{"id":22915,"date":"2022-07-23T03:28:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/diablo-immortal-is-in-trouble-in-china-due-to-winnie-the-pooh\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T03:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T03:28:40","slug":"diablo-immortal-is-in-trouble-in-china-due-to-winnie-the-pooh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/diablo-immortal-is-in-trouble-in-china-due-to-winnie-the-pooh\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo Immortal is in trouble in China due to Winnie the Pooh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"PdgpJN\"><em>Diablo Immortal<\/em>the free-to-play <em>Diablo<\/em> game for mobile and PC, was delayed in China last month because of a social media post that could be interpreted as criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"tyOLFR\">The post, which came from the official <em>Diablo Immortal<\/em> Weibo account, reportedly alluded to Winnie the Pooh, who has been banned from the internet in China because he is used to make fun of the president. <em>Bloomberg<\/em> says the account has since been suspended for \u201cviolating relevant laws and regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"8hN4lJ\"><em>Diablo Immortal<\/em> is now set to launch in China on July 25th, though the date could still shift, <em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports.  The game, which was co-developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Chinese tech giant NetEase, has been out for more than a month in many countries, but was delayed just a few days before its scheduled June 23rd Chinese release.  In a short post about the delay on its Chinese website, Blizzard said (via a translation from Google Translate) that the development team would be making optimizations to the game but did not reference the social media post.<\/p>\n<p id=\"84RLH2\">Even though <em>Diablo Immortal <\/em>hasn&#8217;t come out in China yet, Blizzard said in June that the game had the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiabloImmortal\/status\/1535064303769886737\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbiggest launch in franchise history.\u201d<\/a> But the game has received some criticism for how much it costs to upgrade your character and launching with some bugs when playing on Samsung devices with Exynos chips.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"aeBBl0\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo Immortalthe free-to-play Diablo game for mobile and PC, was delayed in China last month because of a social media post that could be interpreted as criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to Bloomberg. The post, which came from the official Diablo Immortal Weibo account, reportedly alluded to Winnie the Pooh, who has been &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/diablo-immortal-is-in-trouble-in-china-due-to-winnie-the-pooh\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Diablo Immortal is in trouble in China due to Winnie the Pooh<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22415,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/diablo-immortal-china-delay-due-to-winnie-the-pooh-social-media-post-report-suggests\/","url_meta":{"origin":22915,"position":0},"title":"Diablo Immortal China delay due to Winnie the Pooh social media post, report suggests","date":"July 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A social media post believed to mock Chinese president Xi Jinping was behind the last-minute delay to Diablo Immortal in China, a report has suggested. This contrasts with the official reasoning given by Chinese developer and publisher NetEase in June, which said it was holding back the game's launch for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/5gD-SL8KcuYIfpgeG8249hIPCA8=\/0x19:960x522\/fit-in\/1200x630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23893255\/556e87fc246d20116e6d73fd4b25ce16_Feature_Block_960x540_4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}