@Blade-Syphon said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

@Miraglyth said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

Before continuing, I should say I've completed the portion of Episode 4's story quests we have so far (up to chapter 4). I've watched the deleted scene and to me it kind of builds on character relationships. It's not in ways that couldn't be assumed anyway, but considering Episodes 1-3 often felt like they were skipping pages of character interaction I wonder if I'm just used to gaps in writing to the point that removing a scene doesn't feel out of place?

Naw - you simply have the right of it. The scene that was removed in Episode 4 offered very little in the way of character building outside of generic anime JRPG bath-time talk (That is, devolving within two minutes into mindless groping and boob size comparisons).

The way some people were speaking, you'd be remiss for thinking that it offered some deep dive into Khori or Hitsugi's past, or Al's childish behavior...but ah...it didn't.

As others have said - nothing of value was lost with the removal of the scene. It was likely removed due to the characters in it being under aged, and Sega and Microsoft both not really wanting to deal with any kind of backlash that might come from that.

Thank you, bolded the most important part of your statement. They really just did not want to deal with potential backlash, because (and ESPECIALLY since the game is Global) there would be some kind of backlash or outcry. People complain about anything, at least nothing of importance was lost.

SG backlash was more widespread than the censorship issue...... Like it was on Twitter, Reddit, 4Chan, Facebook, Discord, in-game, etc.

It actually got (somewhat) addressed in terms of the methods of getting SG that we didn't have at the start.

@Ephemiel said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

@MasterDarkwingz said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

@Ephemiel said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

@MasterDarkwingz said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

When you lose entire scenes, you tend to lose context for the next scene in a story- to which Story Mode is built around.

The scene was the usual bath scene that most animes have, NOTHING of value was lost. Let's not start this ridiculous dance of crying doom because of this.

Okay then, so what if it hadn't had been a fanservice scene?

But it was, absolutely no use in trying to use "what if" as an excuse.

@Archetype-Luna said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

We will likely have the other bath scenes

We're at the end of Ep 6 in JP and the advent of New Genesis, there is NO OTHER BATH SCENES.

You're desperately trying to find a way to keep pushing this, you're failing.

To add onto this, the rest of the episodes have no other bath scene to them, but there are scenes where "blood" and "stabbings" occur, however I doubt those will get removed since most of those scenes convey important story information.

@MasterDarkwingz said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

@Ephemiel said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

@MasterDarkwingz said in Potential Reason for the Game's Censorship:

When you lose entire scenes, you tend to lose context for the next scene in a story- to which Story Mode is built around.

The scene was the usual bath scene that most animes have, NOTHING of value was lost. Let's not start this ridiculous dance of crying doom because of this.

Okay then, so what if it hadn't had been a fanservice scene?

Don't try to twist it to something that it isn't. It was purely a fan service scene. Nothing of importance was lost.

I could see actual complaints if they removed scenes from the actual story. This isn't it, pull staws elsewhere.

@Archetype-Luna said in Removing Height Restrictions:

@Loona Like I said before, defeatism never accomplished anything. I choose to believe that there is a chance so I will keep on trying.

It isn't defeatism when you can join discords that have posted datamines storywise for Global. They pretty much have everything done already.

Can't you people keep this topic condensed into 1, singular thread?

We don't need multiple posts on a thing like this, just do a mega thread or something, ffs.

Wanting the thread to die and yet bumping it regardless.... I don't understand that logic.

This topic will never "die" but it won't ever be resolved either. Why should they care about a minority when they can get more potential players for the JP server, as well as just prioritize NGS?

Trying to get rid of the censorship is a lost cause, source, datamines is all I can say since mentioning anything else is apparently against the rules.

@KYBELA said in Removing Height Restrictions:

@Loona said in Removing Height Restrictions:

@Archetype-Luna said in Removing Height Restrictions:

@Loona said in Removing Height Restrictions:

Just take your complaints of the censor to support, and then get another form of "we see your complaint and we'll forward it, but don't have high expectations of changes" like it has been with these GM's.

Honestly, I'd be more pissed if they address the censor over some gameplay/monetization issues that need attention more than not being able to make a 4'7" creature.

Well just doing that isn't likely to be enough to get change. You generally have to try to get change happening for a couple months before something happens.

Look, I appreciate how constructive your posts have been. But you, alongside several other people have been bringing this up for awhile. The censor topic was brought up literally the first day of CBT. No new replies from devs yet, because you guys won't get one. Not sure why you guys bother when topics will just be closed or generally ignored.

The longer that these issues remain ignored, the more players & revenue SEGA will lose every single day.

It is a poor business decision to have an "official forum" of which is (seemingly?) not even used by the development team themselves to communicate with their target audience. as that IS it's purpose.

The GM doesn't even consist of actual developers from SoJ, just some hired dolts from another company that might as well be robots. It's just there like how Steam forums are there, it's more for the community discussion than actual communication.