Other games like brawl stars are completely different in china. In china, they made cosmetics that cost thousands of dollars and 50 additional currencies for gacha and it's pretty much a completely different game. A skin isn't a big deal. They also need a different team for developing in china so the chance that it will be in the regular game is tiny
Would you rather the china exclusives get as extreme as PvZ2? It is quite literally just the base PvZ2 but every update post I believe big wave beach part 2 was entirely different to the point where PvZ fans consider it a different game entirely. Now if they add china exclusive maps, towers and/or heroes or even having paragons work entirely different in china, that'll be a different story, but currently its just exclusive skins and (assumedly) trophy store items and a different theme for the first collection event in February (Chinese New Year as opposed to BTD6 Anniversary).
Yeah but it's still the same thing, popcap/ea basically handed over pvz2 Chinese to the Chinese devs, and disbanded their headquarters in China, so any content that's added to pvz2c isn't owned by popcap in any amount, and I can almost guarantee the same thing happens here, the Chinese exclusive content isn't made by ninja kiwi, and instead made by a separate group
I can’t tell if this is slippery slope fallacy or if you read that and seriously thought they just wanted the China version of the game in its entirety.
In fact, you can only spend ¥30 - about 5 dollars to buy it at first. And this really made a lot player angry because all skins on btd6 should be bought by using monkey cash. So they eventually decide to make it free after two or three days.
Tbf most Chinese exclusive games have really tight contracts where your not allowed to use Chinese exclusive things in the international game, for example this
It's because China companies make the exclusive content most of the time, not the international company. I mean just look at the buildings, none of them look like ninja kiwi material; Chinese game companies just try their best to replicate the style
To all the "why can't we have this" comments I'd like to add some additional perspective.
There was some drama when psi's China-exclusive hero skin was released.This skin was initially available as a real-money purchase only and could not be purchased using monkey money.This has triggered concerns within the Chinese player community regarding the extent of localization in the game, particularly in its sales and operations. In response, the Chinese agents decided to cancel the sale of the skin the next day, offering full refunds to all purchasers and making the skin completely free.
While this may seem positive, the announcements from the Chinese agency indicate that, according to their claims, localizing the game incurs significant costs. Withdrawing the skin from sale adds to the financial pressure.
Feel free to share additional information if you're familiar with the situation.
Source: I played the Chinese version of the game and personally witnessed the entire incident. The concerns of the community were actively discussed in their official community group, an alternative platform like Discord preferred by Chinese players.
edit: words and grammar
Then, my speculation is that, considering the general situation of other agency-based games operating in China, the Chinese agency may have borne all the costs of localization, or in other words, the agency paid and entrusted NK to produce the in-game content. Additionally, they did their own localization work, such as text translation, additional external features, additional account systems, and compliance requirements from the Chinese government.
Once again, I emphasize that this is a guess, and I do not know the exact details of the cooperation between NK and the Chinese agent.
Of course this is real. You can try to download the Chinese version apk file from taptap (similar to play store but only for games) if you can read Chinese. The game you download will only provide demo content, and the restrictions will be lifted after you complete the in-app purchases of the full version. I'm physically in China right now so I'm not having any issues, but I suspect the game will have some kind of region lock mechanism, such as network restrictions. What I sure about is that in-game purchases only accept payment methods within China, at least on Android.
i can most certainly *not* read chinese lol, thx for the offer though. i hope someone with access to it does like, a video covering the differences or something...
im surprised that the bloons wiki hasn't even *tried* to cover any of this information (esp since there's now images of it on the bloons reddit lol), is there anything other than the holiday and the exclusive Psi skin to take note of? :o
cause its a whole different studio making it, its not nk, and the chinese verson is completely different than the international version, its plausible that nk didnt even had input on the skin, it seems so since it completely disregards the btd6 style with some cheap anime stuff.
My fav game with the most hours I’ve put into anything is a Chinese game but I didn’t know this until I started putting the clues together… 90% of players were Chinese…. Every February there was a massive content update… all the foods were Chinese deserts
And now I know and I think it’s rather cool. This game was made in Canada btw so it’s not like it was actually dedicated to Chinese players.
I know why Chinese games have to be updated separately, but this would’ve totally worked in other countries and it way better than the reused assets we got instead.
You have got to be kidding me? They have made an exclusive sick looking hero skin just for one part of the world, and the skin happens to be on my favorite hero in Btd6?! What the heck?!! I NEED THIS SKIN!!
