When Feng Ji talks about having written a speech two years ago, this wasn’t done because of sheer arrogance, but pride for the community Black Myth: Wukong fostered in China and a genuine belief that it was capable of going all the way. When combined with a handful of crying emoji shortly after this part of the post, it very much reads like a joke.

A pipedream of regret that, if the stars aligned, it would be read on stage in front of the entire world. As people tend to do in the modern landscape, some ran with the first, least nuanced translation to label GameScience’s CEO as a crybaby to be dunked on, instead of reading further into things. But considering the reputation the developer has created for itself, it’s difficult to see exactly where the line is.

There is no doubt that GameScience needs a more capable public relations team, and you can’t let a CEO speak out so publicly like this in his native language where there is no way for that message to be filtered beyond machine translations. China is siloed off with social media platforms of its own, so press, content creators, and influencers are often left to rely on fan translations with limited methods of confirming the source.