I mean, they pull out manga and figures from the store because "child explotation" im not surpriced too, oh but lets talk about how they have childrens working at their factories
@@ardantop132na6 well no but thats why they keep changing what kid means, there are dumbasses that say "they're taking advantage of a 21 year old child" in an attempt to shame and bully people that date younger, so its no surprise they always fall back on we gotta protect the children at this point we gotta protect kids from them
@@sdbzfan1 That's one thing*, but imo they think 21 is a child because either they don't want to have responsibilities or they want to have a free pass to groom.
I'm so sick of Japanese media being censored when brought to the west. And I'm absolutely sick these companies that treat their customers like A. children who need to be coddled or B. idiots who won't notice any changes to the source material.
Actually the children "they are trying to protect" don't have a problem with nudity and no amount of nudity in games or movies is going to "hurt them", their parents are the ones who are freaking out for a bunch of different mostly religious and other imaginary nonsense reasons. Maybe we should finally grow up as a society and stop stigmatize the human body.
I mean.. if you tell someone in US that they are infact, NOT a transliquid demiqueer semikin.. you would get OBLITERATED, so its more than reasonable that you MUST censor EVERYTHING in US that might even remotely "trigger" someone. I mean what if someone would see some skin ? Or heavens forbid someone is not a fat transistorqueerautobot in the game ?! And then some morbidly obese whale on twitter "doesnt like how that character is fat phobic cause its fit enough to be able to jog" then there would be huge backlash against the company. I wish any of this would be satire or a joke, but no :/
Another Vtuber called Kip Reacts has mentioned that the devs of the game Warzone 2 have decided to rename the character Izanami *(named after the VERY important Japanese goddess Izanami-no-Mikoto)* to Izzy because they deemed the name Izanami was offensive since *(some mental gymnastics here)* if you spell Izanami backwards you get I'm a n@zi, therefore they changed it. apparently the Japanese goddess Izanami is secretly a n@zi to them. Why did God make idiots.
Amazon: "parents may be uncomfortable if the characters have a jiggle physics button" Meanwhile my dad catching me playing huniepop 2 and "monster girl dreams": "i saw you playing that game, whats it called? I wanna download it"
@@jenkathefridge3933 yeah what is the point for the ESRB/Pegi ratings if we are going to do this crap. It's like adults forgot that's why it was implemented back in the 90s. Though it didn't stop the parents from buying games they shouldn't have for kids like Conkers Bad Fur Day. The advertising went out of its way to warn parents NOT to buy it for children as it was an M rated game. But the parents still did it, never bothering to find the M rating on either side of the box. And then go complaining about its contents, despite the information they needed was Right There ON The BOX!
Well that’s furry stuff, and as we know from furries on Twitter, furry stuff is A-OK but loli is a no no. That’s so hilarious, because furry is waaaaaaaaaaaaay weirder than loli.
"Uncomfortable for our players" The only people that would be unhappy with the character creation options you removed wouldn't play your game unless you paid them to.
They just wanted playerbase that covers larger area of the world. Sadly for them, most of that playerbase is more focused on food and Twitter than video gaming.
@@MiraiKishi communist policies between companies and banks, in which you accumulate points for actions based on wokeism and receive benefits between them, all led by Blackrock
@@MiraiKishiIt's Environmental Social Governance score the Chinese use it to force people into compliance where if you don't do the things they tell you to do then you'll be unable to do even basic life things like with a low score you can't go to the movies, ride a train, fly or anything unless you follow what they believe is the right thing. Complete control over every aspect of your life.
There are 2 forms of censorship in reality. That which you described and that which exists to cover ones own a$$. This may or may not be the second. I am putting my money on the first but the second IS a option.
Man it's almost like they've never heard of a censorship option/slider. So many games out there have a nudity, blood and gore, or profanity button that you can toggle on or off. Just ask for age on account creation and censor accordingly. "But people can lie about their age..." Yeah but legally you did your part and it's not your responsibility to have people prove it. Most adult sites ask for your age but you can literally say whatever and it doesn't matter cuz they legally were only required to ask not prove. It's all just a B.S cover up argument because they know nothing about the market they're trying to be a part of.
I just looked up Blue Protocol and it's apparently being developed by Bandai Namco, which makes me wonder. Why the heck are Amazon Games publishing it? It's not like Bandai Namco have never published a game to a western market.
Server costs. The game is an MMO meaning that servers are needed and right now Amazon boasts one of, if not THE largest server farms in the world. Everyone offloads their server needs onto the likes of Amazon so they don't have to pay for the infrastructure or personnel or maintenance. I don't think Bandai has ever done an MMO on this scale so they're well outside their wheelhouse which may be where Amazon has the power to pull this shit. Maybe they have, maybe they haven't. But offloading onto Amazon servers definitely would be a reason for this overreach.
@@kuriokudayo It's a complicated solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. I don't want to have to learn a new language just to play a videogame, do you know how hard learning a completely new language is? I doubt I'd remember even a quarter of the words. Also, from what I gather, the original version is region locked and if you use a VPN to try and play it, you get banned.
There's EN fan patch system in place for the Japanese that they're planning to move over to the Taiwanese and Korean release since those two regions don't IP ban as often.
I'd say "hopefully it tanks on release", but let's be honest, they would just can it and learn nothing from it. That's how far up their own asses these western "localizers" are. Man, I love Senran Kagura, I miss it so much.
I'll never forgive Sony for what they did to Takaki and his series. To think that Nintendo treats Senran Kagura with more respect than Playstation did is amazing to me
What's funny is, Amazon's Choice, the crossover with Neptunia is extremely tame in comparison to the rest of the Senran series. Major shame Senran7 never went anywhere, especially since we're never gonna get the mobile games in English either.
@@jormilos Senran Kagura started and should've stayed on Nintendo tbh. Unfortunately Marvelous got thirsty for that Sony D. As for me, I outright refuse to buy a Playstation and any of their games. At least until the series gets a new mainline entry, regardless of who makes it.
@@stickfigure8416 I had Burst on my 3DS, I played the hell out of that game to 100% completion. It was a surprise to me that something like that would ever be allowed on the Eshop, and it's a shame the path that Sony took. It treated the series fine until Estival Versus, but they got more and more restrictive with each new game
"Man, we gotta remove all this sexy stuff from the game." "All the sexy stuff? Ok. So.. Jiggle Physics gone. No more sexual content in the game." "And the kid." "What? I thought you just wanted things you thought were too sexy removed?" "Yeah." "...." "...." "...." "...." ".... Ok, boss." I swear these people are self reporting harder than pastors talking about how much they hate gays and how we have to protect the children.
It annoys me when censors use the "Well, it doesn't change the story! So why do you care?" argument. What is removed is small compared to holistic aspects of art pieces like the story. But these details are still an integral part of the overall experience and vision of an author, with no legitimate reason to be removed. The arbitrary nature of these post-production edits is a concerning president that every legitimate fan is going against, but that position is being strawman with gross accusations of being a criminal for daring to complain about the problem, coming from individuals who claim themselves to be "true fans". The reality is, that those companies try to appeal to the lowest common denominator, caring only about their profit, and being run by people with no interest in the industry they release products from. And people simply wanting to have accurate experience to other fans, have to suffer, because some gross adult from Amazon couldn't control his boner from rising when seeing "too revealing clothing" of kiddie-like characters. Seriously, what is next? Text-based-only reworks of any Japanese media, with very graphic descriptions of any small characters wearing burqas just to make sure they are not making any males uncomfortable?
Anyone who claims that it doesn't matter so why do you care, just ask "if it doesn't matter, why did they change it, and why are you defending it?" The slimeballs can never answer.