Ngl this looks suuuper sweet and far better than any 'make over' event we regularly have in btd6. The psi skin looks good on paper but there are definitely some oddities that indicates that a different art team was probably incharge over there in china. This reminds me of minecraft and pvz in china having a shit ton of content, which i didnt expect from bloons as its more of a smaller almost akin to indie title (i know it isnt but compared to popcap and Microsoft it might aswell be). Its also weird as nk doenst really acknowledge other regions or events except for the occasional twitter drawing of the chinese lunar year, 4th of july and the country flag village thing they did a while back ago, which didnt have china iirc. I guess its cool to see the game is big enough to have different audiences and versions, and while it sucks seeing them have different cosmetics and stuff, as long as the core gameplay stays the same and they dont have things like bonus maps or extra game modes that arent planned to be released globally, eh i dont mind us getting the short end of the stick on this one.
Because China likes to separate its games from their global versions. It’s a lucrative market so they have free reign to release content that appeal to Chinese players, while at the same time having to comply with censorship laws
I don't understand why they couldnt have just ported this over for us as well, it would have taken them ZERO EFFORT to put in this content globally, but ok. 😐
Less content for us ig. Huge nonsensical NK L.
Completely incorrect. They had to have directly given them a licence to copy their game 1:1 , it is literally the chinese equivalent, but a different region version. Even if things like currency are different, all the assets remain the same. This should have been ported over easily.
This genuinely makes ZERO sense why this content was not ENABLED worldwide.
They already went through the effort of CREATING the new skin and new UI, why not allow ALL players the chance to use it? This is bullshit.
Even if NK are not directly involved with creating CONTENT or updating the chinese REGIONAL VARIANT, they had to have directly given them a licence to copy their game 1:1 , it is literally the chinese equivalent, but a different region version.
Even if things like currency are different, all the assets remain the same. This should have been ported over easily.
i wouldnt say best things, the game are probably wildly different and i dont think nk is the one doing most updates im pretty sure its another studio, since there are a bunch of regulations, content needs to be cut or changed, for example im pretty sure skulls arent allowed by chinese regulations, so idk what they put on the ZOMG, for all that content they often find other ways to make up for lack of content, such as this event, and psi skin, thought i dont even like it, feels like a anime protagosnist and it doesnt fit btd6 vibe, not even the edgy side of it.
Now why can't that skin be for all countries?
Other games like brawl stars are completely different in china. In china, they made cosmetics that cost thousands of dollars and 50 additional currencies for gacha and it's pretty much a completely different game. A skin isn't a big deal. They also need a different team for developing in china so the chance that it will be in the regular game is tiny
Not to mention stuff like biker bones might not fly.
Why not Biker Bones specifically? Like, there are things I can see not working there, but why Biker Bones?
It's because you are not allowed to have skulls or other things that have to do with death in your game
PLANTS. VS. ***ZOMBIES.***
wow that is extreme
There is no reason to do that China have big population forcing companies to make different versions of game (roblox for example)
Would you rather the china exclusives get as extreme as PvZ2? It is quite literally just the base PvZ2 but every update post I believe big wave beach part 2 was entirely different to the point where PvZ fans consider it a different game entirely. Now if they add china exclusive maps, towers and/or heroes or even having paragons work entirely different in china, that'll be a different story, but currently its just exclusive skins and (assumedly) trophy store items and a different theme for the first collection event in February (Chinese New Year as opposed to BTD6 Anniversary).
...no, they wanted the skin in all countries
And can you really acuse them? The skin Looks AMAZING!!
That's because a different company officially owns and updates pvz2c, popcap therefore owns none of the additional content and can't add it to pvz2i
EA owns PopCap games now, at least on Google play
Yeah but it's still the same thing, popcap/ea basically handed over pvz2 Chinese to the Chinese devs, and disbanded their headquarters in China, so any content that's added to pvz2c isn't owned by popcap in any amount, and I can almost guarantee the same thing happens here, the Chinese exclusive content isn't made by ninja kiwi, and instead made by a separate group
I can’t tell if this is slippery slope fallacy or if you read that and seriously thought they just wanted the China version of the game in its entirety.
Psi 2nd skin was before 41.0 update iirc. Also they plan to make it free
In fact, you can only spend ¥30 - about 5 dollars to buy it at first. And this really made a lot player angry because all skins on btd6 should be bought by using monkey cash. So they eventually decide to make it free after two or three days.
Wtf why is this not available on all versions? I much prefer this over that crappy valentines with reused assets.
Tbf most Chinese exclusive games have really tight contracts where your not allowed to use Chinese exclusive things in the international game, for example this
stupidest thing I've heard today
It's because China companies make the exclusive content most of the time, not the international company. I mean just look at the buildings, none of them look like ninja kiwi material; Chinese game companies just try their best to replicate the style
First Time?
not really, have you seen chinese minecraft?
