Capcom makes it harder for modders to mod Street Fighter V? And censorship follows at Capcom-Unity

There seems to be no end to the ongoing controversies regarding Capcom´s upcoming fighting game "Street Fighter V" and censorship. This time it´s all about Capcom making it harder for PC modders to mod "Street Fighter V", and the fact that mods are closing down (and removing) threads from Capcom-Unity. So this is my (Robin Ek, The Gaming Ground) take on that matter.

[Activemessiah]

That is some buuuuuuuullsh*t.

[TGG_overlord]

It´s insane man, Capcom seems to have gone full retard :S

[breakpad]

fascistic mentalities in minorities keep ruining what the majority considers normal and enjoyable...i m sure that the 99 % of those who will play the SFV want it to remain unchanged (without censorship with hot characters) as it represents creators vision and not minorities complexes ..i didnt see any reaction from these minorities for the problematic , vulgar, crude annoyingly cringe over-demonstrated multisexual orientation of characters in Dragon AGE

[Activemessiah]

It seems they've fallen prey to what essentially is a vocal minority

[Blacklash93]

@breakpad

There is a minority that didn't like Dragon Age because the felt the sexualities of some of the characters was a major and annoying part of the game that devalued the characters (I didn't think so at all). And then there's a minority who feel that sexualization and fanservice are a big deal that devalues the characters in SFV (I don't think that at all either).

There's always a minority like that from some perspective, and they will complain. If you want change or to stop changes you don't want, focus on convincing the developer who actually makes the decisions instead of whining about the people that try to cause a stir over this stuff.

The problem is that developers aren't sticking to their guns when some people complain or might complain, not the complaints themselves. The former is addressable, the latter is inevitable.

[breakpad]

@Backlash ...up and down we say the same thing ...i dont complain about the cringe beastiality or overpromotion of homosexual orientation in Dragon Age ..but i complain that these people have double standards , complaining and destroying things that arent meant for their interests while accept and secretely smiling to other things (obnoxious for the majority) like Dragon Age..... the most ridiculous is that these people arent even plying games.... i say games must remain untouched whatever they depict ...normal people accepts that as standard...but people with complexes and fascism dont ..and just want to involve and destroy whatever is not serving their interests

[XisThatKid]

Well considering we're going to be cross play with pc and ps4 it wouldn't be fair and could give a significant advantage in gameplay and data from pc to ps4 I see why this is an issue for them. And we all know Capcom don't lie people prodding in their games. Check fan made resident evil remakes asking others.

[Eamon]

It seems you guys love to bash this "minority" does not even exist.

The reason capcom self-censored it is because of the provisional ESRB rating. It was likely that ESRB was going to rate Street Fighter V as Mature. No SF game ever went beyond Teen rating so Capcom was worried this may impact potential sales. So they went ahead and changed what they could to bring it down to Teen rating.

So actually this case has nothing to do with Social Justice Warriors or extreme feminists.

[DarkOcelet]

You know what piss me off, is that those vocal minority will not even buy the damn game and who will actually be annoyed by this? Its the people who will buy this game.

Stupid SJW needs to calm the f down and leave the gaming community alone.

[Activemessiah]

All it takes is game devs to put their foot down and just say No, these games arent made for you.. dont like it? there's always Tetris, now p*ss off.

[TGG_overlord]

We could always send them to a parallel dimension or universe ;)

[00]

that's how SJW poison communities, parasites that suck the host dry and then when everybody leaves they latch onto something else, they have ruined so much but it seems gamers are fighting back and the other communities are trying too do that as well.

[vanity29]

@ Active

Tetris involves some sort of penetration. Im triggered /s

[showtimefolks]

Dark

But I thought we the daily vist9rs of this site are the vocal minority? Games are being labeled in so many different terms that it's hard to know where we belong lol

[Teflon02]

I love the fact, people stay trying to pin this on SJW and not Capcoms internal choices. Capcom said internally they chose the modifications to Mika/Cammy and they're not influenced by internal complaints in the matter. Just accept it. Also, no mods on a cross platform game is to be expected. It can possibly give pc players an advantage... Be realistic, it's pretty much common sense to be balanced among console and PC

[nosferatuzodd]

Well said these people just don't like gamers or they hate to see gamers have fun,look on a movie like human centipede.
that's the most disgusting movie I've ever come across someone recommended it to me after seeing 45 min of that trash I stopped the video I don't see the pitch fork out for this crap who ever produce that movie must be high on something but a sexy costume her or a erotic pose there is a problem, this is why I say western journalism is the worst type of hypocrisy there is..

