I found a Chinese Steam review attacking a Western studio for calling its update "Lunar New Year". For Chinese players it is 春节, Spring Festival. Small word, big signal: it tells them whether you made the update for them or about them.
Three things Chinese players always notice
- The name of the holiday.
- Meme-heavy or machine translation.
- Symbols used wrong: runes, characters, colours, numbers.
None of these cost money to fix. They cost someone who reads Chinese and knows the culture looking at the build before it ships.
Spring Festival 2027 is on 6 February. If you want an update for it, the concept work starts now.
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