There are some indication that One Piece World Seeker ps4 version will be altered to comply with Sony Policy
Source : toward the end of video
Don’t expect Sony to change, if at all until next gen comes around. In the meantime, the best we can do is not give Sony our money and encourage others to spend theirs on other platforms.
There are some indication that One Piece World Seeker ps4 version will be altered to comply with Sony Policy
Source : toward the end of video
I really liked Agony, I may even play it again on the Xbox One because I can (and maybe uncensored on PC when I get my PC gaming ready). I'm looking forward to Succubus!
This amazes me, too. It used to be trolls that made arguments about censoring content, usually with tons of F-words and such that made them hard to take seriously. More recently the arguments have become much more damaging. Instead of F-word laden short bursts of anger, you get lengthy posts about how much damage something like a Japanese game or some form of art is doing to a platform. Now there's accusations of bigotry or worse to try to force the hand of platform holders to get rid of people or content one doesn't like. Debate is difficult these days. You may get accused of bigotry yourself for not agreeing. I see that often enough as a tactic to silence criticism.I'm constantly amazed that, after years of begging for games to receive completely accurate translations, we've reached a point, where certain segments of the audience want Western releases self-censored by way of localization.
Somehow, this has become a reality for Western video game players.
As video games have been swept into this culture war raging in the West, too many of those arguing for censorship--whether at the source or in localization--are frauds, who either don't care at all about the medium or a particular title and are merely looking to advance their specific agenda(s), regardless of the impact such changes might have on a title or the enjoyment had by others. Even those who legitimately call for censorship, in the belief it's protecting certain groups of people, tend to stumble down the twisted path of right-think, where only the content and concepts they disapprove of should be excised. In general, we live in a period, where (at least in the West) segments of game enthusiasts have forgotten that not all entertainment should be made for all people.
Unfortunately, I think the threat of banning and excommunicating works. I'm really close to just shutting up and leaving game forums and such to focus on my art. I really need the support I get on Patreon if I'm going to continue being an artist and that's not a very stable place at the moment. Gaming is an exceptionally toxic environment now, thanks to this culture war and I don't want to be tainted by being involved with the toxic elements of it.
I agree that it was extremely effective for a time, but I think it is less so now. For instance, ResetEra is so completely over the top with this that they've become a walking joke. I'd be more wary of someone who hasn't been banned there. Same with Twitter. The infrastructure to simply go somewhere else isn't there yet, but with the speed that places like Twitter and Tumblr are poisoning their own food supply, it won't be long until either they change or alternatives become viable. I also remember a time before social media (and before the internet), so I have a hard time seeing them as a replacement for community.
Representation draws from a desire to erase minority status. Having a larger say in the things that affect you means that you have more control over your own destiny. Unfortunately, representation seems to be based exclusively on things like gender and race, which my generation grew up realizing didn't actually mean anything. It also ignores the fact that niche communities do not have to represent everyone, and that niche communities are almost certainly built on a social hierarchy based on something more fundamental than gender or race. For example, where you fit in the Star Wars social hierarchy is largely based on how knowledgeable you are about Star Wars, so trying to get a more representation of a particular gender is stupid because gender was never a factor in representation.
Honestly, I think it helps to be a bit of an asshole. I think one of the main target vectors for censorship is peer pressure - the idea that you are weird or a pervert or a psycho or a woman hater. The entire concept of censorship is built on a sort of Red Scare mentality where normal people are afraid to speak up because they don't want to be lumped in with the communists. I think all moral panics are.
I agree there is a point where banning any difference in opinion becomes laughable and it loses it's power. Twitter has been a bit better for me. It's not as negative and has lots of great communities. The censorship is lower. I seriously bet Tumblr will die off, though. They butchered that site. They flagged nearly everything I posted and actually issued me two different rulings on the same picture I had posted on two different blogs. I simultaneously have a painting that's accepted and banned, lol. There's no returning from that level of ineptitude!
I remember when it came out and people were dismissing the game for having anthropomorphic animals in it. I was surprised since to me it was just a fun metroidvania game. If the game would be released today my reaction would be different. I definitely wouldn't dismiss it but I would be more skeptical of it. It's unfortunate and I'm not exactly sure what made me change my perception of this, maybe all the bad press the furry fandom keeps getting.
The weird thing about it is that furry art seems to get a free pass from the more censorship happy people who fight about sexy women in games all the time. It certainly seems that furry art has a smaller but much stronger community around it than other art forms like anime. There's a strong lgbt component to furry art that I think helps protect it from the infinite negativity anime, comics and games get, it's not perceived as a "male dominated medium", you know? It's also incorporated into super popular things people don't think much about. Not many look at Pokemon and think "eww, furry".
Speaking about Patreon, how hard has the boycott hit your account? Ever since Patreon banned Sargon, a lot of people removed their pledges in protest and Patreon is still unrepentant.
The more heavy localization Atlus USA had manifested itself first through purging all religious themes from Crusader of Centy on Genesis over personal preferences, rewriting most of Thousand Arms in Working Designs style, throwing shades at fans asking for accurate translations by implying they want literal machine translations in Rhapsody on PS1 (a game which didn't have much luck on DS either, where it had massive amounts of extra content on DS that NISA cut so they wouldn't have to translate more than the reused PS1 script, and yet there are NISA defenders nowadays claiming only weebs care about that stuff).
To be fair to ATLUS, their Western releases since the early 2000s have generally hewed much closer to the original text, and the absence of Japanese audio shouldn't always be held against them during the DVD-era, both due to the intricacies (and cost) of licensing Japanese voice actors and the lack of disc space available when offering English dubs.
I don't think it did much. I'm not sure how much overlap there is with conservative commentary and furry art. I lost about 4 patrons but gained close to the same amount (people come and go so it's hard to have consistent numbers).
They are just a symptom of a larger problem of ideologically motivated new wave of soccer moms even more obsessive than their predecessors. That said, gamers need to make their voices heard to companies to counter the signal boosting game journalists posting there do, otherwise companies get convinced to cancel localizations or do major creative concessions, like Xenoblade X that in the name of character customization, something they think is needed for a game to be acceptable in the Western market, scrapped about 30% of their planned story content (something that game journalists are blatanly demanding now of Western AAA games, like articles about Assassin Creed Odyssey claiming the male hero is unnecessary, inferior, should be scrapped, or lamenting its higher use in player counts).
Hey if you find elder scroll female char creation to be attractive, more power to you
There's Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy that was redesigned to be less attractive.
It's good that games are censored for the people who weren't even interested in those games?
Whenever anime titties are involved, there's always this kind of reaction from the easily triggered:
It now extends to horror and, again, violence in videogames. It's not the first time this happened either, but the key difference here is that game journalism refuses to cover this at best, and defends and causes it at worst. The topic could use some balance because things became so bad recently developers aren't allowed to release games the way they want to in their home country.