[N4GGuy24]

Capcom says it was their internal choices but some how people still point to imaginery SJW forces with no evidence or facts with their bias. Only makes the gaming community sound like bunch of 12yr old virgin losers who get off to animated girls.

[Veneno]

That's pretty ignorant. Obviously there's a force of some kind if they are going to censor the game in one part of the world and not the other. This happens all the time in Australia. Extreme violence is censored all the time or the game is not released. Some idiot had a reaction to the butt slap.

Companies lie dude. Especially Capcom.

[Eamon]

No force. It's just ESRB. Capcom wouldn't risk SFV being rated as Mature.

[breakpad]

crapcom...

[TGG_overlord]

It seems like Capcom are about to become the next Konami :S

[winter_hill]

Hard to imagine anyone being as bad as Konami at the moment.

[Kalebninja]

Sucks about modding but for the censorship as Charlie Sheen would say "winning".

[TGG_overlord]

True, I still believe that the mod community will solve that problem as soon as SFV gets released in February.

[DragonKnight]

@Kalebninja: I hope that that "winning" was sarcasm, because if not then you have some serious mental problems if electronic representations of fictional humans cause you any kind of duress.

[Kalebninja]

I've no issues and it wasnt sarcasm :)

[Teflon02]

You don't need to have an issue with it to think it was acceptable, especially when they said it was an internal choice and not externally influenced. It's winning to me as well. I have no actual issues with it and didn't notice anything by it (I play hyperdimension and watch anime lol, so it's too normal to see that). But when I think about the fact now that my top character is Cammy, and intead of a sexual Vag shot, they'll have it emphasize on her landing which looks badass, and you can check out the appeal later, is a win for me. Mika's w.e. The way the changed it, I'd never notice if people weren't complaining lol. It's not like they changed cammy's clothes saying it's too sexy or something.

[DragonKnight]

You both have issues. A) No company with a solid PR department will ever say "we did it because of SJWs"

B) That you think censorship is winning is very telling about the both of you. You actually concern yourselves with the appearance of fictional beings who aren't at all human. They are 1s and 0s and you're happy that a company decided to change their original vision so people like you wouldn't get offended. That's really sad. That's quite pathetic actually.

[solar]

@Dragon Knight

Great post. Well said friend.

[Halo2ODST2]

what is your issues with fictional representations? if they are very serious, considering seeing a specialist.

[TGG_overlord]

I think Kalebninja is trolling, because who would want censorship in their games?

[Kalebninja]

Lol, insult me all you want but guess what. Still getting what I want, slowly but increasingly.

[madjedi]

And this is something to be proud of. Jesus that is pathetic.

Actually what is happening is people across various mediums and walks of life are getting tired of you special snowflakes trying to ban or censor anything and everything that hurts your feelings.

@con

Your assuming that his/her cause is actually a just or noble one, I think it is a simple grab for power or authority. Regardless of the body count.

Look at how university students trample upon other students/teachers rights when one individual dares say something they find offensive.

Look up yale, university of missiouri, and other incidents, where the activist acted worse than the alleged offenses.

Capcom is not the only developer that makes fighting games.

[TGG_overlord]

Good thing for you, and I will get what I want as soon as the modders has worked their magic on the PC version of SFV ;)

[Concertoine]

I'm not going to insult you, I just want to hear your perspective on why censorship is correct. And why you feel the need to thumb your nose at people who don't like it.

I mean, that's just like your opinion man. Why dance around on n4g when you get what you want, don't you think that makes you look a little bad for your cause?

[Teflon02]

I'm not the poster, but the idea that you're using censorship as the word to describe an internal choice by Capcom is wrong. It's also wrong to tell capcom the vision they have is wrong. Capcom wants the most comfortable game they can give. Not like they won't have skimpy costumes that are worse etc. But those are choices, not something forced on players so it's w.e.

[TGG_overlord]

That´s what trolls do...

[JOWAPPO]

Teflon, just because a company says something, doesn't mean they're being truthful (it's called PR spin).

This is indeed an instance of censorship. It may not be the choice of anyone except Capcom, but that doesn't mean it isn't censorship. They suppressed/removed something from the game on the grounds that some may find it offensive. That's called censorship. That's what censorship is.

