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[@BellularNews]

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[@rickybuhl3176]

Little story over on the Tarkov side of things today..

[@AlexTenThousand]

CERO's stance on gore is the very reason why DBZ Kakarot was the first Japanese-developed Dragon Ball game to feature Future Gohan with his arm missing instead of having it limp.

[@wardy4903]

Just another reason for kids obsessed with working for free for their faborite devs to think about it a little harder. You arent paid, and your work will disappear without a trace eventually and its completely legal for a company that supports LBP or roblox to do that.

[@zetsumeinaito]

PC Master race!

[@daniellacomb917]

Dude when i was a kid i drew a shitload of mario and mario 64 levels on paper. Woulda been awesome if they had mario maker back then. I never thought of it as work, tho i woulda been pissed if someine ripped my paper up

[@freeweights101]

​@@zetsumeinaito lot of PC games are being removed in a fast rate to. Steam is a good company but if they ever turn villain they can delete alot of games if they wanted to as well

[@zetsumeinaito]

​@@freeweights101 Unlike console, the user power is strong. You can get specific game builds that you prefer even if it's not 'officially acceptable'. Which means even if a game updates randomly(Skyrim) you can just play the old build with your old mods, and they'll always work. Another example is Palworld. In older builds you could 'catch' bosses, and it was patched out now. I own Palworld, but I still got the old build just to get the bosses, then port over my save to my official copy. I own a game, and I should be able to play it how I want, which is impossible to do on console. Besides, "games getting removed" was never the argument. The argument was a game change that causes user content to disappear. That would include mods, and even relates to Nintendo copyright removing mods from Gary's Mod. Unlike console, PC lets you just grab those mods and user content from non publisher sites anyway.

[@freeweights101]

@@zetsumeinaito actually older PC games are being removed or unplayable at a faster rate. There a video on it. Need to find the link. U can talk about how good PC is when they took your CD drive away. It's happening to digital games across all gaming

[@vbun4662]

That graffiti story is honestly hilarious. It's definitely just a coincidence with no ill intent because the studio is not an American one. I could see there being a case if this was an American studio behind the game where one artist just tried to do something cheeky but this is clearly just cultural obliviousness. I'm reminded of that amazing Linus hard r clip.

[@ynraider]

Anglo-Asians are a notorious anti-Black element as well though...

[@ustrucx]

When a product like that reach end of life the server should be made public. It is likely a problem of licensing preventing even that.

[@sparktite]

We really need some kinda preservation laws tbh. I’m lucky two of my super old fave games that were online only even have enough of a community behind em to reupload/rebuild em. I wonder if I’ll get to play destiny 1 after those servers go down :’(

[@sgtkeebler]

@@sparktite I believe the EU will get something like that long before the US even imagines something like that. Unfortunately in the US it’s easy for corrupt companies to pay our congressmen and women a “donation” to not vote legislation into law

[@Bogglemanify]

@@sparktite That's why Ross' Stop killing games campaign needs more traction. Incase people don't know about it, look up the video "The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games" especially if you owned The Crew.

[@grandbean9031]

licensing and safety as well as the huge cost hosting such a server would entail.

[@JoystickJournalYT]

JFC, it's not like the "Hard R Shop" features a black shopkeep who only sells KFC and stolen bikes. People on twitter will reach for anything to be pissed about.

[@mrii114]

I don't even know what hard R shop means

[@romainrondeau4242]

​@@mrii114it's the "n word" (i hate having to censor it). When two black people are telling it to each other in the US they say it -gga and when people use it to be racist they say it -gger and "Hard R" is a way to make reference to it without saying it.

[@throwaway6213]

Are we going to censor the n word as well.

[@that80ssongyoulove84]

@@romainrondeau4242this is a desperate reach. It’s literally twitter mob looking for something that’s not there.

[@alastor8091]

​@@romainrondeau4242are we even sure thats what they meant by it? The devs are Korean after all.

