While it’s understandable that the publisher makes certain rules in exchange for review codes, sometimes they go overboard…

Hero Games, the game’s co-publisher, is giving away these Steam keys, and everyone will receive a document that has been reported by IGN and Forbes. What can you do for free? Enjoy the game. That’s fine, but for the don’t list there are some interesting things beyond the usual (don’t insult other streamers, don’t use offensive language and humor). So let’s not be so quick to judge, but we can say that there are some amazing things mentioned in the document.

Streamers should not use nudity, feminist propaganda, fetishes, and other content that could lead to negative discourse. Yes, we’ll mention what IGN wrote about last year. The management of Game Science, the Chinese studio that developed the game, made some extremely sexist comments. You can’t talk about sensitive topics in China, you can’t use trigger words (e.g. quarantine, isolation, COVID-19), so you can’t imply that the pandemic started here.

They then point out that it is also forbidden to talk about the rules, news and opinions of the Chinese gaming industry, which is strange because Black Myth: Wukong is based on a classic Chinese work, Journey to the West. And if you can’t really talk about that or the country, that’s a bit of a strange ban. Hero Games may want to make sure that from here on out, intermediaries don’t jump to the Chinese game industry as a possible topic. But they sometimes overdo these restrictions, because at least you have to talk about the source material itself, because that would still be the authentic way to do it.

By the way, Black Myth: Wukong was released today for PlayStation 5 and PC. The Xbox Series version will be released at a later, unknown date. We’ll come back to this later in today’s news on another topic.

Source: PCGamer, IGN, IGN