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POE China Server Graphic Localization (Censored) : r/pathofexile

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  "post": {
    "title": "POE China Server Graphic Localization (Censored)",
    "selftext": "",
    "url": "https://imgur.com/a/L9uVP"
  },
  "comments": [
    {
      "body": "In China even the Templar got pants.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Is there a mod/option to get this on U.S. servers? My kids really want to play but their mother isn't very happy with most of the U.S. versions of this stuff.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "That'd actually be pretty dope. I'm curious what they did to areas like Lunaris temple, and the belly of the beast. "
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "This is a(China) buff"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "I can't imagine what they'll use to replace all the blood in Lunaris. Water, slime, chocolate milk, purple drank? The possibilities boggle the mind.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "I'd expect water. Perhaps even boiling water (without all the people in it)",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "> Perhaps even boiling water (without all the people in it)\n\nso, piety opened a sauna? ",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "I mean, she is a hoe after all, what did you expect?"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "body": "Or just an eerie, still pool of dark water. I'd prefer that over the comical amount of blood any day."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "As long as it's not a [bakery](https://i.imgur.com/pDqmbe8.png)..."
        },
        {
          "body": "I vote tentacle grape.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "this is China we're talking about, not Japan.",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "Yes and? The color is [nice](http://images.dannychoo.com/cgm/images/post/20120328/26477/142257/large/0aa8ffd2524413d1441efd81a90defbd.jpg) ."
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "THEY NERFED TITTY BITCHES ",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "i like how they censored her nipples"
        },
        {
          "body": "But did they castrate the statues?"
        },
        {
          "body": "They actually look a little better I think",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "Me too but trying to argue over ascetics when people have their 2nd amendment right to bare breasts hate jerk doesn't work here"
            },
            {
              "body": "A lot of those look better."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "This is a buff.\n"
        },
        {
          "body": "[deleted]",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "[deleted]",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "[deleted]",
                  "replies": [
                    {
                      "body": "Sounds like she spends all her free time trying to be offended for other people instead of doing something useful and helpful.\n\nEdit: The guy was talking about his SJW girlfriend whining about whatever it is they whine about to make themselves feel better while doing literally nothing to actually help affect change in the world."
                    }
                  ]
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "body": "Probably she is affiliated to some politicians that completelly destroyed her mind. 😉"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "I never realized that Brutus skips leg day."
    },
    {
      "body": "They will have to almost completely remake lunaris, belly and harvest. Hopefully GGG will keep the required new crystal tilesets for use in the global version.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Frankly I'd like the inside of the Beast to be a weird crystalline trip. At least one level. Three levels of gut are kinda boring.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "Yeah, it would have made sense if Belly 1 were \"Shell of the Beast\" or some-such, with just pure, spiky crystal everywhere.\n\nArt assets are expensive, though.",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "Even repeating that wall texture from the crystal veins inside the existing beast guts would be cool. There would be this feeling of the gems literally being plucked out of the Beast's flesh. Which I think they are...?"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Piety and Maligaro looking fabulous. These are some pretty clever workarounds.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "I dunno. It's all so... cutesy. Maligaro looks like he could be a protagonist over there.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "They're crystal abominations. Growths sprouting directly from their bodies, in many cases still mutilated from it too. I wouldn't call it any kind of cutsey. \n\nI agree with OP, these don't look half bad. But I'm also biased to crystals and the like in all things so...",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "Oh of course. When you look at what they really are, they're still horrific, and keeping to the gem theme, so it's a great job.\n\nBut in game I rarely have time to observe enemies closely, since I'm squishy as hell and usually run away in panic while filling the screen with caustic clouds and hoping they'll do the trick. I would just see a pinkish blur.",
                  "replies": [
                    {
                      "body": "Right? Art work too rippy, plz nerf."