The comparison that you used with altering a drawn character's breasts based on artistic direction doesn't hold any water either, because A) the butt slap is still IN the game; the animation didn't change, nor did the character's overt sexualization in general, so it's still clearly a part of the intended design. And B) the decision to suppress this animation had nothing to do with game design, it was a matter of "not offending anyone". So in other words, it was last-minute pandering to a vocal minority, obviously due to the current environment created from this minority's relatively recent ravings against female video game characters in the past year or so (hence, 'external influence', hence 'PR bull****').

But why this fails (and HARD), is because this vocal minority, if they wanted to, will find something to complain about ANYWAY (it's their entire shtick); they don't play video games, they complain about them as a means to an end.

Also, the fact that Capcom thinks one animation of a cartoony over-the-top character will determine whether or not someone is interested in spending $60+ on a cartoony over-the-top fighting game just shows how misguided they truly are.

If they really wanted to appeal to as many people as possible, they should've made the sexually suggestive animations a mature content option (I'm sure family room players would appreciate that), instead of piss off their core fanbase with this nonsense.

This was absolutely the WORST POSSIBLE WAY they could've handled it in terms of helping sales.

[ZaWarudo]

"Your feeble attempts only delay the inevitable"

[TGG_overlord]

It´s on for sure. I bet that the mod community will crack that "no you cannot mod SFV for PC" nut in no time xD

[DarkOcelet]

Its pretty stupid they are trying to prevent modders. It will be modded as fast as Fallout 4, i guarantee it.

[JohnathanACE]

It's sort of stupid that they actually think they can stop modders. If they want to mod something they will find a way to do it no matter what. I mean look at the DOA 5 mods, Tecmo tried to stop them and failed.

[TGG_overlord]

Imo, Capcom is playing with fire. And they're going to get third-degree burns for sure.

[ApolloTheBoss]

When will they learn? Modders always find a workaround eventually.

[Activemessiah]

exactly

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

True, just look at Fallout 4 and DOA5 ;)

[drgkngx]

This is the lamest attempt at manifesting a controversy I've seen so far. Along with the continued misuse of the word "censorship."

If a dev removes something out of their own free will - for a game that's still in development - than it's not censorship.

[annoyedgamer]

Alot of developers do this, they are giving into pressures from SJWs. It is cultural censorship.

[Fireseed]

Oh so you can provide us proof that it was external pressure and not a developer changing their mind? I need comprehensive brain scans to show which stimuli impacted him more.

I mean otherwise you're just partaking in confirmational bias.

P.S. I will even take a dev stating that they didn't want it changed or twitter or something...

[Activemessiah]

@Fireseed It's clear as day it was external.. that guy from Koei pretty much said it and straight away Koei themselves came out and said it was his opinion only like some scared beaten housewife... they're all had their balls cut off at this point all because of a loud vocal minority who don't even play games.

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

It´s the new norm yes, and if people actually take their time to read what went down at the Capcom-Unity form, people can see for themselves that Sony and Capcom have gone full SJW mode now.

[ginganinja]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

As mentioned in the interviews from this thread, Capcom changed the game to make sure they got a Teen rating from the ESRB, not from external pressure from any mythical group of 'SJW's. Because if they didn't it would impact sales.
Same reason that countless other games and movies over the years have been similarly edited.

[DragonKnight]

@ginganinja: Lol that you actually believe that. A butt slap animation and Cammy's close up on her landing being removed were all it took to get a Teen rating, but keeping Mika's nearly completely exposed boobs, and Cammy's general attire, are perfectly. Fine and wouldn't impact the rating. Just frickin' lol.

[ginganinja]

@Dragonknight
So, apparently, some SJWs were bothered about a butt-slap and are powerful enough to get a huge multi-national company to change the content of one of its games, despite their being no evidence of any sort of campaign apart from a few disgruntled comments on a selection of websites, and yet these all-powerful SJWs didn't get them to cover up Mikas' boobs or change Cammys attire. Two can play that game, LOL!

[DragonKnight]

@ginganinja: Except you can't play that game very well. No, one vocal minority can't make this happen one time with one game, but a year of constant b*tching about the representation of women in games, Nintendo being attack for Tomodatchi Life, among so many other nonsense complaints all add up. Koei and DOAX3 are perfect proof of that, and this is merely the extension of that. So nice try censorship fangirl, but try again.

[DragonKnight]

"Of their own free will" is what's contentious. They didn't remove it because it didn't work for the game at all, they removed it so they wouldn't "offend" anyone. That's why it's censorship.

