Square Enix is reportedly being sued in China for publishing a game which allows the player to kill Chinese, and which damages the image of that great nation by most unfairly depicting Shanghai as a squalid hotbed of criminality.
The controversy centres on “Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days,” which involves the violent antics of two mercenaries rampaging through the Shanghai underworld.
A Chinese lawyer apparently happened upon details of “a game where you could kill Chinese” on a Chinese forum, and soon became incensed at the “unbearable” content contained in the title.
He then enlisted the help of Chinese Internet denizens to gather screenshots of the heinous game in action, and had soon catalogued numerous examples of such outrages as depictions of filthy Chinese slums and the player being able to freely shoot the Chinese townspeople thereof.
This, he asserted, was nothing less than a “Chinese slaughter game.”
Accordingly, he filed suit against Square Enix accusing them of “damaging the image of Chinese people,” “mocking China and the Chinese people,” and “causing people to misunderstand China.”
Claiming “it is my duty as a lawyer to protect the rights of Chinese,” he is demanding an apology and compensation from both IO Interactive and Square Enix for slandering the Chinese people and causing them so much mental anguish (some apparently played it), although only to the tune of 10,000 yuan ($1600).
It is not clear what his chances of winning the suit are, but ominously he proclaims that:
“If I am victorious, it will establish a precedent allowing us to sue others – we will be able to strike a great blow against foreign companies who think they can insult China.”
Given the unfavourable depiction of China in the most recent Deus Ex title, this is probably not a precedent Square Enix would wish to see set.
The initial release of Kane & Lynch 2 displeased many Chinese (despite it not being released in China), but at the time nobody thought to sue the publisher – though after realising the publisher was Japanese, it seems their enthusiasm increased markedly.
The game itself was not directly developed by Square Enix (that honour falls to IO Interactive), being instead published in 2010 by Square Enix subsidiary Eidos Interactive, and only distributed by Square Enix proper.
Despite being poorly received and rubbished even by the notoriously supine gaming press, it still managed to sell a million copies.
Although China’s efforts to censor foreign game publishers are nothing new (most notably, Paradox Interactive was subjected to a blanket ban on their games for depicting China as multiple states in WWII, a ban it subsequently ignored), Square Enix seems intent on expansion into China – suggesting it may soon find all its publishing activity subject to party approval if it wishes to continue there.
Quote: “Square Enix accusing them of “damaging the image of Chinese people,” “mocking China and the Chinese people,” and “causing people to misunderstand China.””
The image of chinese people are already damaged, and the chinese people have done it to themselves.
Stop making shops/restaurants of fake brands, follow health and safety rules, i.e. Wash hands before cooking, and most important, LEARN MANNERS
Oh no chopsticks angrie! Me wike gameaz.
I play dis gaem wit vibrator in teh buttz. It twus so geeeewd.
Iam awaiting for Resident Evil 6 to come out. Because the setting is in China and there are infected Chinese people with the zombie virus and killing them would have another racial issue like in RE5’s setting Africa.
That’s the idea! Germany should do that as well. 10 € for every German in a video game you _can_ kill (it doesn’t matter if you do it or not) and every tenth euro is taken to rescue Greece. China, you’re genius!
SE got the right idea. Now they need to make a game where you’re a lazy Chinese truck driver and you hit kids and leave them to die. The longer you linger and drive back and forth to finish them off with your truck without getting caught (except the camera footage that you find out was taken at the end of the game; a classic M Night spin) the more points you get. Lets start making more truthful games like that. Kudos Square Enix!
Won’t someone think of the virtual children?!
I can actually understand if the Chinese government doesn’t want foreign media full of negative stereotypes about or even insults against China being sold within their borders.
The Japanese do this too to an extent, for example in the JP version of Fallout 3 they renamed the nuclear rocket launcher, which was called FatMan in the US original.
Maybe if the German government did something about all the anti-German WW2 propaganda that Hollywood keeps churning out, the people there wouldn’t be the pathetic self-hating wimps they are now.
Everyone here in China has played Dynasty Warriors. You slaughter Chinamen by the thousands in the game. How come no one is complaining about that?
Oh noes, Chinese people are being slaughtered!
This lawyer probably never saw any other games seeing how the variation of people from various nationalities sure as heck doesn’t limit itself to Chinese, Germans and so on.
Oh and there’s that little issue that Shanghai sure isn’t much of a savoury place… like many other cities in the world that were depicted like it and yet we never heard any whining except for a few nutbars.
Damn suddenly I want to buy the game. Kill all the Chinese!
This claim has less truth than re5’s racist accusations.
Most of these comments on Sankaku can be summed up in two words: white privilege.
Can I just step in and bring up Resident Evil 5, and the baww-fest that occurred over Chris Redfield being depicted killing African people?
…Or am I the only one seeing similarities between these two situations?
S.E. support is worth NOTHING !
Fuck the U.S, most hypocritical country ever with most arrogant and hypocritical people ever.
lol butthurt chinese bitch
I conquered China in Rise of Nations. Just bulldozed the entire country. Big Huge Games is gonna get their pants sued off! XD
I fucking hate this god-damned Chinese, they have no right to live in this world. They are nothing more but the murderer of the freeworld. I would not hesitate in killing one goddamned Chink if I ever see one.
