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Black Myth: Wukong’sdevelopers are facing some serious backlash at the moment for not taking their recent loss at The Game Awards positively and the CEO of Game Science is being accused of acting like an entitled crybaby.
However, this is not entirely true, but rather a Twitter event that dictated the narrative of the entire incident quite dramatically. Game Science has not released any statement, as of now, clarifying its side of the story, but the truth cannot be hidden for long, and as it turns out, it was out there in the open all this while.
A simple mistranslation led to extremely bad results for Black Myth: Wukong’s CEO
It all started with the misinterpretation of a post shared by Game Science’s CEO, Feng-Ji, on a Chinese social media platform calledWeibo. In the post, he expressed his gratitude for winning two awards and also jokingly mentioned how he is disappointed that he could not make good use of a speech he wrote two years ago in anticipation of winning The Game of the Year.
Full statement (translated)“The award ceremony coincided with a major update we released. For me personally, this project that took seven years has officially come to an end. ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ received four nominations (Best Action Game, Best Art Direction, Best Game…
The statement was followed by a crying emoticon that made it appear more of a joke than a serious regret. However, since not everyone is well adept at understanding the nuances of the Chinese language, a lot of the text was misinterpreted, resulting in a massive backlash against Game Science and its CEO.The post ended on a hopeful note.
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Following this, a video of Alanah Pearce surfaced on Twitter, where she talked about her seating arrangement at The Game Awards, which led her to witness the grief that one of the Game Science developers had to endure upon witnessingBlack Myth: Wukong’sloss. She claims she saw the person“crying when Astro Bot got Game of the Year.”
here’s alanah pearce talking about ithttps://t.co/9X3p90qn4dpic.twitter.com/JZy9C6ybuW
However, nowhere in the video did she mention the CEO crying, but Twitter banked on the“crying”statement and led a wave of false narratives surrounding the CEO over his game’s loss at The Game Awards.
A simple misunderstanding can lead to a lot of drama
All it takes is a small spark to ignite a huge fire. A combination of smaller events leads to a big, dramatic one and something similar happened recently withBlack Myth: Wukong’sCEO.
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His words were misinterpreted, and Twitter did not help in clarifying anything, but it further enabled the narrative to be reinforced against him. Charles Young, the former editor-in-chief of IGN China, debunked this rumor, claiming“it’s obvious that she mistook someone else”and he has“no idea why she said so.”
It’s obvious that she mistook someone else. Since I was with the Game Science team the entire time during those days including the TGA night, no one cried over this. In fact, I didn’t even see anyone crying at the event. I have no idea why she said so.https://t.co/03uk2PYk2X
Black Myth: Wukongdid win the Players’ Voice award for being the best game, which is a huge win for the title since this is the only category that takes players’ opinions into account. All in all, the game has had a monumental run this year, and the CEO is not extremely mad about losing toAstro Bot. What do you think about it? Let us know in the comments below.
Anupam Lamba
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Anupam Lamba is an avid gamer and film lover. After completing his bachelors in Mass Communication he started working as a writer in the Indian film industry before his love for gaming made him venture into the lanes of Fandomwire and he started working as a gaming writer here.
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