                    }
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "I think most of the remodels are pretty good. They fit the virtue gem corruption theme close enough.\n\nI really wonder what Belly of the Beast is going to look like, though...",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Yep. In most other games, this sort of censoring is just slapped together without much thought, but this stuff looks pretty good. \n\nAlso wondering about Lunaris Level 2.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "It's now purple. Purple pool i guess. Happy little purple.\n\n#EVERYWHERE",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "ETERNAL PROPHECY LEAGUE.\nOh wait.."
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "they turned it into steven universe"
        },
        {
          "body": "I dislike the look of Belly, looking forward to seeing what they do there."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "I wonder if the extra gore mod is now extra crystals or something.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "extra glitter"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "[Source](http://news.17173.com/content/2016-09-13/20160913093831091_all.shtml#pageanchor1)\n\nWell, they look geared up pretty well in China.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Went to the bottom of the page.\n\nFound some great gifs, which made me Discharge.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "I closed the tab as soon as I reach the last image.... then I reopened the tab again after I read your comment lol.\n\nNever expected those ads lol.",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "Enjoy :)"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "That's hilarious, look at all the ads with scantily clad women."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "What about fencer statues? I have fond memories of them ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "they'll probably slap some black lines on there"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Because nude parts, flesh and blood are not allowed in games by Chinese laws. ",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Well, it's not quite \"not allowed\". But anti-pornography laws are interpreted fairly broadly by the people who control software imports, and \"gratuitous\" nudity or gore is a good way to get rejected.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "I thought that was more about culture than laws? That they see gore as an insult to ancestors or something like that? Along the lines of \"leave what's dead to be dead\"",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "There's a bit of stigma around that, but it's not illegal to include. Disrespect to actual historical Chinese people is trouble, but to some generic dead person is just tacky."
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "Also apparently vaal is censored because it has 3 metal faces ontop?",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "they look like skulls",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "Human faces also kinda look like skulls if you look at them carefully.",
                  "replies": [
                    {
                      "body": "\\*remembers there's a spooky skeleton inside me*\n\n               \\*starts hyperventilating*",
                      "replies": [
                        {
                          "body": "thx mr skeltal",
                          "replies": [
                            {
                              "body": "Doot doot"
                            }
                          ]
                        },
                        {
                          "body": "I always think the skeleton inside me is my bro. And it's smiling all the time."
                        }
                      ]
                    }
                  ]
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "body": "no skulls\n"
            },
            {
              "body": "They also censored the tumor faces."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "What the fuck are they going to do about atziri..?",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "Dress her up."
            },
            {
              "body": "Put her a couple of golden tops and be done with it."
            },
            {
              "body": "Something else ridiculous and bowdlerized."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "Does that mean they turned off the extra gore effects on carcass jack or facebreakers? ",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "> man faces also kinda look like skulls if you look at them carefu\n\nIf they do that there will litterally be a MASSIVE shit storm from the USA community over why we cant have it. Like fucking massive."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "But that's, like, the entirety of what makes games good."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Good luck censoring Lunaris 3 and The Harvest\n",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Lunaris 3 got censored for everyone. It got hit so hard that it doesn't event exist anymore",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "after pyramid you go directly to highgate"
            },
            {
              "body": "Thank the gods.",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "> Thank ~~the gods~~.\n\nThe vaals!"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "not going to lie... the crystal ones are dang cool.    \nWould love to see them in game as an alternate.   Should be the basis of various Essence mobs, given the crystal theme..",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "I'd love to see high level map versions of maligaro and piety with crystals.  Probably would have different vfx as well.  "
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "everything looks fine, except vaal oversoul. \n\nedit: that thing on photo 10(titty bitch? not sure,can't see the tentacles) looks bad too.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Ch'aska, not a titty bitch",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "You have mounted the summit of the world, Not-a Titty Bitch.",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "I laughed way too hard at thiss"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "That's chaska, tittybitch from atziri trio."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "So in Chinese version Exile just puts monsters to sleep instead of killing? :)\n\nAnd in Hardcore league at 0 hp you'll see \"awake in town\" button?:)",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Hardcore probably doesn't even exist, or maybe it's called \"Less fluffy mode\""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "I prefer the crystals, get at me",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "I wonder what Belly of the Beast/Harvest areas look like.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "Crystals. Crystals everywhere.",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "what about the anus doors?",
                  "replies": [
                    {
                      "body": "It's now a cool aperture space door :D",
                      "replies": [
                        {
                          "body": "Malachai fight would be a lot easier with portal gun",
                          "replies": [
                            {
                              "body": "It feels like people are up voting me because I said aperture in my comment. \n\nWould love a LW mtx that would mimic the portal effect from Portal... I would throw all my money at GGG then. And never use anything except LW all day everyday.",
                              "replies": [
                                {
                                  "body": "That would fit the game universe so well ! wait... what ?",
                                  "replies": [
                                    {
                                      "body": "it would fit about as well as garemon"
                                    }
                                  ]
                                }
                              ]
                            }
                          ]
                        }
                      ]
                    }
                  ]
                },
                {
                  "body": "I honestly would 100% prefer that."
