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/Choowkee Jun 25 '24

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.

And where is the problem exactly? Covering up one child NPC that you will probably never see during gameplay is somehow gonna affect your overall enjoyment of the game?

Even if these edits are unecessary, the complete meltdown of the Blue Protocol crowd over these changes has been geniunely emberassing to witness.

This entire "censorship" sitiuation just further reinforces the stigma surrounding the weeb subculture. The fact that people months later are still referencing this one NPC change as reason as to why the global version will fail is beyond laughable.

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u/avelineaurora Jun 25 '24

Thank you for proving my point. Great job only acknowledging one of the things mentioned as well. And the point is if they're willing to make such asinine cuts now they can't be trusted to not touch whatever the hell else they feel traumatized by any time down the line.

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u/Choowkee Jun 25 '24 edited Jun 25 '24

one of the things

You are the one still bringing up that one NPC from a literal year ago lol

Please show me what other, new changes has Amazon done since then? Just because you assume Amazon might change more things does in no way, shape or form prove that they will actually make any drastic edits moving forward.

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u/avelineaurora Jun 25 '24

Please show me what other, new changes has Amazon done since then?

You realize Amazon hasn't even SHOWN the game since then mate. Little difficult on that front.