On March 4, a screenshot circulated on the Internet claiming that the International Federation of Game Industries was calling on Nintendo and other game giants to boycott Russia, demanding that the "Tetris" game be changed to "Ukrainian Block" or the game would be removed from the platform.
If the player is using English on the platform, they will find that the original name of the game is "Tetris", which does not include "Russia" at all. Tetris is a puzzle game developed by former Soviet scientist Alexei Pakytenov. "Tetris" is a combination of the Greek number four prefix "tetra" (all squares are made up of four smaller squares) and "tennis" (Alexei Pakchitnov's favorite sport).
Therefore, the above-mentioned so-called demand for the name change of "Tetris" is a complete rumor. Even if the name is changed, it should not simply be changed to a Ukrainian square, which is not in line with the truth. Moreover, Xiao Lei searched for the "International Game Industry Federation" and found that he had not found any news about this organization.
The so-called rumors are a mouth, and the rumors are broken. The emergence of such rumors is nothing more than the marketing number for the sake of traffic. The platform should introduce stricter rules, and for such obvious rumor-mongering behavior, measures such as banning words or banning accounts can be taken once they are found. Only by raising the cost of rumor-mongering, the marketing number does not dare to make rumors so blatantly.
The nature of such rumors is relatively bad, and for this kind of behavior of the marketing number, the platform can also take measures such as fines. Marketing accounts posted on content platforms will generally be incentivized by content. The platform can freeze the funds that can be withdrawn in the marketing account, and can also add the account to the blacklist.
Ordinary users can simply query on the search engine after seeing similar remarks on unofficial channels, and if it is a rumor, the search engine is likely to find no relevant news. Alternatively, friends can directly query the encyclopedia entry, which generally has a detailed description of the origin of "Tetris".
It is worth mentioning that Tetris has more than 170 million total sales on various platforms, second only to the #1 Minecraft. For this game for all ages, the official will not casually change the name.