sanitising parts to be in accordance with console standards or censoring the game, depending on who you ask.
It’s censorship, I don’t really see how one could argue (well) that it’s not. Self-censorship is still censorship, and seeing as the rationale for this change was specific platform policies, I think it’s absolutely fair to view the change happening on PC critically.
Honestly, the story and gameplay is still very dark and gritty, so I don’t think these changes would’ve had much backlash had they been this way from the start. Sometimes explicit content isn’t strictly required to get a point across, and can make a game less accessible, so I can understand games having a warning with a toggle.
But I’m very against total censorship. This reminds me a lot of when Superhot VR removed multiple scenes 4 years after the game’s release, because they were related to self-harm or suicide. Note that the game had a warning on launch as well as a toggle for this content. The linked article does a great deep dive on it, but imo I think the change really does affect the game. I got done with it (post-censorship) and did not see the hype. The game wasn’t very long and didn’t have many “whoa” moments. But shooting yourself… that’s something that you can only really do in VR, assuming it’s not coded in to a flatscreen game. And it would’ve fit into the game’s plot and themes very well.
I felt bad for buying this game after i found out the devs are fascist bootlickers
What did the devs do?
You’d think the “literal SWAT police simulator” structure would speak for itself…
Also their refusal to admit to blatent usage of AI generated art for their assets.
Everyone hates the cops. Instill they need them.
When police go on strike the crime rates stay the same
In the US, the crime rates would plummet. Especially shootings. 🥲
you’d think that it would just be made available as like a settings option or something. would probably be much easier and keep everyone happy.
they still could just make it a settings option, honestly. literally so many games have them now.
First mod ideas?
It’s really weird those minor changes became such a big deal, especially since there also seemed to have been real performance hits and other issues.
Everything else got drowned out by something 99.99% of people just won’t care about
Well, they also lost all my future DLC sales.
Not because I mind the censorship but because it insults me that their PC playerbase is not even worth a simple toggle for the censorship.
Same, they do not get a cent from me anymore.
True… I’m not happy about the censorship but I don’t really care because it’s not that bad honestly. However, the PC version looks a lot worse now because I guess they were too stupid to make a proper system in place were they could have a PC build and console build separately. I booted the game up and could instantly tell that the game looked worse than it did before, even at ultra.
