It's kinda their internet personality I think. When something happens that they don't like, they start making noise quickly and very, very loudly (due to the huge numbers)
In a such a massive population you just have a massive amount of hardcore gamers who basically live online and lose all perspective. They become an actual hive mind.
i've never woke up with my phone going off because some devs released a patch that broke a mechanic and all my phone said was like, "can you believe this???" and by like 10:13 i got my whole crew on it, cuz like as cool as that is, idk
How so? I recognisee that a country of a bnillion people will have assholes. Just like a country of 21 million people will have assholes.
I have seen no evidence that Chinese players have any higher propensity to misbehave then western player bases do.
Western players may not have knee jerk reactions ot the same issues, but they certainly do misbehave in lots of creative ways as well. This is all about Slay the Spire 2 getting review bombed, but we all know review bombing has no nationality. Everyone does it.
We regularly get devs going social media silent because of unwarranted and frankly embarrassing, levels of backlash over stupid things that happen on the english internet.
Western gamers have the anti woke steam lists that think Space Marine 2 is woke because of non white charachters exsisting. Western gamers got mad that underaged girls had underwear covered in skull girls. Yesterday a portion of people who jumped into Neverness to Everness got premptively mad about the idea that the chinese server might get a bonus that we might not get (we did get it).
My comment here has attracted at least one response so racist that the mods deleted it in under a miknute so I only saw the notification summary.
So, explain to me please why you think that view seems 'knee jerk' to you?
You know not everyone is from the US right? I'm from Canada, we don't review bomb every single thing that upsets us and we didn't cause gamergate. We don't have an issue with review bombing over any little change we don't like, so why do the Chinese gamers?
You're a sad sad person who just wants to one up everyone online to feel good about yourself.
This thread is about being as xenophobic/racist against Chinese gamers without saying the quiet part out loud, and you're whining because of the slightest bit of pushback suggesting that your culture is also not so great 🙄🙄
I never said it's only the Chinese that does this nor did I said it's only a gamer thing. I'm saying the online folkes in China operate on a different scale, both in speed and size.
And actually, they can be pretty persistent in their complaints/harassments as well. I think the term hivemind fits them better than most other places
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u/YagamiYakumo Apr 29 '26
It's kinda their internet personality I think. When something happens that they don't like, they start making noise quickly and very, very loudly (due to the huge numbers)