Czech indie game developer gets insane attacks by Chinese nationalists on twitter and viewbombed on Steam for not having Chinese localization, as the dev explained that he had to pay by himself for localization and he didn't have the money for it
devs twitter: https://x.com/ko_dll
Czech developed pixel indie game BZZZT was the victim of an on-going twitter bullying by Chinese nationalists for not having Chinese localization.
Originally, he noticed a swarm of negative reviews asking about the lack of Chinese localization, he made a steam post explaining that all the localization was done by fans and he need to pay it as well, and he could not find a Chinese localizer yet.
However, he was still viewbombed as "sinophobia"
ko.dll was way to friendly and naive to the large influx of nationalist comments
addtionally, people claimed they already pirated his game, even tho he made length apology on his twitter.
https://x.com/EMPKAI1/status/1873800472764834166
Steam has marked the viewbomb as "offtopic" but not removed yet, leaving the game has more negative review on Dec 29 2024 than all the positive review since released combined.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293170/BZZZT/
nationalists also went deeper with twitter replies where they started to threat his family or curse his mom of dying.