By now you’ve undoubtedly heard that an exclusive version of America’s precious Call of Duty franchise is on its way to the Land of the Red Dragon. (Or wait, isn’t Wales the Land of the Red Dragon? Shut up, I’m trying to talk about China here.) And if you’re an unwavering CoD superfan, you’re probably feeling a bit of jealousy, especially if the PC is your system of choice.
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Geekparty you do realize China has nets in place to catch suicide jumpers from killing themselves at sweat shops all over their country. If not, now you do know.
Never put China and jealous in the same sentence unless you're a sadist.
And by "cute" I mean "highly ignorant"
Not that China's an amazing place to live, but it's nowhere near the picture you're painting, either.
I'm going to guess you're American.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
China is known for its terrible working conditions, sweat shops, long hours, high suicide rate, you name it, stating facts that don't put a country in a positive light doesn't make you a hater or ignorant, but assuming someone is because they do makes you ignorant. You do know that there is a reason all of our factories get moved over there right?
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OT: I'm not jealous that they're getting this.
He said:
"Nobody in their rights minds are jealous of anything China has to offer"
A load of crap. There are a lot of really good jobs in China for expats. Not everyone in China works in a factory.
He said:
"especially working at gun point"
Nope.
"highlight of your day is to commit suicide"
Nope. That's not a highlight in anyone's day.
"Geekparty you do realize China has nets in place to catch suicide jumpers from killing themselves at sweat shops all over their country."
The nets around the building are at Foxconn. One factory that happened to hit headlines because it's the one Apple uses. Not every factory. One.
So from start to finish his comments were filled with sensationalist and utterly incorrect statements. Clearly someone who has not been there, and that kind of sensationalism comes from the American media more than anywhere else, which is why I made the guess I did.
China is not an ideal place to work, especially for factory workers, but China has a large (and growing) middle class, and minimum wages in many working-class jobs are improving.
There's the real facts. From someone who has been to China.
1. Don't be so quick to judge.
2. Don't deny china could use some improvement, they seem to have little to no interest for the individual. I'm not saying that as fact its simply what I gather from their actions. What I feel would help most is new leadership.
3. Lastly where you're from doesn't have anything to do with who you are as a person. So enough of these idiotic stereotypes put on people's personalities based on where they live.
you know only bullshit that your TV shows.
I've been there and there's no sutch thing as slavery, people working in factorys live an averege life.And there's more truth and order than in any western country...
The people of China live very very underprivileged lives for the most part, apart from the odd wealthy controlling few (as always).
He's not making stuff up matts and you know it. The Foxcon Mega factory is legal slavery. You get 12 years in prison for trying to form a union. Your forced to live in a small apartment with 8 other people. You work 31 hour shifts for 30 cent a hour. And yes they have up nets to stop the employees from jumping to their deaths. Your just a Chinese national trying to do damage control. Now get your sorry butt back to Wikipedia and edit out all the bad things said about China. Just like your commie overloards ordered to you to.
Because their milking tactics failed in China and not as many people played or bought the game year after year, unlike North american idiots, they released this free to get players addicted.
Once the fanbase increases there, all support for this free game will stop and activision will expect them to buy the real games.
And, btw China. It's FREEDOM, not FREE COD.
Why even comment on my comment asking why i commented in the first place. HMMMMMM
Just because western gamers don't see the appeal to F2P P2W models, doesn't mean China doesn't either. Look up Combat Arms, and see the demographic on that game.
I wouldn't be surprised if Activision is planning such a movement for other countries.
This way the 1 per cent of people that would spend money on the game can support it, without piracy killing the company in the process.
"Free-to-Play" aka "nickel and dime you at every wall" or "pay-to-win" models are slowly entering the industry.....
Go try to play SimCity Social....its not even SimCity anymore, but EA is going to make massive amounts of money off it.....
Micro, my ass.
Whoever would have thought that a company that employs thousands of people would need to make some money from the work they do?
lol.
I'll be getting a free map called Terminal pretty soon from Activision.
Seems like that's free to me.
Look online bbc did a good documentary on it, China is the growing superpower right now, its overtaken Japan to become the worlds second largest economy and whilst the western world slows its still growing.
Look it up on google, might be surprised by what you find
AHAHA!
This article makes me laugh.
I just find it stupid how Activision has made a game for a Chinese audience yet they've promoted it in english with english voice actors (bu the sounds of the trailer)
China Population: 1.3 billion
World population: 6.7 billion
lure them in with free game, once they become addicated like many CoD fans are, RAISE PRICE TO TREE FIDDY!
This game just has micro-transactions slapped all over it.
Now they have to figure out if people in China actually like FPS's...
"Call of Duty Free-To-Play. Free is classified as, initially free to "Play" but will "encourage" money exchanges in the amount of ten times what a standard game costs"
At the end of the day, idiots will go and spend 100 bucks on the game, and we will never see a 60 dollar full retail game again
They have their entire country working in slave factories, but pay them pennies to call them workers. Its hard for any other country to compete when China openly has horrible working conditions and low as hell pay. So all the greedy corporations build their products there, then sell em at high prices here. I'm not jealous of it, look at how many economies (including the US) could shoot right back up the charts if those jobs went elsewhere? Yet the only way to do it is to literally open slave camps and say have fun....
That probably won't be long, China is basically killing themselves literally with pollution and diseases....Then again China is already buying out American companies....last month they bought a few chains and even a bank.
It comes down to China's Economies....
Thats right , there is Two...
One , an international currency based around the world Stock markets...
Two, An Internal currency that is for the chinese, its one that can not be exchanged for foreign currency...
thats how they do it. They keep it devalued by such a system, and in essence allows cheap slave labour.
Its been around for years.. I was in Beijing in 1982 (when they first openly invited westerners) . and even then, We had to convert our Australian Currency to "Friendship Money". This currency we could not exchange back to AUS dollars when leaving..
Interestingly, there was one , one only multilevel dept store that had products you could only purchase with "Friendship Currency"... And no, it wasn't aimed at foreigners, it was the only way a local could buy products that weren't available anywhere else.. Like a washing machine !!!
Call it what you will, lets say an incentive.... but everyone there loved doing business with us...
Rant over...
BTW, Everyone was absolutely delightful and friendly.
I loved those ones
And then on top of it the maps are from like cod3 and 4 and the first modernwarfare so who still wants that here?
imagine, call of duty for free, all the good features enhanced and all the crap cut out.
For those of you who still support late-term abortion, here's something for you from "Prochoice.com": Also called vacuum aspiration, this is the most common abortion technique in use today. In this procedure a suction tube is inserted through the dilated cervix into the womb. A powerful vacuum tears the placenta from the uterus and dismembers the body of the developing child, sucking the pieces into an attached jar. There is a risk that the uterus can be punctured during the procedure. Also, the abortionist must take care that all the body parts are removed from the womb, as infection and hemorrhage can occur if fetal or placental tissue is left in the uterus."
So, yes, they rip it apart, put it in a jar, then throw it in the trash after it BACKS AWAY AND SILENTLY SCREAMS IN TERROR from the vacuum.
So, in short, I'm mad not only at China for killing babies like this, but every country in the world that practices it, the US included. Day-after pill? I'm fine with that. But by the point it can feel? That's horrible.
OT: Who in the hell would be jealous of China for any reason? ESPECIALLY for a Call of Duty game? We get one every year and most of us already own at least a single CoD game since 4, so we aren't missing anything.