[@codyhamilton7682]

10:05 "English will be the second language" Also cultural differences... Remember a video I saw recently showing people in Japan a swastika and the original symbol it is a modification of Younger Japanese people didn't know what the swastika was, but knew the original symbol as the symbol used for Temples

[@prototype217]

yeah the original symbol had a much more wholesome and spiritual meaning

[@zenshakujo8070]

​@@prototype217id say its about the same for the XXth century as well🎉

[@urazz7739]

@@prototype217 That and it was in the opposite direction than the Nazi Swastika if I recall. I remember watching Bleach and seeing that on Ichigo's bankai and looked it up and saw that it meant something different in Japan.

[@solomonterrell3051]

That little big planet News hits really fucking hard. One of my favorite games of all time. I made so So SOO many friends and made so many good fuckkng memories on that game. And not only that but it was just a really good fucking game that pushed the boundaries of creativity and wonder. This news has genuinely made me depressed. If not even for me im sad for the people who will never get to experience LBP that will never even have a chance of knowing what they've missed out on because it's gone. Damn man... I don't have enough words to describe my sadness, this was a piece of my childhood thrown into the fucking garbage God damn.

[@SickPrid3]

Why are you calling placing of that graffiti next to a neon R "a mistake" ? mistake is when you do something wrong, they did absolutely nothing wrong by having those two next to each other there is a saying in my country that roughly translates to; if you look at a carrot and get horny, there is something wrong with you and not the carrot this is where this saying fits perfectly

[@davidm.schreckii1426]

Perfect analogy

[@Tory-JJ]

Lol wtf

[@williamedwards4151]

It really feels like someone wanted to make sure that *something* was censored in that game. Just to spite the player-base.

[@exxe2454]

A Hard "C"arrot. Got Hard Laugh From That.

[@mitrikgaduk347]

It wasn't a mistake, it was "unintentional", and the only people that viewed it that was was Journalists. It's literally stated that there are multiple graffiti just like the HARD one around and this wasn't a unique placement, it seems when the environment was designed, these were pre-designed by the art team, and then placed by the level designers in locations they thought were appropriate. As stated by Bellular, English is unlikely everyone at the studio's first or second language, nor would they know any Western euphemisms or even be aware of cultural, historical, or other related issues. It's like someone in the states tattooing the Chinese character for "Shit" on their body and calling it cool, a Westerner would be oblivious to that. I'd imagine someone just thought the art looked dope and wanted to place it next to the shop, they likely know what "HARD" means, and having that as you walk by to the shop probably seemed cool in their mind. This is a classic infuriating case of Hanlon's Razor: assuming malice instead of stupidity/ignorance/etc. In this case it's not even ignorance or obliviousness, why should they have to be aware of Western bullshit to begin with? Like, what the fuck is wrong with people, if that's the first thing they thought when they saw this, it's a serious "them" issue. Cause' remember "everything is sexist, everything is racist, blah blah blah cry me a fucking river". That saying also is right on the money, it's like looking at a grown woman and immediately thinking of someone who isn't an adult, it's incredibly creepy. Thinking Eve looks like a child is totally absolutely fucking racist and when they are presented with any eastern woman they immediately think the same thing. I've seen European women, Latinas, and Russians get the same shit too.

[@ralphengland8559]

I read it as "Harder"

[@cloudburstrc1633]

me to, can't see a n word in it

[@arasuka6889]

Hard R referring to when you use the n word with the E R instead of a

[@JohnSmith-oh9ux]

Same - harder. What is "n" word lol

[@GreenAppelPie]

How is a ‘hard r’ racist?

[@dominickjadon]

@@GreenAppelPie it’s heavily connected to the “hard r” n word highly unfortunate but should probably blow over tbh I’m black and I honestly chuckled when I saw it in the video 💀 I don’t believe they did that on purpose if they did that’s wild lmao

[@lucasLSD]

The fact that Stellar Blade even exists as it does is surprising, but let's not forget that Sony is still very selective about what they censor or not, Stellar Blade is fine but recently released Bunny Garden is somehow only available on Switch and PC, I wonder why. If you've been following niche japanese devs you know the answer already, Sony.

[@Bask3tChase]

Sony: “Buy our digital only consoles!” Also Sony: “You can’t have that game you paid for anymore, sorry.”

[@LMPGames]

That's all console makers at this point, not just Sony. At least Sony still has physical disk versions of consoles. If Microsoft goes through with their supposed plans, they won't even have physical media for their next gen console.

