I usually give the developers the benefit of the doubt when it comes to realizing their own creative vision.
I do as well but this isnt that kind of circumstance.
im sure there was stuff we don't even know left on the cutting room floor for this game, but it wouldn't have made it into the Japanese version thus isn't censorship.
just unused ideas etc.
Now, I realize that this is a slightly different situation
Exactly it is a different situation
you could say they were "pressured" into making this decision, but it's still ultimately Atlus' decision to make.
just as its my decision to complain about it, then either pirate the game and/or boycott the release or future releases etc.
Typically when a company offends me I cancel pre-orders (when applicable) then either pirate and/or boycott their next game they release that i would have paid for.
If it was a separate publisher or Sony shoving the changes down their throats, then my jimmies might be a bit more rustled over this situation. It wasn't always the case obviously, but patches and DLC are the norm now,
I would be equally as offended but my retribution wouldnt be punitive towards Atlas as they wouldn't be at fault.
patches and DLC are the norm now, which means the development period for games can last years after initial release.
this is annoying but once again we are talking censorship, its not like it was a bug and they are patching it out everywhere.
non-western audiences get no change length of the development period for games has no bearing on this.
It's also important to keep things in perspective: this is four or five lines of dialogue among millions in the game, there's no way anybody would have noticed it without an announcement.
that perspective cuts both ways.
if its so minor that is one of the exact reasons they shouldn't bother with the change in the 1st place because the people who won't care won't care regardless, but the people like me that are principally against censorship will care.
now you could say anti-censorship people are a small minority as are the twitter complainers but i'd argue there are not only more people against censorship but even if that wasn't the case its the slippy slope argument.
once you cave to one bit of censorship why stop there
there's no way anybody would have noticed it without an announcement.
I doubt that, I'd agree fewer may have noticed immediately but there are sites that cover censorship in media and you find out sooner or later regardless of announcement.
Exactly, who cares. It took Atlus less time to edit that dialogue than it did for people to type out even half of the anti-SJW whinging in this thread.
thats the point it took them so little time, its so minor, for the good of the game's interity and the reputation they should have left it.
if it was so bad it shouldn't be in the game it shouldn't have been put there in any public release in the first place.
they made their choice that it was acceptable during initial release, it's hypocritical to censor now.
