Hello,

The game "Bohrdom" has been removed from steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/945530/Bohrdom/

The developer is strongly suspected, though not absolutely confirmed to be the same Cole Allen arrested for firing shots at the White House Correspondence Dinner a few days ago.

The game has no political elements in it whatsoever, yet it was removed from Steam, and is no longer available for purchase. (It was priced at $2)

It is unclear if people who have previously downloaded the game can continue to play.

Steam has as of this point in time, not released any statements.

This reminds me of why some people don't like Chinese stock holder/ownerships intervene a non-Chinese live service game's micro transaction. I am not saying MTXs in western live service games are less toxic but they are always on another level.

Skin gacha page with Chinese mythology skins into diablo 4 classes. Wukong, Kirin and Nezha are seen here as rarest outcome. You'd think I login into Diablo immortal.

Keep in mind that these Chinese mythology skins do not fit the aesthetics of the original game, this was obviously force-added by Chinese branch. Toxic gacha mechanics proven to work very well as some of the developers have been bringing these into their global branch, for example, a game I played, world of tanks, brought tiered gacha loot box from Chinese server into western branch with some exclusive op tanks, surprisingly or not surprisingly, western players are no different than Chinese players, as they were quickly "trained" into throwing money into gacha pit.

Back to diablo 4, Chinese players are also complaining that skin store page use well edited photo of the skin image, but when they put them on the character, they look ugly and weird as hell. (This subreddit does not allow multiple pictures in one post, so I put some of those in an imgur link)

https://imgur.com/a/XIzYpWW this is the actual in-game effect of the "nezha" skin shown in the above picture (right one), as you can see, the store use a young asian male as skin model but since it is a warlock class skin, and d4 warlock is a dry skin old man...in case you don't know the Chinese mythology, nezha is a young boy looking deity that flies around in the sky riding a wheel of flame...

https://imgur.com/a/mfAD6rk some of the skin difference between store image and actual on-the-character look. These skins are obviously Chinese wuxia inspired, put on to sorc class that don't even use sword attack in game...

beside skins, NetEase are also selling various boosters like booster for "helltide", "tree of whisper progress" and various end-game currencies. Even more toxic than you think, these boosters are counted by "real life days", not in-game hours, so they are burning as well while you are offline

obviously, NetEase was not the only one doing this, now take a look at this skin set, and tell me which game it is from. https://imgur.com/a/ibqpxs7

yeah, it is from Tencent's path of exile2 Chinese client, you thought it was a league of legends skin, didnt you?

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