WoW! So another asian game that you need to censor for who exactly? I know you read your forums/social media messages. Did one Player complain about the outfits? I guess no. Not 1 Players i know of gives 2 cents about this. Me personal wants the KR/RU Version of the outfits and not a version censored by developers (I know you want to bring us the best game possible) or “higher” ups.
Optional outfits are all well and good, but cutting out content doesnt matter how minor it is , is not. This gives me such extreme Blizzard flashbacks that I am not willing to play the global version of lost ark. Your players are all right in the head and can decide for themselves what content is okay. Your take on this with anticipatory censorship is not okay in my opinion.
So in the same breath Roxx says that no outfits have been removed or censored but imemdiately follows that up by saying that the original starting outfits have been removed and censored with watered down, non-sexy outfits. Absolutely incredible lack of self awareness there. No one asked for this level of change and all it is doing is pissing people off. @Roxx the starting outfits should be left alone and players should be given the choice if they want the covered up western version over the original Korean version of the starting armor.
What? We are talking about the removal and censoring of starting outfits in this game which has been confirmed by Roxx. While the original outfits are still in the game you can no longer have them as the default, base look of your character. This is all because someone at Amazon decided that we cannot have the same sexy outfits as KR/RU as the base set.
You are clearly missing the point just like the rest of you who keep yelling “perverts”.
AGS decided they wanted to publish a korean game and with that decision they should be fine with publishing it as is, without unnecessary changes. No one asked for more nudity, people want less changes compared to the original.
Because people want Lost Ark as it was made by Smilegate, not some watered down version made by Amazon with a bunch of changes because they think we are offended by sexy outfits.
No one is trying to fool anyone. That’s exactly what the close to 600 posts here are arguing. And there are plenty of other threads arguing the same issue.
i think you read it wrong. Starter outfits still exist but as white drops.
They have been exchanged with additional outfits.
Outfits have been exchanged so that it represents their face with the game (front and center).
I for my part think this is okay. As long as the outfits are not being deleted i am fine with it.
Possibly? But they have still removed the original starting outfits and replaced them with a non-sexy version. It’s an unncessary change and does nothing for the game as the new outfits completely fail at fitting the theme of the class in the case of the Martial Artist and Assassin. Would it be so hard for Amazon to just leave the original outfits alone and offer the new ones as the white drop you can pick up? If they did that a lot of players would be much happier.
Edit: I should note that this change only occurs on the female classes. They did not touch the male classes at all. If they are going to change the starting outfits then it should be done across the board… not aimed only at the females and making them less sexy.
Calling them ‘’ slightly less sexy ‘’ is pretty ridiculous, they’re very obviously just ‘’ any skin bellow the neck begone ‘’.
The Gunner one is actually accurate in the prologue but becomes different post prologue and becomes a completely full pitch black suit that looks like a skin from the store.
It doesn’t make any thematic sense and makes you look ‘’ too developed ‘’ early on, your base default is essentially undergarments and a base state, why does it make my Gunner look like she’s wearing a store skin and why does it make my Martial Artist look like a Knight?
The new ones don’t actually make you feel like they’re the classes in their base default state at all, the intent was very clearly just ‘’ hide all skin except the face ‘’.
This is such a pointless change and just makes you feel like you’re getting a tampered with and worse version.
It really speaks volumes that they thought this was okay and don’t see how weird it is, it’s the same with the armor previews too and how you’re frontloaded with the starting gear three times when you create your character ( twice in previews, then the starting ).
It’s like they gave no thought to this at all and it was just someone from marketing telling them that they need to hide it.
Like even if we just ignore the sex appeal because I don’t even think that it’s actually the main issue.
It just doesn’t make any sense from a design pov.
It reeks of a decision made by someone who doesn’t actually understand design language and progression.
It’s one thing to slightly alter the outfits for promotional materials but to purposefully change the original starter armor’s look into the most useless armors just makes it seem like AGS is pushing people towards more “safe” outfits.
Who is the promotional material even for? What about the group of people interested in those kinds of outfits? If AGS is all for that inclusivity, then don’t ignore that subset of players. How about we make this truly equal and censor every male outfit that shows off abs or has them wearing shorts as well. This is why people are upset and constantly hound the CMs for answers, you guys could’ve answered us where EXACTLY our concerns were but it was obvious that you guys didn’t even know where they were either. You were finally handed an official answer from the upper department to quell our concerns but it’s pretty clear that even if there are some truths to any official statements, AGS shouldn’t be trusted to properly handle our concerns.
Out of touch and ulterior motives seems to be rampant throughout the Lost Ark localization team.
I made a feedback thread on this from a different lens than the ‘’ sex appeal ‘’ argument that people including Roxx, Windsward and Trevor have responded to.
I feel like this is an issue that goes beyond that.
@Augurion Attacking people who disagree with you with and or want to play the game with the original artistic development, reveals you in so many ways.
Many people were drawn to the game for it’s original style and art. People want that version not a water-down version of the original. Some people prefer Eastern games for the over-the-top, fantasy game and design. There is a real beauty is the artistic design and in all eastern games where the Male character animations and costumes are equally over-the-top….it is not a hyper sexualization of women. It a across the board artistic style and genre.
I never played New World because it looked boring as heck…generic and no character or draw. No one wants that for LA and it’s a slippery slope when developers start pandering to the few activist voices about sexualization of women without drawing a full picture of the games art style in totality.
Lastly, assuming people who want the game in it’s original and truest form are “nerds” or using the game for unmentionable reasons reveal that you are either trolling, a activist who has never played a game or just plain ignorant.
This is pure 2020 progressist precaution and you can see it from far away, simply they don’t want people saying:
“Hey, this game doesn’t have black people”
“Hey, this game is too sexual”
“Hey, I’m a jerk!” (I wish they actually said that)
But yeah, I totally understand amazon, you don’t wanna risk getting into this kind of shit nowadays…