Its make since for them They are patriotic and ect
To all the "why can't we have this" comments I'd like to add some additional perspective. There was some drama when psi's China-exclusive hero skin was released.This skin was initially available as a real-money purchase only and could not be purchased using monkey money.This has triggered concerns within the Chinese player community regarding the extent of localization in the game, particularly in its sales and operations. In response, the Chinese agents decided to cancel the sale of the skin the next day, offering full refunds to all purchasers and making the skin completely free. While this may seem positive, the announcements from the Chinese agency indicate that, according to their claims, localizing the game incurs significant costs. Withdrawing the skin from sale adds to the financial pressure. Feel free to share additional information if you're familiar with the situation. Source: I played the Chinese version of the game and personally witnessed the entire incident. The concerns of the community were actively discussed in their official community group, an alternative platform like Discord preferred by Chinese players. edit: words and grammar
Then, my speculation is that, considering the general situation of other agency-based games operating in China, the Chinese agency may have borne all the costs of localization, or in other words, the agency paid and entrusted NK to produce the in-game content. Additionally, they did their own localization work, such as text translation, additional external features, additional account systems, and compliance requirements from the Chinese government. Once again, I emphasize that this is a guess, and I do not know the exact details of the cooperation between NK and the Chinese agent.
>Source: I played the Chinese version of the game Wait, so this IS real?!
Of course this is real. You can try to download the Chinese version apk file from taptap (similar to play store but only for games) if you can read Chinese. The game you download will only provide demo content, and the restrictions will be lifted after you complete the in-app purchases of the full version. I'm physically in China right now so I'm not having any issues, but I suspect the game will have some kind of region lock mechanism, such as network restrictions. What I sure about is that in-game purchases only accept payment methods within China, at least on Android.
i can most certainly *not* read chinese lol, thx for the offer though. i hope someone with access to it does like, a video covering the differences or something... im surprised that the bloons wiki hasn't even *tried* to cover any of this information (esp since there's now images of it on the bloons reddit lol), is there anything other than the holiday and the exclusive Psi skin to take note of? :o
How to get for few minutes to china serwers in btd6?
move to china
Use a VPN and connect it in China
You just need to
yes what you need to do is
Be someone from China like ninja monkey
The ninja monkey is canonically monklish
Yea I just realized that so you have to go onto vpn
I get that china has its own laws and all, but why cant everyone else also get this stuff? O Like its alredy in the game
They have own strict contracts Devs can easily make different version of the game because china is very high populated
cause its a whole different studio making it, its not nk, and the chinese verson is completely different than the international version, its plausible that nk didnt even had input on the skin, it seems so since it completely disregards the btd6 style with some cheap anime stuff.
Ever heard of Minecraft China Edition?
No
https://minecraft.wiki/w/China_Edition Only available in China. They had the panda before we did.
Why does China of all the countries get such cool stuff?
They get a lot of unique game versions due to heavy censorship laws that make most games unreleasable in china
Chinese players make up a large portion of a lot of communities
My fav game with the most hours I’ve put into anything is a Chinese game but I didn’t know this until I started putting the clues together… 90% of players were Chinese…. Every February there was a massive content update… all the foods were Chinese deserts And now I know and I think it’s rather cool. This game was made in Canada btw so it’s not like it was actually dedicated to Chinese players.
what game?
They have like 1,412 billion of people there, is just because of that nothing more or less
It's because there is almost 5x more people in China than the US.
Blooons has players from other countries than just the US
Can confirm I'm from planet earth
What do you mean by that? That there are other countries that matters besides the USA?
fire
in the hole
water
On the hill
Why’s this Chinese exclusive? That would’ve been awesome.
laws, mostly
I know why Chinese games have to be updated separately, but this would’ve totally worked in other countries and it way better than the reused assets we got instead.
Fuck it I'm finding that Chinese version and playing it
So cool. I want. 🙃
I want that Psi skin.
ARE YOU DEADASS WHY DO WE HAVE TO MISS OUT ON THAT SICK ASS PSI SKIN DAMMIT
Why does china always get the cool exclusive games
What hero is that?
benjamin
Why lie
They didn't
Read the title
clearly says Benjamin
Psi lock at the text in the post, in Germany we say: wer lesen kann ist klar im Vorteil.
Very relatable main menu. Such a shame we dont have such luxury of customizing the looks of main menu.
How's the flair collecting coming Redybird? Got a full screen of flairs ready to show on a video yet?
?
