(12-30-2023, 01:58 AM)Uncle wrote: what has me more convinced of peoples' sincerity, that they've been dealing with this shit for years and enough is enoughcorrect, and thankfully creators are also seeing that staying true to the source material and protecting their work gets rewarded and leads to success
In fact you'll see that most creators who did not bend to the whims of the shall we say vocal communities who demanded censorship, accessibility and forced diversity found the most success when the dust settled. There are success stories with making niche games more approachable from a gameplay and mechanics standpoint but none in terms of content changes.
It will be interesting to see what happens with Stellar Blade on PS5. Sony is publishing a game from an artist best known for waifu gacha games who gets praised for those designs by his fellow creators. Now the question is, will Sony censor and tame it down for the west like they demand third party titles on their platform to be censored? If they don't it basically ends their censorship regime.
Nintendo is having such success that they won't change their "don't worry she's a 9000 year old dragon" policy anytime soon but that will eventually lead to a clash with Nintendo Treehouse as it's not hard to guess where the Fire Emblem and Xenoblade teams will use the more powerful Switch 2 GPU for.
