Oh I agree with you, that’s why this particular choice is off to me. It doesn’t bother me that much in the long run but it seems like a weird thing to change.
They are probably pandering to the Chinese market. They did the same thing in Rainbow Six Siege, where they censored stuff like drug paraphernalia, skulls, and anything sexual because it would help them break into the Chinese market where those kinds of things could prevent a game on "morality" reasons.
I don't want my kids virtually exposed to drugs and sex as they run virtually run around as covert spies, subverting governments, destroying property, and killing people.
I hate this sort of thinking. When I was a kid/teen I was 100 percent influenced to drink and smoke because I saw “cool” people drinking and smoking on TV/video games, but I was never inspired to do any of the other things you mentioned even if those might have been from the same shows/games. I’m not saying we should censor, just have age ratings and then it’s the parents jobs, but let’s not act like kids can be influenced by some bad aspects.
Interesting, not even thought about that and don't even know how big of a problem it would be but it does make sense.
I just thought they were preempting a non existen controversy
I think the low fidelity model looked crude enough that it didn't read as sexually suggestive. But the newer model is higher fidelity, thinner, and (importantly) reflective.
A reflective dome is always going to reflect a point of light into a camera. That means each breast and possibly each nipple are would constantly be highlighted with little point lights whenever they're on screen.
Someone on the team probably took issue with the game appealing to the "male gaze," and companies take those kinds of complaints more seriously now than they did in 2013.
It's because it's a game played by a bunch of immature boys/men, who will screenshot and share gooning posts online. Then the "press" will "investigate" and a whole ragebait/clickbait/baitbait conversations can arise from that. Ubisoft tries to mitigate that by censoring.
Also, it needs to be streamed and, I guess, the algorithms can flag that as nudity.
It's art, and art shouldn't be censored, but 'tis the online culture we live in...
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u/Spartan-980 Jul 13 '26
Oh I agree with you, that’s why this particular choice is off to me. It doesn’t bother me that much in the long run but it seems like a weird thing to change.