@@nigeltheoutlaw The problem with this strategy, is that what is removed is typically things that are controversial in the West (or, more accurately, things that can be twisted into being connected to controversial things). The responses always gravitate towards accusing you of being some variety of a boogeyman or downright criminal in a smug manner, with not much room for any reasoning provided having any chances to break through such people's thick skulls.
Amazon has so far produced and published only utter garbage. The game will come out, will be hype for a week and then no one will have an interest in it, like any other game they have published in the west so far.
Same, I was looking forward to this game so much, I'd been following its development since they put out the first JP teaser for it, the moment they announced they gave western publishing rights to Amazon I knew this would happen, now I've lost all enthusiasm for this game
@@RyukagiRen, I could be wrong, but it may have something to do with the local manpower in their HQ in Japan. Amazon may have been outsourced/contracted to develop the game for non-Japanese audiences. Then, Amazon has some outsourced manpower that they could utilize further. Take my statement with a load of salt as I'm only speculating here.
By removing the small body type, the people doing the censoring are really just outing themselves as being the creepy ones who are sexualizing them in the first place, but then to project that onto the fanbase is pretty despicable. As for removing the jiggle physics, maybe they didn't notice, but boobs jiggle in real life. It's natural human anatomy. If these childish fools ever went to a beach and saw a woman running in a bikini, the shock of this revelation may cause their heads to explode.
You literally took away a function in the game. Robbed us of what we would want to do. When you're supposed to release this for US in the West the way we would want. SCREW THIS🙅🏿♂️
@@vashdesperado1232 well, there is an argument that you get for free something you should have paid for. But yeah many companies dont deserve that money anymore, its sometimes the the pirated version is flat out the superior version (hello Denuvo), and piracy ensures game preservation for games that are no longer supported by their companies and no longer for sale either. Freedom of information has limits, else why do copyrights, patents and so many other laws related to ownership even exist, and why do books, movies and music all bother with pricetags?
I firmly believe you should be able to pirate something before you buy. Many games I pirate I bought later on because I appreciated the game. But I don't buy games anymore so...@@thorveim1174
@@thorveim1174 I just think there is a balance we have to reach. The mass scaling of anything is usually bad. Obviously if everyone just pirated every game there would be no industry. But the unfettered proliferation of content for monetary gain is also bad. I just think treating piracy as an absolute evil is really dumb.
@@vashdesperado1232 and on that I fully agree. On my page, its illegal and should remain as such, but going for it can be justified. Helps that most of the time people that use pirated games wouldnt have bought it anyway (as overall especially for recent games legal copies tend to be better, what with not having a delay on updates and access to online functionalities pirated games naturally lack) But yeah its really hard to consider pirating bad in regard to games like Rise of Legends or Universe at War, games that flat out cannot be obtained legally anywhere anymore out of a second hand CD
When they cam for fan service, I said nothing When they came for attractive female characters, I said nothing When they came for the jiggle psychics, I said nothing By the time they were done, there was nothing left in gaming for me to enjoy.
@@Inkchans They are, but it highlights the absurdity of the "legal" and "cultural" arguments. Clearly, sexual degeneracy isn't an issue legally or culturally.
Funny thing about these "legal" claims. Both Azur Lane and NIKKE are rated T for Teen. Blue Protocol sure as shit isn't going to top either of those two in lewdness, even with smol characters.
I don't think any reasonable person believes legality had anything to do with the argument. At best you could say esrp will scrutinize a big company more heavily or perhaps mmos have some weird specific application of rules mobile games dont but those are pretty hollow excuses
@@ZenithintheMaking any company can do that. It actually isn't hard for them to call up the VPN providers to disallow this action if they wanted to. I think it's only not done because there is some mutual benefits to receive out of it. Until something like this happens.
The west has been attacking anime for the last 5 years. It's hard to propagandize an entire nation with tranny trash if actually good entertainment is coming from outside.
They wont get a choice regardless once we all unite and decide for the final time, FUCK NO. and theyre left with a dead server filled with the few censorship boot lickers.
Man the state of video game culture is abysmal right now. Not only do we have to deal with censorship in everything but companies don't seem to care about game preservation at all. I really wish we could go back to times when all that mattered was how fun a game was.
When we miss those times when all that mattered was how fun a game was, then we should try to fight to bring back those times again, having our voices be heard in some way or even going as far as to create the fun games ourselves. Maybe we could become the good change that we want to see in the industry.
@@Probably_CLOUD yeah maybe after enough people speak up about it something will change cuz I would definitely like to play some of my favorite games on the more modern consoles.
Why censor something to piss off the actual Blue Protocol fans, just to try and appease the type of people who very likely won't even touch the game? Don't you love it when AGS forces their morals in the guise of stating that they "know what the players want"? Also like how they automatically call the S body type 'children characters', kind of a big red flag there.
What always blows my gd mind at these "western sensitivity" issues. Is those costume they are sensoring is less revealing than the clothes u'll see highschool and even middle school girls wearing to school, but no one saying nothing about that. Its so effin stupid. They simply have their agenda and thats all it is.
I think the same people who blow their tops at fanservice in video games actually do blow their tops at high schoolers wearing revealing or even just non-frumpy clothing. I might be misremembering things, but I recall there having been a big panic about that in the 1990s or something. Not that that makes it better. Self-proclaimed moral guardians are a pox on humanity.
Why do companies not realize that people want the original version? The only change we want is the language. If that makes it 18+ go do that, its not like they can do anything about kids playing it anyway.
It is, it's just that the west is currently in the destabilization stage of the socialist cultural revolution, so media is corrupted and infested by nonsense from parasites to the extreme.
China is still far worse. When it comes to censorship the US probably gets the least of it. Europe, Japan, and especially Australia tends to get more. It just depends on the type of censorship
If I even end playing the game at this point, I'm making a loli and/or shota character regardless of how much they try to limit my options. Also, considering what Blue Protocol is, I feel like these changes are literally only designed to appeal to people who would never play the game in the first place. also also, in removing the S body type they are, in a way, claiming that there is something innately inappropriate/suggestive about it. Bit of an interesting way for the localization team to out themselves on that subject, but hey, that's their decision. I hope that they're having fun going to child beauty pageants, which feature literal actual children instead of cute anime characters.
100%. Also respect. Im wondering if i can play the jp version while still being able to read english text or not. Otherwise i prob wont be playing this game sadly...
@@Fergala00 no unfortunately you can't play the japanese version unless you own a vpn and use it properly or your account is going to get banned imidiatelly also the japanese version is out so you try playing there are a lot of guides but be careful and consider the risk of getting banned
Here’s an idea: Uncomfortable with the IP? Then how about you *LET SOMEONE ELSE LOCALIZE IT!!* Oh wait this is Amazon, they just want the anime gaming market without actually giving them what they want
Censoring and claiming it is to 'fit with Westerners'. Well, the Westerners who would play the game would be fine or even appreciate what they are censoring. And what they think it is they are censoring, is far more on display at any public beach. Just earlier this week, I saw a grown woman who came up to my chest... and she was in a bikini, with full real world jiggle physics. How do I know she was an adult? I got into a conversation with her, talking about work and how she still gets carded despite being "29 still".
As someone who is very short. Not even five foot I genuinely like playing as small characters because they remind me of myself. Mind you I’m a full grown adult and people censoring body types like mine is actually pretty offensive. I don’t think they realize that.
I love how their main reasoning is "oh we need it to stay to a T for teen rating". Do we really think anyone actually follows the ratings?? ive been playing M rated games since i was like 8 years old. We know that ratings mean nothing. Even persona is considered a M rated game yet its meant to appeal to most teen audiences, and thats mostly who plays it. So any rating claim is total bs. A rating being lower doesnt mean more people will play the game...