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "body": "I wonder what Lunaris Temple looks like."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "Same. Fits the fight more... However having a dude grafted onto you is Mali's favorite. "
        },
        {
          "body": "Right there with you.  I'm so bored with all the gore."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Lunaris Temple 2nd floor? Pools of blood with bodies turned into..what?",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "They can't even show pools of blood.  That entire zone (off map where it was all blood) will probably be blackness?"
        },
        {
          "body": "Probably be just like the first floor. There is no way you can censor a whole lake of gore."
        },
        {
          "body": "CRYSTALS! AND WATER!",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "Piety decided to stop all the experiments and stuffs and opens a zen sauna"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "It will be Solaris Temple with black walls and floors. I mean thats what it already is, just need to remove the gore."
        },
        {
          "body": "strawberry jam\n"
        },
        {
          "body": "Cannibals aren't cannibals, there are no impaled corpses, no corpses on the ground, all the bodies in lunaris are mysteriously absent...\n\nThere are a lot of changes to make to please the Chinese censors.  "
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Looks like Vaal ran headfirst into a fancy box...",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "And he can't even get his head out of the box cause he has useless club hands.\n\nI feel kind of bad for him, now. Like a cat with his head stuck in a box."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Those actually look pretty neat, I hope they make their way to maps in the global build."
    },
    {
      "body": "i kind of feel sorry for them  those just look stupid "
    },
    {
      "body": "Would you be able to force the localization on non-chinese clients too?",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "yeah you will, you just need to replace some files",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "How would you get the files though, would you need to download chinese client or something? Also would that be bannable because of tampering with files?",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "> How would you get the files though, would you need to download chinese client or something?\n\nYes you would need the chinese files.\n\n> Also would that be bannable because of tampering with files?\n\nIt would be against the ToS, but why would GGG ban you ? It's basically modding.",
                  "replies": [
                    {
                      "body": "> but why would GGG ban you ? It's basically modding.\n\nUh.  If you haven't noticed, GGG has a pretty firm stance on modding their game, in the interest of keeping everyone on a level playing field.",
                      "replies": [
                        {
                          "body": "Oh look it's GGG fanboy extraordinaire himself !\n\nWe are not talking about cheating, so why are you replying with dumb shit like even playing field ? \n\nPeople have been changing the game files for years, not a single person got banned outside cheaters and boters. Keep talking out of your ass as always",
                          "replies": [
                            {
                              "body": "> People have been changing the game files for years, not a single person got banned outside cheaters and boters. Keep talking out of your ass as always\n\nFeel free to find me examples of this.  Because AFAIK, there haven't been any GGG has ok'd.",
                              "replies": [
                                {
                                  "body": "[removed]",
                                  "replies": [
                                    {
                                      "body": "Teach me your negative rain dancing ways"
                                    }
                                  ]
                                }
                              ]
                            }
                          ]
                        }
                      ]
                    },
                    {
                      "body": "They would ban you for breaking god I'd imagine "
                    }
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "WTB Brass Hook Claw MTX."
    },
    {
      "body": "Ch'aska looks dank af tho."
