Censorship Confirmed in an Exclusive Interview

[Decim]

BPDB: Let’s start with the first question. Censorship is a huge topic in the west. Can you confirm if elements of the game will be changed in Blue Protocol to fit the western scene? If yes, may you please expand on this subject?

Mike Zadorojny: The general changes that we are looking at is: “how do we make that approach to this game?”. A change for us in the west, specifically in the character creation menu, the female characters will no longer have the physics shake option available. These are the types of changes that are culturally accepted in Japan and which they do in their titles. However, in the west it can be uncomfortable for our players and that’s where we will step in to say hey, can we make a slight change for this?

Mike Zadorojny: In our gameplay demo, you may notice that there were only two (2) body presets available for players to toggle - whereas in the Japanese client, there is a third “small” body size preset. We can only assume that changing the body preset would be to avoid censoring current and future “revealing” outfits. Censorship is also tied into the Teen rating and regional restrictions. It may come down to a would-you-rather scenario - Do you want less censorship, and fewer regions available to players, OR more censorship, meaning more regions available to players?

source: https://blue-protocol-db.com/news/exclusive-interview-franchise-lead-mike-zadorojny-blue-protocol-hands-on-demo/

So not only do we have gacha and a delayed launch for no reason, the game is also censored (which is 100% the reason it got delayed)

Honestly, if you want a real anime game that's actually targeted towards long time/real anime fans, you're better off just playing/going back to ffxiv instead. Bandai really should've just published themselves, I hope it was worth it.

[agentkido]

The physics options should be a player toggle with the default being off so it can still have the teen rating but turn it on if you are comfortable with it.

As for the small body it makes 0 sense if u are rp as yourself and ur like 4ft 5 or some thing like that. Unfortunately the loli lovers ruin it for the rest of us as usual.

[BigCatRob]

Ah fudge somebody beat me to making a thread already so I deleted mine.

Still, the man's went from being a Guild Wars 2 game director to 100% being Amazon's lapdog for the western release of a anime style MMO.

Originally posted by Decim:

So not only do we have gacha and a delayed launch for no reason, the game is also censored (which is 100% the reason it got delayed)

Later in that post he goes on to talk about "why" it was delayed but balancing/feedback changes from the FNT (Final Network Test) and "setting up a safe secure network" doesn't push a game back all the way back to 2024 so yeah I'm siding with there's probably more censorship/"localization" changes happening than what has been shown so far as well.

[Lurker]

Yea, I'm out.

Censorship of any kind is unnecessary; either you are a grown up adult and you suck it up and deal with it like one or you simply don't play the game, but I don't want any outside source that has no idea of what people want/ don't want make the decision for me. This ♥♥♥♥ happens time and time again and it seems the message ain't coming across.

I'm aware that government regulations also play a part in this but this is also an overly misused argument for a good decade now, since all it possibly affects is the age-rating. Let's be real, whether or not your game is T-rated, the kids will play it without their parents consent either way.
And let's not start with the void argument that the game contains gambling-mechanics not suited for kids to begin with, so don't give me that crap about the regulations.

And if Amazon had any idea of what it's audience would actually want they wouldn't run their two biggest projects constantly against the wall with their stupid decisions. These guys are clowns and absolutey dsconnected from the obvious facts around them.

[BigCatRob]

Originally posted by Lurker:

I'm aware that government regulations also play a part in this but this is also an overly misused argument for a good decade now, since all it possibly affects is the age-rating. Let's be real, whether or not your game is T-rated, the kids will play it without their parents consent either way. Don't kid yourself.

Their argument's regarding the rating is more or less nonsense when you realize there are games with the same rating that are way more sexualized/provocative.

NIkke has a T rating for crying out loud and that has wayyyy more going on than whatever Amazon is trying to censor in BP. Different games, but the rating system is still the same regardless.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.proximabeta.nikke&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1

Edit: Off topic but I enjoy Nikke a lot, definitely has one of the better F2P experiences for a mobile game as well.

[⎛⎝ Kupo ⎠⎞]

They removed the undergarment option too rofl.
Just wasn't mentioned in the interview.

[Lestrad]

Except the removal of breast physics hasn't been confirmed. People are over-reacting and twisting an interview because it's a hot topic and they're just trying to make noise.

What was brought up was a single, frankly silly little button in character creation. You press it, and the stationary girls boobs bounce in the menu:

"A change for us in the west, specifically in the character creation menu, the female characters will no longer have the physic shake button available."


That's the actual line. What it does NOT say is that breast physics have been removed. There has been absolutely no actual evidence to state factually that breast physics have been entirely removed when running and jumping around in the actual game itself. Frankly I find it hard to imagine Amazon Studios going to the trouble it would take.

I wouldn't be too concerned unless actual solid evidence, from a reliable source, shows up that in game physics have been removed.

[BigCatRob]

Originally posted by Lestrad:

Except breast physics haven't been removed. People are over-reacting and twisting an interview because it's a hot topic and they're just trying to make noise.

What was brought up was a single, frankly silly little button in character creation. You press it, and the stationary girls boobs bounce in the menu:

"A change for us in the west, specifically in the character creation menu, the female characters will no longer have the physic shake button available."


That's the actual line. What it does NOT say is that breast physics have been removed. There has been absolutely no actual evidence to state factually that breast physics have been entirely removed when running and jumping around in the actual game itself.

I wouldn't be too concerned unless actual solid evidence shows up that in game physics have been removed.

There is still the issue of an entire height choice being removed and outfits being altered.

[chicken jockey]

Why even make changes just publish the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ man

[Orta Flowen]

Keep lootboxes, delay the game until next year, remove content - yes, thats what western players want...

[Malamasala]

I hate when it happens, but I have to admit I've given SEGA money despite their removal of shortness in PSO2. After all I can wear costumes that are skin tight with cat girl ears and tails, which is cool.

But part of the reason I was so forgiving was because they gave me tanlines to put on my characters. That in itself is so very youthful, compared to length.