PlayStation's new censorship making you move away from the brand?

[Conor]

13 minutes ago, Lance_87 said:

I wonder if anyone that keeps mentioning "1984" actually read it. I keep seeing it everywhere, even in novax discussions lmao.

 

It's like it makes you "cooler" by simply naming it.

 

The answer is "No", they have not. I've actually read it and anytime I see chuds invoking it I die a little inside because their ignorance truly knows no bounds and they just put it on full display. 

[Sunny]

Well with the quadrillion stacks of shitty visual novels with tits a galore and questionable content which gets approved almost every day people don't have anything to worry about, I'll never understand why not beat the meat watching porn which is free in most sites or straight up hentai instead of all this over the top drama, meh.

Edited October 6, 2021 by Sunnyburrito

[KingGuy420]

I wonder how many of the people in this thread complaining about censorship, have people on their ignore lists on this site.... There’s gotta be a fairly decent cross section and the irony is pretty great.

Edited October 6, 2021 by KingGuy420

[DJ__Beatroot]

Hell, no, I'm not switching.  So what if they invoke some censorship, although I haven't noticed any real changes.  I play the games for some enjoyment and seeing how badly I can get my butt kicked, not for the blood or violence that PSN is targeting.  

 

And, having the headquarters moving to San Mateo really is a non-issue.

[Zid960]

A Bit. I won't buy any censored game on ps if i know about it. Whent PC for a few years waiting for ps4 to get good. So i'l just buy it on PC as there mostly uncensored or can be uncensored ver mods.

And if it a exclusive thing... well there's emulators. So i will buy it cheap and fix it though that. Like with the wii Fatal Frame game. Buy Japanese then play on pc with English patch

[cubiCampla]

6 minutes ago, Sunnyburrito said:

Well with the quadrillion stacks of shitty visual novels with tits a galore and questionable content which gets approved almost every day people don't have anything to worry about, I'll never understand why not beat the meat watching porn which is free in most sites or straight up hentai instead of all this over the top drama, meh.

 

I feel like they've been a lot more lenient lately. Especially since the PS5 released. I never would have thought the Sakura series of visual novels would be on PSN. Doki Doki Literature Club either.

[Undead Wolf]

30 minutes ago, FrostyMcNugs said:

The only censorship I've even noticed recently is in Super Neptunia RPG with two CGI images changed. Otherwise it's been a while since I heard anything. Even the new Neptunia and Senran Kagura crossover is going to be uncensored supposedly and Mary Skelter Finale was uncensored and that has near-nude anime characters in it.

Edit: I will also say that I wish nothing was ever censored but I can always play the Japanese version of the games if I really wanted to. It's not impossible.

 

The only reason you're not hearing about it as much these days is because the developers have had time to adjust to the censorship policy. In other words, the censorship was built into the product from day one. That's plainly obvious when you look at how toned down that Senran Kagura crossover game is compared to the older games. When the censorship policy was first introduced, it caught the devs off guard, and they had to make changes to the content they already made. That's why there were two versions of the game at the time: censored and uncensored. The devs these days either tone down the game so it can be the same on all platforms (and avoid the backlash), or they skip a PlayStation release entirely. A lot of the games that would have been censored if they were on PlayStation are Switch exclusives now.

 

30 minutes ago, FrostyMcNugs said:

Edit: I will also say that I wish nothing was ever censored but I can always play the Japanese version of the games if I really wanted to. It's not impossible.

 

It's a worldwide censorship policy. The Japanese versions of these games are censored too.

 

8 minutes ago, FrostyMcNugs said:

I feel like they've been a lot more lenient lately. Especially since the PS5 released. I never would have thought the Sakura series of visual novels would be on PSN. Doki Doki Literature Club either.

 

FYI, the PlayStation versions of Doki Doki Literature Club are the only ones that are censored. The PC, Switch, and Xbox versions are uncensored.

