Idea Factory to US: “We’re Not Censoring Our Games!”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Dec 8, 2015 18:28 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Censorship, Feminism, Idea Factory, Translation, USA
Game developer Idea Factory have unfortunately followed suit with other companies in refusing to kowtow in response to the feminist mania corroding the western gaming industry, announcing that they will no longer release games in the west if they require censorship and artistic compromise, paining fans greatly but perhaps being the lesser of two evils.
A recent interview with Idea Factory president Haru Akenaga brought up the Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 fiasco and how it convinced the company to go this unfortunate route; he also goes on to state that he does not want to censor games as it is not true to the original art.
Naturally, this latest turn of events has many western fans wondering whether a new entry into the Neptunia or Moero franchises (amongst other such games) will ever see the light of day again in the lands so blighted by political correctness, “gender equality” and religious fervor.
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Every fucking day that goes by I get another reason to hate this goddamn country. Feminists and sjws need to be burnt at the stake like the fucking Salem witch trials.
Gamergate tried to do that in the beginning anon, then the reddit cucks coopted the movement and cried "muh PR!"
I'm completely with you. Just let me know when and where.
Spain. XVI Century.
Please send out invitations for the event. I'll make sure to bring popcorn.
It's not a single country. It's the entire west...
This is stupid. It's not as if the government or the ESRB is enforcing some kind of censorship. It's simply that these companies are a bunch of pussies that are afraid to release a game because internet feminists/SJWs made some noise.
THIS!!
Does no one remember all the controversies over Grand Theft Auto? The only time Rockstar were forced to "censor" their game was when the ESRB found out about the Hot Coffee mod and would change their rating to an AO which in turn would have stores not carry the game.
SJWs are all bark and no bite.
Agreed, being afraid of SJW'S is silly. The worse they can do is send you baseless threats.
If only that were true. SJWs are actually a force to be reckoned with. Media is power, and they control what, 85% of the media?
Yeah but these are niche games, fuck media, fuck SJWs, bring me games.
You know, companies always have censored this and changed that, and transformed those.
This is not something new, companies have always been cowards.
I really don't think companies "have always been cowards", they kowtow to access a different revenue stream. Marginal games can only make so much money because of social media reviews, opening overseas markets can make the game profitable or break even.
Truth. These SJW/third wave feminist dipshits are just a VERY very loud and obnoxious vocal minority. They weren't going to buy you damn game anyways, so fuck what they think. There is nothing they can do about it and this climate of fear that they've created in the industry is just being perpetuated by the devs themselves at this point.
Part of the problem is despite being a minority, many of them happen to be in positions of power. So people seem to automatically assume that everyone else shares their views, when they DO NOT.
With all due respect they are pretty much toothless even in their 'positions of power' in the real world.
They try to abuse their positions in government or elsewhere and the courts will smack 'em down like a 500 ton Megaton hammer.
You are forgetting the part where a lot of game journalists have sided with SJW/third wave feminists. Game journalists can make quite a lot of problems for people for anyone developing or publishing games.
@Trigrim
well them fuck them too. I haven't given a fuck about any "game journalists" for years.
The few people I do watch for game reviews (like somecallmejohnny or toonami's game review) I watch those for entertainment not for a recommendation because I can watch a youtube vid, see what the game is like then decide if I want it or not.
Any press is good press. Just ask rapelay. Feminist made a stink about it and the downloads of the game quadrupled.
Not 2 mention I bought Dragon's Crown just 'cause of Shitaku's bitching.
you mean the illegal downloads which pay shit for the developer?
But who are the ones making trouble and complaining?
Wrong. Threats of AO do basically force censorship. This has nothing to do with sjws.
And yet full on sex and nudity in western games escape AO without issue.
It's called corruption.
If you have a large legal/bribes budget, no one messes with you.
Small companies like Idea Factory, on the other hand, get all the hate because they're easier targets for feminist groups who need to justify donations and such.
Is this why the broke up with NISA? Cause they keep censoring shit?
