Madflavor
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Yeah but they’re dealing with Sony as a publisher here. I don’t have as much faith.
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Stellar Blade Developer Shift Up addresses censorship claims "This is our final product. We are discussing this internally"
Yeah but they’re dealing with Sony as a publisher here. I don’t have as much faith.
InterMusketeer
Member
Are the devs of this game horny teenagers too for coming up with these designs in the first place?
All I can say is I'm happy to not own a PlayStation, because it looks like they still can't keep their grubby hands to themselves and leave game developers alone.
Agent_Nobody
Member
But the thighs…They literally added granny panties underneath the original design.
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Man @tommib we should probably do a safety check on you. I hope all this laughing isn't giving you respiratory problems.
Edit: Nevermind top left has the hair clipping through eve’s leg…2/10 would not bang
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DryvBy
Member
It's to further push the "Sony is the biggest censor" agenda the ambulance chasers go after.
Pejo
Member
I mean seriously though, who censors more games than Sony?
DryvBy
Member
You're unaware that the services to even use Xbox has rules against naughty talk? Essentially everything is censored.
Pejo
Member
Xbox is shit for baking that type of theme control into the games to begin with, but to my knowledge not a single company out there has changed as many games to remove/cover/censor as Sony.
Agent_Nobody
Member
Funny to see the skittishness with the sexuality when there’s Baldur's Gate 3…
ChorizoPicozo
Member
They literally added granny panties underneath the original design.
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Man @tommib we should probably do a safety check on you. I hope all this laughing isn't giving you respiratory problems.
it is just a variation of the design. that's not what censorship is
Barakov
Member
Playing offline until I beat the game. Getting a new gaming PC is becoming more appealing by the day.
Madflavor
Member
Sony didn’t publish BG3. Larian were both the developer and publisher, so they could do whatever the fuck they wanted.
Pejo
Member
Terrible example because the lingerie are 2 completely different designs and the SB pic shows how they MSPainted a layer of cloth underneath the existing leotard.
Aenima
Member
With Nikke they have to deal with Tencent, Nikke age rating is +12 on google store and has some characters showing more clevage with massive milkers, Stellar Blade is +18 thers no reason to censor anything that is in the physical version of the game.
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Agent_Nobody
Member
Playing offline until I beat the game. Getting a new gaming PC is becoming more appealing by the day.
Best Waifu…Asterion can go fuck himself.
Also Shadowheart:
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
a variation of the design.
Pejo
Member
It feels like you're being willfully ignorant of the evidence in the picture and I don't understand why.
Madflavor
Member
There are multiple outfits that showed more skin that were suddenly changed in a patch close to release.
You don’t have to call it censorship, but it is at the least a petty unnecessary change.
I don't think they care as much as certain people try to make out. The ass from DMC was patched to show the ass without any fanfare or resistance. Stellar Blade has much more revealing outfits and going back to these would just mean a different outfit that doesn't show anything other outfits already don't. Nobody is actually going to care. It's not going to effect its rating at all. It's just a mountain out of a molehill for Shift UP like the Nikke example before it until they changed the design and removed the coat so people would stop complaining.
cypherpunk
Neo Member
The sad irony is that it’s incredibly patriarchal and disempowering for women to go Saudi and force them to cover up.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
That's not censorship. If they had gotten rid of those costumes, then that would be
exaclty. and we don't know the reason for it... right?
I mean, in costume design, it's very common to have multiple versions/revisions of the same outfit
and of course we know in game development there is a lot of iterations and a simple file or folder can be changed/mixed for different builds.
but isn't the director aware of it? at this point this seems pathetic culture warz bullshit.
Pejo
Member
ChorizoPicozo
Member
I'm not following. Have the devs come out saying Sony forced them to get rid of some shit?
Is there an official statement validating or confirming censorship altogether?
semiconscious
Member
I'd say that we all agree that the core vision of the developers remains intact post-patch. all else, whether on the part of the devs tweaks or those disappointed with those tweaks? all of it's fundamentally petty...
Roronoa Zoro
Gold Member
Dude how much did Sony pay to show Abby getting railed from behind with her pecs in full view of the camera. But this? Ohhhh no not a lady who actually looks like a lady's...hip! Even worse there's cleavage!
Synless
Member
Can you not use your eyes and see the changes? They are not going to piss on their publisher and ruin that relationship by bitching about them.
Pejo
Member
I mean this is the worst attempt at gaslighting that I've ever seen. You can clearly see in the image I posted how the design was modified to show less skin. Do you want a letter of intent from the SIE management on Sony letterhead that they forced ShiftUp to change the designs? You're an adult capable of reading the situation.