Somehow I don’t go complaining why we Russians are always depicted as crazy evil communists who want to nuke every shit out of the earth, consuming litres of vodka in the process.
Cause realistically nobody fucks with Russians?
Its disgusting that the Chinese think they can get away with an international lawsuit when they blatantly ignore Intellectual Property Laws.
Why are the Chinese always make small things into big issues?
Welcome to video games China, everyone dies. no matter the nationality.
So they should also sue EA because they made C&C:Generals because they also show Chinese… being killed!
Someone should mail him a copy of the game with a note saying “Play it and have fun”
It’s Kane and Lynch. u dont say? this is a piece of crap. kinda obvious if controversy come from this.
Lol, I’d like to sue China for the game where they kill Americans!
Wait…
We Americans make a ton of Chinese-killing games… Face it, China! You’re all too fun to kill!
Fucking uppity chink insects.
Zzzzzzzzz…….
Wake me up when they make $2.00 a day.
Silly China, you only get to do this if your black.
Fuck China and these bullshit claims. “…Unfairly depicting Shanghai as a squalid hotbed of criminality.” You know what’s criminal? It’s the Chinese stealing the designs of EVERYTHING that’s manufactured there. The Chinese are some of the biggest thieves in the world! They’ve stolen ship, car, plane, train designs wholesale. They’ve recreated towns and illegally made attractions and theme parks based on stolen IPs. The Chinese steal accounts to games and hock stolen in-game currency and items in EVERY FUCKING MMO there is!
Oh and stop swearing, you were just being racist there.
For once I will try to post an intelligent comment (I know it’s futile attempt to average Sankaku commoners)
You know what, you have a point, but that’s not the whole picture. Look at the amount of academic papers with authors bearing a Chinese name nowadays, by research output it’s on par with US,
Rampant copyright theft is not the fault of the average Chinese citizens. The combination of failure in education system, government corruption plays a part. However, the situation is improving. Education level in China has surpassed even the most advanced developed nation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17585201
In several decades time, China will once again be center of innovation, like in the ancient times.
It doesn’t work that way kid, not with china’s failsauce education system.
bwahahahahaha
you don’t know what exactly drives innovation and development. The essence of those feats elude chinese simply because of who they are fundamentally.
U-NOT DENIGRATE GREAT CHINA1!!!!!!!
WE KNOW HOW TU ADD EXTRA NUMBERS TO GREAT WHITE EQUATIONS & PUBISH 10X AS MANY PAPERS!!!!
THIS IS GREAT CHINA WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE ARE GREAT YELLOW ANTHILL KNOWN AS…
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If you didn’t get my comment, summary is below:
Poorly educated people copy, that’s their way of making money.
Educated people innovate, hence the research output.
Chinese highschool education level has reached the top of the world recently (see BBC link)
Extrapolate and predict in future China will once again be center of innovation,
Smarter-than-thou does not work on sancom…
GTA3 you can kill chinese.. they didnt moan about this?
Postal 2 you could kill Jihadists you didnt see them complain did you china?
i mean whats next? uproar on loli?
oh wait….
I wonder if you can kill Chinese people intravenous drips?
There are games wherein you kill a lot of people of other races than yours. What’s the problem China? Stop getting butthurt already.
Every Army/war game
>.>
If the Chinese government is offended by the game, why don’t they just steal the program and make their own version. It’s what they do with everything else.
OMG IT’s A FUCKING GAME. GET THE# FUCK OVER YOURSELVES!
And yet they allow their own kind to kill some child over the road – again, & again. Talk about the irony.
I’m chinese and I just wish China would shut the fuck up for once.
too bad there aren’t 1.3bn of you.
They should have sued the game for being so fucking shitty
So…. GTA allows you to kill african-americans and white guys and they get away with it?! Impossibru!
Why couldn’t square enix just stick to final fantasy games….. : (
Why? Because, now, SE sucks!
I miss squaresoft.
i resent that, they released Deus EX: Human Revolution under their name, and that’s a very nice game otherwise they wouldn’t have sponsored that
I’d sue the developers for Kane and Lynch 2 being such a shitty game.
I agree, this game is a shit.
Big whoop, america does it to russia in like every game
Sued because of the chinese are being killed in a game…
I’m Chinese and i would rather sue them because it was a horrible game and i had to pay for it in my square enix steam pack
They should go to HongKong and see what’s going on..
Dear China, it’s not all about you. -The World
Chineses have no rights, the only thing they should do is keep farming gold for their mmorpg and stfu.
ts tsk tsk anyway doesn’t matter this is only my opinion but china’s image is already on the XXXXXX level… everyone knows that
ok is bad to se a game where you kill chinese people, but isn’t it evil too, how real children, and people die or get sick due to adulterated vaccines and medicines
that China exports around the world. not to mention all those hazardous products
they sell around the world, either made with low quality materials, hazardous ones, and a total lack of quality standards?
Maybe they should revise themselves before getting enraged for polygon depictions in a make believe world.
maybe they get so mad, because what they see in the game isn’t that far away from reality?
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHA Oh China u.
Battlefield 2 let us kill Chinese in the thousands
square enix that failure of a company, go and explode with china already!
Oh gee maybe the people of LOd Angeles need to sue Square Enix for making Grand Theft auto in which you can shoot up black, Mexican, and White people.
GET REAL CHINA!
