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that's unfortunately really common with cdramas as well, and not just a tencent drama issue, nor is it recent by the way, I've seen it few years back.

Why Honor of Kings because it's the biggest game in China, it's convenient and have many underage players. There's been many news about kids spending too much money on the game and then parents calling and demanding money back.

Did you know that China is also closing down a lot of tutoring classes that absolutely devastated the educational industry? Or that China have been fining and slapping wrist of multiple mega corporations due to monopoly and other stuff?

I totally get you being upset, but these things aren't really related like you think it is.

Just started Remebrance of things past, slice of life of daily struggles of few girls living in Beijing, it starts off quite sad but has mostly uplifting tone.

.....falling into your smile is a youku drama, buddy, and the issue have always been big for anyone that read chinese web novels, plagiarism is literally first thing linked to the title of the novel, the production team just didn't care. Long Ballad and Ancient Love Poetry both got slammed for miscast (different reasons though), cnetizens slam dramas for miscast all the time, especially historical with romance as focus "historical idol" dramas. Rebel Princess got that treatment, and it's an exclusive youku drama. (Youku bought it, not produced it though, I should note) cnetizens have gotten used to tencent putting in the biggest money and casting the biggest star and using them all wrong. Legend of Fei could have been a great wuxia, where did they spent all the money, and what was the director and writers doing?!

Kris being exposed is just him stepping on his own foot, he had multiple people expose him before, no one called the police on him. He called the police for blackmail and dragged his sexual assault in himself, that's hardly a cover up. *facepalm*

oh MHH have some downvoting issue with its author saying the wrong thing at the wrong time before the drama aired, the second half wasn't as interesting for some as well too thus 6.4, if it maintained its initial momentum, i think it would have gotten 7+, Joy of Life was stuck at 7.9 for the longest time, so I don't think MHH would go any higher.

Yeah AA still doesn't have translation, it's not a platform production or one that iqiyi/youku deem international platform might be interested in, so one have to rely on fan translation, and AA is probably harder to translate than even your average republican drama due to content.

Rebel got 8+, and its tv ratings did really well, viewcounts not as well as it could have, but since it's a big drama, it's still top 10 this year for iqiyi. Hengshan Hospital has subs?! wow, I didn't watch it but it sounded interesting.

As for Longxi, while I like the cast and director and general feel of the drama, I'm fairly worry about its viewcounts. Oh well I think it should have decent douban score though. I spent too much time poking at douban and watching cdramas, so it's always nice to discuss it :D

douban is actually picky on romcom and fluffy dramas, not everything else. Other genre will depend how well characters or plot is written, whether there's plagiarism scandal or if main cast have outrageous scandal. If the drama star popular actors and is average, the rating will likely hover around 6.

There's actually been ten 8+ dramas, 2 of them 9+ this year (Minning Town and Awakening Age), so it's actually on par with last year, but half of those likely won't get watched by international audience, then 3 of them aren't popular enough, the remaining 2 are word of honor and imperial coroner.

If you look at just statistics, a lot of the well rated dramas didn't do too well due too niche/small budget etc. (some did fine though, in the range of 7 and 6) it's the big dramas that tank in ratings, for good reason IMO. Oh well, even the drama that's doing best this year (My Heroic Husband) isn't consider a hit drama by some, so this year has been all around abysmal statistics wise.

6.4 is a decent score if your fav is a romance honestly. Nirvana in Fire frequently gets nitpicked as inflated score actually lol. It appeared during a time when a lot of popular (high tv ratings) dramas had really messy stories, so people were really happy to see a well produced and well written historical drama.

Recent 8+ dramas from my memory that international audience might like: Word of Honor (BL, BL dramas ratings are usually bit higher and this was right down its audience's alley), Hikaru no Go (youth drama), CrossFire (esport/friendship drama). Well produced school dramas usually get you 8+ too (the ones that's focused on friendship, not romance).

douban ratings have been inflated and also somewhat manipulated in last few years (this year's downvoting is fairly apparent), there's about handful of 8+ dramas every year but they are very often genres that international audience aren't interested in. Good romance dramas are more likely to get the 7+ range.

