It looks like people are claiming the design is self-censored to comply with Sony policies but that's going to be very difficult to prove.
Sure it would be difficult to prove. But my standard here would be "more likely than not", and we have several factors going on here that make me think it's likely:
The previous game had nothing like this.
From what I understand, this does not seem to appear in older pre-release footage.
There appears to be no attempt to clarify that the game is not censored; the user was simply banned and the thread was locked.
Gust's previous statement about censorship seemed awfully cagey, basically amounting to saying that the game wouldn't be censored in localization.
To me that's enough to qualify as more likely than not.
Sure it would be difficult to prove. But my standard here would be "more likely than not", and we have several factors going on here that make me think it's likely:
The previous game had nothing like this.
From what I understand, this does not seem to appear in older pre-release footage.
There appears to be no attempt to clarify that the game is not censored; the user was simply banned and the thread was locked.
Gust's previous statement about censorship seemed awfully cagey, basically amounting to saying that the game wouldn't be censored in localization.
To me that's enough to qualify as more likely than not.