[@Bask3tChase]

@@LMPGames Yeah, because i was totally insinuating that this was a Sony only problem, and not just commenting on what the video was talking about.. That meme going around about reading comprehension is a lot more real than I'd like to admit it is.

[@LMPGames]

​@@Bask3tChase I mean, sure, your point still stand, however it's less dirty pool than forcing your entire player base to go digital only. I fully expect Sony to go that route too at some point, but Microsoft will do it first if not nix the entire console for a SteamLink like system while Nintendo and Sony move toward digital-only consoles. Either way it's bad for consumers and we need congress (in US) and the EU to pass digital ownership laws as soon as possible.

[@Lewisking50]

tbh someone writing a "hard" graffiti next to a big neon R is something that would 100% happen irl, too

[@drgnmstr44]

I think people need to stop reading into every little thing and looking for reason to hate on something or cause problems. I wouldn't have even thought of it that way.

[@Dennan]

in usa maybe, i never even heard of Hard R before, and why would it have anything to do with the n word?

[@ArchSchizo]

​@@Dennan The term "Hard R" is meant to, without saying it, refer to the more disparaging form of the n word. As opposed to saying it with an "-a" at the end, which isn't disparaging, but still off-limits to people who aren't black. They are both n words, but they have entirely different context and history. Typically people would say "n-word with a hard R" remove ambiguity, for when direct quoting would make people uncomfortable or upset.

[@theouroboros7470]

its a cafe

[@dieyng]

@@ArchSchizo Yeah and the question is, how likely is it that someone from Korea knows about this? It's just idiotic.

[@soulechelon2643]

Can very safely say the "Hard R" incident was not intended by the Stellar Blade devs. I have a number of friends outside America that were confused by the backlash as they didn't know the potential meaning either. And as a black person myself I didn't even care. I doubt most of us did. Interestingly enough, the only people I've personally seen online get mad about it never mention their race or are straight up white. I swear this savior mentality is only painting a bigger target on our backs because people keep thinking we're the ones getting riled up when the majority of us either laugh at this sort of thing or aren't bothered by it. And the change I wouldn't call "censorship" either; at least not extreme. I don't like censorship in any form and whenever Stellar Blade comes out on PC, if someone makes a mod bringing that "Hard R" back in, I'll happily install it myself. But I can understand why they changed it. It's one of those cultural things that means nothing to one but something bad to another. It also has zero impact on the game and doesn't hurt the integrity of the game's vision in general. Happy to see the game's getting praises. As mentioned I'm definitely grabbing it whenever it hits PC.

[@ArchSchizo]

Finally, a reasonable take! Twitter people are treating DESCRIPTIONS of slurs as outright usage. It's always dumb activists. How can someone be a grown man and get mad at... this?

[@drayle71]

I think part of the problem is the assumption by a lot of twitter that everyone has the same knowledge and cultural context as the USA as it is the dominate cultural lens on twitter. I'm not from the USA so when I first saw the HARD R thing my brain first went to does this something to do with the R word. Its not that the N word isn't a slur here it definitely is but its an imported one from the USA so we don't have all the different knowledge on the variations of it that exist. Also if the developer did want to put some bigoted graffiti in the game odds are most westerns wouldn't have noticed as the studio is Korean and odds are they would have used used bigoted slang that is local to Korea not the USA.

[@jimmyv3170]

It's the terminally online that are the problem especially with their takes on Orcs or goblins supposedly looking like certain groups of people when they were the only ones even thinking that to begin with. They expose themselves quite easily and pretend they are the saviors of humanity.

[@romainrondeau4242]

I totally get your point but i'd still consider it censorship because it's not just the US version that has been changed to accomodate some randoms on tweeter that can't get over N or R because they're too racist. Btw they replacer Hard by Crime and Crimer is apparently a slang for "a black criminal" so i don't know if it's intentional or not but if it is thoses tweetos have been had.

[@avenged-khaos]

the only reason they hate it is to hide their own internal racism

[@rudyv1972]

This (and the fact that games are now released buggy AF) is why I've suffocated my FOMO and don't buy games at launch. I've gotten comfortable with the fact that I'm not buying games, but merely renting them. Game publishers will now have to get comfortable with the fact that I shall not pay ownership prices and rent them when they're patched and on a huge sale.

