>The debut trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has been blocked in China, and subsequently edited everywhere else, after featuring around one second’s worth of footage from the Communist government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. >When the game was first announced last week, a trailer running for 2:02 was released to the world and hosted on the official Call of Duty and Xbox YouTube pages, along with major trailer sites like IGN and Gamespot. >On August 21, however, the videos on Call of Duty and Xbox’s YouTube pages were replaced with a much shorter, 1:00 version. >This isn’t an additional trailer, it’s a replacement, which we know because...the original 2:02 video we embedded in our own story is no longer working, having been marked as “private”.
>Nobody really noticed the switch when it took place, but Hong Kong news site Apple Daily and the South China Morning Post point out that it was definitely noticed in China, where the original trailer was swiftly blocked (it has since been replaced with the edited version) and a lot of people recognised the Tiananmen Square footage and began commenting online. >The footage in question can be seen at 1:05, part of a longer montage showing various other historical examples of civil unrest in the 1980s, with a group of students attacking an armoured vehicle
I think we need to have a discussion about Yellow Fragility
Aaron Cook
>The new 1:00 trailer, meanwhile, which is now the only Black Ops Cold War trailer on both the Call of Duty and Xbox channels, does not feature that Chinese footage: >I can understand releasing an edited trailer in China, because the CCP’s strict controls over foreign media (and local support of this) is the price you pay for doing business there, but changing everyone’s trailer is a bit much. >Though this is also the part where we mention that Chinese gaming giant Tencent has a 5% stake in Activision, the publishers of Call of Duty. >It’s not the first time Call of Duty’s content has attracted the attention of Chinese censors. Back in 2018, Black Ops 2 was banned from internet cafes when government officials realised that the game featured the bombing of a Chinese city.
>the hivemind isn't real keep telling yourself that
Christian Brown
China now has the power to censor the world. In a few decades Tiananmen will never have happened and nobody on earth will be able to find mention of it online.
They did so fucking well with the Yuri Bezmenov thing, and they had to fuck it all up. Typical Activision bullcrap.
Christopher Williams
He's kind of right. I mean right now it's just videogame devs China has under their thumb so I can see why you'd say that, but what happens when they hold majority share in the history channel for example, or Wikipedia?
Brody Hall
>YAAAS BASED AND REDPILLED ACTIVISION ARE /OURGUYS/ >point out that Tencent own a share in Activision >NOOO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ACTIVISION DON'T GIVE A FUCK THEY'RE REDPILLING THE WORLD AND FIGHTING DA JOOZ IT'S NOT A BIG SHARE ANYWAY >this happens >I-IT'S 4D CHESS I SWEAR >PLEASE BUY OU- I MEAN THEIR GAME
Christopher Reyes
Just checked. The original trailer is still up on IGN and Gamespot. I wonder if that will change soon.
Ayden Scott
kek why are asian and chinks in general such faggot who can't take anything?
The whole world bows to them except Japan it seems.
Cameron Edwards
With the way Tencent is gobbling media companies up it will only be a matter of time.
Oliver Adams
It's only cucked US companies.
Tyler Wood
China most of it's recorded history was ruled by foreign dynasties. All famous dynasties(Tang, Yuan and Quing) were nomadic conquerors
Matthew Sullivan
This had nothing to do with Tencent you complete fucking retard, they want to sell the game in China, they have to do this. Hell, they have to do this to avoid any controversy if they plan on selling anything in China, much less this game.
Wyatt Brown
Fuck china, everytime i hear about it, its something that pisses me off
Bentley James
Yeah people talk about you know who's owning the media all the time, but I've started wondering how much the Chinese own. I know a lot of Saudi oil money has been buying up shares in media companies too. At one point until fairly recently, a saudi oil prince owned the majority share of Twitter.
Zachary Phillips
the word you're looking for is schizophrenic, let me know if you need any help with other big words in future.
and as says, there's definitely a plausible scenario where we do go down that road. i'd imagine the mechanism by which to push it based on current western values would be for pro-CCP figures to point out things like Kent State, drone strikes, US police brutality etc and build the narrative that the west "obsessing" constantly over Tiananmen is due to racism and sinophobia. Give it a few years after that and potentially you can make directly mentioning Tiananmen Square a socially unacceptable act, and spread from there. It'd probably still have a Wikipedia page forever but the word count would be 50:50 between the events and the mitigating factors etc, with the death toll heavily obscured by margins of error (it's already a bit vague at "estimated between hundreds to thousands")
Gavin Johnson
They don't have to censor the non-China version, retardo.
What happens in China stays in China.
Jason Ramirez
>companies care about money more than some incels opinion of them Whooaa
Nathan Sanders
Tencent is the biggest vidya company, yet produces no vidya on its own.
Think about that.
Lincoln Edwards
LMAO
JUST LAST WEEK THE SHILLS WERE TALKING SHIT ABOUT HOW MANY REDPILLS THIS TRAILER IS DROPPING WHEN IT WAS JUST INOFFENSIVE COOKIE CUTTER SHIT
AND NOW
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GET FUCKED YOU DUMB NIGGERS
I HOPE COD GETS CANCELED, AVCTIVISION GOES BROKE AND KOTICK BURNS IN HELL
Jackson Scott
I don't care about them, I care about the customers.
Caring about the company has been fucking disastrous for the customer.
This is why we have a shitton of stores but only one good one i.e. GOG.
Jace Cooper
Actually I just remembered, it's more than just videogame companies. They have Disney for example. Remember when China shrunk John Boyega on that Star Wars promotional poster, as well as outright refusing to show movies in their country that show positive portrayals of black people? Disney and left wing media companies said pretty much zero about it. If you google it now, you can find barely anything about it.
Brody Lewis
If companies had such shining steel morals like they claim, they would say fuck china. But its always hunt for quick buck.
Liam Gutierrez
>jews ever letting chinks jew them cmon retard theres no way jews let amerimutts ever put chinks above themselves on the victim list. short word bad long word good. what a fucking brainlet
Cooper Lee
I think his point was that this has nothing to do with Tencent and the other user should be blaming Activision directly; it's not Tencent presuring Activision, it's Activision directly and deliberately bowing down to general CCP pressure.
If they want to sell the game in China they absolutely have to remove Tiananmen Square footage from an ad in America, now that the Chinese know about it they'll complain and ban the game. Honestly the CCP is so fucking prone to the nation-state equivalent of public freakouts that I wouldn't be surprised if they banned the game even AFTER Activision insta-removed the footage from the net
