I think every developer is free to make decisions and changes however they want, but one thing that bothers me is that things should be made without fear. I know money is king and the whole point is to sell as much as possible, but having a creative decision you make that effect all versions be based on minimizing flak because you are worried about the values of another non-home audience, it does seem strange to me. Usually if something were change in localization it is done for that region only, like changing the Fatman in Fallout to Nuka Launcher in Japan to avoid the naming reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and to be fair that is just a slight text change compared to a model change). But all in all, I don't think this detail will effect sales at all if they didn't say anything, but what might effect it is any perception they receive such as articles making it seem like they are bending over for other people, since there are stories that some buyers are extremely fickle.
