Whats with the Hentai....

[ZugzwangGroo]

What the ♥♥♥♥ is up with the overlapping hentai images in the adds for this game? Now my nephews mom wont let him play this game anymore lol. Do you idiots really think that by doing this you are going to make more money?

[Althran]

Yes. Yes they will.

[Lavian]

Your nephew isn't a working adult dumping money into this game.

I am.

[ZugzwangGroo]

Originally posted by Lavian:

Your nephew isn't a working adult dumping money into this game.

I am.

My nephew shoveled snow, and mowed my lawn so he could play this game, just sayin ...

[Asfalots der Sittenwart]

Well, considering they sold +80,-$ sets and 9,-$ Loot boxes for a reskinned Captain with voice files from another game. Yes I assume they do make a lot of money.

Originally posted by (MnP)ZugzwangGroo:

Originally posted by Lavian:

Your nephew isn't a working adult dumping money into this game.

I am.

My nephew shoveled snow, and mowed my lawn so he could play this game, just sayin ...

This Game is Free to Play. You don't have to pay any money to play it.

[dogestronaut]

You really gotta learn the difference between hentai and anime.

Originally posted by (MnP)ZugzwangGroo:

Do you idiots really think that by doing this you are going to make more money?

Oh you must be new to the internet, I can see why you wouldn't know the difference.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by (MnP)ZugzwangGroo:

What the ♥♥♥♥ is up with the overlapping hentai images in the adds for this game? Now my nephews mom wont let him play this game anymore lol. Do you idiots really think that by doing this you are going to make more money?

Yea for sure. Population always goes up when they do anime things.

[imrahil2]

Inb4thelock

[Maj.Tryhard]

Originally posted by imrahil2:

Inb4thelock

You may have jumped the gun on that one, bud. ;)

[B_Wald]

So your nephew's mom is OK with him playing a naval combat game (glorifying a fairly brutal form of warfare in which 1000's of actual human beings were lost at sea), but some cartoon women in skimpy clothes and she's out.

I'll never understand why sexual overtones are perceived as harmful to young people but outright violence is not. If someone is too young and immature for the former, how could they possibly be mature enough to handle the latter?

TL;DR:
Kid: "Hey Ma, I'm gonna destroy a ship with 2000 sailors aboard"
Mother: "OK dear have fun"

Kid: "That girl is pretty"
Mother: "OMG MY SON HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY JAPANESE CARTOONS"

[cantila1]

B_Wald, so true!

[Maj.Tryhard]

It's just societal norms. They vary from country to country. America is typically ok with violence, but not sexuality (though this rapidly seems to be changing into a free-for-all based on common media programs.)

Germany, for instance, is very open to sexuality. You can often see nudity on day-time cable television. However, violence is very taboo there. Many games can't be sold in Germany because they're seen as too violent. Japan, on the other hand, has long been known as the opposite side of the coin where extreme violence is acceptable, but even the most explicit sources of sexuality are closely moderated. If you don't know what I mean by that last bit, you're either a child or lying. #PixelationIsWrong

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Maj.Tryhard:

It's just societal norms. They vary from country to country. America is typically ok with violence, but not sexuality (though this rapidly seems to be changing into a free-for-all based on common media programs.)

Germany, for instance, is very open to sexuality. You can often see nudity on day-time cable television. However, violence is very taboo there. Many games can't be sold in Germany because they're seen as too violent. Japan, on the other hand, has long been known as the opposite side of the coin where extreme violence is acceptable, but even the most explicit sources of sexuality are closely moderated. If you don't know what I mean by that last bit, you're either a child or lying. #PixelationIsWrong

Actually, a number of video games are censored for violence in Japan, even when the games are from Japan. The most recent notable example is probably Resident Evil/Biohazard 2. The most prominent example I know of from that game is a scene were a man's legs get torn off. In English, you pull him out from under a closing shutter, only to get the top half of him. The Japanese version leaves his legs attached.

Another example is that the cyborg blood in Metal Gear Rising is white in Japan, whereas in English it's red.

Japanese games that aren't explicitly adult also are often subject to censorship for sexual or suggestive content when localized to English. There's a lot of obvious examples of that. Sony (which somewhat recently moved computer entertainment operations to California) has actually begun enforcing censored versions of Japanese versions of games though, with PC and even Nintendo Switch versions being left unaltered.

That said, there's some cases where there's censorship for sexuality from English to Japanese. I believe some scenes that show genitalia in The Order 1886 were censored in the Japanese version.

Also, there's some examples of violence being censored from Japanese to English. Notable examples of this are Tales of Berseria (they butchered a pivotal scene in the prologue where a child is killed. He's still killed, but the manner in which it's done is different, which actually matters from a writing perspective. The manner in which it's done is used as a storytelling device throughout pivotal moments throughout the game.) and God Eater Resurrection, where they toned down the blood.

There's also the very odd situation of Sword Art Online (Hollow Realization, I think), where one of the CGs (at a hot spring) was censored post-release in Japan, because apparently CERO had missed it, and felt the CG would have raised the rating of the game. The game's CGs are uncensored in English, but not in the Japanese version.

It's kind of a mess in terms of what is or is not counted as acceptable. It's pretty subjective.

[Formous]

Originally posted by B_Wald:

So your nephew's mom is OK with him playing a naval combat game (glorifying a fairly brutal form of warfare in which 1000's of actual human beings were lost at sea), but some cartoon women in skimpy clothes and she's out.

I'll never understand why sexual overtones are perceived as harmful to young people but outright violence is not. If someone is too young and immature for the former, how could they possibly be mature enough to handle the latter?

TL;DR:
Kid: "Hey Ma, I'm gonna destroy a ship with 2000 sailors aboard"
Mother: "OK dear have fun"

Kid: "That girl is pretty"
Mother: "OMG MY SON HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY JAPANESE CARTOONS"

The quick answer is objectification.

[Cleb]

They want all that sweet sweet neet weeb money.

[Freejek38]

this game has become full of weebs