Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints

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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  At a certain point Anime Games only exist because of teenage hormone levels.

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  • Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Teenage… Yes… Teenage…

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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”.

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  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Or perhaps they just put up the original model which they couldn’t use because the marketing team thought it was too risky,

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  • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Huge mobile games like this compete with each other fiercely. Part of that is being able to turn around updates, events, fixes and so on quickly. The business buzzword is Live Ops.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The people who throw fits about stuff like that don’t play the games in the first place

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    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And if they did, they’d be the first ones to be looking up those skirts. That’s why they think everyone else is doing it.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I genuinely think there’s a little bit of a sliding scale. Like, it’s not often vocal, since they know they’re coming from the “No fun allowed” club, but I’ve heard it a few times.

      The two games that are used the most for examples are Nier Automata, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The first is a philosophical action RPG about death. The second is a party-based RPG about friendship and saving the world. But BOY HOWDY, will you have a bad time in those games if you don’t love boobies, panties, and a bit of misogyny.

      To put it short, I’ve heard from people that actually felt a bit grossed out by both games and how they actively treat women. Nier a bit less so, but a fully-torn-away miniskirt on a combat android wearing a thong doesn’t exactly pull people into the sci-fi premise.

      That’s just what little I know of from hearsay. But since it’s not something arisen in public conversation much (since no one wants to be a party pooper), I’m curious if it makes it into any game-testing focus groups that had already picked out people with hundreds of hours in other games.

      And I can certainly imagine some friend circles would avoid mentioning Goddess of Victory, out of shyness around how gargantuan the nikkes are stacked.

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  • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Huge mobile games like this compete with each other fiercely. Part of that is being able to turn around updates, events, fixes and so on quickly. The business buzzword is Live Ops.

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• eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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• impudentmortal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Never underestimate the collective power of anime gooners

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• exupulosion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Capitalists incarnate: gooning and gambling

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  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ha! That’s right, only capitalists do that. Not

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• luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Pointless censorship loses again

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• FirmDistribution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is just sad, man. Those guys should get a life.

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Easier said than done

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• Airfried@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • plaztek@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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/

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    • Airfried@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Don’t read too much into it. I was merely criticizing the whole ecosystem around it.

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  • LuceVendemiaire@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    why do you seem to imply this is about chinese audiences specifically

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    • Airfried@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Perhaps you should read the article.

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