China is an easy target because it makes no attempt to mask its plagiarism attempts with either innovation or at least a fresh coat of paint.

One of my Chinese co-workers described China’s rich as “poor people with money.”

ZhongGuanCun, or, the poor man's poor man's Akihabara. God, I miss that place :)

Years ago, when WoW was at peak registered user count, a few of my Chinese co-workers and I had a discussion on "when will China make its own WoW?" What we really meant was, 'when will Chinese game companies possess both the creativity and technical capability to make a game of similar scope and quality?'

I'm at a loss here. Other than a gleeful eagerness to point an instance in which you asked "tough, hard-hitting questions", what was the point of documenting this non-encounter?

This made me laugh harder than my favorite episodes of The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men COMBINED

Not directed at you, but holy crap, in a single thread totaling under 20 posts we have:

"were"

I like how this article ended up becoming a "PC vs. Consoles" whine match, instead of a "PS4 vs. Xbox One" match. That was a rather skillful deflection, Kirk, albeit a tactless one. The frosted, decadent icing on your manufactured controversy-within-a-controversy cake has to be the completely disingenuous comparison…

I admire his ambition and courage, but: This guy's writing style is highly grating, in both the story parts but especially in the introduction. He's going for this forced conversational type of prose that sounds really unnaturally self-aware and painfully smug. It is entirely possible to be witty without resorting to…

Masterful.

Moving to Chengdu in November. Might need to brush up on Sichuanese dialect, but fingers remain crossed!

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The Confucius Institutes are a great example of soft power failures that breed resentment globally. China has Confucius Institutes set in Manila, for example, the mere presence of which is undermined by China's presence and ongoing tensions with the Philippines. Over time, people fail to separate China's sources of…

Hey Eric, I hope me talking about Westerners having to appease "Chinese sensibilities" wasn't taken as some kind of offense towards the article. I think it's interesting that you've provided a unique look at how game operations are carried out on the other side of the pond, and my intent was definitely not to diminish…

Absolutely on point. I agree with everything you said.

I think this comment simplifies things too much, as it's never as simple as "I want to hold onto this grudge because." It's never just a grudge. For countries that have suffered what they deem "humiliating" losses at the hands of the Japanese, the imagery of the atrocities their people suffered all those years ago is…

I may be omitting instances of this happening in other foreign markets, but that's not through intent, since the only articles I ever read these days are about services and products being tailored to "fit the tastes" of the Chinese people. I'm not sure if it's cultural pride, insularity, or perhaps a combination of…

Popcap is, like most other mobile/social developers, first performing a soft-launch in "non-vital" regions (ie. not America, Britain, etc., where the iOS install base is comparatively lower) to stress-test the game as well as gather metrics to improve the overall game with bug fixes and tweaks when the official…

Have you played the game yet?