 

15 minutes ago, KingGuy420 said:

I wonder how many of the people in this thread complaining about censorship, have people on their ignore lists on this site.... There’s gotta be a fairly decent cross section and the irony is pretty great.

 

There's nothing ironic about that...  If these people you speak of were demanding that others should be silenced, then you might have a point, but choosing to ignore someone is very different. Doesn't surprise me that you aren't able to distinguish between the two though.

[Raidou Kuzunoha XIV]

1 hour ago, Stan Lee said:

 

The answer is "No", they have not. I've actually read it and anytime I see chuds invoking it I die a little inside because their ignorance truly knows no bounds and they just put it on full display. 

 

Reminds me when people were having a field day with a certain line in the House in Fata Morgana, after one of the translator's re-tweeted a fan's screenshot. That line is specifically non-canon and doesn't even exist in any of the non-PC versions as far as I'm aware. But of course people had to chime in with "this goes against the author's intent" and what not in regards to how it was translated. Was plain as day they had never played the visual novel, despite getting their panties in such a bunch over it.

[KingGuy420]

23 minutes ago, Undead Wolf said:

There's nothing ironic about that...  If these people you speak of were demanding that others should be silenced, then you might have a point, but choosing to ignore someone is very different. Doesn't surprise me that you aren't able to distinguish between the two though.

 

You see, I appreciate your right to think that way. You’re entitled to your opinion. If I thought differently and added you to my ignore list, I’d be taking away those basic freedoms and censoring you out of my version of this site. It would literally be self-censoring the site to create a more happy go lucky environment... but I don’t do that because I’m not about censorship =)

 

Now if I was against censorship but decided to censor you out of my life anyways, that would make me a bit of a hypocrite, therefore making it ironic. Seems to me like I touched a bit of a nerve there with my previous comment lol.

Edited October 6, 2021 by KingGuy420

[SoliDeoGloriaIHS]

Quick answer: NO! 

[Eraezr]

Just vote with your wallets. That's all I can say. The same corporations that put out rainbows during specific months or BLM, also run illegal labour camps for their manufacturing in China, while supporting the Uyghur genocide. Disney filmed their Mulan  in locations where the Uyghur genocide happened, supporting CCP. This California HQ might be patting themselves on the back, but really it's just another facet of Western imperialism, pretending to wear the mask of good. Look between the lines. Catherine Full Body (an adult only cast) gets restricted in its censor but a Life is Strange game gets to have minorities fucking each other. It's clandestine racism.

 

I can count more than 10x when I had a polite disagreement with SJWs, only for them to snap in racism as I'm a PoC or another form of incivility. The last SJW I argued with on Discord, got banned last year for sending lewds to a minor in DMs and I only found out about it because I was a moderator rank on the server. In the end, their twisted colours show.

 

To the best of my understanding, I've tried to vote by buying games that weren't restricted on PlayStation, to give anecdata to Sony that they don't need to go full sociopaths about this. I don't think I'll fully leave PlayStation yet because I like the platform, been with it since I was five. However as a contingency, I will buy a Steam Deck this December. On that, I will be able to play both Switch and PC games.

Edited October 6, 2021 by Eraezr

[MD_91]

I could've done without that sex scene in TLOU2 tbh, for more reasons than just censorship

[MaeveWileyy_]

I find it disgusting that games like The last of Us 2 were allowed to have actual nudity in very realistic graphics but they're censoring poor quality anime girls that are fully clothed. They're allowing actual pornography but blacklisting mild erotica.

 

I don't really play these games that are getting censored but I feel that the entire community should come together to stop it from happening. Once we accept it in those genres of games it's going to spread like wildfire across everything else. Just look at what they did to TV, movies, and comic books.

 

Personally, it feels like the top guys in the tech world in America are seeing the rapid rise in popularity of Japanese products such as anime and manga becoming more mainstream, decreasing American revenue streams and profits, and instead of making their own products better, they're trying to reduce the quality of the competition.

