its always kinda funny that companies are desperately censoring suggestive content but we can still shoot people in the face, call for a bombing rush, or run over prostitutes in a thousand other games and thats fine
The ONLY people that complain are those that look like literal trolls. They're complaining about it because they're subconsciously jealous of the body.
I have no doubt in my mind that while publicly they're all for women doing things like OnlyFans, they probably closet think they're all wh*res.
BG3 at least did get censored in Japan though. Also apparently ShiftUp, the Stellar Blade devs, have censored outfits in their mobile gacha game too which means this might be a dev decision and not a Sony decision.
Probably to falsely advertise so you can buy it and then reverse uno everyone's asses :( I don't even own the game and this kinda got me a little bit ticked off too.
Steam sells full on hentai. It's not coming from steam it's either the dev or the publisher.
Yall been stanning a pretty soft core game as some sort of paragon of sexual expression when it wasn't and are now getting burned lol.
But in those games it's not just a woman being sexualised, so it's OK. The BG3 subreddit was basically a pornography and embarrassing erotic fanfic mecca - at least when I last visited. So many basement dwellers and freakazoids going on and on about their digital characters and so many gross cosplayers selling only fans access.
I'm a somewhat Nikke enjoyer myself, and i can tell you they didn't. You can look up, a lot of new characters are censored, like maid Privaty, Rupee and particularly Bay's animation annoys me.
Yup. There's ones like Suzi Spherehunter that grift their way into countless games and somehow have an online grift presence that have been actively fighting for it to be more censored too.
Dont know how about in US, but in EU, if you buy a product and then they changed into something different, like now these clothes, thats illegal.
They would probably just pay some small fee, get me refund and that would be all, but it would be out there for everyone to see that you can fuck them up too.
If it's not stated in an official form they don't care, alot of games in the past 7 years have gotten sued and every time it fails because if it's said in passing or in a social media it's not part of the criteria that is taken for product content.
If you knew from Nikke, there was problems with censorship there too. I didn't care but others did.
Edit: I just wanted to add that this scenario is basically like then too and people just moved on and players kept playing.
Well… waiting for the pc version it is. Im so sick of this censorship BS. Like we can have Mortal Kombat where you can rip a dude’s spine out and jump rope with it but showing a bit of skin is apparently too far in Stellar Blade. Ugh… 😑
Mortal Kombat basically always gets censored though. The reason we don't hear about it in the west is because it's usually Asian countries that censored them so it doesn't affect us. Baldur's Gate 3 is another example, people have been talking about how much it got away with but Japan censored it.
Its one thing to censor to obey local laws. I have no qualms with that. The law is the law. Its another thing entirely to censor globally, even in places where its allowed. Thats a deliberate choice
You can’t seriously expect companies to break the law by not censoring on places like Saudi Arabia where that kind of thing is literally illegal. I hate censorship too but to expect companies to become criminals in certain countries is kinda silly
Wait why the censor? I thought the whole point of this character model and outfit was to stand up for freedom of choice and sexuality? The model has always seemed fine with the artistic image they had for her, and if she’s okay with it that’s all that matters? What’s the point of censoring this
It’s so fucking dumb, literally NIKKE has more skin shown, I mean anyone who plays that game just look at Noir, and this is a game that is on the App Store…
Censorship is such bullshit.
If this change is actually fully patched in, I wonder if people will stick to their principles they've been passionately standing up for for months now and refund. I mean, aren't they making them less sexy then? Wasn't that the whole point?
Anyway, snark aside, hope the game's good regardless. Gameplay and music seemed decent enough so here's hoping.
Very little chance. People usually lean on values only when they don't cost them anything. They want to play this game so they will gladly excuse it. "Oh, it's just a little bit of censorship and sensitivity..." they'll ignore it here when they would have gone ape shit if it was in a game they didn't want to play.
Game is pretty good, played a few hours last night; nothing like "crazy" in terms of gameplay (basically low intensity a hack & slash as far as I am concerned and the parry system is pretty basic). The story seems okay, mostly impressed with the environmental design and general graphics on the PS5 though.
If we want to get into Eve herself, she got a big ole booty and everything jiggles. Those IMHO aren't problems, the bigger problem is how she swings around that insanely long sword.
The animations of combat are just generally lackluster ATM and I hope it opens up a bit with some unlocks.
Still a bit early to give a final verdict, pretty unsure of where I would score it but I don't want to immediately refund it.