[@Knowbody42]

If buying a game isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing it.

[@rudyv1972]

@@Knowbody42 You do you buddy, but stealing, is still stealing. It's what pirates do.

[@Knowbody42]

@@rudyv1972 Stealing is stealing, but piracy isn't.

[@TheBloopers30]

@@Knowbody42 I support pirating games but that such an awful statement with so many holes in it.

[@Knowbody42]

​@@TheBloopers30 That's such an awful criticism with absolutely no explanation whatsoever.

[@adaa12345SixSevenEightNine]

I loved LBP this is sad af I can't believe Sony is trying to sell modern live services when they couldn't even bother to maintain a past one...

[@grandsome1]

The stellar blade marketing leaned hard into the culture war to create buzz, not surprising that people see provocation where there's none, comes with the territory.

[@vincentarcher5357]

I have absolutely no idea what this "Hard R" thing means.

[@someoneidk3995]

As in the N word with thr Hard R

[@kalistoh]

@@someoneidk3995 I feel like some people just want to see offensive things in everything. Like when a village changed its name was "Negro" (I don't remember the exact name, something like Valle Negro or something like that)

[@fish5645]

Hard R = Re-tar-d (to avoid KZbin's auto delete censoring) It was for some reason one of a crazy number of words that cannot be said anymore. N word I agree with but it is getting way out of hand, soon we will just be talking in single letters.

[@OhNoTheFace]

@@someoneidk3995 When people pretend the bad version of the word is the one ending in r and not the Ebonics one that ends in a

[@ZeroB4NG]

after investigating on google wtf this is about... all i can say is... i don't want to live on this planet anymore. Seriously, it is hard enough to learn different languages, would you crazy people please cool it with your racist slang terms? Setting verbal traps for other people to run into like that really ain't nice of you.

[@AshXXMayftw]

We actually know what the whole Hard R situation is really about now. The Hard graffiti is something you'll find scattered throughout the city, while the R stands for Roxanne Shop, an information broker for Eve and others like her.

[@user-gk2wg1du7d]

Clouds aren't the best place to build castles.

[@Murrytmds]

So much for the uncensored version. Day 1 patch censoring gore and making outfits less revealing.

[@cyhardr.1303]

The funny about Stellar Blade is that no one is talking about the true behind the game and Sony making the game an exclusive and the money move that Sony make… the game will be good but behind the scene is a mess…

[@williammoore1030]

Mario maker, and little big planet are the only two I’ve ever tried. There are a ton of high quality creative levels in those games. It is terrible that there is no easy way to save it.

[@daniellacomb917]

Yea you know those mario maker levels are gonna get zapped at some point too.

[@SpottedHares]

@@daniellacomb917Marion maker one severs were turned off.

[@TheBloopers30]

@@SpottedHares The levels were still playable in Mario Maker 2 though right?(never played it)

[@williammoore1030]

@@TheBloopers30 2 is still up, Wii U was where the first one was and that whole system is offline now.

[@TheBloopers30]

@@williammoore1030 Yeah, very sad. The upkeep cost of the WiiU servers is next to nothing for Nintendo. Especially considering that dynamic hosting is standard today and even back then. Did the player-created levels get "saved"/ported over(by Nintendo) to the second game is my question? Or did Nintendo just say nah and left it up to the playerbase to port stuff over?

[@maxnum1sgameclub263]

Remember mario maker? I believe they put a community server for all the crafted lvl’s. I dont know how it precisely works but it does work

[@kosmosXcannon]

Apparently one of the outfits from Stellar Blade got the Tifa treatment with the patch as well. The outfit's name is the holiday rabbit. The game shipped out on the disc doesn't have this update.

[@asdion]

Never trust a corporation to make servers available in perpetuity. People just never learn

[@lusalma5404]

Just puts me in mind of the Neverwinter Nights game and how much user generated content was available for it that probably is long long gone.

[@wyattderp9719]

Stellar Blade changed all the protagonist's outfits with a day 1 patch.

[@agsbxnskqbwjakq]

I am Canadian born and raised, first and only language is English. I would never in a billion years have guessed that "Hard R" had another meaning and I've never hear anyone say anything like that before. I suspect that its a 4chan thing or something, in which case it tells us more about the hobbies and thinking of the accusers than the devs.

