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teigaga on 25 November 2015
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Lawlight said:
teigaga said:

Highlighted the meat of the point since you seemed to have missed it. 

Next will the same japnese devs stop releasing their games in the west because they don't like what our reviewers say about them? Essentially no one should be looking to blame freedom of speech of what is essentially just a developer lacking backbone/conviction. OR, more likely, them looking for an excuse not to localise their game. 


It's not just reviewers.


No, its also people who  have never had any interest in buyig the games and have no real stake in its success, again why the "backlash" is irrelevant and if anything will act as a promotional tool for this highly niche game that would struggle to sell on its own merit. It should have no negatve impact on the bottom line, the fact it does is a failure of the developers to respond properly to the air of discussion/critcism. This DOA spin off exists almost soley to fetishise its characters, anyone who dislikes that was never its target audience to begin with. Those who do like it aren't going to be turned off by a twitter hashtag or an article about gender representation.

Again I site GTA as a game which has unrivaled backlash that expands beyond the equivalent of blog posts and opinion pieces and actually gets featured on news and discussed in politics. They went out of their way to make a M rated experience for adults and teens, they accept that the appeal in the game is the same thing that opens it up for critism. This should be no different.