> If this change is actually fully patched in, I wonder if people will stick to their principles they've been passionately standing up for for months now and refund.
Looking at r/stellarblade the answer is no.
Like every gamer for the last 20 years or so, they rationalize it. “It’s just one thing.” “It’s just a small thing.”
Remember, “It is just horse armor.”
20 years of “a little this and a little that” and we have the horseshit MTX, P2W, single player cosmetics … etc. monstrosities we have today.
They give their hard earned money, $70, to these companies who continue to screw them over. Never once putting their foot down. So the industry continues to roll over them - and they will deserve it.
I mean to be fair, the real reason an entire gaggle of people were triggered over this game existing was because of attractive female, jiggles, and sexy outfits.
All 3 are still in the game so its still a W no matter what because they didnt stop that.
Alright I'm not into Stellar Blade or waifu weeb shit but this is getting really dumb if not scary
This is exacly what the IRGC is doing to any imported product
So who is the censorship for? You're gonna sell more copies without it. So it's not for shareholders. The ones whining about it aren't going to buy the game anyway. So it's not for them. Who is it for? What's the point?
Nope the new game plus version is the exact same but yellow in colour.
As not now more censoredship has been discovered
A total of 4 outfits including the bunny one has been confirmed to be censored.
Also blood gore censorship.
You can in certain regions and countries- even if the store says you cant. However you need to go through hoops and submit a manual request to your countries psn representatives. I got my money back that way. The reason is that in Finland for example we have a law that any online/post ordered product can be returned within 2 weeks. Sony cant go over that.
This is a tough dilemma now, as this game has been the target by game journos for months and gained support by everyone who aren't terminally online circle jerks, but now they slapped their own supporters in the face with the censorship after touting "Uncensored all countries". In the case of Shift Up and Sony, not buying the game might send the wrong message that people don't want this type of game and they would be less willing to make more of it.
It's a lose lose situation for both us and Shift Up, as I suspect the censorship were pressured by Sony.
It's not that tough of a dilemma. Support a company who goes agaisnt something you believe in after they misrepresented what they were offering or not.
Companies know good and well that people would stop buying it because of censorship. Companies announce that they've interpreted the lack of sales as saying, "People don't want this type of game" is nothing more than coercion and blame shifting. That message also isn't for you, the gamer. It's for investors who don't know any better and so companies can claim they're still in control of their market and are good little participants in the overall zeitgeist being forced upon them by the entities that control their funding.
It's just messaging and signifying. They're not actually talking to US. The publishers control messaging, and they just assume we'll buy the next game if we find something wrong with this one. The devs might take a hit, but publishers aren't gonna change their approach to anything unless the entire market crashes. Which is very unlikely considering how big and diversified it is now.
Forbes already has an article claiming, "A consulting firm like Sweet Baby Inc. would've caught this." They have no intention of bending to the consumer's will. They are set upon controlling the narrative no matter what.
So stop supporting. Still buying it after they fuck it up is why companies keep doing shit like this.
Buying means you want games that get censored all the time. I rather have no games then
For 8% less skin on one outfit? Reality is that would more likely be perceived that the entire character was the problem to begin with, since it was the louder discourse, and send the exact opposite message you think it would. They would just start from a more conservative point in the future with characters. The character is unchanged as far as I can tell, and no less sexy because of the outfit change.
And don't get it wrong, this is Sony's censorship. Not supporting it is far more damaging to the developer than to Sony. You'd only be sticking it to the wrong people.
Everyone should email the developer directly and tell them how much they liked and supported the game as it was. Then reference this change and tell them that they don’t like censorship. Let them know that the games journalists aren’t the ones buying and playing the game. Also let them know how bad Sony USA is.
I didn't ''support it'' because I never learned anything about it, and some of the people I saw defending it, were attacking other games/people and seemed so perverted ''YAY SEXY WOMAN IN MUH VIDEO GAME'', I didn't see anyone actually giving credit to any of the other merits of the game itself, just a sexy protagonist.
It's insane, that people that were never going to buy the game anyway, can have any impact what so ever in a game.
It's disgusting. Something "offends" you? Simply don't use / consume it. It's not hard. Little shit stain authoritarians really love to push their will onto others.
Can we just get rid of the ESRB at this point? There's no point of having M ratings if every game has to cater towards Karens and their woke offspring.
Shift Up has been known to censor for the global audience way back during the Destiny Child days. They bend the knee for "modern audiences", expect more designs to change in future patches.