Gotta agree. I played RE3 when I was 13 back in 2004 and it's one of my favorite games of all time. If my country enforced laws to comply with the ESRB ratings my childhood would've been crap.
the rating system was created honestly to address the concerns of parents because people USED TO think that violence and sexual content is bad for children. Look how the turntables
The only person I knew who’s parents followed the rating was my neighbor, and I found out when we were hanging out at my house and I said “ hey you wanna play Assassin’s creed “ and he said “ no my parents would kill me if they found out I played that “
Censorship= No money Some Guy: I have this feeling who ever run that company hates sexy fictional women wearing attractive outfits but they're okay showing men's six packs ...
Feminist hate attractive women. Older women have been sabotaging younger women since time began. Younger women are pretty and a threat. Old ugly women hate being reminded they are as old as the dinosaurs.
@@LukasBlake Funny, it's been proven they are losing money, yet.. Everyone still is blowing the dog whistle, acting like they have an infinite amount of money... They don't, btw.
Another publisher perverting someone else product because they think they know better than everyone else. I'm over this game already. Amazon is like EA they don't learn.
I have a 19 year old work college and we joke with her about her 12 because she is about the height of a 12 year old and flat as a board (Don't worry we don't joke about these things if they get upset about it, she's chill with it) But yeah, she looks actually 12 but she's an adult
@@samwilkinson9309 I had a coworker in the military that was built just like that. Grown ass, alchol drinking adult that gets carded all the time. But in our line of work, being small is a benefit, cause it means she can get to the hard to reach places and still have room to maneuver, so she's naturally the best worker.
Between the stuff going on with Amazon, the developers banning anyone from playing the game with the fan translation patch, discussion around the fan translation patch being banned on the subreddit (r/BlueProtocolPC) and Discord alongside fruitless attempts at taking down the download, and the fact that the PC version is a buggy unoptimized mess (Trust me, I spent hours getting the game working with it's Japanese release), it's safe to say that this game is dead on arrival when it comes to the states. And for what? Mid combat? I can't believe I was actually looking forward to this game at one point. It's a bit different, but go support a developer that actually respects their fans, like the Blue Archive developers. Don't even bother with this goyslop from Bandai Namco, and Amazon's next failure to break into video games.
@@ZeldaGuy12345 sounds like blue protocol is worse than tof then... so far, no (free to play) open world anime game has given me a better experience than genshin
@@hiddendriftsWas gonna say thats cap however because Genshin is garbage when it comes to balancing but if youre talking about open world coop type gatchas then yes i agree.
@@Arti_The_Great >when it comes to balancing< i really don't care about the meta game so issues like balancing and power creep don't matter that much to me. i'm more concerned about polish and quality, which genshin has plenty of
I'd usually say "sail the seven seas" but at this point it's probably best to just play the JP version and not give the Western release any time of day.
Honestly the removal of the jiggle physics is a kick in the nuts for me. BOOBS ARE SUPPOSED TO JIGGLE, THAT'S HOW PHYISICS WORK, EVERYONE IN THE WORLD HAS SEEN THEM MOVE.
As far as I've read, they actually DIDN'T do that. Not exactly. In the character creation, there is an actual jiggle button to preview your character's jiggle, pressing it literally jiggles the boobs for you. It's a jiggle button. They removed that. But I've yet to read they removed the jiggle from actual gameplay. But this IS Amazon, so I wouldn't put that past them. But for now, actual in game jiggle is still in from my reading of this.
I would rather companies stop adapting Japanese titles than keep up the censorship racket This goes across the board, stop adapting shit if you're going to change things I despised it in the 4kidz era, and I despise it now For a bunch of companies that love to tout the acceptance and diversity shit they sure are keen on cutting the icky parts out of other culture's work Adapt it in full, or not at all
China censors less than the west now in regards to sexuality anyway. Mihoyo's other games like Honkai Impact have way more sexy costumes with bellybuttons, my theory for the censorship in Genshin is Sony as they hate well anything that isn't ugly as fuck.
More than that, Genshin Impact has in fact both censored their models (in some cases, multiple times) and made alternate outfits which are mandatory in some regions. (The United States doesn't seem to be one of those.) They still don't have any problems with jiggle physics, although they also have the excuse of using it for other things. My own theory for the censorship is that Genshin Impact is the one game that publisher makes where they're seriously doing research into other cultures during the creative process, even if not all of that remains intact in the end product, and by their own standards they're trying to be careful to start with.
@@DanaOtken the CCP is always watching. Every business leader is a member of the CCP, every business (even foreign ones) require a party commissar to oversee them, and the CCP dictates what businesses are allowed to do. Considering that, a Chinese company does have to be careful lest the anger their party overlords.
they have been removing details in female outfits m ''alternstive'' forced costumes and jiggle physics tho, you can compare the female characters at launch with the latest ones, there is no longer any boob window or cleavage showing now
“We want to sell you this game.” “I would like to purchase this game.” The blue haired Localizers: “I DON’T CONSENT!” *Is there someone forgot to ask?* 🎩 🐍 no step on Snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
@@DudeSoWin doubt they'd do that, even FF14 doesn't do that, the Jap version is different from the localized version too. And subtitles in games match up to the English audio so even if you play it with Japanese audio you're still reading the english version of the script. I don't know enough japanese to go without subtitles but I know enough to know when the subtitles don't match what's being said. FF14, Xenoblade chronicles and many more are guilty of this when it comes to storytelling and dialog.
What a shame. I was looking forward to the game so hard for so long. Bandai Namco had better put a stop to this, NOW. they need to threaten to pull the license from Amazon if they do not cease and desist and revert this crap. IMMEDIATELY. We need to ALL be emailing Amazon and Namco, Amazon to show our displeasure and willingness to boycott, and Namco to tell them about all the money they will miss out on if they do not force Amazon to reverse course.
"The level of censorship is usually where we find disagreements" Self-censorship by the creators is one thing. But censoring a product you didnt create "for the global audience" is NEVER a good thing. If I buy a Japanese game and play a Japanese game, I expect that game to be JAPANESE. Virgin Blue Protocol censoring lolis vs based Blue Archive uncensoring lolis.
Self-censorship isn't good either, because you have to ask yourself the reason. If you feel the need to self-censor, there's probably a bigger overarching problem.
Removing the S body type would be like removing Lalafell from FF14, needless censorship like this and all of the recent puritan things, like Skullgirls, are killing gaming and I think that might be just what some of these creeps and bastards are trying to do. I hope all of this takes a full 180 and we start uncensoring nearly everything.
This here is why I will always want the first versions of physical games than go with updated versions. I have Skullgirls version 1.0 physical for Switch and if I want, I can reformat my Switch and keep the uncensored contents without updating it. When all is said and done, most collectors will rather have first prints of the games than go for the most updated versions if they're reprints.
Just so you bootlickers that argue it doesn't matter, many Yu-Gi-Oh! players begged Konami to *not* release Magi Magi Magician Gal after Takahashi's death in the West because it's release is only accepted if they censor her boobs and pentagram. Takahashi had had enough the censorship covering up his artwork on his creation and game and put a full stop on the card's release if it could not be released as it is and the fanbase have honored and respected the wish and hope for an uncensored release and Konami has thankfully listened and we still don't have the card. Not even in videogames like Duel Masters. We want Takahashi's work, we want his artwork, and we don't want anything less purely because we love him that much for the great game and anime that he gave us. The same applies to this situation here, it matters, purely because art should never be altered by any third party.
I really hate this because they do shit like this and it sells poorly because of the censorship then they use that to say "Well, it seems western audiences don't want this. Let's never give them anything like it again." No. We want it. We just don't want it to be censored.
