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"If you report the game, then you are standing on the moral high ground."
This attitude towards games was once the mainstream view of society, and public opinion at that time was like a hanging sword above the player's head, as long as it was "reported", it could easily fall and cut everything.
However, now that the ban on games has been lifted and society has gradually embraced related industries, players' attitudes towards "reporting" have long been unheard.
Even nowadays, there are still rumors of various game reports, most of which are just regarded as "fun" by players.
For example, not long ago, players of "Sword Network III" reported the game because "the horse's ass is too sexy", which was regarded as a typical "fun" for eating.
"Sword Network III" Xuanyue is gorgeous
With a round butt + smooth skin, combined with the correlation between Tiance's profession and horses in "Sword Network III", it may not be impossible for people and "horses" to have a special bond?
And if you think about it along this line of thought, this reported "naked horse" may be a little too "exposed" in the eyes of certain people?
....... Well, I can't make it up. At least in the current public opinion, "Animal World" is still a science and education film, not a wool film, and taking this as a reason to report it is indeed a little crazy in the fun.
But Tiance is really so abstract
However, this time the "Sword Network III" player's report on the horse's butt is actually just an incidental act, and its original goal was to launch another skin called "Lu Xici" at the same time as this horse.
This skin was voted for by players from previous fan design contests, but after it was actually made into a game costume, it was deemed too revealing by some players and was reported as such.
In the follow-up development, the official added an option to "switch appearances", by adding socks, for players with different aesthetics to choose freely.
Alternate skins are available in-game
In addition to "Sword Network III", also because of the erotic content, the rumors of "reporting against the sky" continue to break out, it should be the game Glory of Kings.
Previously, in 2021, there was news circulating that when a lady saw the second skill icon of Huang Zhong, a hero, she thought it was unsightly and resembled some kind of erotic content, so she reported it.
When the player was puzzled by this and turned to check the appearance of Huang Zhong's skill, he suddenly found that the skill icon that he was familiar with before seemed to have really changed.
Before (left) After (right)
With the great changes in Huang Zhong's skills, players have gradually discovered the changes in the skill icons of other heroes in the follow-up. In the changes to these icons, it seems that there is a pair of invisible hands, forcibly leading the player in a strange direction.
For example, Diao Chan's second skill icon, this is not changed, but once it is changed, many players care about the original icon content.
Before (left) After (right)
It is a cliché in the game industry to report games because of erotic content, but in April before, a "report against the sky" of "Egg Boy Party" highlighted the novelty of the industry, because its report content was "games discriminate against the elderly".
Comments under the Douyin account of the "China Consumers Association".
The so-called "discrimination against the elderly" comes from the game statement of "Egg Boy Party" on April 23, which said that in the current registration process of the game, users over the age of 70 need to be forced to undergo face recognition.
The function of this behavior is nothing more than to verify that the registrant is indeed an elderly person, but combined with the frequent occurrence of "underage fraudulent use of elderly ID cards" in "Egg Boy Party", this behavior eventually evolved into a game of "restricting minors", which aroused the anger of some children.
"Egg Boy Party" is limited to 70+ users to register
Compared with parents, it is naturally more convenient to borrow mobile phones from grandparents to play games, so many of the so-called "70-year-old + players" in "Egg Boy Party" are young children.
And these children are under the official paper "face verification", either give up the game, or take a beating of their parents' iron fist, but for the children who are full of whimsy, they have a third way - report the game and let the official cancel the statement.
Therefore, there is the above-mentioned report of "egg boy discrimination against the elderly", and the whistleblowers behind it are these children.
As mentioned at the beginning, most players regard them as "fun", and public opinion is no longer overwhelmingly on the opposite side of the game.
But to say that today's gaming industry can really ignore the power of "whistleblowing", that's not necessarily true.
In 2016, a user named "deavee" on the 3DM forum said that he would "report Steam to the national region, so that genuine players will not have games to play" because 3DM officially no longer cracks genuine games.
