Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship
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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."
"line trap" was literally when I realized I was into trans women, lol
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This is good. People are learning through experience to not buy any non-exclusive game through Nintendo.
When people learn to not buy anything whatsoever Nintendo, I will have a little more hope for humanity.
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When people learn to not buy anything whatsoever Nintendo, I will have a little more hope for humanity.
In fairness I have experienced the temptation to buy a Switch 2 simply for Mario Kart World. The game looks like a masterpiece that you can't get anywhere else. The only limiting factor was Nintendo's management of the game and how they force people to play intermissions. (And 500 dollars holy shit). But then Sonic Racing Crossworlds released and it was good enough for me.
That's why in my original comment I said non-exclusive games because if we purely looked at the games, a lot of the exclusive games are bangers so I understand why people still buy from Nintendo.
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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 amount of waifu and furry porn games in the Switch store is higher than you’d think. Why censor Dispatch?
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Damn, that makes all that early risque marketing make sense now.
Damn.
Nintendo also had some risqué ads especially for the GameBoy
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And? Who fucking cares?
Who fucking cares?
Credit card companies.
And their ad buyers, maybe.
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If they think you're doing anything they don't like, they can remote block you from Nintendo networks. Which I'm fine with, but it prevents you from being able to reset the device or play local games.
So anything you bought is now useless and unplayable, they got your money, so fuck you.
Even in the argument that you only bought a license to the game (not the game itself); why are they not required to refund the license they took from you? The deal is broken, give the money back.
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Even in the argument that you only bought a license to the game (not the game itself); why are they not required to refund the license they took from you? The deal is broken, give the money back.
Exactly. If they want to block their network, fine, but to not allow you to play physical games you bought, fuck that. I'll never give Nintendo another dollar. I have a steam deck and hacked switch, fuck them. And I share all their rooms on soulseek, including switch roms.
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The amount of waifu and furry porn games in the Switch store is higher than you’d think. Why censor Dispatch?
Taller trees catch more wind
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Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.
And literally owns Bayonetta
Sega own Bayonetta, Nintendo just license it and pay PlatinumGames to make it.
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I think this is very likely the reason yea.
I'm also now finding out that they had to censor the coverart of the switch 2 edition a few weeks ago as well which I was unaware of. If it turns out they knew for awhile that it would be censored, and just chose not to tell anyone that is going to permanently damper my opinion of their studio. Like it's one thing to be like "This was forced upon us last minute so we threw a solution together" it's a whole different situation of knowing that it was going to happen, then refusing to tell the consumers about it since you knew it would lower sales.
Along with that, we asked for comment from AdHoc concerning the decision to censor Dispatch’s Deluxe Edition artwork on the Nintendo eShop as compared to the PC/PS5 release, and if that indicated any censorship in the game itself. We were told that “unfortunately, the studio cannot comment on the topic at this time.” Along with that, it was said that if AdHoc is able to discuss the matter down the road, their comment would be shared with us.
It sounds to me like they knew this change was going to be required at that point, but didn't want to publicly announce that, which puts a pretty bad taste in my mouth about the intent of the studio.
GoNintendo got an official response from Nintendo
Nintendo requires all games on its platforms to receive ratings from independent organizations and to meet our established content and platform guidelines. While we inform partners when their titles don’t meet our guidelines, Nintendo does not make changes to partner content. We also do not discuss specific content or the criteria used in making these determinations.
Vague, but it definitely sounds like the issue is with a ratings agency, not Nintendo.
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And? Who fucking cares?
Something about it giving teen boys a higher propensity for porn addiction, and maybe teen girls issues in relation to self-image and what they have to do for validation
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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.
I'm so fucking sick of censorship and the morons that perpetuate it.
If you don't want to see something? Fine. That doesn't mean you should get to hide it from everyone else, though.
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Taller trees catch more wind
This. It's okay to be risque as long as the Disney/Apple crowd doesn't catch wind of it.
As soon as they get on board, it's all over and time to jump ship.
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Yep. In the words of George R. R. Martin
“You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.”
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