[@johndunham1741]

likewise I'm US born and raised, first language English, 46 years old.....and have never heard this either.... I honestly thought when he first showed it that somehow people were mad about a dick joke being "harder" or something....had no idea there was some racist overtones to it

[@navn9790]

Chinese say it all the time

[@Elden_Lean]

It's the same people that would say something stupid like "Stellar Blade is literally killing women". Black people thought it was pretty funny, so it's just the usual suspects that are ruining gaming and film as a whole that are forcing censorship. No one actually thought it was a racial thing...

[@OhNoTheFace]

Not 4chan. Twitter types offended by everything

[@JeffPetro]

Nah that's just you being out of the loop in that sense it's not obscure or niche haha, they definitely are over reacting and reaching for justifications. It comes from american pop culture in which some words are allegedly taboo, yet constantly used by certain ppl in certain music genres ('ga vs 'ger ending sound) thus resulting in the mostly jokey reference to the latter as a 'Hard R'. In your defense it's probably an 'American under 40' ubiquitous reference

[@JackDaloots]

FEEDBACK: Can we get chapter marks for different stories going forward? Sometimes I don't have time to watch the whole video :/

[@lazydgsf7429]

Not surprised the Japanese ratings board is easier on PlayStation and Japanese interests.

[@HowdyHowdy_]

LBP 2 and 3 were friendship defining games for me growing up. I know alot of people who will be heartbroken at the news

[@DeadPhoenix86DP]

As long as there's no consumers rights when it comes to ownership for Products like, Games, Movies and shows. Companies will continue to pull away content. Because Servers cost money, and they don't want to pay for things that doesn't make money. Its the same with Digital media, you have to rely on a server that can be taken down at any moment.

[@younger544]

The "Hard R" is the most manufactured dumb thing ever. You KNOW the people they think "should" be offended just laughed. All my friends thought it was hilarious. The only ones "offended" were soy game journos.

[@verafeiyd]

not going to lie, i enjoyed the intro structure of this video. 3 numbers to keep in mind was honestly a neat way to frame things. Dont want it all the time, itd get old quick, but i enjoyed the script of this video!

[@rupert1126]

When company’s use user generated content in a game, like Halo uses forge maps, the creators should receive some sort of compensation. I think non-promoted mods are different.

[@rupert1126]

Even if it’s something small like in-game currency, or a special edition copy, etc.

[@MrMpa31]

Why? They are doing it voluntarily, likely because they enjoy it.

[@rupert1126]

@@MrMpa31 sure, but if a company’s going to use a creators work as marketing or in game content with an offer for compensation then it’s basically a version of voluntary serfdom. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t make stuff, just that they should be offered compensation when those items are used to sell the product.

[@Someone-lg6di]

Paid mods were a mistake

[@admiralkaede]

that is 100% not viable epic is doing it that way and it's loosing them massive sums of money only the Roblox model of letting creators monetize in game is sustainable remember hosting the map on a server and storage costs are eaten by the devs forge doesn't really make halo money if it cost them money they would cut it fast they are ok with the server costs i guess but having to pay creators directly wouldn't work and it's not sustainable

[@TheGeneReyva]

Sony and Californication. E: There has been no victory over censorship.

[@mttexg2120]

Remember Neverwinter Online's Foundry? This is why I'll never help publishers with UGC again.

[@keeperoflenneth]

Holy hell, this is the first time the sponsorship was more important to me than the video O_o and that's not to speak ill of the content - I'm just learning python and have been struggling with tutorials. This might just do it. Damn!

[@L1vv4n]

can't maintain hosting responsibility (you forced on yourself) => release to the public.

[@RKNGL]

There's a limited number of people even in the US that'd would've seen the "Hard R" thing and take it ad intentionally offensive. The context for why it's offensive would even come off as ridiculous outside of reddit. Most've been a slow news day for some people.

[@kosmosXcannon]

Yeah even if you are from the US you would be hard pressed to find people that would draw the connection. Someone essentially has to put the idea in your head before one would think, "Yeah I can see that". I think the journalists were trying to scrutinize every little thing, because places like Kotaku clearly wanted the game to fail. Seems like they break similar stories within minutes of each other somehow. They probably told Sony the same thing and Sony and Sony told Shift Up to change it.

