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What You Need to Know About Head Start & Launch
SBFord
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What You Need to Know About Head Start & Launch
Perhaps this is a little premature, but in the fairness of a slow post-Holiday news week, you’ll have to forgive us for getting excited about Blade & Soul’s impending head start on January 15th (next week!). So as we’re counting down the days, here’s the info you need to get prepped and ready for the moment the servers come on.
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Its a sad state of affairs when the number one reason to play is, "Yes... – what else are you playing in January that’s new? "
Isn't that the truth. CoE where are you!???
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Game's storyline was completely changed because of SJWs, it's not good anymore.
Sorry not sure what a "SJW" is, "Slinky Japanese Woman"???
Yeah I'm not a fan of that. AT ALL. Devilian has a couple of things I hate as well. Cash shops should be about cosmetics and maybe MF boosts. Not stuff that affects your items and power.
Game's storyline was completely changed because of SJWs, it's not good anymore.
Care to elaborate? Did the story require scantily clad players? Was the original story that players could only defeat bosses in their nighties?
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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The quests and storyline, deemed "offensive", was changed, so much so that many quests no longer make any sense whatsoever.
And these people are actually SJW. They think it's their job to be an SJW. The LinkedIn Profile of the creative writer says:
"Experience rewriting culturally unacceptable narratives. More than a typical localization job, we were asked to tear the game down to it's very core and rebuild it with an almost entirely new storyline, motivations, and character archetypes. ".
I kid you not. The whole game was rewritten into SJW form.
These are people that previously lost their job translating movies because they changed the storyline to fit their own idea of what the translation should be.
Ummm ... no. I mean you need less than 5 seconds to open wikipedia (depending on your bandwidth ofc ) so what are you doing here William? Creating your OWN definitions?
"Governments, private organizations and individuals may engage in censorship"
So where do you prefer to draw that line between censorship and "localization" is just your choice but please leave the readers to draw also their line.
and there is no no. seriously. needed.
let's take the authority on the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary
Censorship: "The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable."
This is what happened in Blade & Soul, therefore it is censorship, end of story. There is no room for ambiguity in that definition, nor a need to start to make up your own definitions, the definition is crystal clear.
It bothers me that companies cave into the SJW's, or whatever you want to call them. But why do they? The game is THEIR vision. What THEY wanted it to be? Why don't they tell the censors to go stuff it?
Polygon: "Bayonetta 2's blatant over-sexualization puts a big dent in an otherwise great game"
Other examples often involve female writers critiquing games complaining about the sexyness of the female characters. This happened several times on Gamespot. The FFXV trailer was deemed too sexy by a female writer at Gamespot, the cindy character was showing too much cleavage according to her.
These sites, especially those 3, started docking points when a game had sexy characters, it started to happen about 2 years ago. It doesn't happen with every review, it depends on the reviewer, but it happened enough that people started to notice it.
This is another reason why the gamergate movement exists. These sites are no longer reviewing the game, they are punishing sexy characters by docking points.
This is why Japanese developers got scared, these sites were pressuring them into censoring. This is why no one goes to those sites anymore.
I'll play it, but i hate what they've done to the story and the char-dev.
A good idea of what changed can be found on people's linked-in profiles:
"As a member of the Blade & Soul team, I was part of the effort to rewrite the game from the ground-up for western audiences. More than a typical localization job, we were asked to tear the game down to it's very core and rebuild it with an almost entirely new storyline, motivations, and character archetypes.
• Outlined a multi-act narrative for Blade & Soul.
• Wrote VO scripts for Act II of Blade & Soul.
• Edited VO scripts for Act I and Act III of Blade & Soul.
• Generated supporting lore documentation for Blade & Soul, including character motivations and world histories."