@Miranda The closure of the board is more of a blow to us than it is to people like Rain. Discord lets Sega sweep any discussion they don't like under the rug very easily.

@darkfiretim The chances of M rated content being a minefield is incredibly unlikely. If that was the case, many other games would not be sold in the west, yet they are. Senran Kagura, for example, goes way further than PSO2 and NGS by leaps and bounds, yet new games in the series are continuously being made.

There is practically no chance of fiscal denial. Not to mention, things like height shouldn't even be an issue considering how a T rated game, FFXIV, lets you make shorter character; aside from lalafells, female au'ra are actually shorter than the shortest possible character in PSO2/NGS global.

@Rain-Gnyu Consider looking up how supply and demand works.

@Rain-Gnyu Considering how many players the game bled; pretty sure no one else thinks this.

@Rain-Gnyu Except if they actually listened to the community, they wouldn't be breaking things just to censor other things. The lack of censorship on JP is just one of many reasons why JP is the superior server.

You can state your "opinion" all you want, but that means everyone else can counter your opinion.

@The-Merfox Simple, their refusal to communicate lead to an overall failure of understanding the English community, to the point where they don't even know what words to filter anymore because they are not sure what is truly offensive. They have been so focused on the JP side of things, they don't know how to properly manage global.

@TheLamp5 There's overlap as Honkai and Genshin are both made by Mihoyo. It is also an example of the zealous nature of the Chinese internet. Essentially, it is a minefield and if you step on a landmine, it is not going to be pretty. Coco and Ai Kayano are victims of this. Hololive still can't stream any chinese developed game due to this as well. The isolated nature of the chinese internet is likely a factor in this as well; as the degree of control the CCP means there is a lack of debate and opposing views, so when something offends them, it really triggers them.

The beauty in the internet is the clashing and intermixing of various cultures. When things are isolated, they can become stagnant and stale. Hence why I disagree with how JP is kept isolated from Global and anything that is an obstacle towards a unified service.

@TheLamp5 Well FFXIV's devs take criticism and feedback in stride and offer a huge level of communication and transparency.

Genshin probably doesn't fully understand their English community. Also, I know full well how toxic Chinese internet is. I was a tatsunoko and managed to hit the 1 year mark before Kiryu Coco graduated. I stuck with her throughout all the harassment she suffered from the anti's. They literally made her cry on stream and kept at it. On the Genshin side, someone broke into Mihoyo's HQ over the Honkai Impact Global anniversary and tried to assassinate the CEO. You have to thread things very carefully in China.

@Rain-Gnyu

Answer this already: Did Arai say Sega will make changes based on feedback? And if so, is he lying or is this topic lying?

There's the question. Please answer it. Also, pictures of said discussion on discord put Miraglyth in the right and you in the wrong, as always.

@TheLamp5 said in Can we not cut out anymore story scenes and stop it with censorship in general.:

@Archetype-Luna yeah, there was resentment building up overtime alright, tho the people who just wanted communication from mihoyo are the ones who are truly the best passionate out of the community.

Tho it didn't help that there were trolls that are review bombing other games, the other people who just only cared for the Rewards themselves, white knights, the chinese community which harassed kokomi's chinese va for the character being bad (Tho you can say it probably or is a separate issue from the anniversary.), and....of course the genshin impact team being a tone deaf bard with communication in the first place.

tho even then it's better to have a passionate community that cares for the game then one that acts like the game is the best free to play game in in the whole world and it shouldn't be criticized like warframe's community ......

Part of me feels like there was some corporate espionage going on during that. Other Chinese companies coughtencentcough were likely taking that chance to do some damage. When Genshin came out, it was a black mark on Chinese internet to praise, like, or really say anything positive about Genshin for a while; there were some streamers who were harassed non-stop. All because Tencent was able to spin the media against Genshin. Best part, this was apparently in retaliation to Mihoyo saying no to their offer of buying the company.

@Rain-Gnyu My stance hasn't changed because ultimately, censorship is the first step. What I truly want is for Global to get fair and equal treatment with JP. This is impossible as long as differences like censorship exists as for there to be true parity, JP and Global shouldn't be separate servers.