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Ion Fury to retain homophobic content after all
- Thread starter Biestmann
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What cowards -- of course they'd fall back on the "censorship" excuse. Didn't have any interest in this game previously, but I'll be sure not to purchase any Voidpoint products from now on.
We aren't going to censor the game from hateful slurs but please respect our need to keep our community forums clean from hateful messages.
Makes sense lol
Makes sense lol
What really gets me is how ridiculously binary and reductive the whole narrative and framing surrounding censorship in games has become. Games as commercial products have creative decisions "censored" by external mandate (usually the publisher) all the time for countless different reasons, including whether something won't go over well with X demographic for Y reasons.
Yo if you think they're being sincere I got a bridge to sell you.
Look at the tone of this part of the statement:
I'm not going to believe that 3D Realms were sincere with their statement when they'll even walk back something as easy to do as changing a soap bottle's texture to appeal to the homophobes who are mad at them.
It's strange to me because this isn't even really a matter of censoring something that's like....IMPLYING something bad, or something that people could argue over whether it's offensive or not.
This is just straight up offensive/homophobic stuff that they're standing their ground on for some reason, not a good look.
This is just straight up offensive/homophobic stuff that they're standing their ground on for some reason, not a good look.
So they're trying to appease their harassers that are review bombing the game on Steam over changing the OGAY soap bottles and the term "f*gbag" being hidden from general view of players?
As others have said, they've made it clear which part of their audience matters more. Disgusting and disappointing. What a damn shame.
It's embarrassing and enfurating that this side of video game fandom has established such an influence in this industry. Makes me ashamed to openly express my lifelong love of gaming.
It's embarrassing and enfurating that this side of video game fandom has established such an influence in this industry. Makes me ashamed to openly express my lifelong love of gaming.
Because is not only childish and inmature is also keeps the homophobic nature of "being gay" used as an insult or as a negative thing.
Is totally 80's/90's edgy humour that now simply is not even funny, is just wrong.
This stood out to me too. They're not fooling anyone with this toothless message.
Were you not eligible for the refund option? It would be worth a try.i wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt with that apology. after this, fuck it. my morals are more important than the money i spent on this:
I though this was about done with, but a company digging their heels into the biggest pile of cow dung they can find is the most 2019 thing I can think of.
And that was in 2010, which was a largely different time in terms of what was okay as humor and what wasn't.
Yup, the alt-right sure loves to take words and detach them from their original meaning. Their head canon meaning of "censorship" and "free speech" are basically eject buttons when cornered in a reasonable conversation.
See, beyond all the bigotry, the jokes aren't funny. We stopped laughing at calling things gay in 2005, come join us in the modern era. I can write better ones in my sleep. God, if only someone could hand them a kid's jokebook, their humor might improve.
Obviously these slurs are so important to the message of the game that removing them would be considered censorship. They absolutely should pull the game.
By hateful messages, I'm certain they just mean anyone speaking out against bigotry.
Welp back to hoping this somehow game flops hard and takes the devs down with it.
Also is DF going to ever address this since they basically gave the game a glowing endorsement?
Also is DF going to ever address this since they basically gave the game a glowing endorsement?
Don't forget F**bag:
Wow what hilarious jokes. The integrity of this work definitely would have been compromised if they'd removed them.
That's damn disappointing. I sympathize that 3DRealms got spooked due to all the negative reviews and probably faced financial consequences, but the message this reversal sends is pretty bad.
It should be pretty obvious who the toxic part of the community here is. Hint: It's the one aggressively review-bombing a game about two absurdly minor changes while loudly crying about censorship. I don't care about that stupid bottle one way or the other, but giving in like this just undermines 3DRealms initial apology, sets an ugly precedent and empowers the trolls even further. Sad all around.
It should be pretty obvious who the toxic part of the community here is. Hint: It's the one aggressively review-bombing a game about two absurdly minor changes while loudly crying about censorship. I don't care about that stupid bottle one way or the other, but giving in like this just undermines 3DRealms initial apology, sets an ugly precedent and empowers the trolls even further. Sad all around.
"We forced the team to take equality courses"
*1 week later*
"Well, you know we want to team to express themselves without 'censorship' even if that means allowing them putting their shitlord jokes in the game, but don't worry no publicly being shitlords on forums, they can be shitlords in their games and privately"
*1 week later*
"Well, you know we want to team to express themselves without 'censorship' even if that means allowing them putting their shitlord jokes in the game, but don't worry no publicly being shitlords on forums, they can be shitlords in their games and privately"
User banned (permanent): trolling, account in junior phase
I'm actually happy about this. Censorship doesn't belong in video games at all, nor does personal politics. My stance on these type of cases is always that companies can do whatever they want with their product as long as they keep their (or others) personal political stands out of their products.
Cool. Then they can stay in their hateful bubble of bigotry with their fans. They'll never have me as a customer.
The very fact that they walked it back is proof they were never censored. There were no legal authority trying to shut them down. They said some disgraceful things and put slurs in their game, then apologised and walked it all back when they were caught. That is not censorship.
Now they're actually trying to market themselves with it, citing "gamings most controversial facial wash." They turned their bigotry into a selling point.
The very fact that they walked it back is proof they were never censored. There were no legal authority trying to shut them down. They said some disgraceful things and put slurs in their game, then apologised and walked it all back when they were caught. That is not censorship.
Now they're actually trying to market themselves with it, citing "gamings most controversial facial wash." They turned their bigotry into a selling point.
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"I am against censoring devs in any way. also, devs should never ever get political"
?????????
Imagine falling on your sword for the noble honor of "desperately edgy and emotionally braindead 90s middle schooler humor".