    },
    {
      "body": "Now i wanna see Malachai and his attacks, Belly of the Beast, Lunaris and Atziri.\n\nI'd also like the option to switch to these models at will in our game, when the technology arrives."
    },
    {
      "body": "Makes me wonder what they did with lunaris temple . "
    },
    {
      "body": "What about the golden penises?",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Asking the important questions."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "The purple crystal look is pretty nice, actually. Wouldn't mind having it as a graphics toggle available on the international release. Would love to do a full playthrough with a different look, just for some visual variety."
    },
    {
      "body": "OMG, Chinese Belly of the Beast/Harvest is going to be so much more pleasant. Can we opt in?"
    },
    {
      "body": "Pretty neat. I prefer those - wonder if it's possible to get them hacked in or available as an option?\n\nOnly thing I don't like is the dumb vaal head in the box?\n"
    },
    {
      "body": "When is the North Korean version coming out",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "They're in the middle of the Diablo 1 release atm."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Fucking China..."
    },
    {
      "body": "I prefer the Chinese market versions to be honest, It would be awesome if we could get an option to turn it on for the main client."
    },
    {
      "body": "So. .are the bowels of the beast just the crystal caves?"
    },
    {
      "body": "Well I was expecting this, and actually it's done better than I thought. Replacing blood by crystal is a brilliant idea.\n\nAlso dat nerf in the last pic :o"
    },
    {
      "body": "Mandatory MTX?"
    },
    {
      "body": "If they actually have to rework everything that has blood and gore, then holy shit.  What's sad is that this is going to heavily influence the style going forward--no more bosses that look like Piety or Maligaro that they're going to immediately have to rework anyway.  "
    },
    {
      "body": "Brutus skipped leg day"
    },
    {
      "body": "How does the Tentacle Miscreation look?"
    },
    {
      "body": "So... When can we get this ourselves? Would make for a cool mtx."
    },
    {
      "body": "Meanwhile, the rest of the entire source website is full with smut^^"
    },
    {
      "body": "when in doubt, make it purple."
    },
    {
      "body": "Maligaro looks cool."
    },
    {
      "body": "This is odd. I knew about their laws against depicting skulls and skeletons, but even like bloody bits and body parts eh? Outdated laws still fuckin' China over."
    },
    {
      "body": "What about donger statues?"
    },
    {
      "body": "Alright now show me the belly of the beast."
    },
    {
      "body": "These actually look pretty cool, especially the purple crystals."
    },
    {
      "body": "Chinese censorship was always pretty ridiculous (for lack of a harsher word) but some of these are pretty cool variants. But if fleshy things are crystallized then what the heck are they going to do about the last area in the game?\n\n...\n\nOh God, they're gonna go full Prophecy on it won't they..? =P"
    },
    {
      "body": "LOL what the hell is that helmet for?"
    },
    {
      "body": "I actually really like some of these, honestly."
    },
    {
      "body": "I wonder what they'd do to Harvest/Belly.. xD\n\nPS. How will titty bitches shoot things out of their titties, if their titties are covered? (~~How can mirrors be~~)"
    },
    {
      "body": "What about SRS? Skulls have to be censored in China. ",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Summon Raging Fireball."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "I want my titties, penises, and gory blood."
    },
    {
      "body": "so biological abominations are a no. But crystalised abominations are fine? And they also covers the gory, parts of the body due to human experimentation with mechanised parts.\n\nThe changes are subtle, but it changes the theme a lot IMO. But that's to be expected when we live in a world where cultural difference matters. I'm sure POE will thrive in China too."
    },
    {
      "body": "Hello and good time of day.\nLike them very much. Someone can say how to get chineese client to extract graphical assets?\nWant to place them into euro client and play with them.\n\nThanks in advance."
    },
    {
      "body": "Purple."
    },
    {
      "body": "Atziri?"
    },
    {
      "body": "SO where's the fun?"
    },
    {
      "body": "They all look better."
    },
    {
      "body": "China, you are sick in the head."