So basically they want to play a game where they can kill any other race else but them. Guess they have too much fun playing games games where you play as japanese or americans killing their own kind. (I don’t hear them complaining about it.)
In 2002 the flash game “Kaboom: The Suicide Bomber Game” caused more controversy and attention. Those were the years… the golden years of the internet.
This Chinese lawyer is just pathetic.
Somebody should make an offensive game that really deserves the attention.
no, some1 should make a game where you kill chinese lawyers for a change, now that would be tha shizzle…
“who think they can insult China” LOL so they can sue while making fake products that belongs to foreign countries? oh China you fail to defend your cause due to your own fault XD
I say, Square Enix should present Chinese fake products that are from foreign countries. See how they would defend themselves against that
Seriously, China needs to be put down asap before they try conquering and owning everything that they want.
They can ‘try’. lol
And let us sue whoever makes GTA because you can kill Americans.
Exact same shit.
The best thing for Square-enix to do is stopping producing games in china and stop using chinese in their compagny. Problem solved.
what if the last boss of the next final fantasy game was chinese?
That would be epic!
look at other theme of war games, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia…
china is such cry baby….
And in all of them, americans are the “good ones”.
Did someone sued ubisoft for making Splinter Cell in which on some missions Sam Fisher can(ok, not has to but can), kill chinese?
China is okay with their thousands of copyright shit but they sue over this
How can this game be poorly received? I say its a cool game thats seriously under rated. I mean where do you find games that kill Chinese without a hint of mercy?
This game is a shit! Square-Enix sucks.
I thought the game reminded me of the hobo wars only less gay…
It’s like Africa suing Resident Evil 5 for taking place in Africa killing black people
And yet nobody cared when Leon Kennedy killed countless spanish people in RE4.
Black people y u no have any pride?
Does this mean they will try to sue Capcom over Resident Evil 6?
so bmw and other car companies can’t sue them for blatently copying their cars, but they can sue for this?
gotta love the chinese hypocritical mindset
“The initial release of Kane & Lynch 2 displeased many Chinese (despite it not being released in China)”
And her I thought they had a legitimate complaint, but nope. If this isn’t thrown out Japan will be the laughing stock of the world.
Sorry, that award already went to South Korea.
So where’s the suing? In China or in America? Either of the locations would kill SquareEnix. :V
Odd thing is I don’t see that much fuss made over countless numbers of Chinese kung fu movies showing an over the top kung fu master beating and killing a group of karate fighters and samurais.
Actually those are the generic make-fun-of-your-jap genre films and are something of a joke among chinese(especially the educated) audiences. So yeah.
It’s because Square-Enix is a “Japanese” company, that’s why they’re making such a fuss.
I’m tired of all these ass hats who think they have the right to NOT get insulted. It doesn’t matter what country you are in or from. Grow a fucking pair. It’s a video game, it’s not really hurting anyone.
they do not have a pair, nor are capable of growing one. which is why they must compensate with constant whining and bitching.
I seriously laughed while I was reading this.
GTA. Kill anyone. It’s in America with Americans. Do you see any lawsuits over that? Retarded Chinese.
Hey china, how is that apple vs. proview lawsuit going?
Hint: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18001494
lol chinks.
Aww, they are all butthurt. WELL TOO BAD!
Time to rip Kagura from GinTama for representing girls from China as violent, vulgar eating machines
China is getting more and more stupid.
And sancom is gettng more and more stupid anon users like you
WTF china copies everything from ANYONE they have absolutely have no right to sue anything or anyone they can go fuck themselves!
Deus Ex 1 took also place in China. What about Maggie Chow?
So when China made their knock-off of this game, what nationality did they change the Chinese targets to?
Chinks are so sensitive and easily butthurt. It’s like dealing with a rape victim. they break down in front of everything.
Oh china, why do you like broadcasting your insecurities to the world?
This isn’t about Dog Days, Asobi ni iku yo! or Magical Pokaan!
Or, which is more likely, this will backfire and throw a more unseemly light on China. Again.
retarded mainlanders…
insult china? you do that all by yourselves, the majority of you have no humanity, you grind up babies for miracle drugs, squash animals for sexual pleasure, and make cooking oil out of feces,…yeah…your disgusting, vile, trash resembling humans. and the good ones all beg, borrow, cheat, and steal, just to get the hell out of your nasty, nasty country,…piss off. I’d like to see a game like doom, where all the creatures were chinese.
lol that game would be hard with all enemies exploding every time u shoot
this only make want to buy the game
All I can say is really China? you that desperate to get in the news? There are tons of other games where you kill the chinese, hell in fallout 3 in the ancorage dlc your fighting the chinese, not to mention deus ex 3, and various other games. Shit like this makes me facepalm.
anyone else notice the 1600 dollar thing? Pfft, if I was square I’d throw the 1600 dollars and tell the fly to go away.
lol if this goes through then japan better fast stop selling games to such retarded nations.
The one game that the Chinese can’t directly steal.
I thought they would be pleased at the thought of some of their excessive population being killed
Awesome china, please waste more money suing the world. It might just work out as well as that one time you tried to sue apple for….wait for it….
“Copyright infringement’
If hypocrisy is the currency of the world china has the most savings.
Really now?
China sues Square Enix for making a game that puts them in a bad light (Kane & Lynch)
America sues Rockstar for making a game that puts them in a bad light (GTA)
America’s right, China’s wrong.