[@sgtkeebler]

I am with you. Sometimes people over-analyze things like that. They try to find meaning in something that has zero meaning. When it does have meaning such as what people are claiming usually the people saying said thing will have a long past history of them saying similar things. Sometimes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is just a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

[@dragonriderabens9761]

the thing about the Stellar Blade thing is that they changed it from Hard R (which may or may not be racist) to Crime R (which is an actual slur) THEIR FIX IS EVEN WORSE

[@GamingYooler]

I grew up with Little Big Planet before I found World of Warcraft. So frustrating to see how that franchise was treated by Sony and MM.

[@alexixeno4223]

I wish MM had (optionally) monitized Dream. I bet if that game had made some money they would be in a better place.

[@Jinkaza1882]

Ready to by a external CD-ROM and stock up on game discs if I can find them.

[@michellewilliams3782]

Call my hubby ahead of the game on those backups ... He's still got an original Playstation memory card with his MTV music creator songs on it. 😂

[@hunterking87]

I do wonder if the graffiti was actually supposed to be read as hardr as in harder. Theres also an ED company with that name, soo there isn't a non percent chance they were making a joke that had an unintended meaning.

[@NicromeShooter]

Game ratings need an overhaul. As Stellar Blade has no reason to be rated M if GTA 5 is rated M, but 4 times more explicit content.

[@RyuNoZero]

wait.. Eve is a robot? This is just like NieR Automata oO

[@SanguineQuest]

Really impressive that 15 years of game history can just be flushed down the toilet and most people just want to debate who got owned harder in the Stellar Blade Culture War Saga. Sigh.

[@superbtrilogy5049]

The graffiti segment of this video was uneccessary to talk about. Smallest t

[@Distant_Dubstep]

There really needs to b some kind of government mandate to preserve gaming history. I couldn't give less of a shit about LBP but that doesn't mean I want it to disappear from those who do care.

[@callibor3119]

Emulation. Edit: Check for GPL and MIT licenses to make sure they are certified open and free softwares for you to download. Learning coding to make your own emulators or go to the most trusting emulators on your mobile phone, PC and console and get readers for every physical and digital copy legally bought to dump into emulators known abroad.

[@evilotis01]

well, this is the first time in my life i've ever seen a thing people were angry about and genuinely had no idea a) that it might be controversial and b) why it might be considered so. i guess i'm old?

[@dieyng]

Hell, I know my way around US culture, but even I have only heard about the hard R thing a month or so ago, pretty sure not one Korean dev knows anything about this. But hey, it's not like people aren't frantically searching for a reason to be offended about Stellar Blade.

[@konchu]

There are 3 elements to the Stellar blade Censorship. They change Graffiti which I think most people get. They toned down gore so it is interesting to see this was a Japan influence thing. But they absolutely also toned down costumes. I think the rage is because they said they would not censor and I think there was a push to support them for this, and a lot of people are frustrated by Sony censoring so much as of late, I mean you get more of the original vision on Nintendo now. And this sort of bait and switch will not have have a positive outcome if this was a marketing ploy it just stain this franchise and Sony as whole for something no one would have cared about if they had not made the claim. The game is plenty sexy and violent as is, its just this perceived lie.

[@RisingHERO19]

It wasn't Media Molecule that shut down LBP, Media Molecule sold the IP for LBP to Sumo Digital and they are the ones who shut the games down. Please fix this!

[@j.d.4697]

*Boycott Sony* As if Sony ever gave a crap about their players. Remember how they removed Spider-Man (statistically the hero with the most fans) from Marvel's Avengers on all platforms but PS5 to try and force people to buy PS5s? Stay away from Sony or they will milk you for all you have and then discard you like trash.

[@moderncreep9385]

Devs need to stop giving sony control. If it wasn’t exclusive then they could at least do what UBI didn’t with The Crew.

