Looks Like You Can’t Buy Monster Hunter: World in China Anymore
Capcom’s Monster Hunter: World has finally released on PC over in China this past week after the news that the title had received over one million pre-orders after being available on the Chinese gaming service, WeGame, for only two weeks. Being the first streamlined Monster Hunter game to come to the home consoles, it was no surprise to see fans of the series over in China getting excited about the release. Unfortunately, because of the authorities over in China, it turns out that Monster Hunter: World has been removed from sale in the country.
According to PCGamer, Monster Hunter: World has been taken off of Tencent’s WeGame platform. Apparently, Chinese regulators received many complaints about the content within the monster-hunting video game, complaints like the high amount of corpses seen in-game and the act of hunting and killing exotic monsters. Seeing those million pre-orders almost instantly guaranteed that Tencent, the company that licensed the game from Capcom, would have had a huge hit in their hands. Now, Tencent is promising to provide refunds to anyone who purchased the RPG over the last couple days since launch.
This isn’t the first time that a game has been removed in China after launch; a release of World of Warcraft back in 2009 got the boot for a short amount of time just because of some skeletons that were portrayed. After some changes and fixes were made, the game was allowed to be back on the market. Battlefield 4 was also banned permanently for the games negative depiction of China.
Monster Hunter: World is currently available for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. What do you guys think about this removal of Monster Hunter: World from WeGame? Do you think the violent depictions that the game portrays is something for the Chinese government to be up in arms about? Let us know in the comments section below, we would love to hear your thoughts.