I would be surprised if they do something quickly, they like all studios have a timeline, and theyre working on other stuff, a quick fix could be renaming them, but I dont think the actual civ gameplay will change, just the names, and they will add some civs as compensation, and I thinking super positive, which im not so sure will happen. Your experience with the 3 kingdom civs in ranked, the wu are a good civ, they got their strengths.
Nah, I’m pretty sure she wanted to know if Tibetans existed in the game already.
Prove this part.
As far as I have seem is that this part right below is true
Though its all self-censorship. Almost all western games are not really allowed in most of China anyway, because they need a chinese partner publisher there. The probably most famous hard ban, like happened to Hearts of Iron IV, is for despicting 20th century Tibet
Heres a journalistic list of games banned and why
I fail to see any medieval game depiscting Tibet, and nearby kingdoms, in the chinese ban list. Which is confirmed by chinese players here on the forums also: medieval Tibert is OK.
Marlowe, Evelyn (2021). Boundaries of Belonging: Ethnic Expulsion and Identity Politics in Medieval China, 4:th edition. Make sure you read the 3:rd edition or above and for the love of god avoid the 2:nd edition.
Nobody is expecting anything overnight.
But better communication would certainly help. It was poor communication that got us into this mess.
A quick fix isn’t worth it. An explanation of direction and a larger fix would be better for everyone involved. Builds back some trust, and fixes the situation properly.
Why would I purchase a DLC that I hate? I am not a masochist.
We can get by without the 3K civs and new ones in their place. There are 47 others anyway.
Besides, several of the candidates for the area around China would focus on similar units anyway. Like the Bai.
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They will care if it’s deemed to show their state in any negative light. It’s not like Microsoft hasn’t had their issues with China before. LinkedIn, Bing, Activision…
Hearts of Iron IV that you mentioned earlier as a game that had Tibet as a playable faction is also banned in China. Likely for its portrayal of Taiwan, Tibet, Manchukuo, and West Xinjiang as independent entities. Paradox didn’t get away with it.
Because it depicted them in a modern time-frame.
There are games with Tibet as a separate playable state set in the Middle Ages, and China hasn’t banned those.
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Do you have any link to buy/download it? Didnt find this author nor book searching on google, duckduckgo and startpage.
Lucky them. But that’s likely a risk Microsoft ain’t willing to take. Tibet is a highly sensitive topic for China. A medieval setting might have some leeway. However, Tibet’s portrayal in these settings still risks censorship or bans.
Yeah well while they do the changes I recommend you in ranked to hit khitans early, and counter jian swordsman with knights or scorpions and hit them early too, otherwise theyre really strong.
It’s not luck. It’s knowing what will/will not get a game censored.
No more than any other area like Manchuria or Xinxiang.
I have a different counter to Wu. Quitting.
I refuse to play against them. Hell, right now I am considering not playing ranked at all until they are removed.
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Well youre not going to play for a while brother then.
Yeah definetly. Like Three Kingdoms, that’s a safe bet, right? 
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Sure!
Looks at recent DLC review that’s two paragraphs of angry Chinese characters
Oh dear…
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I couldn’t find it either. I guess they asked Geppetto and it recommended a book that doesn’t exist.
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Then how do you explain Jurchens and Khitanguts? Your arguement fails there.
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Well if the devs are that concerned with CPC censorship why even push out the Khitan and Jurchen in the first place? Why not just roll out a good 3K DLC in chronicles instead? I do feel like ranting a little bit on the issue. Honestly it’s 2025, and nowadays i’m a little tired of companies pinning their organizational failures to “CPC censorship”. There is a thousand different ways how they could’ve rolled out a good China related DLC while meeting CPC requirements.
Take the Khitans and Jurchens for example. Since they already decided to create these two civs, they could’ve added campaigns. If they wanted to play it even safer they could’ve chose battles that didn’t center around Khitan-han conflict or Jurchen-Han conflict. For Khitans they could’ve chose battles from the Kara-Khitan era or battles revolving around the Khitan-Korea war. For Jurchens they could’ve chose battles from the Mongol-Jin conflict. I think most people would agree if this is what was announced and planned in the first place this is still a good DLC.
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