As many of you will remember, last week it was shared that in Hong Kongwas being used Animal Crossing: New Horizons to make political demonstrations. This consists of creating personalized designs with the illustrations of who they want, mainly criticizing the executive president. Carrie Lam. In this way, they achieve transmit the messages through Animal Crossing since physically they cannot by the coronavirus.
Notably Animal Crossing: New Horizons is not yet officially available in ChinaBut Nintendo has partnered with Tencent to bring a special Animal Crossing console to the region. However, the game has a choice of Chinese language
Well, we have bad news for Chinese fans who seem to be related to this fact, since it has been shared that imported copies of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have been banned in China. Instruction was filtered through the e-commerce platform of Alibaba Taobao to sellers yesterday (April 9) and is expected to go into effect today.
These are the details that have been shared:
- According to the screenshots posted online by Taobao sellers, the ban affects not only the game but all merchandise and related hardware.
- Although no official word on the reason for the ban has been released, some users suspected that it is related to the fact that the game can be used to share messages online, such as political slogans, which are generally frowned upon by the Chinese government
- Bloomberg reports that the game is one of many being used to highlight the political struggle in Hong Kong. One of Hong Kong's most famous proponents of democracy, Joshua Wong, tweeted about using the game to share his message:
It is unknown if the game will actually come out in China after this ban, and if it does, it is highly likely that some of its features will be disabled to prevent players from using it for online protests.
What do you think of this whole situation?
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