Unconsciously, more than two years have passed since the outbreak of the epidemic, and in the past two years, the way of life of people around the world has quietly undergone drastic changes, and the accompanying controversies and confrontations still exist. For example, to this day, you can still see the debates that arise because of the existence of the epidemic and the need to wear masks, not only in real life, but even in games.
Recently, Steam's pixel-style game "Domina", which is based on the cultivation of gladiators, ignited the war through an update announcement. "Domina" itself because of its unique style, good gameplay and the blessing of independent games, has received special praise on Steam, but in the latest announcement of the game, the developer has deliberately opened a separate text description to express his dissatisfaction with the need to wear a mask for the epidemic, the developer believes that the epidemic is a lie, and wearing a mask is a symbol of listening to lies, so he also called on players to "boldly take off the mask, wearing a mask is not conducive to the sister!" ”
As soon as this statement was released with strong individualistic prejudices, it caused strong dissatisfaction among players. Less than a day after domina's update announcement, the game, which originally had more than 7,000 positive reviews, turned the recent reviews into "mostly bad reviews" under the impact of players. At the same time, there are a large number of players with different views on the epidemic problem in the game's comment area to carry out a fierce confrontation, with language attacks and other ways to express their views, one faction of players for the anti-mask theory is extremely supportive, threatening to buy all the DLC of "Domina" for this statement, the other faction of players feel that the developer's remarks are completely unacceptable, saying that with these words, they will never buy any of his games in the future.
In a sense, the different views and disputes surrounding the domina developers on the epidemic and wearing masks just illustrate why the epidemic has been spreading for more than two years, and there are still a large number of countries that are helpless to control the epidemic. On the other hand, the attitude of domestic game companies to the epidemic has a sharp contrast.
At the beginning of the epidemic in 2020, NetEase's ancient martial arts online game "Against the Water Cold" responded to the self-isolation call of "no visits, no gatherings, staying at home to protect yourself and protect others" for the first time, and took the lead in launching the "game free point card" system, through a comprehensive way of its game point cards, encouraging players to stay at home to play games to avoid the epidemic. In addition, in order to better remind players to pay attention to prevent wearing masks when going out, the game official also made a free mask mask decoration "Yun Kai Yu Ji" overnight to give to all players, calling on gamers to remember to wear masks and fight coronary pneumonia together.
During the Spring Festival in 2021, although the domestic epidemic has been effectively controlled, but in the case of the national call for "local New Year, non-essential do not go out", "Against the Water Cold" once again responded to the call and opened a one-month-long card-free card benefit. Only two card-free welfare activities have allowed "Against the Cold Water" to subsidize 300 million yuan... It can be said that domestic game companies, when the epidemic came, silently contributed in their own way.
On the one hand, the company responded to the call for free card to send masks and face decorations to remind players at the first time, on the other hand, after the epidemic caused so many losses, it was also wishful thinking that the epidemic was a scam calling on players to take off their masks to take off their sisters, for these two game companies that are very different, who do you support more?