As seen on Terra Nova and Pacific Epoch, if you’re an MMO provider in China, for the love of Mao, don’t ever put up anything in your game that even looks remotely like a Japanese flag.
Evolution of a flash mob, in three easy steps!
Players created protest characters with names like:
Name of player: \’e5\’b9\’b2\’e6\-\’bb4\’e5\’b0\’8f\’e6\emdash\’a5\’e6\’9c\’ac (“Kill the little Japs”)
Name of guild: \’e6\’8a\emdash\’e6\emdash\’a5\’e5\’90\’8c\’e7\’9b\’9f\’e4\’bc\’9a (“The Alliance to Resist Japan”)
Because, as we all know, the best way to protest the conduct of an MMO company is, as Delusion memorably put it,
OMG YOU NERFED DUAL WIELD DARK ELF DUAL CLASS PALADIN ASSASSINS? WTF? I’M GOING TO LOUDLY THREATEN TO CANCEL MY ACCOUNT, AND INSTEAD JUST GO TO THE MAIN CITY AND BITCH FOR A FEW HOURS BEFORE PLAYING NORMALLY!
In a followup, the provider, NetEase, wielded the Serene Banstick of Righteous Fury and sought to appeal to the mob’s sense of reason.
Patriotism is a form of respect, and it is a belief. Patriotism is the soul of our people, it is the soul of our nation. But we sincerely hope that everybody’s patriotic actions are rational . We hope and we believe that everybody can make rational expressions.
If only.
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Death to all who use a generic iconic symbol which looks vaguely similar to another generic iconic symbol that is partially associated with an ideology or incident I disagree with!
Bruce
Hmmm, OK so the key to keeping the gold farmers off the US servers is to cover them in Japanese flags? At least that way they’ll all be busy screaming in some city, then it’ll be easy as pie to ban them.
Nationalism != Patriotism. Sadly most people don’t know the difference.
No, it will just filter out the crazies. Pro farmers know that money > pride.
Is that an image of comrade Lenin representing “Tyrants”?
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I liked the surrealism.
Flash mobs in old UO with people running out or TR pots.. whole lotta people going nowhere… and gettin robbed blind.
sounds like fun!
We get a Chinese news station (think CNN/Fox News) on our dish. It’s a lot of fun to watch. They talk about Japan, like we would about Iran.
Are those space invaders or does UO just have some really wierd flags?
\’e2\’80\’9cPatriotism is the virtue of the vicious.\’e2\’80\’9d Oscar Wilde
And you thought America has problems!
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