I wonder WHO exactly would have the largest savings of hypocrisy in the world.
At the very least, America would be at the top of the list, for preaching human rights while blatantly misregarding those at the very same time.
Ya… Im sorry, nothing in ur statments are even logcially correct in any way.
You are to anti America for ur own good.
Wait what?!? When did America sued Rockstar Games for GTA?
GTA anti america has been discussed by other anons in a comment below and got bitch slapped. Your argument is about as valid as china’s apple litigations, which by the way got laughed out of court after chinese spent thousands and millions on its lawyers.
China, largest population in the world, still can’t do anything right—
China manufactures your iPhones and iPads.
Guess that explains why Apple sucks…
HAHAHA typical chink, deny and deny again their faults, convince themselves they don’t exist, and overemphasize (i.e. make up according to what they wish was true) the smallest faults of other nations.
Only thing narrower then your cunt eyes is your mind.
LOL
at least america doesn’t avoid the issue of ‘interfering’ and openly admits its mistakes, at least in degree compared to china, which does nothing but deny, deny, deny.
You only wish america has largest savings of hypocrisy – chinese have over 8000 years of GLORIOUS history in invading, conquering, forcefully governing less fortunate, less advantaged minorities, than calling them ‘chinese’.
Give Tibet, Xianjing, HK, and half of south/southwestern china back to minorities, chinks, then talk hypocricy. At least america managed to achieve what you couldn’t in only 200 years, and at least can claim merit rights.
despite having no love for china, i have to say this: get yo facts straight idiot, and return your american land to indians.
GTA = anti american?
that’s some magic logic right there.
@20:15
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I’ll show you a thing or two boy. 😀
If GTA was anti-american or not, isnt the point.
The point is: GTA is a shit game.
@20:48
I don’t need a “few more knives” for a shitty trashtalking coward. Get over here first.
@20:48
Fucking coward needs to bitch a little less and get down over here.
@20:37
Oh I will. After you get here.
@20:35
You real funny little chink. Think this is some kinda schoolyard brawl? Better bring a few more knives to the party because you ain’t going anywhere when I call you out in the middle of Chaoyang Park.
Post your shit up here, your number, name, and address.
@20:35
When you want someone to call you, you usually give him your number.
Post it you little bitch, or second thought you don’t need to – I might be seeing you or your friends real soon.
@20:28
Most crowded district? Still claiming you know shit about China?
Now take responsibility for what you claim, or scram back to your hole like the little bitch you are.
And nice threat attempt, but this puny chinaman just happens to know his knives a bit better than the rest.
@20:23
Serious LAWL at this point. Some bitchy little wannabe tell me to call HIM in the most crowded district of Beijing so he can bring his little friends with bunch of crowd to back him up if shit goes wrong.
Tip for healthy living you little bitch – don’t mouth off like a bitch over the net when you can get a fultang knife to your throat when the guy your talking to can tell where the IP is from.
@20:15
Oh, and there’s no need replying to your own comments. You asked for it, you get what’s coming.
@20:15
Chaoyang Park West Gate. Give me a number when you get here. No hiding behind populace. Remember what you said, and be ready for it.
@20:15
But they all look the same! And act the same! Like pussies unless they outnumber someone by 10 to 1.
@19:51
HAHAHAHAHA why don’t you specify a place and time instead of general city and hiding behind the population so he can find you?
@18:20
Beijing, anytime.
18:20
And you better watch your bitchy little mouth if you don’t have the balls to bring it in person 🙂
If you really want to settle this shit, why don’t you put your shit where your mouth is and set up a place and time? I might just pay you a little visit so we can all talk about how little fuckers like you need to learn when to keep dem lips tucked in.
@07:56
Better watch dem bitchy lips before somebody decides to reduce your sights to dental floss.
@07:56
The same can be said about you.
You only see what you want to see, that is: nothing.
@7:14
only in your eyes, which sees only what you want to see.
which isn’t much considering it can be covered by a dental floss.
Granted, the protagonist are rarely American, but the game is constantly making fun of American.
Just listen to the Radio, when the music’s not playing, or watch TV in GTA 4, or watch some of the characters more closely.
Sure, the characters are all kind of crazy, making it hard to take GTA seriously in any way, but if you take a closer look, you’ll notice that the non-American characters are more like psychopaths, while the American characters are more like absolute morons.
If you ask me, GTA is clearly making fun of America more than anything else.
Play the game first, joker.
Yeah but we’re America, we can wipe out any other pussy ass country off the face of the map. Disagree all you want, your governments are scared of us, so suck it lol.
if a casualty rate of 6-7 to 1 is actually losing a war, you must be smoking real high son. go back to your shitty education system and do some calculus dumbfuck
How about Vietnam? You country lose to a bunch of Vietnamese peasants! TAKE THAT, AMERICAN BITCH!
I remember meeting a japanese and thinking they are the most narrow minded and pathetically small people on earth, worse than muslims.
Then I met koreans, and found some people worse than nips.
Then I met blacks, and was surprised to find retards even worse.
Then I met the chinese.
@18:28
Little bitch got filthy little mouth on ya. Wanna know what real bitchfucking is like, keep mouthing off to find out. He forgot we bitchfucked little shits like him to make this country, and is living under a delusion that it was never invaded lol.
