China’s lack of tolerance for gore and nudity in media has predictably caused the popular Resident Evil 2 remake to become banned in the communist nation, though sellers have found stealthy ways to sell the product regardless.
Multiple vendors in China have been disguising the Resident Evil 2 remake by giving the game a different title or by using completely different cover art, with varying levels of quality:
The game has also been given a multitude of differing titles: “First Day on the Job at the Police Station: Remake”, “Fried Cold Rice 2”, “Come Beat Me 2”, “Biochemical Crisis” and simply “January 25th” (the date the title came out):
One instance had the game’s cover replaced with the one for puzzle game “Little Nightmares” but with “remake” added to the title – another used an image of a zombie from Plants vs Zombies:
Resident Evil 2 wasn’t the only title to be stealthily put up for sale, however, as Battlefield 4 was sold with the name “Boyfriend Storm” so as to dodge regulators.
Those wanting to play the original form of Diablo III (since the Chinese version had to have its gore censored) had to find it under the disguised names of “Demon Buddy” and “Big Pineapple” (big pineapple apparently sounds similar to “Diablo” in Chinese):
seriously f♥♥k china my god eveything gets banned or explodes
Or plagiarized.
Oh China, I can always count on you for a good laugh
Hong Kong has it Asian has a Chinese dub of RE2 free download
I’m going to China and get my penis chopped off and turned into a pussy! f♥♥k merica!!! I don’t give ashit anymore people called me a tranny or some other s♥♥t! >.<
What in the world are you talking about?
The ban is China way of legal piracy, basically the China government is telling Chinese to not support foreign competitors by stealing & pirating their product outright.
How? Well, in China anything banned by government aren’t protected by law. So, if Capcom want to sue those filthy rich bootleg sellers, it will end with nothing happen cuz RE2 remake is a banned product.
Whilst I don’t doubt for a second this could happen, aren’t they selling original copies just with altered box art?