He shouldn't have to step lightly over something like this. There's no reason for the extension other than a spiteful Sony employee, it shouldn't have happened.
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I found a vagina in Watch Dogs 2 and Sony suspended me (Update: Ban lifted)
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Ninja Scooter
Member
Isn't it likely that Ubi patching out the vag is to appease the ESRB? I mean, from what I understand they sort of run on an honor system. Publishers present what content might be considered "objectionable" in a game and it gets rated based on that. If these viewable vaginas were not initially presented to them than maybe they are just covering their own asses so to not end up with a Hot Coffee situation. I mean the idea that violence is okay and sex is bad is not something you can really pin on Ubi or Sony. That's pretty much western/American culture and everybody, from video game developers to movie studios have to play by those backward ass rules.
YianGaruga
Banned
The ESRB description mentions full frontal nudity
Demoskinos
Member
Exactly this. If he tried some way to circumvent the ban then its like okay you deserve it. But policing what users do on their social media should have zero fucking place in how they police their own services.
Yeah that's some evil shit
I don't know how many more times this needs to be said in the same thread.
The game is rated properly.
Frankfurter
Member
Wow, what kind of BS is this? Sony extended the ban because you posted the story on GAF? I mean... wtf do they think they are?
According to the description from the ESRB website, they already knew that there was full-frontal in the game. What might be a glitch is that Ubi didn't intend for the nudity to present outside of the one mission that takes place in a nudist colony, but it's not comparable to Hot Coffee in this case.
lol Evil shit, what overreactions in this thread. Yeah the ban shouldn't have been extended but everyone yelling Sony's evil, Sony's shitty really make me smh.
Exactly. I'm trying to figure out what Sony's play is here.
Absolutely. Gaming news sites need to run this as much as possible!
Agreed. This doesn't benefit any of us as consumers. The gaming press should understand how big a story this is.
If the content is part of the game there should be no penalty for sharing it. People shouldn't be permitted to post personal dick pics and porn, etc, but non-modded game content should totally be fair play.
If Ballad of Gay Tony were playable on PS4, there shouldn't be a penalty for streaming or sharing the scene showing male genitals.
Sony should retract the ban and apologize.
If Ballad of Gay Tony were playable on PS4, there shouldn't be a penalty for streaming or sharing the scene showing male genitals.
Sony should retract the ban and apologize.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Well I guess that's that. Bizarre behavior by Sony then. I guess they take offense to a gratuitous screen shot of it, but that's such a stupid hill to die on for them. Someone with some sense at Sony needs to remedy this shit quick.
RichiRamjag
Member
Has that been verified? You guys are kind of writing the story as you go. The ban was wack, but none of know the details and you're just yelling crazy shit out as if it's fact.
Yes they do, but it's harder now that Ubi in an almost apologetic move are patching it out.
I dearly wish Ubi had said 'the game is rated appropriately for the content, Sony this is on you'
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Why is this a big story? Someone got banned for breaking their service rules. Not a big deal.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
They extended the ban? This is doubly bullshit now.
Frankfurter
Member
I was reading a couple of other comments, but maybe those were wrong? What's the current theory as to why the ban was extended?
What about that is not shitty?
Someone got banned for posting an in game screenshot of a mature rated content game. Out of all the gory, graphic, murderous content that gets shared, a part of the female body was too much for Sony.
The company who made the game vows to patch the body part out and then the OP, for reasons unknown just after the OP posts on GAF, gets their ban quadrupled.
Fuck. This.
Maybe, but it is the most likely reason. Not many companies the size of Sony can re-review all their bans or complaints a day after they've already been looked at considering the amount of incidents they have to deal with.
Someone had to have specifically picked OP out of the pile again.
fabricated backlash
Member
potatohead
Member
Long story short, you shouldn't have shared it publicly.
Share it privately fine, but either way you broke the rules of conduct.
I'm sure they will look at this issue on Ubisoft's end as well, that's kind of stupid of them.
Share it privately fine, but either way you broke the rules of conduct.
I'm sure they will look at this issue on Ubisoft's end as well, that's kind of stupid of them.
You've been bamboozled! I was a vagina all along.
SaniOYOYOY
Member
quite late I guess?
on topic the 2nd ban is too much imho, even if the first one is justified
They are. But at the same time, we don't even know if the extension was retaliatory or not. Could be something as simple as the case was re-examined.
Don't get me wrong, a month ban is seriously fucking dumb on Sony's part and OP should have gotten a warning first.
RichiRamjag
Member
Maybe, meaning you don't know. If Sony is seriously scouring gaf for complaint threads and banning based on that, then fuck em, but you're pretty much pulling stuff up out of thin air. I'd like to know what caused them to extend the ban, but that whole story sounds absurd tbh.
What is stupid of Ubisoft? ESRB was aware, it is appropriately rated.
Tarkus
Member
ceoKaz is a brit!
The month ban is the only shit part but again nobody has an answer on why it was. The overreactions here don't help anything and really make some here look reaching.
Hopefully the op will get unbanned because a month is definitely insane.
The Wise Old Man
Member
Just seeing the image now.
1) bravo to you OP and your intrepid research efforts and bravery for bringing this important discovery to the world.
2) Sony's puritanical censorship is offensive.
3) those are some serious roast beef curtains. Wowsers.
1) bravo to you OP and your intrepid research efforts and bravery for bringing this important discovery to the world.
2) Sony's puritanical censorship is offensive.
3) those are some serious roast beef curtains. Wowsers.
But Sony wants to sell those kids and their parents M-Rated Titles.
Well, it's not just GAF they have to scour. This thread and story has hit multiple major news sites. Someone at Sony has seen this.
Whether or not it's retaliatory I'll admit we don't know, but this extension coming after it hit the news sites does give the appearance of it, which either way makes Sony look bad regardless of whether they purposely targeted OP or not.
I'm glad everyone can agree this situation is absurd and ludicrous in the first place though, and that OP should never have been banned.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Sony shouldny have allowed the game on their system if they dont want people sharing in game content with a system wide feature. Full stop.
BleedOrange
Banned
Quoting myself for exposure. You cannot be not okay with human body parts and simultaneously okay with violent murder.
Peope should think and read the ToS, full stop.