Uppity little bitch better watch that little back in front of the monitor.
@18:41
Running to big old russia because you don’t have the balls speaks a lot about you ^__^
We did try them, had a giant staring contest for 50 years while you watched sucking your thumb from the sidelines the whole time, and they folded in the end.
Nuff said.
18:28
lol little bitch forgot about pacific where IJN and IJA got assraped by marines and navy when they had more carriers, battleships, experience, and better planes like the zero and yamato. How is that for outgunning 200 to 1? Korea we were outnumbered 4 to 1, despite lies from chinese (chinese recently had a study revealing casualties possibly reaching 1.5 to 2 million alone, not counting N. korean casualities), yet south korea still stands. Vietnam was a political defeat, we killed 6 to 7 viets for every 1 us dead, and even their greatest offensive in tet failed like a bitch. We simply didn’t have time to prop up a country (south viet) that refused to pull its weight under incompetent bureaucrats. Oh, and is soviet union still around?
Your arguements are about 60 years old, same shit spouted by japs in ww2, and we know what happened then even when we were outgunned.
Quit your bitchfest under every comment if you don’t know shit about real history, not some shit you cherry pick from every other page in biased ‘history books’ that you like to hear.
So Americans think they have balls, eh?
Try Russia. No more said. Go on!
Pfft. More like pussying out against any country they don’t outgun 200 to 1. Remember getting bitchfucked by gook peasants in loincloths? Or north korea? Uppity bitches need to get fucked in their own country like most world nations did to learn some respect.
lol 6:46
How long did Bush say, they’d need to end the war, and how long did it really last?
How many American went to “kick some moslem ass” and how many millions got their own asses handed down to them?
I mean, if this were China we were talking about, it’d be amazing for you guys to have finished the war this early with that few casualties, but come on: you were shooting farmers living in the stone age, by Christ’s sake.
@ 06:46
Still licking his boots, as is Obama, by the way.
lol 6:42
Let’s see, taliban barely making a noise while being a pussy and planting roadside bombs, OBL dead like a bitch, 2million IRAQI dead and saddam hussien executed, Iran making overtures and shutting away its nuclear plant, etc.
A know-nothing civillian like you can bitch and think shit, but bear in mind those really in the know (your government) realize the reality of the world – they cannot match foreigners in a straight up fight.
How are you folks doing with Dalai Lama, btw? LAWL/
That comment made my day.
How’re Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran doing by the way?
Last time I checked, they were still on Google maps.
But this is reality in hongkong!
OMG I hate the Chinese… I hope those people just explode already.
Fuck you, american.
Fuck you, chink.
Besides, if the Chinese all exploded, who’s going to manufacture your shining new iPhone then?
The Vietnamese and Indians?
You’re free to hate whatever race you want to, be it the Chinese or American… or the Jew.
But wishing for them to explode makes you no better than the Nazis.
Nazis? Just so you know, people in China badmouth every other nation known to them already. The story can remain among the chinese, no need to dig out the nazis.
19:00
This is what asians hope the reality is when they see the truth spoken by other people that they are too scared to accept ^^
Sankakues: leading internet experts on asian mentalities living off mommy’s paychecks.
inb4 suicide bombings
Wow, now they copied Jack Thompson, too …
why don’t we just sue China for imitating everything else in the world like ikea franchise or starbucks and whatever not, fucking hypocricy
lol if we sued the chinese for all the things they copied from the world, they would be owing the world over a trillion in debt, and what little they have in US debt in comparison will be gone over to their side.
Realistically they’ll just say “fuck off” and claim the intellectual rights of everything the world is having them manufacture and export at much higher rates.
Suddenly needing to find new manufacturers for businesses worldwide will cause quite the economic crisis, at least for a while.
China’s power right now rests on how it’s the biggest manufacturer of goods worldwide. No country wants to rub against them too hard, not even the US.
…me thinks you need to learn the basics of global economics.
Any day SquareEnix gets sued is a good day, even if it’s for something incredibly stupid.
“The initial release of Kane & Lynch 2 displeased many Chinese (despite it not being released in China”
Don’t worry, it displeased everyone else too.
my oh my
wonder what will happen once some german “patriots” found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBxyN7a310
and if russia got a cent for every time something russian gets insulted they would be throwing their nukes away right now cos they would own the planet so lets hope they dont find out…
Five bucks says this case explodes before it hits the court room.
Or in it, like that apple vs. china firm lawsuit.
Story kinda smell like bullcrap. I’ve been searching Kane & Lynch on simplified Chinese site only settings. And I have yet to come up to a site that validate narinari story’s claim. In fact Chinese doesn’t seem to give a fuck about the content of the game.
That’s because the chinese government censors their shit from the civilized world and filter all your search results, so you can only get the real deal from wholesome, resourceful sites like sankaku.
Oh wait
That’s weird, I never recall any white people suing game companies for killing white people in games.
The things they are suing for happens in hong kong gangster/cop movies all the time
just now the main characters are not chinese anymore it’s racist?
fucking china… actually makes me want to play the game now just to kill some chinese
I thought they might be suing because it’s such a steaming pile of faeces.
I’m gonna buy this game EXCLUSIVELY because of the lawsuit.
Good job racist Chinese lawyer.
Imma get downvoted but:
QUIT BANDWAGONIN THE WORD RASCIST YOU SHITS
Then buy DX:HR too.
