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Major changes would be completely removing characters all together. Or totally altering wardrobe to the point that a side by side would be completely unrecognizable or changed the characterization substantially. It would be removing all cleavage from the game.
The female (and male) Hypers that have recently received update or modified artwork: Athena, Tatyana, Celine, Elendis, Blue Rose, Kurenai, Sapitelbub.
There are currently 13 female Hypers in the game. Six of them have received updated or modified artwork. We worked to keep changes as minor as possible.
I appreciate and understand the arguments that any censorship is too much. That's a valid stance for someone to take. But the attempts to make it sound like we've totally altered the identity of characters, and thereby the game as a whole, is not accurate.
It is not purely a ratings issue. That is one factor. As mentioned, we are trying to balance a lot of different needs.
Yea removing characters is a no, can't get money for censored skins later, and 1/2 were changed to fit some kinda moral values that are very subjective. Basically this game has been toned down to benefit those that will never play this game at the expense of those that supported it. I wish you and your team good luck with this, but with tons of MOABs out there that are not butchering their product or bullying devs into meeting their value. I don't think this is gonna fly.
My posting history will show that I've been very consistent. Player sentiment is one part of our decision. Our ability to market the game (and that includes ratings) is the other.
Why are you trying to balance things that don't need to be balanced? What needs is retroactively censoring the art on KR going to fufill?
Steam doesn't require rating to begin with, this is that old censorship song and dance. Europe is a little stricter on PEGI 18 games when being advertised but even uncensored this would've never pulled a PEGI 18.
This was the quote I got from pestering Raz in the discord:
I believe that was addressed in the dev update linked above:
"We are deeply sorry that we could not keep the content consistent, due to difficulties in managing the revisions for both the Early Access and Korean versions; we will work harder to keep the content consistent across regions in the future."
Once again, ratings are just one aspect of our decision making process.
Ah, my mistake, must of skipped through it in my eagerness to read. Would it be possible to be more transparent and tell us all the aspects in your "decision making process"?
I thought it was changed based on player feedback at PAX and during alpha?
And the censorship is so minor that it does nothing to improve the game's accessibility, while simply turning people away.
As expected, instead of admitting that it was a bad call, they're simply doubling down and refusing to budge. And Eundo doesn't even acknowledge the demand for a toggle.
Please don't pretend this is a ratings issue because you know just as well as we do that it isn't. Nothing about your incredibly minor changes would do anything to affect ratings in any of those three regions.
Stop falling back on this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deflection, you've been told already.
No, they absolutely don't, because you changed them.
Yeah, usually it's just changing the language from Korean to English. There was no reason for these art changes to happen, and even if you insist that it was necessary for ratings in some area (which I don't believe for a second), that's still no reason to apply it worldwide.
Except for when you said you had to change it as a ratings issue then went back on it in seconds. If there's anything you've been consistent about it's condescension and at least you've admitted that you don't care if it's the majority or not that wanted the censorship when you mentioned you didn't even know if they were the majority. Why even bring up an issue with the ratings when they literally won't be a problem if not to misdirect people who won't think it through or aren't familiar with ratings boards?
I dont understand how Hyper Universe needs to censor, meanwhile global juggernaut League of Legends has zero problems with its fanservice characters. Miss Fortune, Sona, Pool Party skins, etc.
Not just league of course, many games seemingly don't have these issues. Something isn't right here.