Star Ocean 5 censorship of a woman 18 years old due to western pressure.

[outlawauron]

Teeqoz said:

outlawauron said:

This just isn't true at all. Companies make decisions to appease minorities knowing that it will not have any tanigble positive impact. At best case, it gets people talking about the game. Looking at Star Ocean 5's sales, it's not hard to argue that this could have negatively impacted sales.

Also TQ, this wasn't changed from the Japanese release, they changed the game for all regions. Hence, the scathing comments about "Square bowing down to the West". I mean, I'd at least read some information about this beforehand

In that case they did it because they thought the potential negative PR from not doing it would impact their bottom line in the future. They wouldn't have done shit with it if they literally thought it would not have any positive impact to their bottom line in the long run at all.

In the end, my point was that SE wasn't forced to do anything. They made this decision themselves. I don't care that they did it to appease someone else, it was still their decision, and they wouldn't have had to do it if they didn't want to. So too bad for SE!

What you're also missing is that no one believes that Tri-Ace did this decision on their own. Square making a decision would mean that something forced on them from someone not actually making the game.