There are gay dudes, gay women, bi people, there’s married gay couples. Players can marry same gender. Everything. None of it is ever portrayed negatively or for comedic effect. It’s just there sometimes. You don’t have to go out of your way to find it either, you directly encounter a chunk of it on the main quest line.
This game has absolutely zero concern with lgbt content. Anyone that has played this game will not believe myths about official censorship of lgbt content having directly seen for themselves that it’s not.
I just watched a pretty good video on the topic that I’m pretty sure was posted here a month ago. It’s a complex issue but Chinese censors seem to dislike pda in general, with gay characters held to a tighter standard due to institutional homophobia, but the overall vibe is “don’t rock the boat” which goes both ways for better and for worse.
In my experience, Chinese people don’t like pda either. I love making my wife blush by kissing her in public. Usually get a playful slap afterwards though.
Well that doesn’t hold true for this either because there are romantic NPCs having a loving moment, in public. And also players get several kinds of really affectionate and suggestive emotes that can be used with one another. No kisses though, just suggestive touching or couple stuff like piggyback or bridal carry I suppose. I don’t think it’s public displays of affection that seem to be missing but rather public displays of intimacy. No hug emote either.
Oh guildhalls have massage beds with animated massages too which was wild when I found it with a friend.
Don’t get me started on the bdsm sex dungeon that exists under a hidden interactable trap door in the corner of the main city map.
I had not found that dungeon yet.
Top left corner of kaifeng, go into the building, open the trap door inside the building.
There is no associated quest. It’s just a hidden sex dungeon with a dude obviously RPing as a kidnapped guy to be ““tortured””
in there. You can absolutely miss it because it’s hidden.
Well the vid is clear that despite the trend the enforcement is pretty spotty, and for the high profile censorship that does happen it’s always unclear whether it was done by state censors or preemptively by corporations in order to “play it safe” and protect their distribution rights.
Yah, I watched a chinese show a while ago, and the romance was essentially nonexistent, I think there was one kiss for a marriage or marriage proposal and if I remember correctly the married couple slept in separate beds which left me wondering maybe most of the “anti gay” censorship isn’t really significantly different from straight and generally pda being discouraged (whether officially or just general the people just generally don’t want it so in your face or maybe there is some sort of “protect the children” mentality idk)
Basically
the problem with this is that rocking the boat is the only way to get civil liberties like queer rights
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: