I think the fact Chinese and China are replaced by oriental is weirder.
Considering the game's plot seems to be explicitly based around Chinese history.

Of course, I and others could just be reading too much into it, but considering the past hooplaa, can you blame us.

Anyways, if you care about Steam reviews, seems like people enjoy it. AKA Overwhelmingly Positive on both recent and overall.

those limits are for online gmaing in China, I don't see how it would affect an offline solo adventure sales worldwide yep, it was weird for me as I was reading it as hanabi and wanted to know if this was a Japanese game and Japanese language was missing.

Not really, tho. See attachment.

Far be it from me to read meaning into what might be a perfectly innocuous change to the game page copy, but for the sake of argument, let's do just that: gog - forever the mealy-mouthed weak-kneed yellow bellies - were perfectly aware that advertising this as a Chinese game would not go over well with a large part of their user base. So they deliberately changed that part of the description to obscure the game's origin in an effort to not have Winnie-memes pop up in the release thread 2 posts in. Which, miraculously, seems to have worked so far.

Which brings me to a whole 'nother can of worms I have with this release. It's almost as if somebody at gog said: "Welp, we sure screwed up that Devotion/Detention release last year, so that's no longer an option! So let's just give our users the next best thing: A Mainland Chinese-made paint-by-numbers Detention copycat. The Chinese have long had a reputation for cheap knock-offs, and in this case, the shoe seems to fit. I played the demo on Steam a while back and it seemed like an exact copy of Detention in terms of art direction and overall gameplay - only not good. Detention was just perfect - the demo of Firework was kinda like trying to eat one of those plastic food replicas the Japanese put in the storefront windows of their restaurants. It looks the same, but it tastes quite different. I don't want to dog on the work of the Firework dev too bad, because I only played the demo and there might still be a decent game underneath. But the initial impressions were underwhelming to say the least.

Again, even if the game turns out to be perfectly mediocre, the high rating could be easily explained: You're probably aware of the ruckus caused by Devotion. The dev's earlier game Detention was hugely popular in Mainland China - that was until the developer (who happens to be located in a wayward renegade Chinese island province) decided to put a Winnie meme in their next game, at which point Detention's rating dropped from >95% Overwhelmingly Positive into 70%ish territory and the developers were basically seen as traitors to their Mainland fanbase. So in a way, I see this game as little more than an attempt to duplicate Detention's success and popularity by creating a paint-by-numbers copycat, with similar art style, similar gameplay and none of the potential political bombshells.

Again, I haven't played the full game, so this may be an unfair assessment, but it is my initial impression.

I'd say it was a perfect explanation....even more so given the content of your own post, which seems to only prove their points.
As for the term Oriental: it's just a word, bruh......and if anything i'd say it's more -ist/etc to see dark connotations in mere words.

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It's actually for ALL game playing.....so as a result there will likely be less sales on Gog/other game sites....well, from the segment of the chiinese population that follows said laws anyways.

Certainly not in the UK. Here's my local "chinese supermarket": [url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/PCY+Oriental/@55.9671055,-3.1744809,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPh7W_c_0gjcf-5RUH9bc8g89nEcq2X8xbIikbv!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPh7W_c_0gjcf-5RUH9bc8g89nEcq2X8xbIikbv%3Dw114-h86-k-no!7i2016!8i1512!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x78ba97053a2e1f1b!8m2!3d55.9671055!4d-3.1744809]PCY Oriental Food[/url] (I hope that links properly, but if not the sign says "PCY Oriental Food").

EDIT: the link works if you select the URL manually, right click and "Go to..."

In fact, I'd consider it more offensive to assume anyone of "oriental appearance" is Chinese. (Again, "oriental" is just a generic term if we're uncertain of precise origin, though I might be brave and hazard a guess if I think someone is Japanese or Korean). Also, in the UK, "Asian" is used to refer to people from the Indian sub-continent (presumably because we're more familiar with them from our old "empire", whereas American railroads were largely built by migrant workers from China (and other "far east" countries?), so those were presumably historically the most familiar people from Asia. Both uses of "Asian" are equally inappropriate, of course, given the vast range of ethnicities in that huge continent.

I believe PCY Oriental is run by immigrants from somewhere in the "far east", and I can get Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai ingredients, etc; also a few "Indian" things (though the main stores for things from the Indian sub-continent identify separately; we have a large Bangladeshi population, and many "Indian" restaurants are in fact run by Bangladeshi immigrants, but most people here aren't aware of that).

As someone already pointed out, "The Orient" used to refer to "the middle east" (see "Oriental Express"), but is now exclusively used to describe "the far east". Everything's relative, of course.

I'm a firm believer in words meaning what you intend them to mean, rather than being inherently sensitive (but clarification may be needed in cross-cultural conversations). But unnecessary ignorance often does offend (such as when people from the US refer to me as "English" and my country as "England"; it's the UK or Scotland, and I'm a Scot or a Brit, thank you very much!).

Different cultures obviously have different standards. Here in Scotland, unless we're trying to be especially politically correct or in the company of someone who might take it wrong, we might say "I could murder a chinkie" (similar to saying "I could demolish a curry" in other parts of the UK). Though that word is clearly offensive in many contexts, in this use it's pretty much an expression of excitement and anticipation of satisfying our hunger and enjoying one our favourite foods from a culture we often admire, and definitely in good humour!

EDIT: here's an amusing old TV advert to illustrate the usage: Tennent's Lager. Murder one tonight

ohoh how can you time-restrict offline gaming? XD I would not think someone could come up with something so stupid so I presumed it was just for something online.
It looks I unwillingly opened the dances for another spectacular GOG forum shit-show, go on with the downvotes, losers! I just noticed a couple of things and someone got really mad!
In the end, I was just curious why you would censor the word Chinese and remove the Chinese language from GOG, while selling it as a Chinese game with Chiense only on Steam XD

chances are the devs can't speak or read any English and have no idea of what they have sent XD
As for Devotion, they don't look alike at all to me, except for being horror games.

Maybe GOG believes our problem is with China, and not the Chinese Oppression regime. Oriental is negative when referring to people. It is an appropriate reference to objects made in the Orient, like Oriental rugs or pottery.

Or they wanna act like thats the problem if it is in fact that sort of attempt .. As many don't have a racial or even anti-country mindset towards China and its people/race.. just the Oppression regime China has
Also a odd thing I noticed After China started limiting gaming on a grand scale it could just be me but it seems games that GOG was against soon after suddenly started flooding in .. in mass I wonder if that is linked or just a by chance scenario