Dulfite said:
VAMatt said:
If there were anywhere close to 3mm sales on the line, devs would be doing this. The fact that they aren't offering these options is pretty strong evidence that there aren't anywhere near that many sales to gain by doing so. Many of these companies (especially publishers) are mega-businesses that spend tons of money determining what the market wants. They certainly know a lot more accurately than we do whether or not the ability to remove graphic content from games is likely to bring in enough sales to makeup for the cost of creating such options.
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But companies can be wrong. They could be assuming it incorrectly. Or maybe they don't want to tick off their devs for ruining the "art" of their work, as many other forms of artists get mad about censorship. There could be a number of excuses as to why they don't do it, but case studies should be the only thing deciding it. Why not just build that censorship option into it, ship it, and see how it sells on one game? If sales increase, great! If they don't, then they can either not do it in the future or continue to do it knowing fans like options of how they engage media and every company wants good PR. I don't see the downside to companies expanding the accessibility of their products to a market with a wide range of views.
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Whether you agree or not the people making Cyber Punk 2077 believes showing nudity is a essential part of the world building and getting the emotional impact to tell a story in the Cyber Punk universe therefore I think it very unlikely you get an official option for censoring nudity completely.
This a quote from Adam Badowski on why nudity will be part of the game.
“Nudity is important for us because of one reason,” Badowski said. “This is cyberpunk, so people augment their body. So the body is no longer sacrum [sacred]; it’s profanum [profane]. Because people modify everything, they are losing their connection to the body, to the meat. And that’s why we need to use the nudity in many situations.
“You see that there are bodies in the tub, and you need to take care of this woman. But at the same time she is augmented,” he continued, searching for the right words. “She is not clean. Maybe she is augmented too much. Maybe the humanity level is pretty low in her, so it’s an interesting topic. It’s one of the key themes in cyberpunk. The very first scenes in the original Ghost in the Shell anime show exactly the same aspect. Because where is sacrum and where is profanum in a world when you can simply modify yourself to such limits that it makes you a different kind of person? It’s one of the most important themes in cyberpunk, as a genre.”
Quote take from a article back in 2018 https://www.polygon.com/e3/2018/6/15/17468232/cyberpunk-2077-nudity-transhumanism