Chinese gamers go berserk after they discover EA Sports FIFA online soccer game left Taiwan out of China map

Taiwan News
Date: 2016/12/23
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Taipei (Taiwan News) – Chinese players of the online game EA FIFA went into a fit of rage when they

Map of China displayed in EA Sports FIFA online soccer game (Screen capture by PTT user thepowers)

realized the latest version of the soccer game shows a map of China in yellow that does not include Taiwan.

A user on the online Taiwanese forum PTT, thepowers, while eavesdropping over a group of mainland Chinese playing the EA Sports online soccer game FIFA, noticed the game’s moderator and followers went into a rage when they discovered the map of China did not include Taiwan. They were so agitated by the map that one of the Chinese gamers made a crude attempt at “fixing it” by turning Taiwan into what appears to be a giant yellow pixel or square.    [FULL  STORY]