{"id":18949,"date":"2021-07-05T14:31:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/guilty-gear-strive-patch-quietly-removes-mention-of-uyghur-tibet-and-taiwan"},"modified":"2024-07-20T00:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T00:41:56","slug":"guilty-gear-strive-patch-quietly-removes-mention-of-uyghur-tibet-and-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/guilty-gear\/guilty-gear-strive-patch-quietly-removes-mention-of-uyghur-tibet-and-taiwan","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Gear Strive patch quietly removes mention of Uyghur, Tibet, and Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, fans of Guilty Gear Strive<\/a> from the ResetEra forum<\/a> noticed a rather strange stealth change to the game that came as a part of patch 1.03.<\/p>\n

Guilty Gear Strive v1.03<\/a> was released a few weeks back and it came with a few technical changes in regard to some minor network and graphics issues, nothing too exciting. At least that’s what we see in the patch notes.<\/p>\n

But the patch brought another “minor” change that wasn’t listed in notes, and it has to do with China’s lore entry.<\/p>\n

Guilty Gear Strive has a complex in-game glossary for players who want to have a better understanding of the game’s lore and all the backstories.<\/p>\n

As a part of this in-game lore glossary, there’s an entry named “International affairs after the Crusades”.<\/p>\n

The original, pre-patch version mentions several regions in China or from around China, but after patch 1.03, the names of these regions\/countries were removed from the glossary.<\/p>\n

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(Picture: Bandai Namco\/AAK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was the original sentence, before patch 1.03:<\/p>\n

“China has further expanded their borders to encompass Uyghur, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Mongolia and Siberia – regions with lower populations but a lot of natural resources.”<\/p>\n

The sentence was altered with patch 1.03 and now it reads:<\/p>\n

“The Federation of China has further expanded their borders to encompass nearby regions with lower populations but a lot of natural resources.”<\/p>\n

The second sentence that was changed has references to Korea, Taiwan and Singapore removed. The original version:<\/p>\n

“Countries that had high population density and tended to import their foods, such as Korea, Taiwan and Singapore could not solve their nation’s problems with the availability of energy alone.”<\/p>\n

And after the patch:<\/p>\n

“Countries that had high population density and tended to import their foods could not solve their nation’s problems with the availability of energy alone.”<\/p>\n

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(Picture: Bandai Namco)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And while the patch removes mentions of Korea, Singapore, Mongolia, and Siberia as well, many believe that the main reason for these changes is a Chinese intervention due to Taiwan, Uyghur, and Tibet, as these are disputed regions and taboo topics in China, where Guilty Gear Strive has a huge fan base and the game could have been banned from China if Bandai Namco and developer Arc System Works didn’t comply with a request from the Chinese government to remove disputatious entries.<\/p>\n