BiohazardX95
Member
Lol, Sony would have been pissed since the beginning and would never publish the game if what You are saying is true. They would have patched the demo first also.
Roronoa Zoro
Gold Member
They wanted the hype and sales
Synless
Member
You know, you must be right. They decided to go all the way to release and then at some point decided the hyper sexualized character was just too much. I’m sure there was no external pressure at all.
BiohazardX95
Member
They wouldn't have approved the 1.0 versión that is on the disc. And the other costumes would have been censored too. This is a change from the developers and I believe in what the CEO says, I think they can re add the "uncensored" costumes in a patch.
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kiphalfton
Member
The fact there are games on steam, that quite literally have PIV sex in them, and yet people are in an uproar over this.
It's really quite something.
Roronoa Zoro
Gold Member
I have the 1.00000000000 version installed from the physical disc now. Had to disconnect my PS5 from the Internet lol but my laptop is still up to stream her in all her uncensored glory
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Northeastmonk
Gold Member
These people have brought more sexualization into this game than the game does on its own. They are servicing the prudes.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
they may take our shiny tiddy
but they shall never take
our smedium ass!!!!
but they shall never take
our smedium ass!!!!
Yoda
Member
They'd be under NDA so there's no chance they'll confirm it.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
is there an official statement?
when social media is full of bullshit, im guilty of being skeptical... I'm sorry. that's why I am asking
what I am reading is the usual suspects online being all triggered for clicks and drama
until there is actual evidence/statements confirming the "censorship" this it is pure content farming.
Madflavor
Member
That's not censorship. If they had gotten rid of those costumes, then that would be
exaclty. and we don't know the reason for it... right?
I mean, in costume design, it's very common to have multiple versions/revisions of the same outfit
and of course we know in game development there is a lot of iterations and a simple file or folder can be changed/mixed for different builds.
but isn't the director aware of it? at this point this seems pathetic culture warz bullshit.
So far players have only discovered palette swaps when it comes to variations of an outfit. So as it stands, the versions we saw in trailers that were more lewd have been completely removed.
I mean yeah there is culture war bullshit involved, but being unapologetically horny was a big selling point to this game for a lot of people, and I think they have the right to be annoyed.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
DoktorCoktor
Member
Pejo
Member
You did say this and you're just as wrong now as you were when you said it the first time.
Yes, you are LITERALLY in the thread where it's posted in the OP.
Culture war things are one thing and just noticing that they covered up existing designs is another.
BRO YOUR EYES, USE THEM.
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
That isn't how that works. Sony wasn't the publisher of Devil May Cry, yet they still forced censorship. They weren't the publisher of Senran Kagura, yet they still managed to kill that franchise.
Reality is, Sony can make demands of any game that releases on its platform. If they want a game to be censored, they will make the demand and can deny the game from releasing on the platform until those demands are met. They have done this for years now.
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Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
Madflavor
Member
so, this outfit was also removed?
I’m talking about outfits that exist in the game right now. If you want the bunny outfit that shows more ass and cleavage, it doesn’t exist anymore. If you want to play the Word Game then fine, let’s talk variations. There are three variations of the Bunny Outfit that we know of.
Version A - Dark Colored, More revealing
Version B - Dark Colored, Less revealing
Version C - Yellow Colored, Less revealing
The Version A variant no longer exists. That outfit was removed in a recent patch. You can only acquire the B and C variants if that outfit.
As for the picture you posted, I have not yet seen a variant of it that’s more revealing, but looking at it’s design, it’s very likely a version of it that showed more skin probably existed. The yellow and blue straps on her torso look tacked on.
Barakov
Member
I see the phrase 'safe horny' and it's immediately both a red flag and it also tells me everything I need to know about the individual that uses it.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
that's why I am asking cuz I am not following this drama at all. (I haven't seen any video) but Twitter and YT algorithms are showing me those thumnails/post.
i just watched the statement.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Both Destiny Child and Nikke didn't really censor anything. Kind of telling that Stellar Blade has altered outfits because of Sony corporate meddling. I wish the devs stuck to their guns like Senran Kagura lead dev did.
I just find it amusing that devs said they wouldn't censor "anything" and backpedal so hard in short order.
"Internal discussions" is just PR bullshit and fancy talk for "Sony made us change it".
I just find it amusing that devs said they wouldn't censor "anything" and backpedal so hard in short order.
"Internal discussions" is just PR bullshit and fancy talk for "Sony made us change it".