Interesting however this will likely trip EAC will it not?
What the hell???
You can even see the leotard piece and stockings underneath the texture of the pants that has been edited in and the chest has just been painted with dark paint.
Wtf is up with this AGS???
Answers please???
Ingame that set in the store is also different too just what is even happening here.
Itâs just awfully done too like I said you can literally see the original skin underneath itâs very obvious that it has been awkwardly painted over.
Edit: Also if that Gunslinger skin was too revealing for the login skin then USE ANOTHER SKIN.
Why the hell did they go in and manually censor it just to have it on the login screen, what exactly is the point of that?
They could just have used another skin but instead they decided to censor one, what exactly are we supposed to read into that?
I can understand censoring some of the skins.
Not gonna call anyone names, but i think its common knowledge what kinds of people would be the primary audience for those âattractiveâ skins. And I for one definitely do not want to bring complete social destruction upon myself when i mention lost ark to folks. Those skins are just too âvocalâ about the game in terms of PR they leave very little room for anything else, they deserve to be tuned.
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Except that you literally see the Founder skins right away in the trial area so what is even the point.
This accomplishes absolutely nothing other than to piss people off, if youâre upset about revealing skins youâre going to be upset regardless.
Also people gotta stop with these judgemental attitudes, if you donât like it then thatâs fine but that doesnât mean that people who like it are bad.
Like what do you mean ââ what kinds of people ââ, okay what ââ kinds of people ââ get hyped up about the gore in MK11?
Itâs just a dumb line to go down and the only reason why youâd say and think that is because of how YOU look at the content.
Youâre just being a judgemental person tbh.
And like I said even if I was to agree with you ( which I donât ), it still makes no sense because itâs just what the game is if they actually wanted to try and hide and get rid of that then theyâd have to fundamentally change the entire game.
If you have friends you donât want to mention Lost Ark to, will you now feel comfortable doing it because a skin has been censored in the login?
You see more revealing skins in the armor preview and right away in the trial area thereâs no logic behind what youâre saying at all youâd have to fundamentally ââ tune ââ the whole game on a much grander scale for it to make any sense.
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itâs not about judging lol, itâs about maintaining a moderate enough of standing in terms of PR management to cater to the larger audience that they so evidently are trying to keep.
have you seen some of the KR skins? Lol, they are pretty extreme. If this were an indie game then yeh they wouldnt care, but its not. They have every monetary incentive to not rep their game that way lol. And itâs not even all the skins or totally block everything. The mokoko skin for instance is pretty cool, iâd be hard pressed to find a reason for censoring that one.
As for your point of âfundamentally chang[ing] the entire game,â dude, thatâs just straight up copium right there. How is changing a few pixels for character skins of all things game breaking lol
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Except puritans are the vocal minority lol
are you assuming that the âlarge audienceâ are the ones who love censorship? if thatâs what youâre trying to say here then let me tell you that youâre hella wrong. because censorship NEVER last in any game specially games that are made for âAdultsâ guess why they never last? because they make way less money by censoring them. like good morning weâre in 2022 and people are scared of a video game sexy outfits? wake up⌠itâs a video game and even in real life people dress even âmore extremeâ and who judges them for it? no one can dare to judge them for what they want to wear. so keep that crap outside of lost ark please. we donât need censorship crap in video games.
and no one can justify it either. cause if youâre an adult and video game female character wearing sexy armor offends you. then i would highly suggest you to go to therapy sessions. on why sexy females in a VIDEO FKIN GAME offends your majestyâŚ
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No one is afraid.
no one is offended
Not having the starting outfits overly sexualized makes the game more appealing to a wider player base. Thatâs it. Some people wonât want to play a game where characters start in sexy outfits. Itâs really not a big deal.
Pretty sure the censorship related to US laws, and since NA/EU falls under same jurisdiction publisher-wise - what we see is the american paradox:
Itâs okay to show kids exploding corpses but a revealing piece of clothing is the antichrist.