2016 deavee号召举报Steam
In 2016, the battle between genuine and pirated games was still very fierce, so many pirated players were not limited to self-entertainment in a small circle, but would directly engage in a fierce scolding war with some domineering genuine players.
Therefore, after this user issued a call to "report Steam country", many pirated users responded, and in the name of so-called "patriotism", they formed a group to report the overseas software Steam together.
Reason for reporting
Among the reasons for their reports, they basically focused on describing Steam as "not approved by the relevant departments in the mainland" and "destroying the healthy development environment of young people".
These reasons, not to mention the public opinion environment at the time, even now, are enough to cause a considerable number of Steam users to subconsciously panic.
Fortunately, these reports did not have a serious impact at the time, and Steam also officially launched the "Steam China" project with the help of Perfect World, thus avoiding a considerable part of the risks.
2018 Perfect World Official Weibo
Although the development of the Steam platform in the mainland has been bumpy and bumpy, it is generally stable, and it can also be regarded as promoting the germination of our genuine game awareness.
If the report on Steam back then was really successful, then I am afraid that the genuine game ecology in the mainland will become worse and worse, and whether buyout games such as "Looking for Eternal Life" and "Warm Snow" can exist as they do today will also become a problem.
Later, it was a domestic stand-alone machine on Steam
However, not all similar reports ended in the satisfaction of most players, and earlier in late 2014, a player who claimed to be a "Nintendo fan" reported Sony's PS4 that was about to be released in China at that time.
In the report letter, the player directly pointed out that games such as "Grand Theft Auto 5" that can be run on PS4 contain violent and criminal game plots, and strongly demanded that they be banned.
2014.12 Report for PS4
Prior to this, Sony had submitted a series of imported games to the relevant departments for review, and said on the issue of "whether to lock the region" that it would "provide a global unified game experience as much as possible".
During this critical game arraignment, the above-mentioned whistleblower letter against PS4 undoubtedly pushed Sony and PS4 to the forefront.
A few days later, Sony officially issued a statement saying that the PS4, which was originally expected to be released on January 11, 2015, needed to be postponed.
Sony China has postponed PS4 releases
This postponement was extended to March 20 of the same year, and on this day, players who bought the game console found that the Chinese version of the PS4 was locked down. Once the PS4 is locked, it will not be able to download digital games from other regions directly, and will only be able to play them in the form of a game board.
At this level, it doesn't matter whether the PS4 region lock was caused by the report letter, and players desperately need to vent their anger, so they can only find such an obvious object to vent.
At that time, in the Switch and PS3 post bars, it was basically a verbal and written criticism of the whistleblower, and on the PS4 sales site, some people posted the slogan "Sinner through the Ages" to scold the whistleblower, which belonged to the kind that Qin Hui couldn't snatch from him.
The PS4 launch site of the National Bank
Of course, from my personal point of view, the relevant negotiations between Sony and the domestic department should not be affected by a mere report letter, PS4 will be locked later, probably because of this intention for a long time.
However, judging from the above-mentioned "Steam Report Incident" and "PS4 Report Incident", in today's public opinion environment, those "fun" reports initiated by parents and children are really not as lethal as those initiated by individuals who are also players.
They understand the game, and they understand what gamers are afraid of. To this day, there are still new groups of gamers who are happy to use "reporting games" as their main means of expressing their opinions.
Group up a post to report the game
Reports are not all excessive, many of them are for the purpose of the industry environment and consumer rights, but now that the threshold for reporting is getting lower and lower, there are still a considerable number of reports that are just for harassment and private interests.
The group of players who used to worry about the future of the game and was afraid of being reported now abuses the behavior of "reporting" when the external environment is gradually improving, which is quite an absurd sense of "dragon slayer will eventually become a dragon".
If parents used to report games for their children, then what are players reporting games for now?