It's doing fine, there's just a lot of expectation for the show due to Gu Man + Honor of Kings + two popular stars. See how it goes next week with vvip episodes and after Olympics ends.

just for this drama, it's clear from the novel that Gu man found aerospace engineering romantic, so why is it so much of a surprise that she decide to elaborate on it in the drama with proper consultant? i really don't think ccp had anything to do with this.

she's not in the classmate's Wechat group, which is a whatsapp like app. Yu Tu found her high school account (real account) through the QQ high school group, which is like....skype or discord (online instant messaging that's not tied to phone numbers)

? I don't think the game is responsible for unfound rumours that they aren't even responsible for. If the drama acc wanted, they could do so, but they likely aren't going to care.

Jaynestar is essentially just posting fandom drama, even without the promotion tactic, there's a lot of ways to accuse you of inflated viewcounts. (and technically it IS inflated, but it comes with being sponsored by Honor of Kings. The same way that you get more views, inflated if you want to twist it that way because tencent put the drama on its front page like every other big budget drama)

HoK does have lotteries to promote the drama. What the article doesn't note is that it's not core part of the game, it's like a daily task you could do to enter a lottery for skin for particular character, the skin you normally have to spend real money to get. It's a promotion tactic and Honor of Kings official account + pro players have been posting weibo messages to promote the drama too.

Gank Your Heart actually had more substances than what I expected (fluff drama with gaming on the side, ala Love O2O, which I liked but still). it does start off with string of misunderstandings, but they mostly made sense IMO. I liked the series largely for balancing the romance and gaming fairly while developing both ML and FL AND their careers (pro player and commentator), but it depends if gaming drama is your thing I guess.

because mmo novels was a popular subgenre in webnovel scene circa 2008 till 2015ish, then it became esport related. Most dramas that you see have popular novel as a source, Gank Your Heart's novel is the only exception but it was never serialised online.

he took aerospace engineering for his dreams, so it's specifically that industry he cares about, it's not planes or engineering that he likes, so Boeing wouldn't work, space stuff in china are all public sector.

they had people from aerospace field to look over script (Gu Man mentioned it) and help with the drama, like you would have a legal consultant in a drama about lawyers.

period dramas actually have them too LOL. They are more sneaky but sometimes hilariously jarring if you recognise it. Ever Night 1 have pizza hut (i'm not kidding you), self heating hot pot (a character made it themselves), some cosmetics thing. 2 had the cold medicine, 999 LOL.

Tencent knew the risk with Kris Wu when they picked him. No one expected he'd be charged with sexual assault, but he was a walking bomb of scandals that had kept breaking over the years.

Ba Qing was Youku's, and they weren't even the primary investor. The primary producer is Goodbye My Princess', and last I saw they were still writing that drama off lol.

Just chiming in, Word of Honor outperformed its expectations. It's not a huge hit largely due to its broadcasting platform, Youku, which has dwindled to half the size of iqiyi/tecent, so viewcount wise, it doesn't look super impressive, but it's still the best performing drama for Youku this year. (also because Youku traded their best drama Rattan off for other platform's dramas. Rattan ended up on all three platforms and is still 2nd this year in viewcounts/ep last I checked)

BL dramas are also different kind of beast than regular dramas, in that they tend to boost actors popularity super fast even if the viewcount only look so so. The fans are more fanatic and fairly loyal, but the fandom is real real messy, or toxic at times, a common trait for "traffic"/liuliang celebrities (popular celebrities that trend on weibo a lot). Comparable liuliangs might be Ren Jialun who got another boost of popularity last year after Under the Power.

neither of them are signed onto tencent, but platforms like tencent produce a lot of dramas (they commission production companies to do so). Both the leads are spokesperson of the tencent video though, so geez isn't wrong that it's using Honor of Kings to promote them somewhat.

Honor of Kings is a wildly wildly popular game in China, and there's promo in game for the drama, so tencent is actually doing a lot to promote the drama. I'd actually note that tencent video like iqiyi and youku are still losing billions of yuan every year, while HoK is a free game with paid add-ons is making banks every year.