Besides, this game is rated R, 18+? Why in the hell does it matter if someoneâs kids canât be allowed to see revealing clothing? If you let your underage kids play this game, whatever âtraumaâ or problem happens is on the ignorant parents.
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top tier reply.
you donât know that so perhaps you shouldnât even try to talk about it. wider player base thatâs why that player base doesnât even pay money for anything in the shop and playing for free? wake up and stop living in a dream. and get out of your bubble.
most of the player base came from Russia version so good morning. russia version has the same outfits they had in Korea and they didnât mind playing there. so again youâre speaking out of your a$$
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Yet people hyping this gameâs NA/EU release were so BECAUSE of the KR/RU original release. Of course they get annoyed when they are advertised something, but get something else 
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smh⌠as i said get out of your bubble. weâre supposed to advance forward not go backwards in life. youâre one of the offended ones and yet youâre so afraid to even admit it. so you try to make up things as in âno one is afraidâ âno one is offendedâ dude you canât play that game. people hyped this game for WHAT IT WAS originally. no one hyped it to be watered down and censored for the little kids who sneak up download it behind their parents approval.
just stop replying cause youâre not going anywhere with it. wasting my time on some snowflake.
nice edit then deleted your post cause you realized it was ridiculous reply. 10/10 man you just gave me a reason to block you. talk to yourself nowâŚ
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No idea what you are talking about
I deleted because I edited a previous reply by mistake instead of making a new oneâŚ
Assumptions, assumptions.
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Iâm sure everyone was expecting a Korean MMO be puritan, family-friendly to the core. What Amazon is doing is nothing else but typical mega-corporation stuff:
Maximizing profits. However, in Amazonâs case, it always comes with a heavy cost toâŚnothing much, just destroying the original artistic design while grabbing as much money as possible and then running away, leaving problems to fester, rot, die out - only to come back later with minor positive news to wipe the slate clean.
Or have you not been browsing forums since NA/EU release and see how certain topics died out with no AGS reply?
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Western culture has no shortage of sexy clothing. But there are clothes in Lost Ark for which the first association when you see them is not sexy, but prostitution, or worse, bdsm brothel.
On the bright side, western markets buy a lot of visual character upgrades. Amazon just needs to throw volume at the problem.
If the korean style of dressing women in games is prostitution and whatever else you may think - so be it. It is the original design intent people saw when hearing about the game coming for NA/EU.
But then, shitting on the artistic design is what makes more money amongst more puritan audience - the US. I ainât saying all americans are like that, but AGS first and foremost wants to cater to their own people & customers.
It is entirely normal that EU customers are 2nd class ones in every american-based release. I have personally seen that in MMOs.
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only if you see it that way. and to me it seems like the âwestern audienceâ sees anything thatâs actually Sexy and looks better than them = Prostitute which means youâre literally insulting the koreans as well. why the hell are you even playing the game? itâs a korean game. and youâre hating on their style⌠yet youâre playing it? sensitive people shouldnât play adult games. thereâs a difference between looking sexy and being a prostituteâŚ
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I love people using the words âattractiveâ, ârevealingâ, âsexyâ when they try to defend their vision instead of using the words âover sexualisingâ or âhypersexualisationâ of a womanâs body and use âcensorshipâ when the company do adjustments to armours.
When a woman chose their clothes, they are totally OK and free to do that. When a male artist creates an over sexualising character or skin, have nothing to do with womanâs freedom.
Imagine you creating something, and then someone else vastly changes it for profits. And then you have people defending the right to ruin your creations.
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Mock âusâ. Lesson 101, never speak in behalf of everyone.
Other than that - if original developers created things as they are, changing them IS STUPID.
It matters little whether Koreans purely have this game standard of oversexualising for profits, Amazon still changed it because it benefits THEM more, ignoring the developerâs original intentions
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