I would ask you to prove it. After all the onus of proof lies with you who would make such claims.
Show us screenshots of the same outfits before and after censorship. I assume most who say this played other versions, so it would be simple to just enter on other servers, or take screenshots from streams or videos of people playing on those servers.
A simple task, would you not agree?
Oh, and as for my opinion, I haven’t played the EA, only watched streams of it, so I could not say whether there is or there is not. Although I have the impression I’ve been seeing less thighs on female characters (which is a shame cause I do love me some zettai ryouiki), but I can’t prove its not just me remembering wrong.
Modifying a game and releasing it to another region with Diff culture does not mean censorship btw… Not even sure why people keep saying that… There is a few strange people who like seeing cartoon nudity and stuff that are fighting tooth and nail on censorship lmao… I assume if they did modify things they made them more tasteful in a culture that is right now destroying gaming companies for the treatment of women in the workplace…
From what I understand, the starting outfits were altered, but the originals are available in game. That’s for sure not censorship, it’s marketing to a different demographic.
How very odd I say, the fact that the treatment of women in those companies is so bad while they waste so much money on lecturing the playerbase, on saying players are the ones at fault.
They are reaping the benefits of sounding so progressive while treating women so badly, its almost like companies who do such a thing are doing this as a performative action.
But that’s just how I see things, lot’s of hypocrits in the industry.
Yup it always starts with the company itself not the playerbase. Of course if there is players themselves breaking ToS and harassing people action needs to be taken. But the way Blizzard handled it was a 101 on how to not handle it right lol. Ugh what a mess. I just want to see the Industry do well the MMO Sector has been “dying” in so many ways for so long and things like that only hurt it more.
The fact that their games became worse when they started acting in a more progressive manner does not help the case of “progressivism and diversity is good” that everyone is trying to show.
But I will say one thing, Im completely against companies trying to hide sexy characters in hopes of reaching a new audience, it creates bad will with old and current fans as well as deny how many men and women like to play their characters.
If it’s released as a brand new region / new release I’m okay with it to a degree. As far as I know they change some promotional material at best and not the core of the game itself… I think that was where people were getting mixed up…
But yeah going into a game after the fact and gutting it out saying your doing this for their own good is insane. Especially when I’m sure if they polled it even with only asking the question to women they would feel indifferent or even not want it to happen. I play games with my spouse from time to times and she loves getting all dressed up in games for fun! Why take something she enjoys?
The lack if choice is what irks me, why not let people play as they want? Those who want tk censor would do it and those who do not wouldnt, and they would have data on how many people want to play each way
All we are talking about is starting outfits being changed. It’s a business decision to appeal to a larger player base. You can still find the kind out outfits that were removed in the game, you just don’t start with one.
I’m asking if there are outfits that have been censored or covered. For instance if an outfit showed bara thighs and they put some sort of leggings that cover that, for me that would enter the censorship territory
That’s the kind of change they made to the baseline/starter sets – less skin in them. The risque outfits are still in the game but unlockable in other ways and I’d expect in some cases they will rotate in and out of the cash shop at some point as well.
The idea was simply to make the initial look at the game less jarring to Western audiences where there is currently a very substantial societal concern around the objectification of women sexually. And a company like Amazon is going to be very sensitive to that, given that they are a very customer-facing company as the largest online retailer.
There were other changes made, too, that some people are complaining about like races being changed and so on, which also make sense from a localization standpoint and audience appeal, again given the current societal concerns about representation of diverse identity groups in gaming.
It’s of course possible that all of this is performative but it is still impactful in terms of how things are actually portrayed in the game, and whether the game is perceived to be sexually objectifying women and racially un-diverse.
The reason I noticed this is, because I met her with the first outfit and now after progressing the story a bit she suddenly wears the second outfit without a story explanation.
Seems weird but you’ll find people explaining it away with a simple dress change. But the card art thing is funny though, even minor, still no reason to change the art for any reason really.
Unless marketing people were shown the card collecting aspect of the game and they thought they should edit those too just in case…
Yeah sadly people try to defend this instead of questioning it.
I have noticed quite a few more or less subtle changes to characters, but this is the most blatant one I have seen.