Remember that Amazon gave a bunch of Steam users a VAC ban after not logging into Lost Ark for a long time. I advise you to rethink trying this game out of curiosity. It doesn't really matter what the reasoning is. Legal, moral or whatever - all I care is that censorship exists at all. I already forgot about BP once, when censorship was first revealed a while ago, I'll forget about it again.
As someone who felt like a target audience for this purroduct, I can't see myself playing this now. I wonder how many other audiences will clamor onto it though...?
The only time I can accept somewhat censorship is when they put a option for streamers to stream the game. An OPTION meaning you're not force to have censorship and you can play the game uncernsored. Overall I hate censorship in general and the worst is, as a European we usually take the blow from the US even tho we're more lenient about it, sometimes we do manage to avoid it but not everytime.
Rating Systems are commonly known for being ignored, as 9 years old permeate the 17+ CoD lobbies, yet they must achieve the T rating by any means necessary when the game would have got a 17+ at worst as well. Yeah, I don't believe rating was the issue here.
I dont understand the thought process of "we must censor this so it doesn't upset potential players." The people who are interested in the game would generally be anime fans or fans of Japanese style games. You don't need to censor the game to appeal to its target audience.
There is literally nothing to censor based off of what ive played in the JP release, yet they're censoring shit anyway. Its so annoying, im just gonna stick to playing on JP
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How am I not shocked that Amazon would censor a game and lie about it?
In Lost Ark they lied three times before admitting intentional censorship.
@@Ardious didn’t know about that, even less shocked. But more disappointed.
I'm shocked! SHOCKED!
They ripoff on customers...
I mean, they pull out manga and figures from the store because "child explotation" im not surpriced too, oh but lets talk about how they have childrens working at their factories
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain
Give the man the steak he deserves
"If one can't have it, no one can"
@@NaisanSamathis is stupid
"I fckn love steaks"
Commander Shepherd
@@commander31able60 "I'm commander Shepard and this is my favorite Steak on the Citadel"
Using kids as an excuse for censorship only makes sense when you remember these weirdos think 21 is a child
Because you can't touch a kid if you are an Adult, wouldn't you?
@@ardantop132na6 well no but thats why they keep changing what kid means, there are dumbasses that say "they're taking advantage of a 21 year old child" in an attempt to shame and bully people that date younger, so its no surprise they always fall back on we gotta protect the children
at this point we gotta protect kids from them
@@sdbzfan1 That's one thing*, but imo they think 21 is a child because either they don't want to have responsibilities or they want to have a free pass to groom.
@@sdbzfan1 It's funny how the ultra religious types always try to censor games to "protect the children".
some of them think any age is child if you are under 5'4
I'm so sick of Japanese media being censored when brought to the west. And I'm absolutely sick these companies that treat their customers like
A. children who need to be coddled
or
B. idiots who won't notice any changes to the source material.
I cringed so hard at “We are targeting a T-rating since it is an anime and anime generally blah blah blah to younger audiences” fuck man…
And most of the time we hear from such companies storys about charges of childabuse. The louder they bark....
But they need to protect you from the bad thoughts. It wouldn't be "socially responsible" otherwise. /s
Actually the children "they are trying to protect" don't have a problem with nudity and no amount of nudity in games or movies is going to "hurt them", their parents are the ones who are freaking out for a bunch of different mostly religious and other imaginary nonsense reasons. Maybe we should finally grow up as a society and stop stigmatize the human body.
I mean.. if you tell someone in US that they are infact, NOT a transliquid demiqueer semikin.. you would get OBLITERATED, so its more than reasonable that you MUST censor EVERYTHING in US that might even remotely "trigger" someone. I mean what if someone would see some skin ? Or heavens forbid someone is not a fat transistorqueerautobot in the game ?! And then some morbidly obese whale on twitter "doesnt like how that character is fat phobic cause its fit enough to be able to jog" then there would be huge backlash against the company.
I wish any of this would be satire or a joke, but no :/
"No ones trying to take away your Anime Tiddies guys"
*Proceeds to take away your anime tiddies*
This is what happens when you don't take a stand.
Another Vtuber called Kip Reacts has mentioned that the devs of the game Warzone 2 have decided to rename the character Izanami *(named after the VERY important Japanese goddess Izanami-no-Mikoto)* to Izzy because they deemed the name Izanami was offensive since *(some mental gymnastics here)* if you spell Izanami backwards you get I'm a n@zi, therefore they changed it. apparently the Japanese goddess Izanami is secretly a n@zi to them. Why did God make idiots.
Maybe if we wait long enough natural selection will kick in and god will take those people back
@@ZeldaGuy12345 Who?
I did an actual spit take... Just because if you spell the name in REVERSE!?!? Why would you do that in the first place???
Man Millenial developer are soft and petty
lmao
Amazon: "parents may be uncomfortable if the characters have a jiggle physics button"
Meanwhile my dad catching me playing huniepop 2 and "monster girl dreams": "i saw you playing that game, whats it called? I wanna download it"
GigaDad
@@toby55deadmaster
Gigadas cause he respects save files enough to not just play another's copy.
I guess pegi ratings are forgotten
Based dad.
@@jenkathefridge3933 yeah what is the point for the ESRB/Pegi ratings if we are going to do this crap.
It's like adults forgot that's why it was implemented back in the 90s. Though it didn't stop the parents from buying games they shouldn't have for kids like Conkers Bad Fur Day. The advertising went out of its way to warn parents NOT to buy it for children as it was an M rated game.
But the parents still did it, never bothering to find the M rating on either side of the box. And then go complaining about its contents, despite the information they needed was Right There ON The BOX!
Remember people: Having sex with bears is okay, but Jiggle physics for breast and short girls are a no-no
context?
@@RahnonymousI think the latest Baldurs Gate game
Baldur's gate 3 let's you do it with a druid shape-shifted into a bear.
@@creninj2535 ayo wtf?????? 😂
Well that’s furry stuff, and as we know from furries on Twitter, furry stuff is A-OK but loli is a no no.
That’s so hilarious, because furry is waaaaaaaaaaaaay weirder than loli.
"Uncomfortable for our players"
The only people that would be unhappy with the character creation options you removed wouldn't play your game unless you paid them to.
They just wanted playerbase that covers larger area of the world.
Sadly for them, most of that playerbase is more focused on food and Twitter than video gaming.
I think the only people uncomfortable are the publishers, and for no reason either. Nothing in this game needed censoring.
Why is it so difficult for companies to understand that we do not want ANY censorship!? We want more fanservice!
The developers should have told the females are lady bois . And we would still have this 😂
Amazon: censors anime game
Everyone: How many times do we have to teach you this less old man
They censored Lost Ark as well
until they realize people aint going to waste their time or money on censored crap
People still buy them, why? "Not relevant reviews" here we go
@@mikehunt7346 well, consumers are going to consume but I don't consume trash.
Blue Protocol should distance themselves from Amazon as it's clearly a very politically ESG points motivated affair.
What does ESG mean? I've seen it used twice today and I've never seen it until now.
It was Bandai's fault for being as blinded by the "WE WANT ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD!" mindset as most other billion-yen corporations.
@@royasturias1784damn, it'd suck if Bandai went woke for ESG Cash because I love the Idolmasters
@@MiraiKishi communist policies between companies and banks, in which you accumulate points for actions based on wokeism and receive benefits between them, all led by Blackrock
@@MiraiKishiIt's Environmental Social Governance score the Chinese use it to force people into compliance where if you don't do the things they tell you to do then you'll be unable to do even basic life things like with a low score you can't go to the movies, ride a train, fly or anything unless you follow what they believe is the right thing. Complete control over every aspect of your life.
Censorship isn't designed to protect anyone, it's designed to combat freedom of expression.
Exactly!
Keep up the good spread of god’s word.
I will try to have my games not get butchered.
