Concerns over the state of fanservice censorship have flared up over the past month due to a recent update to Skullgirls, which removed fanservice and story elements from the game and accompanying artbook and even Steam is stepping in by hiding the recent mass of negative reviews as “off-topic review activity.”
At its heart, Skullgirls began as a crowdfunded game with a certain artistic vision, featuring character designs by an artist who was already well-known for their risque works and promising rewards like voice packs as stretch goals. The latest update, which was released June 27th, changed art assets so that most of the fanservice was removed and removed the Soviet Announcer voice pack as it was voiced by controversial creator Mike Z.
More eyebrow-raising was the fact that the art book for Skullgirls (sold separately) was also changed, meaning that even evidence of the changes made to Skullgirls was also removed, despite fanservice being one of the reasons that people got interested in the game when it first released around a decade ago.
These controversial changes were what led to a massive upsurge in negative reviews for the game, with the game now sitting at Mostly Negative as a result. However, it turns out that Steam has implemented new measures to hide reviews written by people who own the game, meaning that extra steps have to be taken in order to see the game’s true score:
As a result, around 7,000 reviews were hidden from public viewing by default. It’s likely that these measures will be implemented whenever mass “off-topic reviews” are made to try and warn others about the controversy.
Anti-customer garbage. How are these reviews off-topic? Content is being removed. If a game is broken in an update, are the negative reviews off-topic again? Valve already did that by making mass negative reviews being excluded from the overall score for “review bombing”, but this is going even further by hiding them. Steam is not a viable platform.
of course this happens
If 1 trans or whatever sue steam, they win due to law protecting them
if 6.000 people sue steam for this, nope, nothing because law don’t protect people who are furious (insert everything you wrote). Can you imagen them adding refund and such, I mean, 6 000 people is by no means a small amount…
Let me rephare: You can ask for a refund if you played less than 2 hours on steam. So if the dev add an update that changes the game… to worse… wtf is this not covered by the refund policy?=)))) They added an “update” that destroyed the game? Well they should allow people to request a refund…
As always, all criticism = “bots/racism/sexism/whatever”, anything necessary for corporations and hostile tranny takeovers of them to beat anyone over the head into submission. Any excuse to silence the average person who just wants to be left to play their games in peace and not have activist faggot subhumans s♥♥t up their escapism with their agenda.
As for the censorship – this is the second time Skullgirls was censored – the people still playing it kind of deserve that treatment. When MikeZ and his band of woke hipsters removed animations 3 years after release a lot of the fan base didn’t care, so now they can enjoy getting scammed.
The third time. It was also censored in development.
this is why i pirate everything. this way, i can at least say i didn’t pay for s♥♥t like that.
LOL
they actually think this is gonna help the game ? if anything this is making it even worse for the game and also its not like those negative reviews are gone people can always look at them not to mention the low amount of positive reviews is also an issue also so what theyre even trying is just funny at this point
but i will say good job the current people running the game cause they are completely killing the game and good luck with trying to bring out anything else new cause no one will buy it
so all in all they played themselves
The game was already niche in a genre that not a lot of people care about outside of the really popular games that normies know. The activist playing game devs have and will effectively kill any chance of this game growing despite having a dedicated community for well over a decade.