In recent days, the role-playing game from Larian Studio has received more than 700 negative reviews on Steam from Chinese users. The reason was Sven Winke’s speech during the announcement of the winner in the «Game of the Year» category at the The Game Awards 2024.
The head of Larian Studios announced the winner in accordance with the tradition of The Game Awards, where a representative of the last year’s winning game presents the new winner. In his speech, he emphasized the importance of creating games for fun, not profit.
Chinese players took this statement as an attack against their favorite Black Myth: Wukong. Perhaps the misunderstanding was caused by an inaccurate translation of the speech into Chinese.
An attempt to downgrade Baldur’s Gate 3 proved to be ineffective — negative reviews make up a small share of the total over 623,000 user ratings.
Feng Ji, CEO of the Chinese studio Game Science, which created Black Myth: Wukong, did not hide his disappointment with the results of the ceremony. «The games nominated this year were great… but I really didn’t understand the criteria for this year’s Game of the Year… I felt like I came here for nothing!», he wrote on the social network Weibo.
The developer told the social network that he wrote his victory speech two years ago. He admitted that he was confident of winning, so he was naturally disappointed when he did not receive the expected recognition.
Source: Game.DOU
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