 

To answer the question, no. I'm not going to switch brands but I don't spend nearly as much money on Sony anymore.

[AJ_Radio]

In this politically correct, overly sensitive world we live in, people will report you for practically anything. 
 

Just be wary if you guys get into a heated argument over PS messages on PSN. I got a warning from Sony several months back after I got into an argument with somebody. 
 

Be careful what you say online.

[TheAbyssWalker61]

28 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said:

In this politically correct, overly sensitive world we live in, people will report you for practically anything. 
 

Just be wary if you guys get into a heated argument over PS messages on PSN. I got a warning from Sony several months back after I got into an argument with somebody. 
 

Be careful what you say online.

you just have to look the brainwashing comments to see the problem, "they are not censoring my hippie games so i dont care" these people  it's the one that talks about empathy and care about others lol, but this it's a trend it will stop in some moment, keep the comment.

Edited October 7, 2021 by TheAbyssWalker61

[Deadvember]

What censorship? They just gave away a ps+ game where you play as nazis. Not really sure you can get much more extreme than nazis. Sony seem to be handling their games fine, it's certain countries that have issues with blood/gore/adult content etc.

Anything illegal or boarder line weird like young looking people being sexualised then yes that should be banned. I don't understand the whole school child anime stuff that's all over the place these days, would rather that stuff gets banned on all platforms tbh.

[Jelly Soup]

43 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said:

In this politically correct, overly sensitive world we live in, people will report you for practically anything. 
 

Just be wary if you guys get into a heated argument over PS messages on PSN. I got a warning from Sony several months back after I got into an argument with somebody. 
 

Be careful what you say online.

 

Yeah, rule of thumb when talking over console networks, keep it to hello/bye and GG. Anything else say over discord or just let it go.

Also don't connect your PSN to the official discord thing when it's released in a few months, that's just asking for trouble.

[MonaSaxPayne]

speaking of censorship, they deleted my user name last night, that I've had since 2006

 

apparently HondaHoe is offensive and against their ToS ?

 

guess I should be grateful they didn't delete my account, trophies or games.... considering ALL my games have been digital since the later half of the PS3 life cycle

[SnakeSound222]

No. Why would it?

[Floorkiller74]

4 hours ago, Stan Lee said:

 

The answer is "No", they have not. I've actually read it and anytime I see chuds invoking it I die a little inside because their ignorance truly knows no bounds and they just put it on full display. 

 

 

I have nothing to add to this discussion. I just wanted to give you a shout out for calling people chuds, LOL

[matigrosso91]

Every single time this discussion starts again: 

 

 

 

 

To answer the question: no. 

Edited October 7, 2021 by matigrosso91

[AJ_Radio]

1 hour ago, Jelly Soup said:

 

Yeah, rule of thumb when talking over console networks, keep it to hello/bye and GG. Anything else say over discord or just let it go.

Also don't connect your PSN to the official discord thing when it's released in a few months, that's just asking for trouble.

 

I don't need to be reminded, I'm 33 years old and have been using social media since I was around 17 years old. This needs to be a lesson for the young people, because I've seen many get in trouble over what they said regarding gestures and slang.

[Skurkitty]

Wasn't even aware this was a thing. I mean I know the hentai visual novels are censored to cut out the well... hentai part. But outside of that genre of game, what would be an example of this? If I've played a game that was censored in any way I definitely did not notice at all.

[Jelly Soup]

14 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said:

 

I don't need to be reminded, I'm 33 years old and have been using social media since I was around 17 years old. This needs to be a lesson for the young people, because I've seen many get in trouble over what they said regarding gestures and slang.

 

I intended that as more of an open advice thing to passers by than anything else. No need to display your age point average, I know you're experienced.

[MissShake]

I find it interesting that no one complained about Mobius Final Fantasy's censorship, but the moment a waifu character gets any changes everyone is up in arms.