TheLegendaryBigBoss said:
Didn't SBI also threaten Gamescience that if they don't pay $7mil to SBI for thier 'services' then they will drag the game through mud via journalism? Who is SBI to consult a Chinese dev on their own culture? Ridiculous! |
It was a claim from a random blogger on Weibo, it wasn't from Gamescience themselves or any developer that worked on Black Myth. They're a Chinese company, CCP already tightly regulates their Chinese companies without Western interference, Lol. SBI would have no hope of getting around CCP even if they tried and wanted to.
SBI has around 16 employees including the CEO, they do not have as much power as everyone gives them credit for, consultancy groups like SBI have existed for dozens of years but this is the new target to blame as to why certain games are bad (despite the fact, SBI was involved in Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2 and Alan Wake 2), in 5 years from now it'll be a different consultancy group.
Most gaming companies in the West can barely get into China without caving to all of their demands due to the stranglehold CCP has over the market and how aggressively they regulate it. Don't you dare criticise the CCP and their authority, don't you dare mention Taiwan or Free Kong Kong. Black Myth of course is safe from this as a single-player title, online titles are not, China censors the living fuck out of those, Lol.
SBI is a studio of 16 people, utterly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, they aren't the President of the United States, Lol. They cannot bully billion $ companies and they sure as shit cannot get around the CCP. People are giving them FAR too much credit and just using them as a direction of their hatred for bad games because they need something to blame.
Also, this is off-topic anyway, SBI has nothing to do with Concord.