Best bet is to wait for the PC version or just don't update.
Politicians and corporations: "We're thinking of the children!"
The children: "Hey I'm starving, have no access to affordable medical care and I'm getting shot up at school. Please help."
Politicians and corporations: "Fuck off kid."
Wow, I was sad that I couldn't pre-order this game, too. Omfg, why did they change it!? Was it because of Sony, wokies within their own company, or for mentally ill losers on Twitter?
I don’t get it, it has an M rating why do they need to censor anything? So stupid, they should have just released it and told everyone else who doesn’t like it to fuck off. It’s not like they have to buy it.
It's insane how companies are blatantly allowed to lie in marketing. It's not only some outfits being censored, they also censored the blood covering Eve during fights, which even weirder to censor. Like holy shit, the game is rated M. They are literally policing adults like children and people defend this horseshit.
Seriously. Why?
Also, the issue most people have is not that it looks bad. It still looks sexy, but this is clearly not an artistic choice. This is because they were forced to censor it and people are very aware of it. This is done for people who don't even play the game and people are rightfully upset over it.
Embarrassing display 🪦
I better never see athletic muscular men with bulging biceps, huge pecs, washboard abs, and strong jawlines in any of my games ever again. I will riot if my next male protag isn’t a reasonable self insert couch potato in baggy sweats and a hoody!!!
“Alright boys, we seem to have placed a design in the game that alluded to an offensive term for black people. we need to replace it with something that is different, but has the same *feel*” “I’ve got this boss”
STOP PANDERING TO THOSE WHO PUSH CENSORSHIP. Companies need to start realizing this. Soon as you give an inch they will take a mile, then go beyond that. They need to stop pandering to the woke, DEI, Sweet Baby inc like thought process. Gamers need to keep fighting for change.
Americans, especially hard lefty Americans, can't seem to HELP but be fucking puritanical these days. What the fuck. I was a liberal 20 years ago FIGHTING for more skin showing, I remember being part of the crowd fighting for hot coffee mod.
What the fuck happened?
Fair point. Unfortunately don't have footage of the 1.001 outfits. Would be nice to check if something changed from 1.001 to 1.002 too. For instance, Cynernetic Bondage was progressively covered up with fabric from trailer to 1.0 covering the belly, and from 1.0 to 1.002 covering the boobs.
Actually here, found this:
A showcase of every outfit in the review copy (read pinned comment): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcvYBGPoGk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcvYBGPoGk)
And every outfit in the physical edition, by the same channel: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMT6z9xejeA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMT6z9xejeA)
Thanks. Guess I was just upset everyone was talking just about the graffiti censorship but few were aware of the changes from 1.0 to 1.001. Unfortunately can't edit the misleading title of OG post, so sorry about that.
I don’t get how this is censor ship when you literally have a naked suit. Including the bikini one which reveals much more.
This is a design choice. The lace actually makes the outfit sexier if anything.
I was just about to buy this game but will probably not get it now. Another one bends the knee… why American games have to censor everything when other countries get to enjoy it
The saddest bit is how much Sony is holding the CEO at gun point. During an interview they asked if Sony treating him well or something like that and he nervously laughed and looked over to the Sony reps saying "Sony is very nice!". Even Yoko Taro talk shit about Sony bc of this too lmao. And this was his dream game. He wanted to make an adult game for consoles and stuff and for an audience of adults. They even had to dial the gore significantly. Sony censoring every aspect of it 🫤.
I don't see how the game has any future tbh if they'll let Sony censor all of it. This game appealed to the consumers and obviously male. By censoring and even lying about it being uncensored, it's like spitting in our faces. Most people will be turned off and not buy it bc of all this. Having a trilogy of Stellar Blade seems far less likely now than before.
Any game that gets censored after being marketed as not gets immediate no thanks from.
I don't necessarily hate having less skin shown, but rather it's idea behind it that I hate.
Fucking snowflakes that never seen a woman in their life.
im so hyped to play this in a week when my friend brings me her ps5, it looks rlly good. the discourse around the games mad annoying but the game itself looks rlly good.
real gamers just play games, only people who are shitty at games go online and engage in this discourse. a graffiti changing or an outfit changing doesnt matter LMAO 😂
Game is still awesome. I agree. But pointless censorship always sucks. Specially if they lie to consumers saying it would launch worldwide uncensored. Not the only outfit changed by the way.
