We asked Black Myth: Wukong's developer about the controversy over its founders' past sexist remarks, but GameScience's only reply was 'No comment'

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GamesActionBlack Myth: WukongWe asked Black Myth: Wukong’s developer about the controversy over its founders’ past sexist remarks, but GameScience’s only reply was ‘No comment’When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

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Streamer guidelines for Black Myth leaked before release,revealing a list of “don’ts"that included “feminist propaganda, fetishization, and other content that instigates negative discourse” as well as “content related to China’s game industry policies, opinions, news, etc.” These restrictions came from co-publisher Hero Games and were not shared with PC Gamer or other press outlets. Of course, streamers and everyone else immediately started talking about the topics they were forbidden from talking about—the Streisand effect never fails.

“We have no comment, we’re sorry,” Game Science said via a translator. “We’re only looking to answer questions related to the game and the gameplay.”

It was a frustrating answer, considering we’d spent a good chunk of the interview discussing the studio’s growth from a small team to one large enough to take on a AAA singleplayer game, and the GameScience founders’ first crack at adapting Journey to the West in a previous MMO. Our conversation wasn’t limited to the minutia of gameplay, but the “no comment” was the same GameScienceprovided to The Guardianduring a hands-on preview in July.

Since we’d been discussing the challenges of finding staff for such an ambitious game—that initialwowser of a reveal trailerwas partly designed to help recruit new talent—I asked again if the controversy and repeated questions had affected the staff or led to any internal changes within GameScience. The reply, again, was “no comment.”

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“When you were holding a heavy machine gun and shooting at governments in your dreams, what the ladies are dreaming about are bags that would make their friends jealous,” he wrote,according to IGN’s translation.

Perhaps there are delicate domestic reasons for GameScience to avoid commenting—a risk of somehow running afoul ofthe regulatory bodies that tightly control China’s videogame market. (One complicating detail, for example, isan alleged photo of Qiflipping the bird to former Chinese president Mao Zedong, asreported on Yahoo! News). But that’s pure speculation.

With no explanation, it’s hard not to read the silence as a sign that GameScience feels it has nothing to apologize for, and the near-130,000, 96% positive reviews on Steam show there’s been seemingly little impact from the studio staying silent.

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