More like just to make more money
There are 2 forms of censorship in reality. That which you described and that which exists to cover ones own a$$. This may or may not be the second. I am putting my money on the first but the second IS a option.
Man it's almost like they've never heard of a censorship option/slider. So many games out there have a nudity, blood and gore, or profanity button that you can toggle on or off. Just ask for age on account creation and censor accordingly. "But people can lie about their age..." Yeah but legally you did your part and it's not your responsibility to have people prove it. Most adult sites ask for your age but you can literally say whatever and it doesn't matter cuz they legally were only required to ask not prove. It's all just a B.S cover up argument because they know nothing about the market they're trying to be a part of.
because that requires effort, something they dont wanna have to do
I just looked up Blue Protocol and it's apparently being developed by Bandai Namco, which makes me wonder. Why the heck are Amazon Games publishing it? It's not like Bandai Namco have never published a game to a western market.
Server costs. The game is an MMO meaning that servers are needed and right now Amazon boasts one of, if not THE largest server farms in the world.
Everyone offloads their server needs onto the likes of Amazon so they don't have to pay for the infrastructure or personnel or maintenance.
I don't think Bandai has ever done an MMO on this scale so they're well outside their wheelhouse which may be where Amazon has the power to pull this shit. Maybe they have, maybe they haven't. But offloading onto Amazon servers definitely would be a reason for this overreach.
@@graveyardshift6691 scamazon servers are garbage
Publishing an anime game and calling the loli body type "child" tells us everything we need to know going forward.
how poorly Amazon ran Lost ark, and their own IP's I'm going pass on this
@@kyotheman69 sadly me too
@@sodenoite45 Same, was looking forward to this, but now I'm just like urgh.
Not dealing with Amazon's censorship again. Guess I'm not playing Blue Protocol after all.
@@kuriokudayo It's a complicated solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. I don't want to have to learn a new language just to play a videogame, do you know how hard learning a completely new language is? I doubt I'd remember even a quarter of the words. Also, from what I gather, the original version is region locked and if you use a VPN to try and play it, you get banned.
@@OrionDawn15 you could technically memorize which buttons do what and then play like that
There's EN fan patch system in place for the Japanese that they're planning to move over to the Taiwanese and Korean release since those two regions don't IP ban as often.
@@kuriokudayo its not that easy when they block foreign accounts and vpn usage. He might aswell move...
@@Infeliousthink about it, if they are willing to ban VPNs, they don't deserve your money, let them fail too
I'd say "hopefully it tanks on release", but let's be honest, they would just can it and learn nothing from it. That's how far up their own asses these western "localizers" are.
Man, I love Senran Kagura, I miss it so much.
I'll never forgive Sony for what they did to Takaki and his series. To think that Nintendo treats Senran Kagura with more respect than Playstation did is amazing to me
What's funny is, Amazon's Choice, the crossover with Neptunia is extremely tame in comparison to the rest of the Senran series. Major shame Senran7 never went anywhere, especially since we're never gonna get the mobile games in English either.
@@jormilos
Senran Kagura started and should've stayed on Nintendo tbh. Unfortunately Marvelous got thirsty for that Sony D.
As for me, I outright refuse to buy a Playstation and any of their games. At least until the series gets a new mainline entry, regardless of who makes it.
@@stickfigure8416 I had Burst on my 3DS, I played the hell out of that game to 100% completion. It was a surprise to me that something like that would ever be allowed on the Eshop, and it's a shame the path that Sony took. It treated the series fine until Estival Versus, but they got more and more restrictive with each new game
Not a day goes by where I don’t think of how much I miss Senran.
So who is the pervert here, the ones finding short imaginary characters sexual or the consumer that just to play a short character for fun?..
"Man, we gotta remove all this sexy stuff from the game."
"All the sexy stuff? Ok. So.. Jiggle Physics gone. No more sexual content in the game."
"And the kid."
"What? I thought you just wanted things you thought were too sexy removed?"
"Yeah."
"...."
"...."
"...."
"...."
".... Ok, boss."
I swear these people are self reporting harder than pastors talking about how much they hate gays and how we have to protect the children.
It annoys me when censors use the "Well, it doesn't change the story! So why do you care?" argument. What is removed is small compared to holistic aspects of art pieces like the story. But these details are still an integral part of the overall experience and vision of an author, with no legitimate reason to be removed.
The arbitrary nature of these post-production edits is a concerning president that every legitimate fan is going against, but that position is being strawman with gross accusations of being a criminal for daring to complain about the problem, coming from individuals who claim themselves to be "true fans".
The reality is, that those companies try to appeal to the lowest common denominator, caring only about their profit, and being run by people with no interest in the industry they release products from. And people simply wanting to have accurate experience to other fans, have to suffer, because some gross adult from Amazon couldn't control his boner from rising when seeing "too revealing clothing" of kiddie-like characters. Seriously, what is next? Text-based-only reworks of any Japanese media, with very graphic descriptions of any small characters wearing burqas just to make sure they are not making any males uncomfortable?
Anyone who claims that it doesn't matter so why do you care, just ask "if it doesn't matter, why did they change it, and why are you defending it?" The slimeballs can never answer.
and then they Censor the story, as you have given them free hand.
An6one asks who you care, counter with "why did you care enough to remove it?"
if they are willing to change one thing they'll change another.
@@nigeltheoutlaw The problem with this strategy, is that what is removed is typically things that are controversial in the West (or, more accurately, things that can be twisted into being connected to controversial things). The responses always gravitate towards accusing you of being some variety of a boogeyman or downright criminal in a smug manner, with not much room for any reasoning provided having any chances to break through such people's thick skulls.
I had honestly already lost all hope for the game the moment I found out it was being published by amazon games and now I see I wasn't wrong
Same
Amazon has so far produced and published only utter garbage.
The game will come out, will be hype for a week and then no one will have an interest in it, like any other game they have published in the west so far.
Here I am waiting fer years fer Blue Protocol to be disappointed cuz Amazon Publish it... Why not Bandai Namco publish it themselves.....
Same, I was looking forward to this game so much, I'd been following its development since they put out the first JP teaser for it, the moment they announced they gave western publishing rights to Amazon I knew this would happen, now I've lost all enthusiasm for this game
@@RyukagiRen, I could be wrong, but it may have something to do with the local manpower in their HQ in Japan. Amazon may have been outsourced/contracted to develop the game for non-Japanese audiences. Then, Amazon has some outsourced manpower that they could utilize further.
Take my statement with a load of salt as I'm only speculating here.
By removing the small body type, the people doing the censoring are really just outing themselves as being the creepy ones who are sexualizing them in the first place, but then to project that onto the fanbase is pretty despicable.
As for removing the jiggle physics, maybe they didn't notice, but boobs jiggle in real life. It's natural human anatomy. If these childish fools ever went to a beach and saw a woman running in a bikini, the shock of this revelation may cause their heads to explode.
I dont think they know what actual women look like
Which head??? XD
You literally took away a function in the game.
Robbed us of what we would want to do.
When you're supposed to release this for US in the West the way we would want.
SCREW THIS🙅🏿♂️
they also dont understand that japanese woman are also short so they think asian women are children
@@spazmcat3853They can't even define what a "woman" is, so of course they don't know what one looks like.
Every time something like this happens I am more convinced that piracy is more of a good thing than a bad thing.
It was never really a bad. Even calling it piracy is a joke. It's just basic freedom of information.
@@vashdesperado1232 well, there is an argument that you get for free something you should have paid for. But yeah many companies dont deserve that money anymore, its sometimes the the pirated version is flat out the superior version (hello Denuvo), and piracy ensures game preservation for games that are no longer supported by their companies and no longer for sale either.
Freedom of information has limits, else why do copyrights, patents and so many other laws related to ownership even exist, and why do books, movies and music all bother with pricetags?