Pretty much...
And some people dare to say that SJW's don't exist and that feminists aren't taking away your games... What a bunch of delusional idiots.
More like straight up shills and brainwashed puppets, like most of NeoGAF.
NeoGAF isn't brainwashed. NeoGAF is bought.
femenist landwhales have nothing better to do with their free time, they just LOVE to complain about games that have too much service to the targeted market. they must be jealous male gamers don't complain about moho games.
Don't let your feminist ideals get it in the way of my income.
Too bad she deleted that tweet.
So Ironic, how come western games with sex and nudity contents are okay to be release in US while Japanese games are not ?
racism.
Its ok for murica to sexualize women and young girls because its under their terms but not ok for anyone else.
Imaginary 13 year old android in a bikini in a vidya! MUH SEXUALIZATION OF CHILDREN! Actual teens and tweens slutting it up on the Disney channel / Nickolodeon / MTV? A kids show feeled with cuckold innuendo produced by a former cuck porn producer (Bella and the Bulldogs)? No problem!
Japan also censors(alter) western games over there. It has to do with culture.
Just release your shit on Play Asia with Eng subs and everything will be OK. For me at least...
I could care less about a dub. Fuck a dub.
Dubs are universally garbage, almost.
Isn't that why we have game ratings? like rate M for Mature? lol
I don't blame them.
Fuck SJWs.
80's and 90's - Christian nut-jobs and parent watch dog groups (the two are generally interchangable) pushed for censorship in video games.
2000's - Jack Thompson pushed for censorship in video games.
2010's - Feminists and SJW's push for censorship in video games.
It's pretty fucking sad that both sides of political spectrum are pro-censorship. Can we agree to keep government out of the video game industry? I don't want these shit-headed politicians trying to regulate and industry they don't know shit about.
Difference Poop is that
2000 Jack Thompson attacked the product, GTA
2010 Feminist/SJWS are attacking the developers in video games not the product.
In the first Anita video she didn't blame dinosaur planet not being released cause of no audience, she blamed the developers for changing the whole game.
IN DOA, various videos didn't label the game they blame Tecmo Koei for being sexist.
Same with Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed.
Same with Capcom and SFV
It's getting worse cause they are blaming the developers not the product. Fucking getting sick of this.
Jack Thompson didn't focus solely on GTA. He essentially tried to censor any video game with gratuitous violence. But in a way, he made it his life mission to end the GTA franchise in particular.
Addressing your second point, who gives a fuck? How about they stop attacking both the developers and products all together. How about they exercise some common sense and stay the fuck out of things they don't know shit about.
There is no political spectrum in the US any more. There's only a social spectrum between right and left. Politically they are identical. They both want more government, more control, more intrusion into people's lives. They just have different social goals. They are all the same political party now save for the occasional, and increasingly rare, outliers like actual fiscal conservatives.
Both sides trying to censor game kinda goes hand in hand with the horseshoe theory.
If one goes too far right or too far left, they both meet in a place located in crazy.
The thing is, the gov't isn't involved at all.
At least the crazy Christian zealots of the 90's felt strongly enough to try to make it a legal issue. The SJW trash of today just sits around pissing and whining on social media... and for some fucking reason the developers are groveling at their feet.
The government is contributing to it in several ways. They are pressuring companies, schools etc to have balanced gender ratio, even in things females aren't interested in. Obama has been trumpeting the disproven wage gap myth. Certain rich people are throwing money at feminist and other troublecausing groups.
Most of this flies under the radar because people are focusing on the puppets dangling on the end of their strings. They're not looking at it in the big picture, ie. who stands to gain from all of this confilct.
Thanks Obama!
Cut him some slack. Guy's not responsible for this shitstorm, and it's not like he isn't already occupied with ISIS and Russia at the moment.
And thanks to the miracle that is HongFire.com I can play most of these games with just a little patience as was the case with SexyBeach Premium Resort. (Terrible game, but the hi-res female models kind of make it okay.)