Apparently had a global live stream where they had a ranking chart of countries by players and Taiwan was listed as #1, so Chinese went ballistic for calling Taiwan a country. Blue Archive CN then issued a formal apology stating they recognize Taiwan being part of China.
Cant believe they stepped on the same landmine Hololive did.
Thing is Holo was slip of tongue since the data they got came from Google. This one just "Yeah. Our data separates the Mainland and Taiwan as separate region. Surely it wont raise any political drama."
Cant believe they stepped on the same landmine Hololive did.
Thing is Holo was slip of tongue since the data they got came from Google. This one just "Yeah. Our data separates the Mainland and Taiwan as separate region. Surely it wont raise any political drama."
I don't think they're really that much at fault as this requires some political awareness of another country that if you don't consume much news of, it just won't really be on your mind. If I remember correctly, Blue Archive has multiple servers one of which being dedicated to China and another one of which dedicated to Global, and the stats being shown are for the Global server. The problem was that Global has much less censorship than China, therefore many people from China VPN into Taiwan and play Global. So at the very beginning, China wouldn't have been shown for the stats as they have their own server, and secondly Taiwan has such high player count because a lot of Chinese players play it using Taiwan's IP address. The company naturally sees that when separated, players from this area called Taiwan has the highest player count in Global, and since they wouldn't be separating player count by "region", they naturally put the stats under country.
I don't think they're really that much at fault as this requires some political awareness of another country that if you don't consume much news of, it just won't really be on your mind. If I remember correctly, Blue Archive has multiple servers one of which being dedicated to China and another one of which dedicated to Global, and the stats being shown are for the Global server. The problem was that Global has much less censorship than China, therefore many people from China VPN into Taiwan and play Global. So at the very beginning, China wouldn't have been shown for the stats as they have their own server, and secondly Taiwan has such high player count because a lot of Chinese players play it using Taiwan's IP address. The company naturally sees that when separated, players from this area called Taiwan has the highest player count in Global, and since they wouldn't be separating player count by "region", they naturally put the stats under country.
Fyi they did use the word "region" in their chinese (both traditional and simplified) version of the presentation, they just didn't expect that they have to put the same measure on English and korean presentation as well.
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