Comments on: Cutthroat Competition in Chinese Social Games

By: Zhien Wang

Zhien Wang — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:19:19 +0000

Disagree. What you don’t understand here is that Chinese culture is innately playful. Even if we play around with each other aggressively, it still just a simulation or a game to them. They are doing something that is normally considered inappropriate in reality.

We are aggressive to each other because we can take the abuse. We know we are better than that, because we are so friendly to each other already.

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Social Games: Are Chinese More Competitive Than Westerners? | CNReviews — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:01:58 +0000

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By: Matches Malone

Matches Malone — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:11:46 +0000

Unclear to me how Happy Aquarium can be cutthroat, but then again, I don’t play it that much….

By: olivercpearce

olivercpearce — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:58:13 +0000

Great post, really interesting. I’m especially mortified by the hospital game, I mean what is going on with those bombs! Reminds me of that Chow-Yun Fat film, Hard Boiled, and the killing spree in the hospital at the end.

What I findmost shcoking though is how normal, well intentioned, intelligent young professionals are addicted to these kind of games, especially the farming one – is it some kind of release for them from the stresses of daily life?

I was just wondering how these violence games and the surrounding culture compare with Japanese youth culture in forms such as Manga and the whole doomsday scenario, broken, isolated society that gave rise to films like Battle Royale and those thriller-horror flicks (and horror porn!) that seemto be quite big. A bit of a generalisation, I know, but I’m sort of looking at the bigger picture.