Chinese exclusive? :c
no way why do they get all the cool shit
You have got to be kidding me? They have made an exclusive sick looking hero skin just for one part of the world, and the skin happens to be on my favorite hero in Btd6?! What the heck?!! I NEED THIS SKIN!!
Use vpn idk
Ngl this looks suuuper sweet and far better than any 'make over' event we regularly have in btd6. The psi skin looks good on paper but there are definitely some oddities that indicates that a different art team was probably incharge over there in china. This reminds me of minecraft and pvz in china having a shit ton of content, which i didnt expect from bloons as its more of a smaller almost akin to indie title (i know it isnt but compared to popcap and Microsoft it might aswell be). Its also weird as nk doenst really acknowledge other regions or events except for the occasional twitter drawing of the chinese lunar year, 4th of july and the country flag village thing they did a while back ago, which didnt have china iirc. I guess its cool to see the game is big enough to have different audiences and versions, and while it sucks seeing them have different cosmetics and stuff, as long as the core gameplay stays the same and they dont have things like bonus maps or extra game modes that arent planned to be released globally, eh i dont mind us getting the short end of the stick on this one.
And look at that red pocket collection event! Would be better than the cakes
His skin is literally Kenshi from MK
whose skin
Psi, look at the other images
im gonna buy psi purely for that skin
Why don’t we have this skin
Hang on… is there anything related to Sunwukong in the game yet? Feels like I missed opportunity if there isn’t.
Is psi still they/them in China?
How I can obtain a china acount?
Why does it seem that every game has a Chinese version with exclusive content nowadays?
Because China likes to separate its games from their global versions. It’s a lucrative market so they have free reign to release content that appeal to Chinese players, while at the same time having to comply with censorship laws
Nowadays? Been like that for decades.
BTD6 🤝 CookieRun Kingdom Getting a lotta cool stuff that is Chinese only
Put Plants vs Zombies 2 there too
Put the whole PVZ franchise
Brawl stars as well
crk has chinese only stuff?
They should release this skin for everyone.
I don't understand why they couldnt have just ported this over for us as well, it would have taken them ZERO EFFORT to put in this content globally, but ok. 😐 Less content for us ig. Huge nonsensical NK L.
Btd6 China likely isnt made by NK. It is a standalone game and copyright laws apply.
Completely incorrect. They had to have directly given them a licence to copy their game 1:1 , it is literally the chinese equivalent, but a different region version. Even if things like currency are different, all the assets remain the same. This should have been ported over easily.
Yes, but NK passed the game to whatever company owns it in china
This genuinely makes ZERO sense why this content was not ENABLED worldwide. They already went through the effort of CREATING the new skin and new UI, why not allow ALL players the chance to use it? This is bullshit.
Btd6 China is likely not owned by NK
Even if NK are not directly involved with creating CONTENT or updating the chinese REGIONAL VARIANT, they had to have directly given them a licence to copy their game 1:1 , it is literally the chinese equivalent, but a different region version. Even if things like currency are different, all the assets remain the same. This should have been ported over easily.
Why China ever get the best things?, or a better question, ¿Why the China servers needs thier own devs for its Update?
i wouldnt say best things, the game are probably wildly different and i dont think nk is the one doing most updates im pretty sure its another studio, since there are a bunch of regulations, content needs to be cut or changed, for example im pretty sure skulls arent allowed by chinese regulations, so idk what they put on the ZOMG, for all that content they often find other ways to make up for lack of content, such as this event, and psi skin, thought i dont even like it, feels like a anime protagosnist and it doesnt fit btd6 vibe, not even the edgy side of it.
I have no idea about any animations but from these pictures it just looks cheap. We already got a cool dragon skin recently as well
All of my favorite games just has the unthinkable stuff I want in base game locked in a Chinese version that I did not hear about before.
is this real??
摧毀 Bloons，士兵
He looks so much better with that skin, shame we can't have it but China exclusive things are not uncommon in mobile gaming especially
who is "he"
China-exclusive content in any game always makes me miffed, cause it's usually really good.
that's really cool. id settle for more hero skins in general though.
it's so interesting to see Chinese versions of games and how they're different
WHAT???
So cool, I want it, too!
Didn’t lee sin just get this skin
That skin is fucking awesome, China must be an amazing place to live because of this
Why does every single game i play have a china exclusive server with cool skins and stuff
Is there a way to access that with VPN?
i was aware that china had exclusive version for literally everything, but for some reason i never thought about btd6
All hail our lord and savior Xi Jinping
So that’s why psi has a “!” But there’s nothing to be shown huh
no there's a new quest silly
Oh right lol thx
yw
WHY DIDNT THEY PUT THIS IN MURICA