QoL?
At a certain point Anime Games only exist because of teenage hormone levels.
Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints
Submitted 5 hours ago by sundray@lemmus.org to games@lemmy.world
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Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Asafum@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I’m curious how many people who upvoted this only got into the genre after age 20. Excluding pre-internet fans who wouldn’t have had access as teenagers.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 4 hours ago
It’s worth mentioning that the Shinku patch was released just 12 hours after Version 1.2 went live on July 2, which is a rather quick response by the devs at Perfect World to “un-nerf” their newest character.
12 hours for the patch to be released, players playing it, complaining about it online, the devs reading it, deciding to act on the complains, change the model and release the new patch?
That sounds a bit too quick to me and more like they already had the model ready. For whatever reason.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 59 minutes ago
That sounds a bit too quick to me and more like they already had the model ready
I would assume that they have multiple models of each character ready, potentially for future skin releases or maybe just as a “what if X looks like that”, as some sort of “proof of concept”.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 hours ago
they already had the model ready.
Almost certainly. International marketing showed renders of the character with pantsu, but the character was released in China with shorts.
eleijeep@piefed.social 2 hours ago
luthis@lemmy.nz 2 hours ago
Pointless censorship loses again
exupulosion@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Capitalists incarnate: gooning and gambling
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This is just sad, man. Those guys should get a life.
luthis@lemmy.nz 2 hours ago
Easier said than done
Airfried@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Genuinely surprised they even dared to release a female character in shorts to a Chinese audience. You would think they know how much they indoctrinated their audience with trashy fan service by now. The stories about enraged lonely guys almost ending an entire franchise over not pandering enough to their fantasies are crazy. You don’t want to mess with those guys. It could put your employees in actual danger.
LuceVendemiaire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 minutes ago
why do you seem to imply this is about chinese audiences specifically
Airfried@piefed.social 7 minutes ago
Perhaps you should read the article.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Gacha games (especially these days) are usually more censored on Chinese servers than on global ones to avoid government interest. That’s why you can have long running titles like Azur Lane being kinda crazy with their skins without getting into trouble while other ones (Snowbreak) crash and burn because their devs felt a little too comfortable skirting the rules.
Not saying whether any of that is good or bad but CN servers do tend to err on the side of caution with their designs.
plaztek@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
Because at the same time, if they make a character’s clothing too revealing, they’ll have their wrists slapped by the government censors. I used to play Genshin Impact, and Hoyo got slapped during that time:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/genshin-impact-altered-censored-characters-to-appease-ccp.535484/
Airfried@piefed.social 2 minutes ago
Don’t read too much into it. I was merely criticizing the whole ecosystem around it.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Much as I’ll admit all such debacles are silly, sometimes I wonder if games have been harmed in other ways by that type of prude adjustment.
Like, I was playing an Atelier game, got to a city, and there was a tall building that intrigued me. I wanted to pan my camera up to it, but the Y axis was tightly restricted. As the protagonist wears a skirt, you can guess why.
It makes me wonder what’s the absolute worst reaction of someone less pervy who’d trigger such a view by accident - whether they’d actually feel a sense of violation or creepiness at their own camera movement, or more likely just giggle it off and pan back.