I firmly believe you should be able to pirate something before you buy. Many games I pirate I bought later on because I appreciated the game. But I don't buy games anymore so...@@thorveim1174
@@thorveim1174 I just think there is a balance we have to reach. The mass scaling of anything is usually bad. Obviously if everyone just pirated every game there would be no industry. But the unfettered proliferation of content for monetary gain is also bad. I just think treating piracy as an absolute evil is really dumb.
@@vashdesperado1232 and on that I fully agree. On my page, its illegal and should remain as such, but going for it can be justified. Helps that most of the time people that use pirated games wouldnt have bought it anyway (as overall especially for recent games legal copies tend to be better, what with not having a delay on updates and access to online functionalities pirated games naturally lack)
But yeah its really hard to consider pirating bad in regard to games like Rise of Legends or Universe at War, games that flat out cannot be obtained legally anywhere anymore out of a second hand CD
When they cam for fan service, I said nothing
When they came for attractive female characters, I said nothing
When they came for the jiggle psychics, I said nothing
By the time they were done, there was nothing left in gaming for me to enjoy.
It's why I abandoned Sony and went back to Nintendo.
@@rahnihlkuzurandra8462Nintendo may be harsh and serious, but they are making games for actual gameplay, movies for actual enjoyment, etc.
Baldur's gate beastialty is ok, but jiggle physics is a no no
Wait what
Aren’t these 2 completely different companies unrelated to each other?
It was a Druid taking the form of a bear
It's only acceptable if it's disgusting.
@@Inkchans They are, but it highlights the absurdity of the "legal" and "cultural" arguments. Clearly, sexual degeneracy isn't an issue legally or culturally.
Funny thing about these "legal" claims.
Both Azur Lane and NIKKE are rated T for Teen.
Blue Protocol sure as shit isn't going to top either of those two in lewdness, even with smol characters.
the excuse of ''think of the kids!'' has never had any validity, specially when talking about T rated games
I don't think any reasonable person believes legality had anything to do with the argument. At best you could say esrp will scrutinize a big company more heavily or perhaps mmos have some weird specific application of rules mobile games dont but those are pretty hollow excuses
Not only they're lying, but also forcing the Japanese side to ban foreign accounts that want to play the uncensored version.
Screw this. JP version here I come.
L to Western releases.
@@ZenithintheMaking they ban vpns, people are considering doing private servers to get around it though.
@@Infeliousjust let them fail and rot then, they wanna swing from Amazons sack let them eat shit
@@Infelious WHAT? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? Sheeeesh......
@@ZenithintheMaking any company can do that. It actually isn't hard for them to call up the VPN providers to disallow this action if they wanted to.
I think it's only not done because there is some mutual benefits to receive out of it. Until something like this happens.
This is why the real people who need to be 'canceled' are the people in charge of decisions like this.
why cant there just be an option when you boot up the game if u want the censored or uncensored version? cant be too hard to inplement.
Its funny how much can be put into a rated T game unless it comes to anime because they seem to think that anime is only lewd content and propaganda
The west has been attacking anime for the last 5 years. It's hard to propagandize an entire nation with tranny trash if actually good entertainment is coming from outside.
Do NOT buy it if it’s censored !
And the individuals who WANT the game censored, one way or another, don’t even PLAY these games anyways ! 😂
They wont get a choice regardless once we all unite and decide for the final time, FUCK NO. and theyre left with a dead server filled with the few censorship boot lickers.
it will be censored. not if will be censored just a matter of how much is the question.
its a free game with microtransactions lol, idiots are still going to play it
If its Free to Play, its getting patched back in Zero Day, with or without their sideshow freaks approval.
they aren't even awful censors... People be too wildly sensitive about if they can be weird or not, it's a fantasy game y'all
Man the state of video game culture is abysmal right now. Not only do we have to deal with censorship in everything but companies don't seem to care about game preservation at all. I really wish we could go back to times when all that mattered was how fun a game was.
When we miss those times when all that mattered was how fun a game was, then we should try to fight to bring back those times again, having our voices be heard in some way or even going as far as to create the fun games ourselves. Maybe we could become the good change that we want to see in the industry.
@@Probably_CLOUD yeah maybe after enough people speak up about it something will change cuz I would definitely like to play some of my favorite games on the more modern consoles.
those days are long dead now everything is political.
@@TheManofthecross it's a shame but you're not wrong
@@ChaosCreator76 speak? no the only voice is money
Welp. I went from "probably not gonna play, but it looks kinda neat" to "lol, nope."
Why tf does Amazon decide. The game makers should publish their own game so we can get it from there site not the Amizon
Why censor something to piss off the actual Blue Protocol fans, just to try and appease the type of people who very likely won't even touch the game? Don't you love it when AGS forces their morals in the guise of stating that they "know what the players want"?
Also like how they automatically call the S body type 'children characters', kind of a big red flag there.
All women under 5'9 are minors 🤡
Three words: ESG, BlackRock, Woke
What always blows my gd mind at these "western sensitivity" issues. Is those costume they are sensoring is less revealing than the clothes u'll see highschool and even middle school girls wearing to school, but no one saying nothing about that. Its so effin stupid. They simply have their agenda and thats all it is.
I think the same people who blow their tops at fanservice in video games actually do blow their tops at high schoolers wearing revealing or even just non-frumpy clothing.
I might be misremembering things, but I recall there having been a big panic about that in the 1990s or something.
Not that that makes it better. Self-proclaimed moral guardians are a pox on humanity.
We need to boycott this
@@ZeldaGuy12345 How do I do that?
Yup, I was thinking about trying it, but now, that's not happening.
@@ZeldaGuy12345 This is bollocks. The only way to talk to big corporations is trough money. The players should indeed boycott the release.
already on it.
@@ZeldaGuy12345 you kidding...? they would claim that as harassment, and double down.
Why do companies not realize that people want the original version? The only change we want is the language. If that makes it 18+ go do that, its not like they can do anything about kids playing it anyway.
^ This,if PSO2 NGS got away with it,I know Blue Protocol can.All they need is a Mature rating and not have to touch the game.
Damn, I didn't know being short was against the law.
Heh, censorship.
And here we thought China was strict
China straight up cut your boob lol.
It is, it's just that the west is currently in the destabilization stage of the socialist cultural revolution, so media is corrupted and infested by nonsense from parasites to the extreme.
Nah, still strict
Still strict, but at least they're honest about it
China is still far worse. When it comes to censorship the US probably gets the least of it. Europe, Japan, and especially Australia tends to get more. It just depends on the type of censorship
If I even end playing the game at this point, I'm making a loli and/or shota character regardless of how much they try to limit my options.
Also, considering what Blue Protocol is, I feel like these changes are literally only designed to appeal to people who would never play the game in the first place.
also also, in removing the S body type they are, in a way, claiming that there is something innately inappropriate/suggestive about it. Bit of an interesting way for the
localization team to out themselves on that subject, but hey, that's their decision. I hope that they're having fun going to child beauty pageants, which feature literal actual children instead of cute anime characters.
100%. Also respect. Im wondering if i can play the jp version while still being able to read english text or not. Otherwise i prob wont be playing this game sadly...
Why just stop at a Loli? Give them the fattest, most absurd booba possible to piss them off even more.
@@Fergala00 no unfortunately you can't play the japanese version unless you own a vpn and use it properly or your account is going to get banned imidiatelly also the japanese version is out so you try playing there are a lot of guides but be careful and consider the risk of getting banned
Hope Amazon likes seeing people going to the 7 Seas
Daily reminded that the people that scream about lolis are pdfs themselves. very small skeligntons in their closet.
