So you make 2 versions. Problem solved. Capitalism in action.
We've been making localized versions of game models for the chinks since forever. For example, in World of Warcraft, they have Undead player characters and NPC's, and in the standard version of those models, they have some bones showing. But chinks believe that the human skeleton is a disgusting object (I shit you not they really do), so in the localized chink version they have some greenish flesh over those areas where the bones stick out in the regular models.
I thought it was related to the laws prohibiting promotion of cults and superstitions, if it's ghosts or reanimated skeletons, they classify it as promotion of superstitious belief in the supernatural. I remember another game where they censored it by turning them into robots.
The idea that their average IQ is above ours is false, essentially, only people who had access to computers there could submit their IQ result, which skews the total results. Obviously this is convenient for them and they ought to have tested an variety of different classes for that data.
I thought it was related to the laws prohibiting promotion of cults and superstitions, if it's ghosts or reanimated skeletons, they classify it as promotion of superstitious belief in the supernatural.
Sounds like the "official government" reasoning for the ban, but there is indeed a cultural aversion to the depiction of human skeletons in Chinese culture, I've run up against it before at work when I was working for a company that dabbled in selling recorded entertainment through retail outlets.
Sounds right. You want to play, play by the rules of the country you are selling to.
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