Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship
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Dispatch's release on Nintendo platforms today was poised to be another testament to AdHoc's tremendous success with the point-and-click superhero workplace comedy, but news of a platform-specific difference has overshadowed much of the excitement for fans hoping to play the episodic series on-the-go. Instead of celebrating the release, fans are launching campaigns against Dispatch's censorship, returning their purchases, or refraining from playing it altogether.
Normally, Dispatch contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes involving its gang of ex-villains. AdHoc allows players to toggle sexual content like this off on most platforms. Curiously, however, the newly-released Switch version automatically depicts censored versions of these scenes. There's no option to turn the setting off.
AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, but noted that the overall experience would still be the same for Switch players.
Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.
Havent you heard? Violence appropriate, sex and nudity not. Its totally okay to see people being dismembered, but you better never show a nipple.
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Havent you heard? Violence appropriate, sex and nudity not. Its totally okay to see people being dismembered, but you better never show a nipple.
Female nipple. Male nipples are a-ok.
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Dispatch's release on Nintendo platforms today was poised to be another testament to AdHoc's tremendous success with the point-and-click superhero workplace comedy, but news of a platform-specific difference has overshadowed much of the excitement for fans hoping to play the episodic series on-the-go. Instead of celebrating the release, fans are launching campaigns against Dispatch's censorship, returning their purchases, or refraining from playing it altogether.
Normally, Dispatch contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes involving its gang of ex-villains. AdHoc allows players to toggle sexual content like this off on most platforms. Curiously, however, the newly-released Switch version automatically depicts censored versions of these scenes. There's no option to turn the setting off.
AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, but noted that the overall experience would still be the same for Switch players.
Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.
At this point, after all nintendoing Nintendo did, people still give them money. And who is the crazy in this situation?
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At this point, after all nintendoing Nintendo did, people still give them money. And who is the crazy in this situation?
And they're punishing dispatch devs for their shit choice. They're not returning the consoles or refusing to buy Nintendo, they're returning the game that Nintendo censored.
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Dispatch's release on Nintendo platforms today was poised to be another testament to AdHoc's tremendous success with the point-and-click superhero workplace comedy, but news of a platform-specific difference has overshadowed much of the excitement for fans hoping to play the episodic series on-the-go. Instead of celebrating the release, fans are launching campaigns against Dispatch's censorship, returning their purchases, or refraining from playing it altogether.
Normally, Dispatch contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes involving its gang of ex-villains. AdHoc allows players to toggle sexual content like this off on most platforms. Curiously, however, the newly-released Switch version automatically depicts censored versions of these scenes. There's no option to turn the setting off.
AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, but noted that the overall experience would still be the same for Switch players.
Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.
The fact that they allow Resident Evil Village of all games on the Switch but don't allow this animated nudity scene is insane to me. RE Village was one of the most graphic games I have ever seen.
edit: I Just realized Cyberpunk 2077 was released on it no censorship. How did dispatch get censored but that was allowed through lmao
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At this point, after all nintendoing Nintendo did, people still give them money. And who is the crazy in this situation?
after all nintendoing Nintendo did,
Missed opportunity to use 'Nintendone'
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after all nintendoing Nintendo did,
Missed opportunity to use 'Nintendone'
Oh, I'm sure Nintendo will grant me plenty of possibilities to improve this joke until the excellence
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Female nipple. Male nipples are a-ok.
Twitch also has that rule for streamers.
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Female nipple. Male nipples are a-ok.
Reminds me of the days before Bailey Jay transitioned and got in trouble for showing her breasts while waiting in line at Comicon and then protested "but I'm a boy."
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Reminds me of the days before Bailey Jay transitioned and got in trouble for showing her breasts while waiting in line at Comicon and then protested "but I'm a boy."
It was a meme when I transitioned to post top less pics until they got censored. This was back when free the nipple was a bigger force though
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Twitch also has that rule for streamers.
To be fair, there would be a loooot of nipples on Twitch otherwise. It’d be nipple sea.
Still stupid, though.
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The fact that they allow Resident Evil Village of all games on the Switch but don't allow this animated nudity scene is insane to me. RE Village was one of the most graphic games I have ever seen.
edit: I Just realized Cyberpunk 2077 was released on it no censorship. How did dispatch get censored but that was allowed through lmao
Neither was particularly sexually explicit IIRC.
I dunno, though. Maybe censorship was an “easier” ask since the setting was already there.
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Neither was particularly sexually explicit IIRC.
I dunno, though. Maybe censorship was an “easier” ask since the setting was already there.
Cyberpunk also has a nudity setting in all versions.
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Cyberpunk also has a nudity setting in all versions.
Ah. Then I don’t know.
Maybe a bigger dev just has more leverage?
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The fact that they allow Resident Evil Village of all games on the Switch but don't allow this animated nudity scene is insane to me. RE Village was one of the most graphic games I have ever seen.
edit: I Just realized Cyberpunk 2077 was released on it no censorship. How did dispatch get censored but that was allowed through lmao
Unconfirmed, but the rumor I'm hearing is that AdHoc submitted one universal binary for all regions, and it's CERO who won't allow this content in Japan. FWIW, the JP version of Cyberpunk is also censored, but it's separate from the international release.
It's also worth noting that the JP PS5 version just launched alongside it, separate from last year's international version. Haven't been able to find confirmation on whether that version is censored too, but if it is then it's definitely CERO.
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Ah. Then I don’t know.
Maybe a bigger dev just has more leverage?
This is likely it.
There is also the rumor that this wasn't a choice by Nintendo, but a choice of the dev's so they didn't have to have two separate editions to be able to sell in Japan(like they already do for the playstation edition). If that's the case this makes it even worse IMO since it wasn't like a last minute "BTW this is a thing" they had plenty of time to tell buyers that the product was altered
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This is likely it.
There is also the rumor that this wasn't a choice by Nintendo, but a choice of the dev's so they didn't have to have two separate editions to be able to sell in Japan(like they already do for the playstation edition). If that's the case this makes it even worse IMO since it wasn't like a last minute "BTW this is a thing" they had plenty of time to tell buyers that the product was altered
The later sounds very plausible.
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And they're punishing dispatch devs for their shit choice. They're not returning the consoles or refusing to buy Nintendo, they're returning the game that Nintendo censored.
Well, Nintendo gets a share for any game licenses sold through their store, so it does hurt them somewhat.
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Female nipple. Male nipples are a-ok.
And encouraged, as featured in Nintendo's own Super Mario Odyssey!
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The fact that they allow Resident Evil Village of all games on the Switch but don't allow this animated nudity scene is insane to me. RE Village was one of the most graphic games I have ever seen.
edit: I Just realized Cyberpunk 2077 was released on it no censorship. How did dispatch get censored but that was allowed through lmao
It looks like CERO might be responsible.
CERO is very strict about genitals and dismemberment. CD Projekt Red got around that by having two different versions of Cyberpunk 2077; the version sold on the Japanese eShop is censored so as to comply with CERO, while the European one isn't.
AdHoc doesn't have the same resources as CD Projekt Red, so they might have just made the one version which they sell everywhere.
It's still surprising that Sony is apparently being more lenient than Nintendo for once.
