Yes your post shows that education apparently is lacking very much, before belittling others for their "knowledge" learn to type, spell and use of baic grammer. Mine is far from perfect but yours is bad especially with your remarks about "education".
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I think they made the right move and they knew it was easily modable so anyone that cares can just do that, I believe they planned that and it was the companies call I think it was gross to have it and quite frankly perverted and uneeded BUT this whole "YOUR A PEDO FOR WANTING IT" "YOUR A REPRESSED PEDO FOR NOT" argument is so CHILDISH and stupid its needs to stop SOME people might just not like it and find it uncomfortable just the same as nudity and other things in the game like i do not like it and am glad i don't have to see it i don't get why if you can MOD it what the problem it? maybe I'm missing something the faces can't be?
never said mine was perfect, my grammer and spelling is horrible but i still made it out of k-12 near the top. Something that show how wrong the education system is in how it never correct this lol.
On topic, i do agree the agrument for and against is extremely childish. Its really who preference and cultural back ground difference between east and west and plague many thing outside of games as well.
The censorship of TERA has nothing to do with the government. It was a choice by the publisher to make a change that the west would feel more comfortable with.
Freedom of speech and freedom to do whatever you want are two completely different things. Freedom of speech is a right to ensure that all opinions on a matter are voiced. It is a way of preventing corruption and promoting transparency.
The people voiced their opinion with regards to the Elin, not the government.
In my opinion, En Masse and Frogster didn't westernize it enough. The extreme cutesy'ness of it is one of the big reasons I canceled my preorder. Its also extremely sexual. The armors are just over the top. So what do you get when you combine extreme sexual outfits and tele-tubby type cuteness?
Regardless of whether Elin are in the game or not. You don't combine kiddy cute stuff with sexual stuff and expect it to go mainstream in the west.
Yea the game is just to cutsey flutsey for my likings. The combat was interesting and kind of fun but a couple issues still had me concerned such as the self root when attacking and having to always mouse click to attack. But the deal breaker for me was the bikini chainmail armor as well as the, Honey Bees, unicorns and lollypop monsters. I jsut dont like Asian themed games and I never will.
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Yea the game is just to cutsey flutsey for my likings. The combat was interesting and kind of fun but a couple issues still had me concerned such as the self root when attacking and having to always mouse click to attack. But the deal breaker for me was the bikini chainmail armor as well as the, Honey Bees, unicorns and lollypop monsters. I jsut dont like Asian themed games and I never will.
Implying a large portion of the game isn`t extremely dark and sinister while another huge part is completely sci-fi and mechanical while only a few zones are actually cutesy like that, one of them being unfortunately the very first zone of the game. This game has a bit of everything, and I love that about it.
Also couldn`t you just roll an Aman, Baraka or Human if you didn`t like the slutty armor?
At higher levels you don`t even ride a pegasus anymore, you ride a jet black dragon.
is generally what they're going to look like in-game...and if so...
if you've made such a rediculous effort to censor the elin's clothing style so they don't look like over-sexualized underaged girls...why have they also gone to extreme lengths to make the westernized faces look so much MORE like children's faces than the originals?
does anyone else think this kind of oxymoronic behaviour is odd? o.0 you've halved the starting and continuing population of the game as a company...then decided at the same time you're going to make the original child-like image you're trying to protect even more child-like...and somehow a pair of short shorts is going to balance it out? o.0
I've made this observation as someone who has the ability to legally play both NA and Korean servers...so I will be choosing the kr servers purely out of my objection towards censorship of artistic freedoms...just wondering if North Americans (who seem to be the ones who are always yelling about freedom of speech and so on) are actually going to let this slide as just some kind of angry rhetoric...or are you planning on actually taking some form of action...especially with your recent run-ins with government trying to censor your internet content...
big brother is kinda nosing in a little too much...slowly but surely...little bit at a time so you don't notice it...but it starts like this and one day we'll just accept that we're being censored?
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with the discussion or the debate. It protects exactly what it says, speech, and art that either declares something or was created under the assumption of free speech (for instance, selling religious artwork will afford you a lot more protection than selling lolicon on the corner). The debate over Elin is as an artform, that falls under federal laws governing what is considered "obscene" vs what is considered "art", a set of laws very much written in the gray area that drastically need a rewrite. A bit of topic but there's a lot more than just "free speech" involved in the whole Elin issue.
Whether or not it would have become a legal/government issue was never to be seen. Due to said obscenity laws, it's difficult for artists to know just where certain lines are drawn (as I said, they're extremely ambiguous) and thus many prefer not to take the chance to begin with. The publishers of the US Version of TERA would happen to be one of those people; it's likely the original depiction of the Elin wouldn't have been a large enough issue for the government to step in, but it also wasn't worth the amount of time and money wasted on PR and potential legal battles with various "moral" factions throughout the US. In the end, it was the company that decided to alter the Elin, no one else had the chance to get involved.
Also, those child-like faces are available in other versions as well. In the Korean version, I've seen both very anime and very realistic child faces as options, what you see on that banner just happens to be one of the latter options. And no, I don't think anyone minded that a child-like race was in the game, it's that they were sexualized that started the fires.
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I'm pretty sure the change happened because of feedback from the people. I personally don't care either way.
Just not worth my time anymore.
never said mine was perfect, my grammer and spelling is horrible but i still made it out of k-12 near the top. Something that show how wrong the education system is in how it never correct this lol.
On topic, i do agree the agrument for and against is extremely childish. Its really who preference and cultural back ground difference between east and west and plague many thing outside of games as well.
Yea the game is just to cutsey flutsey for my likings. The combat was interesting and kind of fun but a couple issues still had me concerned such as the self root when attacking and having to always mouse click to attack. But the deal breaker for me was the bikini chainmail armor as well as the, Honey Bees, unicorns and lollypop monsters. I jsut dont like Asian themed games and I never will.
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Implying a large portion of the game isn`t extremely dark and sinister while another huge part is completely sci-fi and mechanical while only a few zones are actually cutesy like that, one of them being unfortunately the very first zone of the game. This game has a bit of everything, and I love that about it.
Also couldn`t you just roll an Aman, Baraka or Human if you didn`t like the slutty armor?
At higher levels you don`t even ride a pegasus anymore, you ride a jet black dragon.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with the discussion or the debate. It protects exactly what it says, speech, and art that either declares something or was created under the assumption of free speech (for instance, selling religious artwork will afford you a lot more protection than selling lolicon on the corner). The debate over Elin is as an artform, that falls under federal laws governing what is considered "obscene" vs what is considered "art", a set of laws very much written in the gray area that drastically need a rewrite. A bit of topic but there's a lot more than just "free speech" involved in the whole Elin issue.
Whether or not it would have become a legal/government issue was never to be seen. Due to said obscenity laws, it's difficult for artists to know just where certain lines are drawn (as I said, they're extremely ambiguous) and thus many prefer not to take the chance to begin with. The publishers of the US Version of TERA would happen to be one of those people; it's likely the original depiction of the Elin wouldn't have been a large enough issue for the government to step in, but it also wasn't worth the amount of time and money wasted on PR and potential legal battles with various "moral" factions throughout the US. In the end, it was the company that decided to alter the Elin, no one else had the chance to get involved.
Also, those child-like faces are available in other versions as well. In the Korean version, I've seen both very anime and very realistic child faces as options, what you see on that banner just happens to be one of the latter options. And no, I don't think anyone minded that a child-like race was in the game, it's that they were sexualized that started the fires.
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lol so giving historical example is consider talking politics....