Here’s an idea: Uncomfortable with the IP? Then how about you *LET SOMEONE ELSE LOCALIZE IT!!* Oh wait this is Amazon, they just want the anime gaming market without actually giving them what they want
Removing jiggle physics? No midriffs? No skirts?
DEAD ON ARRIVAL.
Censoring and claiming it is to 'fit with Westerners'. Well, the Westerners who would play the game would be fine or even appreciate what they are censoring.
And what they think it is they are censoring, is far more on display at any public beach. Just earlier this week, I saw a grown woman who came up to my chest... and she was in a bikini, with full real world jiggle physics. How do I know she was an adult? I got into a conversation with her, talking about work and how she still gets carded despite being "29 still".
As someone who is very short. Not even five foot I genuinely like playing as small characters because they remind me of myself. Mind you I’m a full grown adult and people censoring body types like mine is actually pretty offensive. I don’t think they realize that.
it may be time for a full blown revolution in the US, both the government and the corporations they answer to are corrupt beyond salvaging.
I'm fat please help
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 use fat side of character mass triangle or use left and right side of rowing machine
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257gym
Amen
I love how their main reasoning is "oh we need it to stay to a T for teen rating". Do we really think anyone actually follows the ratings?? ive been playing M rated games since i was like 8 years old. We know that ratings mean nothing. Even persona is considered a M rated game yet its meant to appeal to most teen audiences, and thats mostly who plays it. So any rating claim is total bs. A rating being lower doesnt mean more people will play the game...
yeah. i was 8 and i played black in the PS2 with my father
Gotta agree. I played RE3 when I was 13 back in 2004 and it's one of my favorite games of all time. If my country enforced laws to comply with the ESRB ratings my childhood would've been crap.
the rating system was created honestly to address the concerns of parents because people USED TO think that violence and sexual content is bad for children. Look how the turntables
The only person I knew who’s parents followed the rating was my neighbor, and I found out when we were hanging out at my house and I said “ hey you wanna play Assassin’s creed “ and he said “ no my parents would kill me if they found out I played that “
@@itslary229 "My parents threatened to do M rated actions to me if I played M rated games"
They are censoring the Shortstacks. It's only a matter of time before that becomes labeled as illegal to.
Btw Goddess of Victory Nikke is totally okay and its got some crazy fan service.
Censorship= No money
Some Guy: I have this feeling who ever run that company hates sexy fictional women wearing attractive outfits but they're okay showing men's six packs ...
Feminist hate attractive women.
Older women have been sabotaging younger women since time began. Younger women are pretty and a threat. Old ugly women hate being reminded they are as old as the dinosaurs.
censorship=no money
esg "allow me to introduce myself
@@LukasBlake the LOSE money, they just dont care
@@LukasBlake Funny, it's been proven they are losing money, yet.. Everyone still is blowing the dog whistle, acting like they have an infinite amount of money... They don't, btw.
Amazon, Google, and apple getting into the gaming market would be the worst possible option. Hopefully they don't get support in the future.
M$ is the one who started it all by buying out directX from the X display server folks.
This is truly ridiculous, censorship is never okay.
Another publisher perverting someone else product because they think they know better than everyone else. I'm over this game already. Amazon is like EA they don't learn.
Amazon: "We are all about inclusivity" Also Amazon: "REEEEE we must censor this game it has short people."
Lol it's peter dinklige all over again. Short people shouldn't be working 😂 he says Living in his in his shoebox mansion.
tbf its not a short character its a literal child the S type body type would be like klee you can still make your character short
I have a 19 year old work college and we joke with her about her 12 because she is about the height of a 12 year old and flat as a board (Don't worry we don't joke about these things if they get upset about it, she's chill with it)
But yeah, she looks actually 12 but she's an adult
@@samwilkinson9309 I had a coworker in the military that was built just like that. Grown ass, alchol drinking adult that gets carded all the time. But in our line of work, being small is a benefit, cause it means she can get to the hard to reach places and still have room to maneuver, so she's naturally the best worker.
@@doom7607I've seen Middle schoolers taller than my 21 y/o sister.
Between the stuff going on with Amazon, the developers banning anyone from playing the game with the fan translation patch, discussion around the fan translation patch being banned on the subreddit (r/BlueProtocolPC) and Discord alongside fruitless attempts at taking down the download, and the fact that the PC version is a buggy unoptimized mess (Trust me, I spent hours getting the game working with it's Japanese release), it's safe to say that this game is dead on arrival when it comes to the states.
And for what? Mid combat? I can't believe I was actually looking forward to this game at one point. It's a bit different, but go support a developer that actually respects their fans, like the Blue Archive developers. Don't even bother with this goyslop from Bandai Namco, and Amazon's next failure to break into video games.
Fellow blue archive fan? Based. Clearly the better of the two Blue _____ games here.
sounds like amazon's beating a dead horse here...
@@ZeldaGuy12345 sounds like blue protocol is worse than tof then... so far, no (free to play) open world anime game has given me a better experience than genshin
@@hiddendriftsWas gonna say thats cap however because Genshin is garbage when it comes to balancing but if youre talking about open world coop type gatchas then yes i agree.
@@Arti_The_Great >when it comes to balancing<
i really don't care about the meta game so issues like balancing and power creep don't matter that much to me. i'm more concerned about polish and quality, which genshin has plenty of
No one believed they wouldn't. We know the delays was for censorship.
As someone who is old enough to remember the boomers screeching about games in the 90s, it is sad to think they weren't even this bad about things.
is it too much for company not to censor?
I'd usually say "sail the seven seas" but at this point it's probably best to just play the JP version and not give the Western release any time of day.
It's region locked. You can't play the JP version.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo Surely you know there are ways around that, right? Because there are ways to get around that.
@@Mirthful_Midori yes. I know. But it won't fix the problem. They're doing all they can to prevent you from playing the JP version.
Aye follow you through the rough sea a head any time any day
@@starblossom05 Scurvy won't stop us fellow sailor~ Argh
They need to stop appealing to the Twitter whiners, because those people don't even play these games anyway.
It’s not about twitter it’s about ESG money
@@kuriokudayothat’s because they’re all idiots
Honestly the removal of the jiggle physics is a kick in the nuts for me.
BOOBS ARE SUPPOSED TO JIGGLE, THAT'S HOW PHYISICS WORK, EVERYONE IN THE WORLD HAS SEEN THEM MOVE.
I'm going to wait for fat jiggle physics
As far as I've read, they actually DIDN'T do that. Not exactly. In the character creation, there is an actual jiggle button to preview your character's jiggle, pressing it literally jiggles the boobs for you. It's a jiggle button. They removed that. But I've yet to read they removed the jiggle from actual gameplay. But this IS Amazon, so I wouldn't put that past them. But for now, actual in game jiggle is still in from my reading of this.
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 Rufus from Street Fighter 4 and Don Corneo in FFVII Remake.
@@VileGlory haha nice
I would absolutely adore being able to see a company get formed who takes down Amazon a few pegs
I would rather companies stop adapting Japanese titles than keep up the censorship racket
This goes across the board, stop adapting shit if you're going to change things
I despised it in the 4kidz era, and I despise it now
For a bunch of companies that love to tout the acceptance and diversity shit they sure are keen on cutting the icky parts out of other culture's work
Adapt it in full, or not at all
Dude...Genshin has some of the most conservative outfits in any Gacha game I have ever seen and they still have jiggle physics in the game!
China censors less than the west now in regards to sexuality anyway. Mihoyo's other games like Honkai Impact have way more sexy costumes with bellybuttons, my theory for the censorship in Genshin is Sony as they hate well anything that isn't ugly as fuck.