[@thebigksmoosey]

Lol, I just thought it was a dirty joke "Hard R" just looked like "harder" to me... 🤷🏻‍♂️ It would be a convoluted ass way to be kinda but deniably racist, in order to appeal to 5% of gamers, while offending even more... 🤦🏻‍♂️ As to the model? I don't care if my fighting Barbie doll is really sexy or not. I really don't care

[@nilge90]

remember tlou2 has a full on sex scene and sony was okay with it but games with anime graphic need to be censored on their platform

[@Eckythump]

The whole Hard R thing in Stellar Blade is just manufactured outrage, an innocuous error and one that the devs said they will remove in a patch. That criticism is coming from people that had issues with the game before it even came out and wanted it to fail.

[@DragonRatTiger]

Heads up, Media Molecule had no involvement in LittleBigPlanet 3. A majority of LittleBigPlanet 3's development & support was done by Sumo Digital.

[@XperimentorEES]

I doubt it was exclusively because of a mod. No company wants to run their servers forever especially when there's no profit, it's why every online only game have subscriptions &/or dlc. But an 'honest mistake' from a nonsensical claim leading to the game being changed? Sounds more like they're trying to start a slippery slope to censor more stuff.

[@admiralkaede]

rip i knew it would happen one day though to bad they chose to make Little Big Planet a platformer instead of keeping what it what it always was

[@Karasellers-jg3bp]

Thank you for ignoring the fantics on both extreme ends and being an even-handed look at the news.

[@qryvein]

digital games now adays means games with a death sentence. cause once the server shutdown in many cases they be lost forever. unless they preserv a few like in psp 3000 case where one was able to localy keep games even after they shut their servers for it down. and yes i still have a bunch of old psp 3000 game both umd disc and digital stored ones that was allowed to be preserved.

[@Hattori_Fujiyama]

i cant believe when we needed him most Brackeys answered our call. im so pumped to learn godot with him. he truly is the hero we need that we don't deserve.

[@OldyAlbert]

and then they updated it censoring blood on main character and partially covering a costume. It's not much, sertanly not enough to cry over, but technically they lied.

[@coaster1235]

Sumo Digital were the ones running LBP since LBP3, MM switched their attention to Dreams (and now something else oop)

[@HiteshJetwaniTechtesh]

"hard R" rating was my first thought

[@rd-um4sp]

I was very happy when that Brackeys video showed on my list. Good to have them back and on Godot to boot

[@Hoigwai]

The grafitti thing people have already seen different grafitti in that same location so it as usual means nothing.

[@navn9790]

I'm hyped to play Stellar blade in 5 to 10 years when it's released on pc.

[@DualEagle]

Have these people not seen graffiti in real life? I've seen all manners of 'edgy' humour sprayed or written on walls and some of them even get a chuckle.

[@ReiTsukinoVT]

Honestly, Journos are nit picking trying to raise controversy. If they claim anything is ist or phobe I instantly assume they're farming hate clicks.

[@Dennan]

i never in my life heard of hard R being something to do with the N word, that has to be just in usa, i never seen or heard that. in 35 years.

[@kurobara3]

I think the stuff with stellar blade was kind of dumb like i don't really get stuff like fanservice thought that is partly because i have always seen it as inconvenience. I think my issue is that the anti censorship crowd only really care about certain censored

[@FadeEsdrasX]

And here I thought “hard”R would just have been Harder Shop

[@ellyjockey6164]

I wonder if Minecraft servers are part of the user generated content battlefield

[@nwerd7584]

The Hard R thing is funny and it could honestly be used as edgy marketing.

[@wnxdafriz]

Issues with gore? from all the random things i have seen in anime, gore seems to be confusing to block the sale of something like the callisto protocal

[@ya2u]

this makes were worried about Dreams. This is why Dreams should of been ported to pc to preserver creators work. Now the trust is gone

[@lenowoo]

I honestly doesn't know until today what Hard R means, heck. This is 5he first time i even seen it. And most people in this region are probably the same

[@shortarms5116]

Imagine going back and letting people host their own servers....

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Ya for the digital dystopian future you'll own nothing and be happy about it /s

[@StoneLegion]

This why when people get upset at us getting mad for companies removing workshop and adding in their own crap... Workshop I can run a simple tool and download millions of files... I can't do that on Bethesda's Colossal Disorder servers, etc... ugh, what a massive failure.

