I didn’t see they represent the idea this way (maybe you feel that way due to language barriers), from my point I view it more like a problem with cheaters in the game (and I know a type of business that sells maxed out accounts for profit, don’t know if that happens in WoA). I know cheating is not what all Chinese player do, only a very small proportion of them do but since devs talked about it maybe they have some internal figures, I would like to see actual figures from them to verify this.
For the votes, if you look at the section, I have to express some concern over it (don’t mean cheating but would like to express my concern). Many great airports are getting single digits or 10/20 votes but an airport in China which I don’t have any knowledge of before I search it on Google Maps, easily gets a doubled number.
If devs strictly follows the rule of selecting the highest votes, definitely there will be a total chaos cuz like I discussed in relation to the [Generic Airports]:
“The winner will always be the biggest (and probably most famous) ones and airports in cities with the most people.”
A lot of people from China vote for their national hubs and local airports and that makes a problem from my understanding, there is no wrongdoing but might cause some problem. I think devs indicated that they won’t only select the ones with highest votes, maybe that is what we have some misunderstanding on (and it’s not cheating, at least for me).
Think about this then you understand how I view most Chinese airports getting dozens of votes:
I also I would like to see my local airport, ADL in the game but I definitely know this will get no more than 10 votes anyway. And I bet most Chinese players have no knowledge of this airport even don’t know the city - because this airport is simply boring.
I don’t want to step back from my point mentioned earlier. I still support to add not one, but maybe 3 or even 4 Chinese airports to the game in future, this is a recognition of the community and celebrate the significance of Chinese aviation industry.
But.. Like I said I tried to research on a Chinese airport that I feel interesting rather than a Chinese national gateway or a local airport for some players. But yes, I will have to postpone that to see how everything goes. Having it in my draft box but now I think I will try to work on other interesting airports, feeling very sad I have to admit.
No matter what, when everything is calm and it becomes possible, I will work on such proposal and try to reach out the community to see if they feel like it.
I also acknowledge there might be language barriers and cultural differences for many Chinese players, and I also know there are players from other non-English countries. I would appreciate in advance if you can be respectful to others and think about people from various cultural backgrounds, like an old saying in China (which was told by one of my employee from China):
“Compassionate others heart, with your heart.”