[drgkngx]

That's not censorship. If I drew a female character, but decided to reduce the size of her breast, that's not censorship. That's me changing my mind.

And to the game developers, the original animation for Mika didn't work for the game.

[DragonKnight]

"If I drew a female character, but decided to reduce the size of her breast, that's not censorship. That's me changing my mind."

Depends on why you decided to "change your mind."

If you looked at the character and thought that it didn't look good the original way you drew it, that's not censorship. If you looked at your character and thought "someone's going to be offended" that's censorship.

"And to the game developers, the original animation for Mika didn't work for the game."

Prove that statement. Because as of right now, the animators have no problem with Mika using her behind in every other way, and no problem with her almost completely exposed breasts, so evidence is against you.

[drgkngx]

"If you looked at your character and thought 'someone's going to be offended' that's censorship."

No, it's not. If I made the decision myself, it's not censorship. Censorship is forced; taken out of my control. Be aware of others isn't censorship; it's being thoughtful.

The devs came to the conclusion that Mika's animation was too much and went in a different direction.

[DragonKnight]

"No, it's not. If I made the decision myself, it's not censorship. Censorship is forced; taken out of my control. Be aware of others isn't censorship; it's being thoughtful."

1. Yes it is because you're not making the decision for yourself you're making it for the "comfort" of someone else. You're not thinking of you, you're thinking of someone else.

2. Censorship does not have to be forced in the sense that it's something you can control. Censorship can be pressured into. For example, watch any of the videos on youtube of Whose Line Is It Anyway involving the studio censor. That person's job is to prevent certain words or actions being used on air not because the fanbase demands it, but because the studio is covering their behinds and taking preventative measures against "concerned" groups who would levy complaints against the show because of certain words or actions being used.

It has nothing to do with personal choice, it has everything to do with either preemptively preventing complaints, or taking actions to end them, and is all a PR move.

"The devs came to the conclusion that Mika's animation was too much and went in a different direction."

Based on what? Did they do focus testing to see people complaining about the animation? No of course not. They have seen the climate in North America and have decided they want nothing to do with SJWs and their complaints, so that's why the animation was removed. It had nothing to do with maintaining some kind of artistic vision, as if it were about that then the animation wouldn't be in the game from the start. It's clearly self-censorship done as a preventative measure, influenced externally by people who won't be buying the game at all. There's a mountain of evidence to support this fact.

[ginganinja]

You'll be banging your head against a wall on this site. I'm sure some believe the entire world is controlled by a small army of 'SJW's who are given full autonomy to edit games before they're released.
You know, rather than Capcom saying, 'hmm, this risks alienating a section of our potential audience, if we change it subtly, hopefully, we can improve sales.'

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

Considering the past SJW incidents with games such as The Witcher 3, Skullgirls, DOAX3, GTA5 and others. I understand why people are on the alert when stuff such as this happens.

[DragonKnight]

'hmm, this risks alienating a section of our potential audience, if we change it subtly, hopefully, we can improve sales.'

You mean the section who won't buy it anyway? Oh yeah, let's cater to that section by all means and not the section that have been keeping the franchise afloat for so long.

[ginganinja]

@Dragonknight
Every Street Fighter game has had a Teen rating (bar one, which was an E). Maybe Capcom want to keep attracting a new audience to their game and keep the franchise afloat, rather than rely on the more traditional 'gamer', who, if comments sections on sites like this are anything to go by, are fickle and likely to choose not to support something they've enjoyed greatly for years for purely cosmetic changes.

[mixelon]

Err, this brand of common sense isn't appreciated here. Haha. They've already made their minds up, and have done before anything like this even happens.

They have the devs specifically saying why they edited it, and it's still not good enough. "We want everyone to feel comfortable playing this game." Does not = "SJWs did it!"

[DragonKnight]

"We want everyone to feel comfortable playing this game." Does not = "SJWs did it!"

Actually it does. Think about it and you'll see why it does. How many SF games have had to have their content "altered" for the comfort of anyone before now? None. Since when was "comfort" a consideration? Since SJWs started whining about how groups of pixels converging together to create a facsimile of a human form looked like.

You really think Street Fighter is a mainstream, family oriented title that would make this kind of "comfort" argument valid? Lol.