    },
    {
      "body": "Can I get this localisation on other clients? I always disliked the pointless nudity in the game. "
    },
    {
      "body": "So this is why we have crappy MTX these days, devs are busy remodeling everything for baby chineses",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Baby chinese with money to burn! This ultimately makes GGG more money, which allows them to make the game better for us.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "Yeah, also, people from China can play a game. Which is neat."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "get a taste of that gwai-lo salt"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Asian Vaal oversoul is next patch boss.\n"
    },
    {
      "body": "VAAL CONSTRUCT DIDN'T HAVE A BOX ON ITS HEAD BOX TILL THE YEAR '16"
    },
    {
      "body": "Nice pachimons."
    },
    {
      "body": "NO.... NOOOOOOOOOOOO"
    },
    {
      "body": "WTB Piety disco crystal MTX"
    },
    {
      "body": "gave me cancer"
    },
    {
      "body": "Censored is probably misleading.\n\nIt is more likely a local adaptation made to make it easier to get the game approved for commercial use in China, so the localization part is more fitting..\n\nYou can read more about how game changes in China usually isn't censorship but rather something publishers do themselves to avoid _potential_ issues slowing down the approval process here: https://www.techinasia.com/china-doesnt-censor-skeletons-the-truth-about-game-censorship-in-the-middle-kingdom",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "That's censorship still though, no matter what potential issues you might be trying to avoid."
        },
        {
          "body": "If there was no benefit to doing it, then companies wouldn't be spending time and money on \"local adaptations.\"\n\nThe tl;dr of the article seems to be \"companies aren't being censored... they censor themselves so their product isn't banned.\" Um, hello? That's the same thing.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "If it is cheaper to do local adaptations because of time delay and costs connected, then yes they will do that.\n\nThey are taking the easy way out, which is the smart thing to do - in my opinion not censorship in the words true meaning.\n\nThis is why I like the post (apart from using the word censorship because it feeds up under people who don't look into how China handles it thinking China censor everything when the reality is that they have large openings for interpretation which is causing people who want to operate there to adapt on the safe side to avoid approval taking too much time. .)\n\nSo no, it is not the same thing in my opinion. Government and laws applying censorship is different from companies adapting to smooth out their approval process and avoid possible complications which means time delays and in worst case scenario having to change something because of applied censorship or law being vague."
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "Holy shit. I never really looked at Brutus before, but jesus that model just looks... Bad. Well, not bad-bad. Just *bad*. It looks goofy as fuck.\n\nI don't recall [this monster](https://i.imgur.com/1tHL63P.jpg) but I actually really like the reskin.\n\nI actually really enjoy the crystal theme more than the blood and gore style.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "[removed]",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "Ah. That explains it then, I've never gone in there."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "body": "until you realize it make about as much sense in the context of the game as  a sudden invasion by aliens in  50's style..saucers.... that being said if they could use those models for say a new tile set with its own logical theme and if this were to  result and more meeps for us.. i would not say no to it.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "I didn't say anything about that. At all. I just said I liked the look of the theme. It looks good."
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "So they changed everything that is red because it would taint the glory of the \"\"\"Communist\"\"\" party?\n\nI can't understand why they would do such changes (except the boobs censoring. Rip golden statues)",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "China has these censorship laws about gore and anything depicting human flesh,bones being exposed. IIRC WoW got it way back too with the undead being censored in Wrath of the Lich King.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "body": "how can you censor the undead in wotlk??? i mean, the addon is basically nothing else...undead invading the world. you defend and raid the undead, you quest in undead states of northrend, you ally with the undead. if they censor the undead it would be a totally new addon :D",
              "replies": [
                {
                  "body": "from what I remember they fleshed them out a bit, removing stuff like the spine showing through the back of clothing, purely skeletal hands etc."
                },
                {
                  "body": "There is no problem with undeads specifically, china has problems with showing bones and skulls and tons of blood directly. And even this is incosistent in mane games.\n\nhttp://news.mmosite.com/content/2010-08-18/a_comparison_of_chinese_wotlk_and_the_us_version,1.shtml"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}