It displays Taiwan as part of China and calls it a province of China. This is just wrong and highly offensive to all my friends in Taiwan & all our fellow taiwanese UE devs.
Taiwan is NOT part of China, no matter what the CCP claims. It’s a sovereign, democratic country with it’s own government, society & culture.
Allowing this asset to remain on the marketplace will set a really bad precedent.
I ask you to remove this asset from the marketplace, this should have never passed the quality control. State propaganda should NOT be allowed on the marketplace.
So you think it’s okay if I sell a map asset on the marketplace where Poland is part of Germany, the south African states are back in the hands of the Netherlands, Texas is part of Mexico and Isreal has been annexed by Egypt and Iran?
This is completely normal. After all, we are creating games, not politics. And in a strategic game, the United States can easily be, for example, a part of Uganda.
While I believe it should be made clear in the description of the product that the map is not accurate to the real world, I don’t think the product should be removed. It doesn’t seem that the dev who made it had any malicious intent. He may not even know about any of the controversy revolving around Taiwan.
I think it is a valid observation and I would prefer that asset didn’t exist, but that alone does not qualify for an asset removal I am afraid. The best course of action on things like this is to use the form Create a Case for the Marketplace and tell them your concerns. Another approach is also to ask the asset developer in question to at least state at the asset page, that it illustrate a point of view which might not be accurate and that the intent on the asset usage would be X or Y or both.
Marketplace is not here to take sides or to check if an asset contains world reality or not, they are here to check if the asset is technically well built and if does not contains offensive material in a broad sense. Would they have to exclude decapitated body models because decapitation is wrong? I guess not, because there is a use case in games for that.
I also reported the question on what you posted and got the answer from the staff, you should do the same.
If you’re talking about historical accuracy, this could work without the creator making it political.
But going by your logic, anything that redraws the borders is “offensive,” despite the fact that it happens all the time in the video game industry. Like how America’s entirely western seaboard was colonized by an imperialistic regime in Project Wingman or how the Russians/Chinese/North Koreans/Nazis managed to take over the world. In fact, this is actually the backstory for Steel Battalion; except it was the Chinese who managed to push the American armed forces into Mexico by destroying most of the semiconductors in the world.
What I’m saying is that it depends on what you’re using it for and the creator isn’t taking a side on whether or not Taiwan deserves to be it’s own country.
The product being discussed was created and listed by a third-party seller. Since the product works as advertised and is not in violation of any Marketplace guidelines it will remain on the Marketplace.
In keeping with Marketplace policies, we will need to remove questions on the product listing that are not relevant to the product’s functionality. And while we will be locking this thread, it will remain visible and discoverable as a record of the concerns you’ve raised.
If you have further feedback you’d like to share with the seller, we kindly suggest that you please contact the seller directly.
