News that the “misogyny simulator” that is Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 will not be released in the west has shocked Dead or Alive fans, with the developers themselves conceding that such is the climate of fear induced by feminist mania for persecution of the games industry and the cabal of white knights secretly dominating the gaming media, they “do not want to talk about those things.”
The news came by way of Dead or Alive’s Facebook community manager, who then elaborated on the situation surrounding a western release of the title:
Do you know many issues happening in video game industry with regard to how to treat female in video game industry? We do not want to talk those things here. But certainly we have gone through in last year or two to come to our decision. Thank you.
Koei Tecmo Europe’s official Twitter account has at least offered western fans a solution to this abysmal situation by providing a link to the game’s apparent multi-language version.
The current fervor surrounding the bizarre condition of the gaming industry with respect to its depiction of women has lately been playing more and more of an impact in censoring and outright preventing games from being developed in the first place – with Japanese releases and their preference for healthy if varied sexual expression at the expense of ultra-violence bearing the brunt of the attacks in many cases.
Nonsense. I havnt heard any sort of campaign for this– this totally seems more like publishers and developers are freaking out themselves and pulling it.
I admire the femenists acts and all but… Seriously tho.. instead of preventing stuff like this…Why not worry if your neighbor is stalking your daughter…Or like go do your bed gawd!
Woooow most of you guys are gullible. This is so obviously a marketing ploy that my 15 year old cousin could see it.GTA’s and EA has been doing stuff like this for years.
Problem: Localization is super expensive and DOA Xtreme hasn’t had great sales for a bit. But, the DOA Xtreme series usually sells better in the west.
Answer, drag up the dreaded specter of feminism and let Gamergaters/antifeminists/defensive otaku do your marketing for you. And oh my, what’s this…PlayAsia coincidentally has a multilanguage option available. How lucky.
So now, the sales double or even triple without complicated localization because certain folks buy the game out of spite alongside fans of the series.
PlayAsia and Koei Tecmo are playing you guys like cheap fiddles.
Can’t really get the dlc for the games if you buy them from a different region… The struggle.
thank you feminazis for fucking it for the rest of us.