China's TF2

[Dj_Jestar]

China have weird laws about everything. They do not recognise/uphold copyright law for countries outside of China. Ergo, if Valve complain about this, the Chinese government will give them the two fingers, but if another company in China try to rip-off TF2, they'll get shot for it because "Chinese Company A" beat them to the punch.

Also if someone wants to sell a tangible product in China, it must be manufactured in China. If it is a service (such as software), it must be provided/provisioned by a Chinese company. Basically, when in China, you can only buy from the Chinese.

 

[Monkeymatt]

They manufacture most of the stuff anyway, why wouldn't they make clones? The domestic Chinese market is one of the few that's growing as of late.

Why? Because Western companies spend billions each year coming up with new ideas only for a significant amount of their sales to be taken away by Chinese firms making cheap copies.

However if it was the other way round and Western companies were making clones of Chinese products and not told to stop by the courts then we would never hear the end of it..

 

[MeAnBoY]

Being Chinese, this is all a bit embarrassing and unfortunately all too common.

At least in Hong Kong this kind of thing is being forced out slowly with knock-offs being sold at markets becoming less common (although still pretty readily available) and one thing that really stands out in my memory was walking through a local mall in HK I walk past one of the pirate DVD/Games shops where one of the mall guards had his feet up on the desk playing video games with the owner of the shop, made me chuckle at the time (10+ years ago)

 

[Omaeka]

Have a nice meal at City Wok, have a terrifying flight on City Airlines and then have some fun on City Fortress.

All I can think of when I see this is Tuong Lu Kim from South Park, such a cheap blatant rip off!