The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be censored in the Arab region

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Ka-pi96 said:
Good thing the consoles are region free these days then

Yeah thank god. I'm getting the real PAL version from Europe and noth the Middle-East PAL one.

KLXVER said:
Yeah, they have to protect the people from violent video games so they don't get distracted from the weekly stoning and beheadings of helpless women...

Dude, I think you need to stop watching ISIS videoes of stoning and beheading people. No one is practicing this thing anymore here. Well, except for Saudie Arabia :P

GribbleGrunger said:

Is 'Arab Region' an idiom for groin?

Sorry, you can blame it on my English. It's not my 1st language XD

Drazgonow said:

Captain_Yuri said:
Too bad cause I hate censorship but I get why it has to be done in this case

becasue of moronic religious fundementalist nut jobs. 

PieToast said:

"clothe up naked women and decrease the amount of blood shed in battles. Even though we haven’t received confirmation, but we also speculate that certain scenes will be deleted and the dialogue itself will be toned down whenever it references drink, sex, or cursing."

So the dialoge will be reinterpreted so the translation would make more sense. I don't care but that's good, but it's gonna lose some of it's pizzazz.

For fucks sake though. I get why they might sensor the female body (because it's art) but what's wrong with blood and alcoholic references? It shouldn't be in any committee's jurisdiction to decide now that the audience will be offended by blood and the existence of alcohol in this one particular title.

The problem isn't from the censorshipboard in the Middle-East. Sure it played a part of the issue, but it's CDPR who censored their own game, I guess they were afraid of the game being banned, which is kind of werid since thwe 1st two games were available during their launch here.

QUAKECore89 said:
HAH! I will buy it uncensored!

Actually, you mean Middle East.

Same here bro. PAL version from UK all the way. You are the 2nd one who noticed the Middle-East/Arab region thing. My bad :)

starcraft said:
Guys, political discussion is fine. Human rights criticisms are fine.

Be very careful you don't stray into racist comments about people of Arabic descent please.

I don't mind talking about these things since they don't offence me. But it's the wrong forum to discuss it. I like to show other people that the Middle-East isn't that screwed like what the western media is telling them. Sure, we have peoblmes here, but we do love our video games XD

DexInDaJungle said:
Are western RPGs even a big thing in the middle East? I mean will enough people even care about this game to justify this censorship?

Japanese RPG are big here, espicially Final Fantasy and Persona. As for western RPG, Skryim and Dragon Age are the shit here. Mass Effect is also popular because it's banned, and anything banned is more desirable to buy here XD. And War of Warcraft is basically played the all the PC gamers here. As for the witcher, the game was released in some countries while banned in other, censoring Witcher 3 came from CDPR themselves. I guess that want to make sure the game will be released in all Middle-East countries instead of couple of them. This is the 2nd time a game got censored in and having a "Middle-East" version here, 1st case was with watch dogs. Middle-East is getting big on games these days, and publishers want to get there games instead of a ban. Same thing with those Gwerman version of games where they have to censor blood and violence for the german release. For me, it's ok if some players are more religious and don't want to see sex and nudity, but I'm one of those people who are against cenosrship. Why can't they offer both versions?? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who wants to play the full game.