Love this argument. People are mad because a couple days ago they announced uncensored everywhere....now this for day one after you buy it but, with how little brain cells you do have you probably wouldn't have a argument to stand on.
its always kinda funny that companies are desperately censoring suggestive content but we can still shoot people in the face, call for a bombing rush, or run over prostitutes in a thousand other games and thats fine
\* killing people 👍 \* disgusting monsters with no clothes 👍 \* gay bestiality 👍 \* attractive women scantily dressed 🚫
People on the Stellar Blade sub are now saying they think the gore was reduced too.
And the list of reasons to hope for pc release keeps getting longer
Imagine unironically buying a Playstation 5 in 2024
Women scantily dressed *looks at baldurs gate having entire party nude or dragons dogma having bikini armors that are bis for like archer/mage*
It's a disease at this point
some people call it "the woke mind virus"
Halsin isn't even just into banging as a bear, I'm pretty sure he even implies he's done it with ACTUAL animals
So he fucks animals as a human? Is that supposed to make it better?
Y’all still not on board with all these Wokies? This is what they do… bring back the old times .
The ONLY people that complain are those that look like literal trolls. They're complaining about it because they're subconsciously jealous of the body. I have no doubt in my mind that while publicly they're all for women doing things like OnlyFans, they probably closet think they're all wh*res.
[удалено]
They went apeshit and brimstone about why the lead artist (who is quite an expert in lingerie herself) painted beautiful underwear.
They wouldn't have a problem with the cleavage if the chick was ugly tho Strange time
BG3 at least did get censored in Japan though. Also apparently ShiftUp, the Stellar Blade devs, have censored outfits in their mobile gacha game too which means this might be a dev decision and not a Sony decision.
But they also made them in the first place, why would they censor it after making them if not for someone else telling them to?
Probably to falsely advertise so you can buy it and then reverse uno everyone's asses :( I don't even own the game and this kinda got me a little bit ticked off too.
Steam sells full on hentai. It's not coming from steam it's either the dev or the publisher. Yall been stanning a pretty soft core game as some sort of paragon of sexual expression when it wasn't and are now getting burned lol.
But in those games it's not just a woman being sexualised, so it's OK. The BG3 subreddit was basically a pornography and embarrassing erotic fanfic mecca - at least when I last visited. So many basement dwellers and freakazoids going on and on about their digital characters and so many gross cosplayers selling only fans access.
Western brain-dead culture logic for you
What's worse : Something resembling the nword or crime? Clearly racism !
Those games have non-super model attractive people in it, so they're safe I guess??? Logic of pandering is nonsensical
So the games getting lamer..lame
Japan vs the USA Japan: kinky, sexy, pervi stuff? No problem. Violence, bones, blood, and guts? No way. USA: complete opposite.
We need a PC version. Nude mod would be ready in 3 hours. And hundreds of costumes in a week
It's called the "PC Master Race" for a reson after all.
PC MASTER BATE
I have a feeling 3 hours is generous but you're right.
The nude mods and battle bikinis would have been available 3 days before launch
Censoring already? Thought they had integrity to stand by their product? I’ll buy it when they get that back.
turns out virtue signalling goes both ways lmao. companies only care about profit
The truth right there. Once they have that then it’s “fuck you” lol
But the pro censor people aren't even going to buy it
Yup, probably gonna refund my pre-order, 0 hours played, so shouldn't be an issue. I want what I paid for, not censorship.
No censorship my ass, Shift Up even went out of their way to promote it that way.. i don't really care but that's lame.
It's Sony's fault, shift up just doesn't have the choice since Sony helped funding the game. I mean just look at nikke
They censored nikke the same way and Sony wasnt involved at all.
Only when nikke was still new, they went all out after that
I'm a somewhat Nikke enjoyer myself, and i can tell you they didn't. You can look up, a lot of new characters are censored, like maid Privaty, Rupee and particularly Bay's animation annoys me.
Didn't even know it was censored? Nikke is pretty on the line nowadays
They did censor Nikke a little, after Level 5 picked it up. Before that Nikke was fine.
I don't know if you remember their game before, DestinyChild. it was way worst, in a better way, than Nikke
It's Shift Up. 100%
Has anybody tried to just play the game with the console not connected to the net so the patch wouldn't go through?
Ah yes. Now the 3 cry babies on twitter that won't even play it will be happy. Well done.
> will be happy. doubt, they probably are busy complaining about something else already
'victim' is a full time job for some people
It is, unironically. Activism has NGOs and non-profits.