More than that, Genshin Impact has in fact both censored their models (in some cases, multiple times) and made alternate outfits which are mandatory in some regions. (The United States doesn't seem to be one of those.) They still don't have any problems with jiggle physics, although they also have the excuse of using it for other things. My own theory for the censorship is that Genshin Impact is the one game that publisher makes where they're seriously doing research into other cultures during the creative process, even if not all of that remains intact in the end product, and by their own standards they're trying to be careful to start with.
@@DanaOtken the CCP is always watching. Every business leader is a member of the CCP, every business (even foreign ones) require a party commissar to oversee them, and the CCP dictates what businesses are allowed to do.
Considering that, a Chinese company does have to be careful lest the anger their party overlords.
they have been removing details in female outfits m ''alternstive'' forced costumes and jiggle physics tho, you can compare the female characters at launch with the latest ones, there is no longer any boob window or cleavage showing now
Don't accept censorship at all costs
Remember anything from Korea or Japan coming here gets censored and ruined almost 100% of the time. It's always best to play the original.
Thing is I heard the Jp servers are banning western gamers.
And if that doesn't work then mod the game however one sees fit.
Damn shame I can't read or speak Japanese or Korean.
Thus the problem.
Amen
@@CountSpartulathere's always Bable or other language learning apps
wow, I didn’t realize short women don’t exist in the west, thank you Amazon for censoring that so I didn’t have to see a short person in my game!
Nikke's massive western market success with a T rating would like to have a talk with Amazon Game Studios.
“We want to sell you this game.”
“I would like to purchase this game.”
The blue haired Localizers: “I DON’T CONSENT!”
*Is there someone forgot to ask?*
🎩
🐍 no step on Snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
Sad thing is, even if they revert all the visual censorship, the dialogue will most definitely stay censored/localized
They should include the original so we have a comparison.
@@DudeSoWin doubt they'd do that, even FF14 doesn't do that, the Jap version is different from the localized version too. And subtitles in games match up to the English audio so even if you play it with Japanese audio you're still reading the english version of the script. I don't know enough japanese to go without subtitles but I know enough to know when the subtitles don't match what's being said. FF14, Xenoblade chronicles and many more are guilty of this when it comes to storytelling and dialog.
The game was already lost as soon as Amazon got involved
Now we know the reason for all the delays. When I heard Amazon games was involved I knew they would mess it up
And some of these newly released games don't use Amazon
What a shame. I was looking forward to the game so hard for so long. Bandai Namco had better put a stop to this, NOW. they need to threaten to pull the license from Amazon if they do not cease and desist and revert this crap. IMMEDIATELY.
We need to ALL be emailing Amazon and Namco, Amazon to show our displeasure and willingness to boycott, and Namco to tell them about all the money they will miss out on if they do not force Amazon to reverse course.
"The level of censorship is usually where we find disagreements"
Self-censorship by the creators is one thing. But censoring a product you didnt create "for the global audience" is NEVER a good thing. If I buy a Japanese game and play a Japanese game, I expect that game to be JAPANESE.
Virgin Blue Protocol censoring lolis vs based Blue Archive uncensoring lolis.
Self-censorship isn't good either, because you have to ask yourself the reason. If you feel the need to self-censor, there's probably a bigger overarching problem.
@@BloodwyrmWildheart People resisting to say the n-word be like
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 Nobody is resting to say that.
>hyped for the game
amazon says the game have to be localized for western sensibilities
>instant got to 0 interest.
Removing the S body type would be like removing Lalafell from FF14, needless censorship like this and all of the recent puritan things, like Skullgirls, are killing gaming and I think that might be just what some of these creeps and bastards are trying to do. I hope all of this takes a full 180 and we start uncensoring nearly everything.
This here is why I will always want the first versions of physical games than go with updated versions. I have Skullgirls version 1.0 physical for Switch and if I want, I can reformat my Switch and keep the uncensored contents without updating it. When all is said and done, most collectors will rather have first prints of the games than go for the most updated versions if they're reprints.
Why would they replace skirts with loose pants? They are objectively much less cute...
Just so you bootlickers that argue it doesn't matter, many Yu-Gi-Oh! players begged Konami to *not* release Magi Magi Magician Gal after Takahashi's death in the West because it's release is only accepted if they censor her boobs and pentagram. Takahashi had had enough the censorship covering up his artwork on his creation and game and put a full stop on the card's release if it could not be released as it is and the fanbase have honored and respected the wish and hope for an uncensored release and Konami has thankfully listened and we still don't have the card. Not even in videogames like Duel Masters. We want Takahashi's work, we want his artwork, and we don't want anything less purely because we love him that much for the great game and anime that he gave us. The same applies to this situation here, it matters, purely because art should never be altered by any third party.
I really hate this because they do shit like this and it sells poorly because of the censorship then they use that to say "Well, it seems western audiences don't want this. Let's never give them anything like it again." No. We want it. We just don't want it to be censored.
That's what they don't understand and don't WANT to understand.
@@Maldor313 And that's why they have to be removed from the equation by all means necessary.
Their Translations are awful too. Always mirroring and mimicking, ignorant and distasteful.
@@DudeSoWin They should never be allowed to localize anything ever again.
email the devs about it.
So, will westerners be able to play the full game through japanese launcher, or have they blocked western world from the servers?
they block western IP's and VPN's if you somehow get past it they'll eventually ban your account. A private server is your only hope.
Remember that Amazon gave a bunch of Steam users a VAC ban after not logging into Lost Ark for a long time. I advise you to rethink trying this game out of curiosity.
It doesn't really matter what the reasoning is. Legal, moral or whatever - all I care is that censorship exists at all. I already forgot about BP once, when censorship was first revealed a while ago, I'll forget about it again.
lmao they think blue protocol is bad and want to censor it? have they ever once looked at phantasy star online 2?
As someone who felt like a target audience for this purroduct, I can't see myself playing this now. I wonder how many other audiences will clamor onto it though...?
Always pirate to avoid BS censorship. 😎
Yes sir
You are not helping creators who don't support censorship
Yes they will never learn
Just get a vpn and buy the Japanese version
@@luksalter8200 just support them through other ways like merchandise or whatever other products.
What's the point of playing an mmo if you can't play as a loli?
Yup, Blueball Protocol.
ha funny
What happened to an option that allowed censorship to be turned on/off?
The only time I can accept somewhat censorship is when they put a option for streamers to stream the game. An OPTION meaning you're not force to have censorship and you can play the game uncernsored. Overall I hate censorship in general and the worst is, as a European we usually take the blow from the US even tho we're more lenient about it, sometimes we do manage to avoid it but not everytime.
Rating Systems are commonly known for being ignored, as 9 years old permeate the 17+ CoD lobbies, yet they must achieve the T rating by any means necessary when the game would have got a 17+ at worst as well. Yeah, I don't believe rating was the issue here.
Meanwhile the movie "Cuties" exist .....
Can we sue these people? Seriously. Censorship is no bueno.
Amazon more concerned about 4 puritans complaining on Twatter than whether their employees can afford rent.
I dont understand the thought process of "we must censor this so it doesn't upset potential players." The people who are interested in the game would generally be anime fans or fans of Japanese style games. You don't need to censor the game to appeal to its target audience.
Gamers: literally the most oppressed, censored and shamed minority.
we need a gamer month
Also with censoring it's like we are going back to the 1800s how dare that female show her ankles
it is the midriff tho, but I agree
In todays episode of "The World against Short People":
Goddamnit no! I’ve been waiting for this for years!!
As a costumer, I refuse to buy and play a censor games. Don’t like censorship, then don’t bother.
There is literally nothing to censor based off of what ive played in the JP release, yet they're censoring shit anyway. Its so annoying, im just gonna stick to playing on JP
It blantent racism to the Japanese.
We cannot allow these horrible companies to keep doing this to us anymore! It’s far past time that we all take a stand against this nonsense!