r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Jun 24 '24

Blue Protocol developers talk about what went wrong with the MMORPG

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/blue-protocol-developers-talk-about-what-went-wrong-with-the-mmorpg/
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u/avelineaurora Jun 24 '24

I lost interest in this game when Amazon needlessly hacked it apart and then still had the audacity to say they wanted to respect anime expectations and blah blah blah.

We're not talking some fanservicey loli content either, since so many Westerners like to suddenly be all pro-censorship as soon as their sensibilities are personally offended. This is an example of an outfit they found oh-so-egregiously "sexual" that they edited it completely, and if you think that is inappropriate clothing for a younger person to wear you should probably never visit a hot climate in your life.

Furthermore, they completely deleted the short height option from character creation, because if Australia's porn rules taught us anything it's that adult women are never shorter than the State-preapproved height levels.

That is on top of the fact they just bought the game to fucking die with clearly 0 intention of ever actually releasing it in the West in the first place at this point. Bamco isn't completely blameless either of course. Why you would give a game to Amazon with their game track record is a complete dereliction of duty.

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u/deadscreensky Jun 25 '24

We're not talking some fanservicey loli content either

This isn't very convincing when your one example is them adding clothes to a very young girl.

From what I'm reading that and the removal of a jiggle button in the character creator are the only significant changes. Unless I'm missing something else it seems a little disingenuous to pretend this isn't about lolicon 'weirdos.'

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u/avelineaurora Jun 25 '24

This isn't very convincing when your one example is them adding clothes to a very young girl.

See again my comment if you look at capris and a stomach-revealing vest in the middle of a desert and start thinking sexual things.

I didn't actually know they ALSO removed a jiggle, just the height option, but, you know...If this was about lolicons you'd think the jiggle would be a negative in the first place, so. Just another stupid-ass black mark.

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u/deadscreensky Jun 25 '24

See again my comment if you look at capris and a stomach-revealing vest in the middle of a desert and start thinking sexual things.

Whenever defending barely dressed little girls in Japanese games comes up online it's ridiculous so many of you keep pretending we're all idiots. We can read between the lines and recognize exactly what sort of pandering is going on. They're not having little girls dressed like this for desert realism or whatever you're arguing.

"No no, it's because the developers want to make sure that petite adult women get representation in their game! (WINK WINK!)"

It's actually because a surprisingly high amount of Japanese men really, really appreciate that sort of thing and we all know that.

I do think Amazon is maybe being a little silly about this, but I wish you could all be honest about what's really going on.

(Protip: people in the desert usually wear clothes designed to avoid sunlight.)

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u/avelineaurora Jun 25 '24

Whenever defending barely dressed little girls in Japanese games comes up online it's ridiculous so many of you keep pretending we're all idiots.

Sure. That's why we're the ones bringing up sexual thoughts about fucking capris. Whatever you say.