If you sign up for an unrealengine account by going on the website, clicking “sign in,” and clicking “create epic games account by email,” it brings up a form with basic information like name, email, password etc. There’s also a drop down to select your country. Unfortunately, my country (Taiwan) wasn’t listed. I did notice that there was a nonexistent country listed, called “Chinese Taipei.” There is no such country on earth, though. There is a city here in Taiwan called Taipei, but it’s in Taiwan, not China, so that’s an incorrect name anyway. Perhaps you should remove that, and include Taiwan, so that developers living in Taiwan (there are many of us… this is where Nvidia was founded) can be properly represented by the name of our country?
Haha, well I’m aware that China likes to pretend we don’t exist, but I don’t see why Unreal or Epic should care about that, plenty of companies such as airlines and banks are able to do business just fine with China and still call Taiwan, “Taiwan.”
In any case, who cares what China thinks? I don’t really have sympathy for someone that is concerned about the financial consequences of acknowledging that my country exists. It’s a very simple truth: the nation of Taiwan exists, it is called Taiwan, and I live here. Please allow me to reflect this reality on my profile. If I choose “Chinese Taipei,” I’m lying. If I were to make a list of reasons I’d be willing to lie, “maybe protect Unreal / Epic profit margins” wouldn’t even make it on said list.
Thank you for CCing people and helping me draw attention to this issue.