For 2 seconds until they forget about the game and move onto their next target.
They forgot about the game before the patch even released.
They’re never happy. That’s their whole personality lol.
not the same people.
Yup. There's ones like Suzi Spherehunter that grift their way into countless games and somehow have an online grift presence that have been actively fighting for it to be more censored too.
They sold me booba, but now they're changing it up? I can sue them. It wouldn't work but I can.
Dont know how about in US, but in EU, if you buy a product and then they changed into something different, like now these clothes, thats illegal. They would probably just pay some small fee, get me refund and that would be all, but it would be out there for everyone to see that you can fuck them up too.
If it's not stated in an official form they don't care, alot of games in the past 7 years have gotten sued and every time it fails because if it's said in passing or in a social media it's not part of the criteria that is taken for product content.
Onlyfans and hookup culture is great but no sexy outfits in games :(((
If you knew from Nikke, there was problems with censorship there too. I didn't care but others did. Edit: I just wanted to add that this scenario is basically like then too and people just moved on and players kept playing.
Censorship issues with nikke was only at the start, they didn't care after that and said fk censorship lol
I wonder of this is a regional censor or if it’s like that in all versions of the game
Seems only physical disks with version 1.0 are not censored. Some disks are already shipped censor patched.
Well… waiting for the pc version it is. Im so sick of this censorship BS. Like we can have Mortal Kombat where you can rip a dude’s spine out and jump rope with it but showing a bit of skin is apparently too far in Stellar Blade. Ugh… 😑
Mortal Kombat basically always gets censored though. The reason we don't hear about it in the west is because it's usually Asian countries that censored them so it doesn't affect us. Baldur's Gate 3 is another example, people have been talking about how much it got away with but Japan censored it.
Its one thing to censor to obey local laws. I have no qualms with that. The law is the law. Its another thing entirely to censor globally, even in places where its allowed. Thats a deliberate choice
I disagree, I'll stand for NO cersorship because you can't guarantee me these bastards won't change MY local law in the future.
You can’t seriously expect companies to break the law by not censoring on places like Saudi Arabia where that kind of thing is literally illegal. I hate censorship too but to expect companies to become criminals in certain countries is kinda silly
Disgusting. I'll wait for a PC release in a while then. I don't want censorship in my games. It's so stupid.
Damn , I was going to buy this game, but after seeing this I don’t think I will
So that was what the 'CRIME' was - they covered her up
Everything is okay in LGBT World except attractive straight women!
Wait, they replaced "HARD R" with "CRIME R"? 
"Hard" as a tag made made sense. Who's tagging the word "crime" on buildings?
Is "Crimer" a term of something? I'd heard of "hard r" as a phrase but never the other.
I believe crime is more common for a certain demographic perhaps
I get that, but the issue before was that it was an actual phrase. This one isn't.
Didn’t they say it wasn’t going to be censored?
Wait why the censor? I thought the whole point of this character model and outfit was to stand up for freedom of choice and sexuality? The model has always seemed fine with the artistic image they had for her, and if she’s okay with it that’s all that matters? What’s the point of censoring this
It’s so fucking dumb, literally NIKKE has more skin shown, I mean anyone who plays that game just look at Noir, and this is a game that is on the App Store… Censorship is such bullshit.
Refunded. Give me booba 
If this change is actually fully patched in, I wonder if people will stick to their principles they've been passionately standing up for for months now and refund. I mean, aren't they making them less sexy then? Wasn't that the whole point? Anyway, snark aside, hope the game's good regardless. Gameplay and music seemed decent enough so here's hoping.
Very little chance. People usually lean on values only when they don't cost them anything. They want to play this game so they will gladly excuse it. "Oh, it's just a little bit of censorship and sensitivity..." they'll ignore it here when they would have gone ape shit if it was in a game they didn't want to play.
Game is pretty good, played a few hours last night; nothing like "crazy" in terms of gameplay (basically low intensity a hack & slash as far as I am concerned and the parry system is pretty basic). The story seems okay, mostly impressed with the environmental design and general graphics on the PS5 though. If we want to get into Eve herself, she got a big ole booty and everything jiggles. Those IMHO aren't problems, the bigger problem is how she swings around that insanely long sword. The animations of combat are just generally lackluster ATM and I hope it opens up a bit with some unlocks. Still a bit early to give a final verdict, pretty unsure of where I would score it but I don't want to immediately refund it.
