They left their "real fans" out to dry and get harassed, mocked, and shit on for "losing" for weeks until the game left the news cycle. Now they go back and try to appease them once there is no longer any consequence to doing so, as the narratives have moved on from caring what they do.
Its the most cowardly form of appeasement. They bent the knee and let the anti-censorship side take all the hits for them (and collected the handful of profits off the pro-side buying to stick it to the chuds), then quietly gave them a pity handjob in the back later.
The only way this is a "win" is if you only cared about jerking off. On any of the actual stances about the industry and principles this is still a loss.
If it were paid dlc and not a free patch yeah. But the fact that the censorship itself was so last minute that the it came after the uncensored version was approved and disks manufactured leans toward it Sony being little shits. Nikke is still fanservice: the game (and launching a character with a literal naked skin the day prior to Stellar Blade's launch) so I doubt it's Shift Up's corporate culture that censored that. Between this and Helldivers Sony really ate crow and had to correct course fast.
A strange thing happens when you slum it in the indie PC gaming pool for a few fears: suddenly you have negative interest in AAA gaming. I used to buy half a dozen AAA games a year, but now that number is down to maybe one. I can’t even fathom spending my free time playing a modern AAA game (outside of From Soft). Shallow boring gameplay buried beneath intrusive shit storytelling for $60-70? Fuck off.
Its not even purity testing.
They left their "real fans" out to dry and get harassed, mocked, and shit on for "losing" for weeks until the game left the news cycle. Now they go back and try to appease them once there is no longer any consequence to doing so, as the narratives have moved on from caring what they do.
Its the most cowardly form of appeasement. They bent the knee and let the anti-censorship side take all the hits for them (and collected the handful of profits off the pro-side buying to stick it to the chuds), then quietly gave them a pity handjob in the back later.
The only way this is a "win" is if you only cared about jerking off. On any of the actual stances about the industry and principles this is still a loss.
If you can't take a concession and a win you'll never gain any ground.
If it were paid dlc and not a free patch yeah. But the fact that the censorship itself was so last minute that the it came after the uncensored version was approved and disks manufactured leans toward it Sony being little shits. Nikke is still fanservice: the game (and launching a character with a literal naked skin the day prior to Stellar Blade's launch) so I doubt it's Shift Up's corporate culture that censored that. Between this and Helldivers Sony really ate crow and had to correct course fast.
A strange thing happens when you slum it in the indie PC gaming pool for a few fears: suddenly you have negative interest in AAA gaming. I used to buy half a dozen AAA games a year, but now that number is down to maybe one. I can’t even fathom spending my free time playing a modern AAA game (outside of From Soft). Shallow boring gameplay buried beneath intrusive shit storytelling for $60-70? Fuck off.