Curious that you choose to admonish this comment for generalising, where it's underlying message is of tolerance, yet are less concerned with the swath of comments accusing large sections of the population of mental illness and worse.
Scary how so many of them are triggered by just a few letters. The poor snowflakes just see LGBTQ in the title and take offence, despite how relatively innocuous the actual article is.
But then it's just a display of how obnoxious and intolerant a loud section of the N4G community is, and has been for years. That the mods and owners just let it slide would imply they condone it, even foster it.
Maybe they're that desperate for clicks they don't give a s...
Uncharted 4
Far cry 4
Cod 4 : Modern warfare
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Persona 4
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GTA 4
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It's worrying that there are times and places where entertainment has been the only way to get out political opinions other than that of an overbearing government/regime and yet here we are with folks who want to shut it down voluntarily.
I'd assume a chunk of the people here hate MGS, what with all the politics it forces down your throat..
"Also, stop pandering to groups and movements that don't even buy your games."
So in other words, Bioware, keep making the political and diverse games your fans have been buying for 20 years and ignore the whining from those trying to make you write bland, soulless derivative titles.
People did care that Tomb Raider was a woman. She was pictured on mens magazines, had a film franchise, comic series, soft drink sponsorship, etc.
One of Lara Crofts creators left because he felt she was being over-exploited and sexualised.
The main reason she exists is because the original idea of a man in the role was seen as too much like Indy - in other words, they changed their original creative idea for the sake of diversity...
"Taking a theme and using allegory to approach a political or social topic, as was done in past DA games, more or less, is quite a bit different than beating the topic home in a way that uses progressive inclusion as a sort of badge of honor. "
And where is your proof that that is going to change here? At least allow the game to come out, or just some idea of what the story and it's context is going to be, before you get wound up over nothing.
But Bioware games have always been diverse. It's part of what makes fans of their games like them so much. A dev was asked about the new game, should he not answer for fear of upsetting some folk ?
There are fewer fanservicey games on Nintendo to start with ? Maybe Nintendo doesn't greenlight as many to start with, but gives freer reign to those it does. Which is better, you can have 10 games with some 'censorship' or 1 game with less.
The translation of the piece about 'think of the children' was dubious at best. Japanese doesn't translate literally to English very well, so just running it through google translate isn't likely to allow us ...
The 'thin end of the wedge' argument is dumb at the best of times, but when you're talking about what a publisher is choosing what it's putting on its platform, it's irrelevant.
I.e. it's a choice what they want on their platform. If they don't want it but someone else believes there's a big enough market then there's nothing stopping it being released there instead.
Maybe Sony doesn't like the belief that it's the anime ...
"I mean even Nintendo, the family friendly platform holder, has allowed SOME OF these games to release without censorship RECENTLY."
Nintendo allows a couple of titles on its platform that it didn't previously and everything's changed? How many games have they, or MS flatly refused or not sought on their platform because of their own standards.
Or Sony UK : hey. petition maker, why don't you go bother the politicians who are arguing for more stricter censorship rather than us who are just trying to get devs to stay ahead of the game so they don't need to alter their games and spend a fortune re-submitting them for classification.
Is this actually what was said, though, and is it in the correct context. This seems to be framed in a particular way for a particular purpose (to support the views of the credit url), especially as the rest of the google translated article is more or less, gibberish. Maybe that's why devs use localisation teams rather than just straight word for word translation..
The thing is there are different ratings regulations in different countries. If a game satisfies as many of those regulations from the start then less changes are going to be needed later on.
It means it'll be cheaper in the long run for a small dev to sell to a wider market - and wont be met with 'oh god it's ruined, they had to cut those 2 seconds, I'm not buying it anymore.'
And anyway, like anything, things change and having boundaries means...
Why should they have to moderate their behaviour when it's the homophobes who can't behave ?
If you went to a sporting event and acted like a dick you'd get kicked out. No questions, no refunds.
Maybe you don't fear being banned because you use proper channels to complain to Bethesda, don't harass admins, don't make racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, etc, slurs, and play the game in the way it was intended and treat fellow gamers with respect.
It's nothing new that Sony, Nintendo and MS have the final decision on what does or doesn't release on their console, and I bet they're all far more relaxed about what can come out than they have been, but social media means devs can kick up a bigger stink about it.
And at the end of the day, they all have to conform to what the local laws are. Maybe Sonys lawyers are more risk-averse at the moment or would rather devs make games which can suit the majority of territories...
I know you weren't condoning it and I don't think boycotting the game is worthwhile. But I do think that continually bringing things like this to light and forcing those responsible to explain themselves, will go towards them making changes for the better in how they go about things.
Maybe it's because the majority of the comments are completely irrelevant to the article ?