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Devotion developer calls for calm as fallout from China Winnie the Pooh poster goes from bad to worse

Posted by Deimos
Tags: china, taiwan, politics, steam, devotion, developers.video game, presidents, xi jinping, winnie the pooh, memes, author.wesley yin poole, source.eurogamer
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-25-devotion-developer-calls-for-calm-as-fallout-from-xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-china-meme-reference-goes-from-bad-to-worse

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    Deimos
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    This is a pretty interesting situation. It now appears that Devotion might have been removed from Steam entirely. I just tried to go to its Steam page, which should be here and get redirected to...

    This is a pretty interesting situation. It now appears that Devotion might have been removed from Steam entirely. I just tried to go to its Steam page, which should be here and get redirected to the front page of Steam now. It shows up in the completion suggestion on Steam search, but doesn't show any price and clicking on it just goes back to the home page.

    6 votes
    1. xstresedg
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      I couldn't even find it with search. The only thing that came up is the deluxe edition, but the game is absent, with only the OST being a part of the bundle....

      I couldn't even find it with search. The only thing that came up is the deluxe edition, but the game is absent, with only the OST being a part of the bundle.

      https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10109/Devotion_Deluxe_Edition/

      EDIT: Attached link.

      3 votes
    2. Greg
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      That is interesting - I thought Steam generally quoted a "no censorship if at all possible" policy, so I can see them facing backlash if it turns out it was their choice to remove it from markets...

      That is interesting - I thought Steam generally quoted a "no censorship if at all possible" policy, so I can see them facing backlash if it turns out it was their choice to remove it from markets other than China.

      3 votes