Feel free to quote from the stellar blade thread and continue the discussion here.
As an example of my point. Look at granblue fantasy relink released like last week or something.
This isn't necessarily everything that was censored, as the edits should make clear, these are just things that we definitely know are censored so far. On the other hand, Lyria and some town NPCs are not censored and the player can look up their skirts to see underwear at any time. (copy paste from steam forums credits to op).
So are you telling me anyone of the platform holders went through everything and told cygames to censor accordingly? HIGHLY unlikely when they have uncensored designs in the fighting game (even if they are "locked" behind an option). Its the devs that chose to do this.
I'm not talking about a genre, I am talking about a business model that makes sure you don't own your games and tries to squeeze as much money as possible from you. It really annoys me that people rightly criticize companies like Ubisoft for all their shitty business practices, but as soon as you poke the elephant in the room they act like you're out of line. Well I will keep poking that elephant until you wake up and demand a better industry.
Japanese developers publishing games on PC and console being complete cucks to Sony/Valve/"Global Standards"/"Modern audiences", and the ones that were actually not sellouts and worth supporting moved to gacha because . The console market in Japan has been dying for years on top of that.
I'd argue that it's the reverse. The reason gacha games are so prevalent is because mobile games somehow have less bullshit content policy strings attached to them than PS/Xbox/Steam games. The gacha game for Senran Kagura had a promo event with Neptunia x Senran Kagura, and the content in that is way more risque than literally anything in the soulless goyslop game it's promoting. The Dead or Alive gacha game is the only good thing Team Ninja has been doing nowadays.
It's fucking sad when a Korean gacha game like Blue Archive has more respect for their playerbase AND more of a backbone than literally any cuckold Japanese developers putting their slop on consoles and PC, despite that being a gacha game (And at least the grind is nowhere as bad as Mihoyo's, and you don't have to engage with the gacha system if you don't want to). I hope the developers won't change the game for grifter terminally online retards that don't play the game.
it's literally impossible to release those kinds of games nowadays.
Its not though. Especially stuff that marketplaces like appstores allow, that type of content could easily be released elsewhere, yet the devs choose to cuck themselves. I feel like there should be a separate thread for all the gacha talk as its a pretty interesting topic.
As an example of my point. Look at granblue fantasy relink released like last week or something.
Here's are comparisons that I was able to find after a few minutes of searching:
Zeta: https://i.imgur.com/E4vFVsH.jpeg
Djeeta: https://i.imgur.com/stergJg.jpeg
Ferry: https://i.imgur.com/1ariHjk.jpeg
These are the same designs except the originals are less covered up and the Relink versions are more covered up. Granblue Versus and Rising had the same censored costumes, except those games also had the original, uncensored costumes included, for free, so the players could use them if they so wished. As far as I know, Relink does not provide the uncensored outfits at all. So yes, this is just plain censorship this time.
Relink has the same age ratings as the Versus games by the way, so no one gets to blame CERO or PEGI or anyone else for this one.
Edit: And Narmaya as well, as pointed out: https://i.imgur.com/FZFa4ml.jpeg
Edit 2: Cagliostro has also had shorts added, this is the best still frame I could get: https://i.imgur.com/IVE0Wb2.jpeg
This isn't necessarily everything that was censored, as the edits should make clear, these are just things that we definitely know are censored so far. On the other hand, Lyria and some town NPCs are not censored and the player can look up their skirts to see underwear at any time. (copy paste from steam forums credits to op).
So are you telling me anyone of the platform holders went through everything and told cygames to censor accordingly? HIGHLY unlikely when they have uncensored designs in the fighting game (even if they are "locked" behind an option). Its the devs that chose to do this.