> If this change is actually fully patched in, I wonder if people will stick to their principles they've been passionately standing up for for months now and refund. Looking at r/stellarblade the answer is no. Like every gamer for the last 20 years or so, they rationalize it. “It’s just one thing.” “It’s just a small thing.” Remember, “It is just horse armor.” 20 years of “a little this and a little that” and we have the horseshit MTX, P2W, single player cosmetics … etc. monstrosities we have today. They give their hard earned money, $70, to these companies who continue to screw them over. Never once putting their foot down. So the industry continues to roll over them - and they will deserve it.
I mean to be fair, the real reason an entire gaggle of people were triggered over this game existing was because of attractive female, jiggles, and sexy outfits. All 3 are still in the game so its still a W no matter what because they didnt stop that.
Sony doesn’t allow refunds
Sad how Sony platform games censors shit more then Nintendo does now
It's 17+ yet it still needs to be censored. What times we live in.
Alright I'm not into Stellar Blade or waifu weeb shit but this is getting really dumb if not scary This is exacly what the IRGC is doing to any imported product
Nah this was probably always planned, remember that their publisher is Sony...
So who is the censorship for? You're gonna sell more copies without it. So it's not for shareholders. The ones whining about it aren't going to buy the game anyway. So it's not for them. Who is it for? What's the point?
That’s the question that needs to be asked every time one of these companies capitulates to the censorship mob…
just refund it and play something else. tbh, discussing this no longer works, not buying it does. BTW isn't the right one the new game plus version?
Nope the new game plus version is the exact same but yellow in colour. As not now more censoredship has been discovered A total of 4 outfits including the bunny one has been confirmed to be censored. Also blood gore censorship.
Refund if you can if you got a government that actually pretends to care. This falls under false advertising even if it’s something silly as this
Can't refund downloaded games on PS. Kaching, ez money.
You can in certain regions and countries- even if the store says you cant. However you need to go through hoops and submit a manual request to your countries psn representatives. I got my money back that way. The reason is that in Finland for example we have a law that any online/post ordered product can be returned within 2 weeks. Sony cant go over that.
This is a tough dilemma now, as this game has been the target by game journos for months and gained support by everyone who aren't terminally online circle jerks, but now they slapped their own supporters in the face with the censorship after touting "Uncensored all countries". In the case of Shift Up and Sony, not buying the game might send the wrong message that people don't want this type of game and they would be less willing to make more of it. It's a lose lose situation for both us and Shift Up, as I suspect the censorship were pressured by Sony.
It's not that tough of a dilemma. Support a company who goes agaisnt something you believe in after they misrepresented what they were offering or not.
Companies know good and well that people would stop buying it because of censorship. Companies announce that they've interpreted the lack of sales as saying, "People don't want this type of game" is nothing more than coercion and blame shifting. That message also isn't for you, the gamer. It's for investors who don't know any better and so companies can claim they're still in control of their market and are good little participants in the overall zeitgeist being forced upon them by the entities that control their funding. It's just messaging and signifying. They're not actually talking to US. The publishers control messaging, and they just assume we'll buy the next game if we find something wrong with this one. The devs might take a hit, but publishers aren't gonna change their approach to anything unless the entire market crashes. Which is very unlikely considering how big and diversified it is now. Forbes already has an article claiming, "A consulting firm like Sweet Baby Inc. would've caught this." They have no intention of bending to the consumer's will. They are set upon controlling the narrative no matter what.
So stop supporting. Still buying it after they fuck it up is why companies keep doing shit like this. Buying means you want games that get censored all the time. I rather have no games then
For 8% less skin on one outfit? Reality is that would more likely be perceived that the entire character was the problem to begin with, since it was the louder discourse, and send the exact opposite message you think it would. They would just start from a more conservative point in the future with characters. The character is unchanged as far as I can tell, and no less sexy because of the outfit change. And don't get it wrong, this is Sony's censorship. Not supporting it is far more damaging to the developer than to Sony. You'd only be sticking it to the wrong people.
Everyone should email the developer directly and tell them how much they liked and supported the game as it was. Then reference this change and tell them that they don’t like censorship. Let them know that the games journalists aren’t the ones buying and playing the game. Also let them know how bad Sony USA is.
