Blizzard’s Hack’n Loot hit Diablo 3 has recently launched in China. Here, one must address various peculiarities: What does D3 look like there?
Many WoW players know this: In China, they do not show “bones”; the undead from World of Warcraft look quite different there compared to Europe and North America.
Blizzard again shows sensitivity with Diablo 3 and takes into account the peculiarities of Chinese culture (and by that, we do not only mean plagiarism). But well: What does sensitivity mean? And it’s not really about culture either, but more about the complicated political situation in the country. Because without the changes, there might have been difficulties.
Western games must be approved by the government in China, and their processes are, to put it mildly, sometimes unfathomable. Chinese publishers, in this case, NetEase, censor the games themselves before submitting them for review to avoid any difficulties that could delay or jeopardize approval.
The Asia specialists from mmo-culture summarize the changes in our and the Chinese version in images. For instance, some scars and open wounds have been removed, the skeletons are now significantly less skeletal, but have a few rags on, and the “Warden” has been completely redesigned.
