know Chinese gamers you will know that there is a subscription service there that allows Chinese players to access global steam. Obviously these Chinese posters use global steam because you cannot use steam community in Chinese steam. It is not anomaly since if you visit it takes two forums even lethal company forums there are a lot of Chinese poster there. Besides there are also a lot of Chinese living outside China and around Asia.

[slysudo]

Originally posted by hush:

Originally posted by slysudo:

You never actually bothered to explain how there is a chinese version of steam that never contributed to any sort of engagement between western countries and china until much recently and even more so with this game. Its all a bit fishy and only bots like yourself dont really care to see it even when its right in front of your eyes.

I could pay for 10,000 comments to be made from chinese engagement farms to say that meth is healthy and you would eat it up if your favorite influencer spoke about it.

If you really know Chinese gamers you will know that there is a subscription service there that allows Chinese players to access global steam. Obviously these Chinese posters use global steam because you cannot use steam community in Chinese steam

That doesn't sound very CCP approved but sure whatever you say. Ill treat it like a VPN service and just imagine anyone caught using it is banned at some point.

[hush]

It isn't but 80 percent of them uses it https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/04/pc-gamers-china-steam-spending-niko-partners

[slysudo]

Originally posted by hush:

It isn't but 80 percent of them uses it https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/04/pc-gamers-china-steam-spending-niko-partners

So in general my analysis is correct that china is astroturfing the entire internet and no one gives a damn or are using that fact to their advantage to get away with stuff china never approved in the first place. Leading to no real accountability for anything anymore, Tencent was already notorious enough and it seems to be getting even worse.

[hush]

Originally posted by slysudo:

Originally posted by hush:

It isn't but 80 percent of them uses it https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/04/pc-gamers-china-steam-spending-niko-partners

So in general my analysis is correct that china is astroturfing the entire internet and no one gives a damn or are using that fact to their advantage to get away with stuff china never approved in the first place. Leading to no real accountability for anything anymore, Tencent was already notorious enough and it seems to be getting even worse.

yeah while people are fighting their culture war they don't even realize that china is taking over gaming and news from other day that 50% of steam users in steam are chinese speakers. although they prefer coop games like this, who knows it might grow to other single player games.

[slysudo]

Originally posted by hush:

Originally posted by slysudo:

So in general my analysis is correct that china is astroturfing the entire internet and no one gives a damn or are using that fact to their advantage to get away with stuff china never approved in the first place. Leading to no real accountability for anything anymore, Tencent was already notorious enough and it seems to be getting even worse.

yeah while people are fighting their culture war they don't even realize that china is taking over gaming and news from other day that 50% of steam users in steam are chinese speakers. although they prefer coop games like this, who knows it might grow to other single player games.

I dont believe more than half are real people.

CCP would not let this happen on a grand scale like this unless it is completely intentional astroturfing by them or people paying for them to do it for advertising. And mark my words, in the next 10-15 years I predict this will become a global issue that the chinese great firewall must come down. Or else they will be continuously region locked due to their online behavior being unenforceable. This ♥♥♥♥ isnt sustainable at all, especially making specially made products and services just for chinese people.

[hush]

Originally posted by slysudo:

Originally posted by hush:

yeah while people are fighting their culture war they don't even realize that china is taking over gaming and news from other day that 50% of steam users in steam are chinese speakers. although they prefer coop games like this, who knows it might grow to other single player games.

I dont believe more than half are real people.

CCP would not let this happen on a grand scale like this unless it is completely intentional astroturfing by them or people paying for them to do it for advertising. And mark my words, in the next 10-15 years I predict this will become a global issue that the chinese great firewall must come down. Or else they will be continuously region locked due to their online behavior being unenforceable. This ♥♥♥♥ isnt sustainable at all, especially making specially made products and services just for chinese people.

you're just making wrong speculations against CCP. and wrong predicitions. Chinese servers are already region locked in the first placed. Those chinese gamers who you encountered playing games in other region are deliberately joining these servers example CS 2 Dota 2 and even riot games and they also have subscription service for that.. you cannot region lock an already region locked server. LOL

Also CCP will not enforce this rule unless chinese gamers are using it to incite protests and riots. with everything else going down in the world, i dont see them protesting anytime soon besides their local issues. Chinese citizens seems to have more freedom compare to other countries lately. (I'm not saying its perfect)

[MoJean]

they need to make a subforum for chinese/russian speakers.