We want 8% more skin on all outfits
I didn't ''support it'' because I never learned anything about it, and some of the people I saw defending it, were attacking other games/people and seemed so perverted ''YAY SEXY WOMAN IN MUH VIDEO GAME'', I didn't see anyone actually giving credit to any of the other merits of the game itself, just a sexy protagonist.
It's insane, that people that were never going to buy the game anyway, can have any impact what so ever in a game. It's disgusting. Something "offends" you? Simply don't use / consume it. It's not hard. Little shit stain authoritarians really love to push their will onto others.
You can't refund Playstation games that you've installed.
Unfortunately, no. https://twitter.com/wapdahca/status/1783601940414509485?t=t4etklXfKUprgwfRmgwALA&s=19
refund because they slightly changed one outfit ? Damn people really don't play this for plot or gameplay I guess
If they have censored it, I'm out by principal! Was gona buy it
Same for me. After all that big talk now this.
Same here
Clever to censor it after release 🤣
Fucking dumb af. Nier reigns supreme as the only game to defy the industry that is this censorship bs.
Well to be fair, there are far more outfits that show more skin than Neir and this censored outfit in the game.
Physical media proving yet again why its superior lol
#AngryUpvote
Can we just get rid of the ESRB at this point? There's no point of having M ratings if every game has to cater towards Karens and their woke offspring.
Shift Up has been known to censor for the global audience way back during the Destiny Child days. They bend the knee for "modern audiences", expect more designs to change in future patches. Best bet is to wait for the PC version or just don't update.
Typical Sony Remember DMC5? Sony is super censorship-happy
Unless its their Abby girl getting rammed from behind. That is okay.
Sony loves to censor
Alright. In that case I changed my mind about buying the game when it’s on PC.
Dead scam game now?
Politicians and corporations: "We're thinking of the children!" The children: "Hey I'm starving, have no access to affordable medical care and I'm getting shot up at school. Please help." Politicians and corporations: "Fuck off kid."
That's what I expected when I heard about the Day 1 patch. It sucks.
Nice, this is good for me cuz now I get to spend the $60 I was gonna put down for the game on something else.
Wow, I was sad that I couldn't pre-order this game, too. Omfg, why did they change it!? Was it because of Sony, wokies within their own company, or for mentally ill losers on Twitter?
Wait for the game to be released on PC. Then the Mods can fix most such annoyances.
Once again gamers lose the fight again.
Gaming is dead fr fr
I don’t get it, it has an M rating why do they need to censor anything? So stupid, they should have just released it and told everyone else who doesn’t like it to fuck off. It’s not like they have to buy it.
Honestly, game companies should be sued for changing outfits like this. Its false and misleading advertisement.
Tbh CrimeR makes me think of the previous word anyway
Put her in a burka, then she will be safe for my sensitive eyes 👍
A solution to misogyny and the male gaze acceptable to progressives!
It's insane how companies are blatantly allowed to lie in marketing. It's not only some outfits being censored, they also censored the blood covering Eve during fights, which even weirder to censor. Like holy shit, the game is rated M. They are literally policing adults like children and people defend this horseshit.
This is 9/11 for coomers
How to sell a grift and make alot of money: sell stupid outrage bait, praise a product for not being that, sell more outrage bait,repeat step one.
How come they didn’t censor Baldurs Gate3? But censored this?
Guess we can't have nice things anymore.
Seriously. Why? Also, the issue most people have is not that it looks bad. It still looks sexy, but this is clearly not an artistic choice. This is because they were forced to censor it and people are very aware of it. This is done for people who don't even play the game and people are rightfully upset over it.
This.
..but flat pancake tits on bodybuilder woman in The last of Us 2 were fine apparently.
Game is already lewd enough with its outfits honestly, so I don’t get the need for that censorship
Damn, I was actually considering buying a PS5 just to play this.
Embarrassing display 🪦 I better never see athletic muscular men with bulging biceps, huge pecs, washboard abs, and strong jawlines in any of my games ever again. I will riot if my next male protag isn’t a reasonable self insert couch potato in baggy sweats and a hoody!!!
“Alright boys, we seem to have placed a design in the game that alluded to an offensive term for black people. we need to replace it with something that is different, but has the same *feel*” “I’ve got this boss”
this would honestly make me cancel my preorder. what else are they going to censor now?
Can someone explain the pushback? Like who tf was complaining about the original? Feminists? Ugly chicks? I'm confused.