[@AclypseOfReason]

Let’s bring back piracy. The best way around these companies is to pirate like we did in the early 2000s. Maybe some offshore servers for live games along with a donation option?

[@comlitbeta7532]

Bring back? Mate the ship never stopped sailing 🦜⛵🏴‍☠️

[@kezia8027]

Honestly loving this so much, anyone who still trusted sony only has themselves to blame. They showed you who they were and you ignored it lmao. So many chuds who started flame wars denying that sony is problematic, unfortunately, in their naivety, giving away the fact that they are clear 14 years old if they don't know the history of sony and that this is just their M.O.

[@lancerxx68]

The hard R is a big nothing burger!

[@qryvein]

small reminder about online live digital content once all ps 5 version been released we can expect by sony playstation for playstation 6 to wipe both ps4 and ps 5 with how they treat their content and microsoft xbox and nitendo not that much diffrent what the online live access able content on there side since all game and console platforms deal with that in the same way. reason for this they want to resell old portet stuff to make money of same products again. and also maintence and other related costs for server and personal play also a part and knowledge of the old systems that is getting lost.

[@GamingInfested]

those reviewers never saw tomb raider, naraka and multiple other games with lots of butt ?

[@stonerhino83]

What is the charge Japan? Enjoying a game? A succulent Korean game?

[@stcosyem]

Losing access to user generated content isn't new though... Ever heard of mods? I mean... mods for games that aren't around anymore? It's the same thing and people weren't/aren't complaining.

[@JohnWittle]

What are you talking about? Can you actually name an example? I am still playing modded copies of Jedi Outcast on player servers like, today, in 2024 my modded minecraft worlds from 2008 or whatever are still entirely playable UT2K4's been dead for like 2 decades and i can still find and use mods shared on the internet I literally can't think of a single example of what you're talking about

[@TheBloopers30]

@@JohnWittle A lot of Skyrim mods have been taken down over the years. Thing is that, a lot, if not all the actually "important" ones have been archived by the community and is still out there. What I think op is talking about, are games that had mod support shutting down forever or changing how modding/the api works. "Blockland" is one of such games that had a very active modding community back in the day. Game is now dead because the dev screwed modders over. Actually used to be a Roblox competitor back then and was seen as the better game, wild... This was over 10 years ago though.

[@JohnWittle]

@@TheBloopers30 err, which skyrim mods actually got taken down? I totally believe that it could have happened, but I can't think of any examples myself. the oldest ones i can think of, like the unofficial follower overhaul, just stopped getting updated when the got superceded by a newer mod that provided the same functionality and i can't really think of any counterexamples? i could see it if some people took down their "baby's first yet another weapon model modpack" off the nexus once they got further into modding and were embarrassed about it i guess... As far as games that were online-only with official servers with modding and then, yeah, I could definitely see that... but typically the modded content itself was stored serverside, like how roblox works now little big planet still feels different because they won't even let players share levels between themselves anymore, even though psn is extremely capable of handling that functionality and iirc it was already possible like you have to admit, on a spectrum, what happened with LBP is more extreme than any other comparable events by a lot. if pokemon emerald's in-cart battery dying after ten years (locking you out of mirage island) counts as a 1 on the scumminess scale, and the shutdown of a roblox-style centrally hosted mod-based game was a 5, then this Little Big Planet thing is definitely at least an 8

[@seanmcdonald4156]

LOL that's what Japan chose to censor...

[@bunnybreaker]

Console gaming is so dead to me.

[@JohnDoe-jc5kt]

I hope it's success does not prevent the game from coming to pc. I may love hack n slashes, but I won't buy a ps5 to try one lol.

[@abraxis59]

I am from the United States and I was not aware of that term until now. I get why it means what it does, but I cannot imagine that this was anything but pure bad luck in art placement. Unless there is some clear evidence that the developers have specific leanings it is, IMO, really unfair to assume the worst of intentions.

[@cutejustice]

That is definitely a term here and yeah, I also highly doubt it was intended that way. Regardless, it’s good that it was resolved because we want the game to succeed 👏 . The last thing we want is for player alienation

[@MrTaylork1]

@@cutejusticeno one was or would have been alienated by it..

[@MrBozuu]

The hard R callout is a hard reach.