The protag kills Chinese, African-Americans, Latinos, a Russian, and an ex-Mossad agent.
Perfect target for a mass lawsuit if you ask me.
Or Mortal Kombat and (repeatedly) kill off Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and/or Sub-Zero.
Oh wait, then you’ll love square-enix next game: “Sleeping Dogs”…
Chinese definately haven’t read sancom
First, Kane & Lynch is a shit game.
Second, Square-Enix is not the same of some years ago. FF13 is a proof of that.
And last, Square-Enix needs to be sued for your incompetence.
Well, I personally enjoyed XIII over most of their older stuff.
AWESOME! I HATE SQUARE ENIX!
SE: u mad china?
Square Enix should have made the game more realistic.
Criminals pay off politicians to make buildings out of garbage blocks which collapse and kill Chinese or develop shitty Shinkansen knockoffs that crash at 200kmh and kill Chinese.
Oops, That’s right! Truth is forbidden in the PRC!
Come people, he’s a lawyer! WTF has it got to do with his nationality? Lawyers got to be lawyers, be it Chinese, Japanese or American.
I just don’t get China it already tries to kill its own citizens in the most horrifying/weird ways possible (getting run over twice or suddenly falling into a deep hole while minding your own business and exploding chair springs…the list is endless) compared to that a bullet through the head(in the game) is a Godsend XD
Ahh China the game is only trying to tell a slice of the tru…oh wait
“depicting Shanghai as a squalid hotbed of criminality.”
BECAUSE IT IS!!!! Ahahaha!!! (cough cough)
yeah I had top let that one out.
Seriously tho, Fuck the Chinese goverment, let people make games about whatever, hell there’s about to be a game coming out soon on “homegrown terror” that’s gonna cause some “controversy” supposedly.
Hell if it’s any good, I’ll buy it 😀
“Shanghai as a squalid hotbed of criminality” that’s true, but china don’t like people knowing how shitty their country is, remember their government ban everything there (the best way to keep the population ignorant)
This really is not the government but more of a retarded lawyer trying to get some money out of a company. The amount is so low it shows he wants someone to pay him off to shut up.
It’s just one lawyer being a retard, not really the government yo.
These are the Chinese. I think we can safely generalize.
Jack Thompson in China?
🙂 chinese retard for suing over something like this.. it’s just a game..
Well, the Chinese government has the same retarded way of thinking as the lawyer.
They’re really no different.
Don’t forget the ability to run over crying babies, since western games won’t even let you kill them.
…the children in Skyrim just won’t die…!!!
what’s the deal.. it’s just a game, it’s not like i kill a real chinese .. 🙂
Have you played the game in question?
Shanghai is a dirty, nasty place, the protagonists are either insane (Lynch) or jaded sociopaths (Kane), and the only sympathetic character dies in a horrific manner. Corporations use the local military as their own mercenaries.
The rank and file Chinese citizenry get off light.
🙂 definitely buy this game .. kill chinese..
Yea sounds like the underworld alright.
Get out some more.
Pretty much sums it up. It’s a game that tries to distinguish itself as counter-culture, but falls flat. Played it a bit at a friend’s place, it was… boring, despite being nasty. There are decent criminal themed games out there, with their original perks, like noir, gta, etc.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a stunt by the studio to call attention to a crappy game.
“My dad is Li Gang!~”
If it was a stunt there would be this horrible little rich kid squeeling “You can’t kill me! My dad is the mayor of Shanghai!!!”
about time that someone sued Square Enix for Kane and Lynch 2. Seriously, TERRIBLE GAME.
I want compensation for time wasted and mental scarring not seen since TOO HUMAN.
Of course image is more important to Chinese officials than reality, where they are oppressors of their own people.
If they win, Japan can sue Bruce Lee for insulting Japanese…
Westerners can sue Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen…
Come on, it’s not just foreign people showing things that insult china… China does more things insulting to other countries but nobody cares about it…
They deserved to be sued for killing Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger/Cross and Mana franchises!
XIII-2 was great.
Haters gonna hate hate.
Not great as FF7 or FF10.
First that LAWYER suld sue CHINA for so many copyright related issue, and ppl shooting chinese, so they can play games where ppl are shooting americans? GTA? bt not chinese?. LOL..FAIL logic.
Chinese lawyer trying to make a quick $1600 bucks pretending to defend the image of his country.
He must want an ipod/ipad but doesn’t want to sell his kidney to get them.
There’s no need to sue anyone to get an iPhone or iPad, since those are made in China anyways.
Chinks fighting each other to get their hands on those ‘chinese made products’, scalpers ripping off other chinese, and the royalties coming to US just bitchfucked your ‘opinions’.
Maybe they’re just mad it wasn’t related to the Dog Days anime?
China’s on its way to be Enemy No. 1…
Weren’t they always?
I think I love this game
You love to see old farts running naked on the street ?
He’s gay.
dogs days… SE, you’re doing it wrong 😛
Ya, I watched that anime, nobody died… In fact, nobody COULD die, the land had some magic crap that prevented death.
how many WW2 games do you think there are where germans not only get portrayed as the bad guys but get killed left, right, and center….never heard of any lawsuits from that
Well, you are talking about Nazis, not Germans in general…
Mao and company have murdered over 70 million+ people since 1949. Kind of make Nazis look like posers when it comes to evil.