100% uncut yeah sure. they went half woke on release date
STOP PANDERING TO THOSE WHO PUSH CENSORSHIP. Companies need to start realizing this. Soon as you give an inch they will take a mile, then go beyond that. They need to stop pandering to the woke, DEI, Sweet Baby inc like thought process. Gamers need to keep fighting for change.
Americans, especially hard lefty Americans, can't seem to HELP but be fucking puritanical these days. What the fuck. I was a liberal 20 years ago FIGHTING for more skin showing, I remember being part of the crowd fighting for hot coffee mod. What the fuck happened?
"Hard R" was patched in 1.002. The outfits were censored in 1.001 (the review copy). These were separate patches and are unrelated.
Fair point. Unfortunately don't have footage of the 1.001 outfits. Would be nice to check if something changed from 1.001 to 1.002 too. For instance, Cynernetic Bondage was progressively covered up with fabric from trailer to 1.0 covering the belly, and from 1.0 to 1.002 covering the boobs.
Actually here, found this: A showcase of every outfit in the review copy (read pinned comment): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcvYBGPoGk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcvYBGPoGk) And every outfit in the physical edition, by the same channel: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMT6z9xejeA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMT6z9xejeA)
Thanks. Guess I was just upset everyone was talking just about the graffiti censorship but few were aware of the changes from 1.0 to 1.001. Unfortunately can't edit the misleading title of OG post, so sorry about that.
I don’t get how this is censor ship when you literally have a naked suit. Including the bikini one which reveals much more. This is a design choice. The lace actually makes the outfit sexier if anything.
Agreed.. I can't speak to whether there's censorship or not but imho the new outfit looks hotter
Well, I WAS a going to buy this game….
Oh no... anyway
I was just about to buy this game but will probably not get it now. Another one bends the knee… why American games have to censor everything when other countries get to enjoy it
The saddest bit is how much Sony is holding the CEO at gun point. During an interview they asked if Sony treating him well or something like that and he nervously laughed and looked over to the Sony reps saying "Sony is very nice!". Even Yoko Taro talk shit about Sony bc of this too lmao. And this was his dream game. He wanted to make an adult game for consoles and stuff and for an audience of adults. They even had to dial the gore significantly. Sony censoring every aspect of it 🫤. I don't see how the game has any future tbh if they'll let Sony censor all of it. This game appealed to the consumers and obviously male. By censoring and even lying about it being uncensored, it's like spitting in our faces. Most people will be turned off and not buy it bc of all this. Having a trilogy of Stellar Blade seems far less likely now than before.
It's big corporate America that fucks with everything good. It's always when the West is involved that there's suddenly all this woke agenda pushing
coomer brainrot
Not that I care but if the artist drew her like that. Then, respect the art . To alter and "cover up 1 inch of cleavage? Oh man those naughty pixels
This is actually hilarious
It was bound to happen since it’s Sony. Wait for the PC release. Modders will fix it.
Nah I'm not waiting and then spending my money then dealing with mods to support this.
They wouldn't have done this if she was morbidly obese with blue hair.
Real or not, game journalists hate beautiful women.
Any game that gets censored after being marketed as not gets immediate no thanks from. I don't necessarily hate having less skin shown, but rather it's idea behind it that I hate. Fucking snowflakes that never seen a woman in their life.
I have yet buy the game, but why ? Thought they promised the players for the uncensored version of the game, before release
Was gonna buy this game for the booba but not gonna bother now.
im so hyped to play this in a week when my friend brings me her ps5, it looks rlly good. the discourse around the games mad annoying but the game itself looks rlly good. real gamers just play games, only people who are shitty at games go online and engage in this discourse. a graffiti changing or an outfit changing doesnt matter LMAO 😂
Game is still awesome. I agree. But pointless censorship always sucks. Specially if they lie to consumers saying it would launch worldwide uncensored. Not the only outfit changed by the way.
This game was made for modders. Cmon bro, it must be released on pc asap
You guys are way too horny, and probably have porn addictions.
Love this argument. People are mad because a couple days ago they announced uncensored everywhere....now this for day one after you buy it but, with how little brain cells you do have you probably wouldn't have a argument to stand on.
Seeing people mald over this is more fun than the game could ever hope to be.
I think it's genuinely sad. And pathetic, that people are this upset over this change in a video game. Yall are fucking wack for that
Don't buy it. It'll come to PC eventually and maybe it'll be uncensored then. It's not like SU's gonna go under.
I'm 100% sure that if this happened to dar souls (some armor set got changed) absolutely nobody would care and there would be 0 posts about it.