Animal Crossing: New Horizons imports reportedly banned from sale in China

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According to numerous sources, those living in China can no longer purchase Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The game, which has no official release in the region and therefore requires players to import the game via services like Taobao, has reportedly been pulled from sale after being banned. Taobao sellers are claiming that they have been given notice that they are no longer allowed to sell any imported copies of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, or any merchandise related to the game. Currently, no official reasoning has been given for the ban, but many believe that the ban was caused by people using New Horizons as a tool to protest, with political activists like Joshua Wong creating pattern designs saying "Free Hong Kong, Revolution Now".

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Animal crossing did nothing wrong
And neither did anybody using it as a platform to protest the Chinese government's incompetence and maliciousness in the way they dealt with the early stages of the Coronavirus outbreak. It's literally the most benign form of protest possible, and the oligarchs that run China still felt threatened by it enough to punish every citizen in the country who wants to play the game.

A little off topic, cauz there's another funny thing americans must be awared: D.Trump, the Orange man started the famous trade war against China, now the COVID-19 outbreak's burning his ass and begs shamelessly China for Breathers and masks supplier. Absolutely pathetic.
Fuck Trump too, he's well on his way to becoming the same type of authoritarian ruler that Xi Jinping is. Whataboutism doesn't improve the situation for anybody in China, Hong Kong, or the US however.
 

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A little off topic, cauz there's another funny thing americans must be awared: D.Trump, the Orange man started the famous trade war against China, now the COVID-19 outbreak's burning his ass and begs shamelessly China for Breathers and masks supplier. Absolutely pathetic.
Wait, so you're arguing that he should have allowed more people to die just so he could avoid accepting help from China? He has almost universally bungled his response to this crisis, but that is definitely one of the few things he got right. Pride is worth little when people's lives are at stake.
 
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Eh, importing games like that always carried that risk of being banned since it was not officially released and approved there.
 

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jUST curious, HK never enjoyed democracy as british colony prior 1997, They have such prosperity, and status as independent special administrative region of China cauz China gave them such right, Why those spoiled brats still complaining that much?

How spoiled of them to change their minds and resist an oppressive government breaking on their agreed-upon deal, when people are being beaten and abducted and permanently disappearing! Just ridiculous of them.
 

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Why those spoiled brats still complaining that much?
They don't want to end up like the Muslims, and they don't want their doors kicked in for saying negative things about their god emperor Xi.


Maybe I'm just spoiled for not wanting my internet censored to hell, vanishing for insulting my gov, but that's just me. I like being able to vote for my leader every 4 years, and not worry about him changing laws to give him an unlimited term. I also enjoy being able to talk about and look up any atrocities the US commit. China cannot say the same thing about that certain event that happened in 1989.
 

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You can't be serious. This is dangerously close to the argument that, "Hitler did some good things for the German people." Calling people "spoiled" because they don't want every single one of their human rights trampled over...smh. There is no sugarcoating it, Xi Jinping is a dictator.
Hitler gave hope to the Germans after the Weimar Republic failed utterly, the Great Depression wiped out pretty much all monetary reserves, and the Treaty of Versailles ensured the German people would be hostile towards Britain, France and America.

The Treaty forced the Weimar Republic into hyperinflation to pay off reparations, making the currency essentially worthless; Germans also weren't used to democracy at the time, so the Constitution was a mess too. From what I remember from high school, essentially the entire Weimar Republic could only exist because of America lending it money; when America's wealth vanished, and banks started demanding payments from Weimar Germany, the nation could no longer support itself and collapsed entirely, leading to the Great Depression.

Hitler gave hope to the Germans by pretty much ignoring the Treaty of Versailles, fixing the economy, getting rid of the unfamiliar democracy in favour of a more familiar form of government where one person (king or emperor) is the main ruler, and generally pulling the nation back together.

Sure, he did this by exploiting the Weimar Constitution (convincing President Hindenburg to make him his Chancellor, then using a fire to make the "emergency" clauses of the Constitution permanent, before scrapping the Constitution entirely) and giving the Germans a common enemy in the Jews leading to horrendous atrocities, and he wasn't a military genius either (he's the one that made the German army attack Russia while still dealing with Britain, leading to another War on Two Sides; he also weakened the forces around Normandy, among other blunders), but it's undeniable he did give the German people hope after their country utterly failed them.
 

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You can't be serious. This is dangerously close to the argument that, "Hitler did some good things for the German people." Calling people "spoiled" because they don't want every single one of their human rights trampled over...smh. There is no sugarcoating it, Xi Jinping is a dictator.
If he stopped at Austria, he'd probably be up there as one of the greatest German leaders ever. But, then he went a bit too far, and yeah. So yeah, he actually did do some good for Germany. But he also did a lot of bad, and I mean a lot.
 
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wtf. Animal Crossing is like the most family friendly game ever.
we as a species is doomed. on that note.. at least china can play Doom. :switch:
I don't think it's the game itself that causes the government to do so -- it's the online functions.
Chinese people live inside a bubble (The Great Firewall technically speaking) in order to prevent any kind of connections with the outside world -- so that the government can manipulate news and idologies at their own discretion. Animal Crossing multiplayer features let you be in contact with people outside China and was immediately used, as the article already suggested, as a way to raise awareness in relation to Hong Kong protests.

I believe the ban is only towards the international version of the game. It'll probably be released later on within the Chinese market alongside the censorship on online features.
 

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Wait, so you're arguing that he should have allowed more people to die just so he could avoid accepting help from China? He has almost universally bungled his response to this crisis, but that is definitely one of the few things he got right. Pride is worth little when people's lives are at stake.
This is just my view, but I don't think he's arguing whether he should have begged or not. He's just pointing out the irony and the "I told you so" towards Trump when he was adamant about not doing trading with China and everything be produced in the U.S.

Just like how I'm about to point out the lunacy that is, you're correct in the pride statement, yet he's tweeting about how proud he is of the ratings and view counts of his broadcasted messages while still the U.S. is still struggling with not having basic medical supplies to deal with this situation.
 

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Look China, no matter what you do.. please stop eating bats, rodents and reptiles!! I never hated China but the whole world suffered from this.
 

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im the only one that is sane in here?

Seriously guys the reason it was banned is becuase localized chinese switch games are region locked and nintendo intends to make a localized chinese version of animal crossing so they ban imports so they can make money of their own version.

People here seem to forget chinese switch games are region locked and before everything was region free, on consoles that had no region lock protections but got regional games variants like gb,gbc,gba,ds, it was ilegal to sell imported games that had a region variant becuase they werent rated with the aproprieted country specific changes.

This was an issue i remenber with pokemon ds games, in europe we got games months later so stores ordered the usa version of those games and sold them until the gorvement started consiscating the imports and applying fines because you couldnt retail sell imported games that werent pegi rated in portugal and months before the european version was even released here.

This is becuase of money and not for random political reasons people think it is...
 

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They lied about the Chinese virus (covid19), censoring the doctors who tried to alert the world. They lied about it being contagious. They facilitated its spread around the world. They sold faulty tests & masks to other countries, while they had Chinese nationals buy & ship to China actual working masks from other countries.

Now they ban animal crossing. F the Chinese communist party. F those lying snakes.
 
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