1 dog is worth more than 20 Chinese lol
True, and chinese today can’t stop sucking his dead cock long enough to swallow the bullshit CCP feeds them.
Such a servile, weak people. I always wondered why the japanese had such success in invading and destroying the chinese while being out numbered 20 to 1…now I know. One japanese is worth 20 chinese.
Oh China I wish your country would just collapse already.
white person detected
being white beats having a little yellow dick
True dat.
pussy yellow monkey detected-!
fuck you, moron!
My skin is not white but I also want the same. Nothing good come from Communist China.
Did you know that in America there are several ethnicity other than white people?
It’s a melting pot…
Not even other races like chinese.
Chinese, send out your women as whores, they aren’t good for anything else.
I don’t understand, there are many movies that Chinese kill americans and put them to jail stuff like that but they re not sued~~
they are gonna backfire themselve… if they sucessfully sue them because they may sue them back later
ROFL china sueing the nation that nation the sues everyone… this is gonna be hilarious.
Like really America is where a grandma can win a case against the microwave company when she used it to dry her cat.
but at least she wins while china wastes her money and losing everywhere….like that recent apple case.
but hey if they want to burn away their hard earned foreign exchange currency in US courts while getting their shits beaten by other country’s lawyers, who are we to argue? 🙂
lol Dog Days
China seems to have ambitions to force its censorship regime on the whole world.
just like usa pushing their standard everywhere
Pushing their bases and G.I. criming everywhere you mean.
20:18
He thinks japs statistics are more reliable than american ones.
LOL.
You trust CCP statistics too don’t cha?
19:25
You know japs tweaking their crime numbers but hand me american statistics, which, in turn, were taken in japan.
Double standards much?
Neither. I’d say any country has the right to deny occupation by any foreign military force. The US stationing troops everywhere is just plain retarded.
The question you want to ask yourself is, would you rather have PLA or the Red Army camping there, or the US forces?
Actually, the statistics revealed that US bases and persons crime rate within the surrounding municipalities per capita of population is actually less than that of the local population, example being in okinawa.
Don’t believe me? look it up on japanese editorials about talking about morality of accusing americans of crimes when they turn a blind eye to local crimes.
There is no standard. US is a democracy and has freedom of speech, while China gets away with anything it does and abuse and kills who ever reveals the truth. You dont like it, dont buy the game. That simple. Unlike China, we dont abuse people that have a difference in opinion.
Thanks for ACTA to!!
The internet around the world thanks to free democracy..and freedom of speech..
It was not enough threatens those who copy a song to spend several years in one of its chains..
At least US values are more compatible than china’s ‘we’re numbah onneeee!!111!!!’ imperialism.
USA has big values… especially in weight.
@Tex_Arcana Sure it does. Like…ummm…
USA! USA! USA!
The US has values?
It’s trully offensive. Real Chinese don’t just die, they explode.
They exploded quite well in Mercenaries 1 and 2 and in Operation Flashpoint 2
Its ok to make a movie of themselves that chinese kill chinese not by a foreigner. FUCKING CHINESE MORON!
And it’s ok that Chinese kill other races.
You win, China! You’re the immortal Space Marines!
“If I am victorious, it will establish a precedent allowing us to sue others – we will be able to strike a great blow against foreign companies who think they can insult China.”– this guy is already in itself an insult to Chinese and he doesn’t even realise it
Everyone should be blue in video games. That way you can rape, murder, and pillage and no one will care.
Houses don’t have hoods.
There gonna shoot you a nuke right on the hood of your house
so why take action now when the game was release on 2010? it taken one of the lawyer 2 years to not explode to sue square enix. i bet square will sue them back for copyright
This lawyer got it wrong in so many ways being butt-hurt over a video game…
He is royally pissed off that the game does not feature levels like ‘bridges made out of garbages’, ‘apartment complexes that look like junkyards’, a ‘yellow-green’ Gundam-ripoff boss fight, a sewer level with ‘exploding manholes’, and probably missing a scene of a bad-guy sitting on a chair and then said chair blows up and sends shrapnel up his manhole…
*clears throat*
Beside, SquareEnix only published it, and the whole thing was made by Eidos and–
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Rename the game to “KAIN and RAZIEL: Vampiric Days” and I guarantee they won’t give a sh*t about two time-traveling vampires starting up sh*t in the orients…
As once said by an immortal anon:
No loli no care….
An anon I can bow my head to
What you did there is to everyone’s liking.
ahahah ,this made my day ))
OMG that comment made my day!
I thought Americans explode.
I mean, just look at their belly…
Oh you’re so funny, because every American is fat. You fucking retard.
8:11
Whats’s wrong with that?
@07:58
Chinese Eric Cartman?
Ppl should stop giving so much fucks for these insignificant idiot antics. By this I mean the chinese lawsuit, sancom hateposts, and comment bashers (though I guess this includes me as well)
@8:15
What is the fuck with that idiot term and how do you manage to attach it to anon 8:11? And how is “stern parent” even relevant to the thread?
Nice avoidance of the subject, faggot.
08:11
Instead they go to school and shoot down everyone on sight.
You’re right. American do have more control over their children.
