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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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.
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.
Agreed, being afraid of SJW'S is silly. The worse they can do is send you baseless threats.
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.
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.
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?
@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.
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.
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.
But who are the ones making trouble and complaining?
Yay, Nepu-Nepu in her full glory!
P.S.: but still you can not rotate camera in inventory menu on PC =(
You can change the camera, just unlock the option and then use the middle mouse button.
To elaborate further on my comment:
If I recall correctly, in the original game, regardless of what disc you were on, you had access to most of the world.
Now, if what they are saying is true, ie. "it's not possible to fit such a large world onto a single disc", that means the world won't be accessible at any time like the original.
In other words, it likely means the locations the player can travel to will be limited within the scope of each episode. That is, of course, if they are not giving us some bullshit excuse.
I personally think they're full of shit. It should be possible to fit the game data onto a single disc, and the console only needs to load the surrounding area at once.
looking for the FFVII thread buddy?
wtf is that a change from the Japanese version?
Girls are disgusting pigs lets swear off them and stick each other instead!
*with
So you suggest every male turn gay, as to stick each other? :P
Yea, on to the heap so the FUUUUTTTUUREE PEOPPPPLE don't take our jubs.
Girl's aren't disgusting. Feminist landwhales, yeah, but lolis are cute and fuckable.
Let's just be clear, girls are for sex. That's all. They shouldn't be stating any opinions about our games.
Bro 3d is pd man. pig fucking ugly disgusting!
Nice trolling.
well there is one way around this. just sell it online as a japanese game on j-list or whatever and release separate semi-official translation patches. or at the very least, make the game trivially easy for fans to translate. obviously this limits releases to the pc master race, but thats the price you pay for developing for locked down consoles in the first place. they would largely avoid the problems gta san andreas had with the hot coffee mod simply because these games arent as widely popular in the west to begin with.
this is getting to the point of being worse than the rediculousness of id software having to release a different version of doom back in the day only in germany JUST because of the nazi imagery in SECRET LEVELS and its subsequent content rape of the original in doom 3 bfg edition (and consoles) in later years.
come to think of it, doesnt austrailia have actual laws against the very same things that are causing voluntary censorship in the states?
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.
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.
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.
well they are saying if, not are, so as long there is not ass hole wanting to censor a game we should be fine, besides when was the last time a Nep game been censored? i wonder why they would bring it up unless they are about to make a gamble and release a risker game? or its just a big PR stunt like with Dead or Alive X3
Maybe not Nep, but mugen souls says hi
Neptunia has never been censored, Mugen Souls and others have.
Meanwhile, SJWs are insisting that these interviews and official statements are "obviously false", that SJWs have no power to influence such matters despite the size and high social positions of their cabal, and that SJWs themselves do not exist, while they proudly proclaim themselves as SJWs on their T-shirts and resumes.
They're also crying that poor SJWs are being "harassed" in response to their hate campaign to ruin innocent people's lives.
SJWs should be put in this game/anime:
https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2015/12/08/rinkan-biyaku-relentlessly-humiliating/
I'm kind of surprised that people are making a big deal about this now. IFI has, more or less, had this stance since around when "Monster Monpiece" released last year.
"We decided to release Monster Monpiece in these markets because we wanted to make our fans happy. However, if those same fans find that the modifications we felt we had to make have made the localized version of the game completely unacceptable, perhaps it was not the right decision to try to localize and publish this title for these markets. Perhaps it would be in the best interest of both our fans and our Company to publish only those titles that will not require any censoring or modification."
http://forum.ideafintl.com/post/regarding-monster-monpiece-censorship-from-idea-factory-international-ceo-6744928?&trail=50 [http://forum.ideafintl.com/post/regarding-monster-monpiece-censorship-from-idea-factory-international-ceo-6744928?&trail=50]
It has nothing to do with SJWs. It has everything to do with not dealing with people whining that they censored a game.
It has everything to do with the loud feminists and SJWs. The companies would not feel the need to censor, if there wasnt people complaining about imaginary 2d anime lewdness.
All that message says, is that they would rather disappoint the fans of the game (by not localizing a game), instead of disappoint the feminists (by not censoring the game).
"People who buy games dislike censored games, so we won't sell them games" sound like one of the worse reasonings in modern history, just like "Soda is tasty, Bailey's is tasty, mixing them must be twice as tasty!".
I'm happy about this, I rather get an untouched game than one that's been censoring and ruined beyond recongition.
Keep the game as it originally is. Let the medium be art not some product or 4kids crap.
But you WON'T GET the untouched game, because they won't sell it to you now. Get it?
As long as there is online downloads, and shipments across the world then yeah it doesn't really matter to much. Glad someone finally took a stand on the stupid censorship in the us.
yes you can DL(?) or buy but can you read japanesse?
The English translations usually suck. They alter a lot of things and omit others to fit the English text into the same space allotted in the Japanese version.
Which still doesn't matter if you can't read moonrunes. Hell, a lot of people are playing with the english voices even with these games (sadly), just look at youtube. Yes the translation suck, but if you don't speak a language that's the lesser of the two evils.