I think we should adress the elephant in the room

This is not some “small event “ This is one of the biggest holidays on planet and Kabam won’t even do something as simple as send a Happy Lunar New Year message to players . We constantly get game wide messages over the most ridiculous things but Kabam can’t even be bothered to send one over one of the biggest holidays on the plane ? This is beyond bizzare and seems clearly deliberate. The literally least they could do was send a Happy Lunar New Year message with the attached profile pic. Does anyone know if Kabam got in some beef with China or something ?

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FreezingShadow

The game is banned in China. They got definitely got beef. ( This is a joke)

phillgreen

Last time I addressed the elephant in the room I got the pronoun wrong and spent most of the morning with HR

PT_99

Are you Chinese?

JessieS

No but I do have a Masters Degree in Asian so I am intimately aware of what a huge and important event this is and how bizzare Kabam 180 degree turn is

Lmao

FeydRautha

Are they obligated to do it? At least we got a LNY event multiple times before; Diwali, a festival which is also celebrated by more than 1 billion people worldwide has never even been addressed by Kabam yet you don't see people complaining about it. Btw they did address the elephant in the room and also post it in fb. You'd have known if you spent a little time searching instead of just rushing into the forums to complain about it.

JessieS

Are you just being weirdly defensive about Kabam or do you truly not understand what a bizzare move it is for Kabam to go from widely celebrating Lunar New Year year after year to not even doing something as simple as acknowledge it with an in game message ?

Shamir51

You can get a profile picture in the game. They’ve acknowledged it. Time to move on.

713_o_f1673r

Lmao, if he didn't say that last sentence, he wouldn't have been checkmate'd like that

FeydRautha

I am not being defensive for anyone. If you’re trying to insinuate that it’s some kind of a hidden agenda against China then it’s highly unlikely and the way I see it is just a business move. I am just speculating here so take it with a grain of salt. Before when the game had a large active player base in China generating sizeable revenue it made sense to do a LNY event to keep the players happy. But now that the game got banned in China and the revenue declined from that region, they might not find it necessary to keep doing that event. If India was a top revenue generating region then we would probably get a Diwali event every year. The fact that they give a decent Christmas gift suggests that the players who spend most in the game are from American and European countries. Again pure speculation and I have no concrete data to support what I said whatsoever.

captain_rogers

If they celebrated a event for 10 years and decided to discontinue it, they should definitely inform in advance.

JessieS

That was my thought as well. Which is why I could understand removing the event . But removing it completely and not even sending a simple symbolic message ( it’s not like they are shy on the messages ) to wish people a Happy Lunar New Year . This just seems like pure pettiness and generally when corporate entities begin acting petty and unprofessional and they face no pushback it’s a sign that the quality is about to drop

DNA3000

How fortunate for all of us that you’re providing the pushback that will eliminate that critical threat to quality.

JessieS

Nah I am just a small cog but I provide a place for players to vent their frustration . Nothing can ever eliminate the inevitable enshittification but we can try to slow it down a bit

FeydRautha

This is from the official account on Facebook

DONZALOOG1234

They forgot my boy Mister Negative 😔

Demonzfyre

What about other major holidays that they don't even mention? No event, no post or anything?

FiiNCH

There’s got to be something better to do with your day than moan about Kabam missing a holiday in a game.

Average_Desi

There OP, you got the profile picture and a Facebook post. Now go home and celebrate.

Ortoun

A masters degree in Asian what?

smy168

Jeez, ok, I'm Chinese, been playing for 10 years, lots of people in China still play the game, I don't think its banned because when I travel there from SouthEastAsia, I don't need a VPN to play it. So I'm not clear where "its banned" comes from.

They celebrated LNY for 10 years, not moving forward is fine with me, they acknowledged on FB only, I don't use Zuckerbergs platforms anymore so I had no idea that they cancelled (which is fine) but they should start using this forum more than pushing us across multiple SocMeds to gain users and engagement. The issue for me is that they share certain news on certain platforms...makes no sense to me with regards to 1 community.

As for the hub bub of drama that tends to arise on this forum...for absolutely no reason at all, lets not do this and waste energy and time.

I literally stopped posting here 7 years ago because of the toxicity...for me...its Lunar New Years, born and raised in NYC, relocated to SouthEastAsia, and for anyone who celebrates this holiday, you know better than to create friction and bad aura for the next 7 days...

Guys as far as I'm concerned... Kabam has plenty of bad issues lately with bugs and such but I def appreciate the last 10 years respecting our Holiday. So many other countries and ethnicities have important holidays out there.

LNY is a cultural holiday, not a religious one and I think everyone deserves a shout out at some point.

Peace Fellas
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BringPopcorn

Its cause its the year of the 🐍 and we all know how much people complained about Serpent 😑.
Well done people

FishSkin

oh the irony...

SirGamesBond

Our billion > the billion in the post

I think the word kids use these days is Yapping.

BringPopcorn

I guess if we are going with your train of thought. Kabam had a beef with India too they are a Billion+ people and nothing Hindi is ever celebrated.
They got something against Messi and Ronaldo, millions follow them and they weren't even mentioned in the game. KABAM what is your problem with Messi and Ronaldo? And if you don't have a problem which one is the GOAT?

Ortoun

That is what i figured, just suprised no one else had called them on it by the time I got to the thread.

BigBlueOx

Great wait until the people realize Mantis is an actual alien…

DNA3000

Cory Doctorow recommended two strategies to counter what he called enshittification when he coined the phrase. One: don’t use algorithms to decide what content people get in your platform. Two: don’t lock users into your platform; allow them to walk away. Neither of these are really applicable to MCOC as MCOC is not a platform in this context.

It’s probably not a good idea to use terms you’re unfamiliar with just because they sound cool, just as it’s probably not a good idea to attempt to represent all us Asians just because you have a degree in “Asian”. Most Asians already know how to Asian and can Asian for themselves.

captain_rogers

Guys I think op did his masters in a Asian country that's what he meant

Polygon

In the 19th Century genocide by Turkey , they slaughtered and displaced millions of Armenians , Greeks, Syrians, and Kurds but you never see anything done to commemorate the survivors

captain_rogers

Shhhhh.... The genocide defenders will come out saying it was fake.