08:11
Hey at least those parents have control over their kids unlike the chinese….
the idea of ‘stern chinese parent’ is rapidly deteriorating, thanks to ‘little emperors’ like you.
why is it relevant? behavior of one fat idiot vs another, except one did not publicly humiliate his mother twice in front of national camera and hundreds of onlookers.
07:58
What’s worse?
I’d say:
The American parents who gave their child an Xbox 360 for his birthday, captured the moment on video while the kid was unpacking the present, laughed at him as soon as he realised the box was empty, and put the video on Youtube.
Also, I have no idea what this has got to do with 07:21
7:21
I also remember a fat chinese kid in china that publically bullied his mother into buying him a toy in the middle of the street while others watched in amusement. He than proceeded to gobble down a stall’s worth of food while his mom desperately begged on lookers first for help, then tried to shoo them away and their cameras.
Tell me….which is worse?
I remember some American guy who was too fat to fit into his seat on a plane, so he had to pay for the second seat.
He later sued the aviation company, saying that their seat should be larger anyways, since those where too tight for the average American citizen. He won.
I wonder how he did it, considering only a small percentage of the American population is actually fat, according to you.
I’m just being curious.
Uhm…It is like that not matter who you’re talking too. If you insult an entire culture based on a small percentage of the population, then it is a false accusation that will insult others. You can say “America is full of fat and ignorant people” or “China is full of explosive products and people running over others to avoid hospital bills” both sides will take offense. They are both stupid comments thrown by both sides.
You’re funny too.
Insult any Third or Second World and people say: “didn’t expect any better”
Insult America, and they say: “you’re a retard”
It just shows how much people are tolerant around these parts.
Living in america, I can honestly say I have seen some of the fittest people on the face of the planet, many even without being a work-out freak. And I have been to many countries.
America USED to have also the fattest….but now other countries are giving them stiff competition i.e. brazil, china/
I hope the Zombies don’t get legal representation next.
Oh now that would be oh so sweet. I want to go to that trial!
Maybe not exactly zombies, but “zombies” did. At least the black ones.
(RE5 anyone?)
well it wasnt this ridiculous (even though in my opinion ALL legal suites against story content on video games are ridiculous) and in the end RE5 got a gold edition. Gamers hated it anyway and now it’s in the past; China needs to stfu. How about we make a game where it’s just a metaphorical china, but we put a giant caricature filter over the entire representation of the country? that’d be better.
03:20
One of the most lame moments in mr. Overly defensive easily offended black persons life.
Oh wait..
I remembe that, the most incredibly stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Reminds me of the season (3 or 4 i think it was) where muslims were depicted as the bad guys in that season of 24 with Kiefer Sutherland.
Before, there were serbians and whatnot, but lo and behold, we get muslims and/or people of middle eastern descent and voila, a PSA has to JUST air before the seasons first episode from none other than Kiefer Sutherland himself saying “yeah um, this is just a show, you know, don’t take it too seriously, heh…”
Fuck man people are so damn delicate…
You’re are right. The entirety of the First World are becoming delicate nancies. I mean, in Australia you can’t even fire kids in retail unless you have their parents come in for meetings. It is fucking ridiculous.
should’ve just stuck to russian bad guys. because they’re so bad-ass they don’t care how they’re portrayed.
So Chinese are being killed in a Video game,Japanese are being killed in Video game,North Koreans are being killed in a Video game,French are being killed in a Video game,Americans are being killed in a Video game,Arabs are being killed in a Video game,Russians are being killed in a Video game.
You want to bitch about who is being murder in a video game?
French don’t die in video games because we always go with the strongest.
Not really, we never switched sides. We got owned by Germany in WW2 but never switched side to axis when they were strong. Also you can kill plenty of us in all the Total War games etc.
Vichy France? ._.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
Only in China.
Theres 1.3 billion chinese whats the problem with killing some virtual ones?
So China’s lynching Kane&Lynch 2 for depicting criminality and murdering of Chinese, while America’s lynching GTA for doing the same to Americans.
The difference here is that Americans are always right, while Chinese are always wrong.
Hello, hypocrites.
You have never played GTA have you. If you have you would never say what you just said.
You’re an idiot. The nationality of NPCs has nothing to do with butthurt parent groups & GTA.
GTA controversy had nothing to do with nationality of killed victims in the game. It wasn’t lynched because the victims were american, it was lynched for what some saw as advocating criminality in general. Nationality had nothing to do with this whatsoever.
Do some fuckin research before you open your mouth next time.
I remember Haitians not being happy with GTA.
Haitians are always crying about something. The island is a total shithole. 50 years from now they’ll still be looking for handouts for earthquake relief while the people live as fucked up as ever. Meanwhile in Japan 10 or 15 years from now I’ll bet the Fukushima area is pretty much totally recovered.
We are talking about majority npcs, and haitians can go fuck themselves since they are not treated in any different way or singled out more than any other gangs in gta. they are just too sensitive and blew it out of proportion, like the chinese are doing.
…wait what? do you understand that what you just typed made NO sense at all? Americans are upset over the GTA series because of its violence. and its mostly parents that are upset. i’ve not heard of a single thing like “Americans people killing American people!?!? HOW DARE THEY!”
Chinese are the new Soviets.
nah they are too fundamentally inferior to measure up to those worthy adversaries. even experts agree they are neither strong willed or hard enough to compare to our eternal worthy adversary, the russians.
and Americans are the new… oh wait.