[mixelon]

How many old SF games had a butt slap animation taking up most of the frame?
False equivalence. How do you know they didn't have to edit all sorts of stuff out of pre release other SF titles anyway, we wouldn't know. :P

They aren't just trying to sell it to the hardcore who always buy SF games. It's fine for them to appeal to as wide a range as possible without compromising their wacky style. A lot of us who grew up with SF2 now have families who it's nice to be able to play in front of without face palming. (Although in my house that wouldn't be a problem - we'd find it funny.) it doesn't take a SJW to consider it OTT or misplaced. Also, the ratings thing. If they need less of something to get the rating they need, that's not SJWs fault either.

Also, it's cool to see you. I've not been posting much admittedly but you havent seemed as omnipresent as you used to be. Hope everything's well.

[stunkilla]

they should focus more on the positive. It seems like they are just making changes for people who wouldn't even buy they game.

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

My thoughts exactly, and why can´t Capcom just add a on & off censorship option for SFV?

[Max-Zorin]

Capcom stop the madness.

[Kane22]

for all the complaining over animations being censored...why arent most of you complaining over season passes or games having little content but being charged full price...or broken launch games...but nope, that's not important at all..watching an animated girl's crotch or seeing her slap her ass is more important....you guys pick and choose what you want to "fight" and i believe you're picking the wrong one...but, im sure im expecting all kinds of hate and being called stupid names....

[jjj0309]

What were you smoking? Most of us been also complaining about DLCs, High priced Season Pass, Microtransactions, contents since day 1.
Put your ad hominem to somewhere else, like the obnoxious Neo-Feminists complaining over animations on Tweeter 24/7. Hell, they don't even play the god damn video game!
Don't try to hide your biased ideology to censor what we love and care with pretentious logical fallacy. Most of us you criticize for did not care about other issues, also cares about them too, ALOT. Please, don't tell me you didn't seen any fuss over other issues like DLCs in YEARS.
We're against it not just because it's an ass. We just against all BS and we don't want our video game censored to pander upper class white people's taste who dosn't even play video game. That's all.

Here, let me fix your comment.
"for all the complaining over animations...why arent most of you complaining over middle east or women forced to do sex service in Asia...or women who stoned to death for showing their faces...but nope, that's not important at all..censoring an animated girl's crotch or removing her ass slapping is more important....you guys pick and choose what you want to "fight" and i believe you're picking the wrong one...but, im sure im expecting all kinds of hate and being called stupid names...."

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

I shall print this comment and nail it on my wall, because it´s that da** spot on. K.O all the way.

[JOWAPPO]

...Maybe because this isn't the place/time to be talking about overpriced DLC or season passes...?

Last I checked, the title of the article was in relation to the topic of censorship in Street Fighter V. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't click on that article if I'm looking to talk about season pass pricing...

Good God man, zip up, your bias is hanging out.

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

I thought that sounded quite odd as well, since the article (and headline) had nothing to do with DLCs or season passes (whatsoever). Bias as hell for sure...

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

I can´t speak for everyone else, but I got quite upset when I bought D3 on release. As the game were broken (I could not log in to the Battle.net server for almost two weeks). Anyhow, I think that people should focus on both those things actually. As it´s something that affects us all (in one way or another).

[Jmanzare]

to capcom mods = dlc

[X-23]

I totally give up at this point.

I refuse to believe these companies who are jumping on the censorship bandwagon are willing to work so hard to appease some scummy vocal minority, when they can't even satisfy fans properly that have made their franchises what they are today.

It seems like that's the case though. You have people who are interested in purchasing your product and whose purchased in the past telling you "LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE" and you have people who don't even want to touch Street Fighter, or whatever IP it is...who aren't going to maintain the longevity of it, aren't interested in the FGC none of what you do in your game is going to reach them, but still ... you listen to THEM over the ones who actually care about your product.

I'm really disgusted by that idea and the reality of what that means for the future of gaming, even more so at the thought that no one has the intelligence or the backbone to simply give them the middle finger...what are they going to do? Not buy the game? Not like they where going to anyway...

As long as they continue to take the minorities opinion into consideration over the majority then whats the point of anything anymore? I'm fed up with, people sending messages to Ono and Capcom HQ with genuine concern and the best they can do is just push them aside.

Doesn't take a lot to try get some guts. I remember when they tried to start a thing about Eliza from Tekken how her breast would get bigger and they took it to Harada's twitter and Harada pretty much told them to grow the hell up and didn't change a thing...didn't change Josie either...and you know what happened? Nothing.

[JackEffinBlack]

@ X-23

If there was a competition for 'Post of the Year', this won would win the Blue Ribbon.

The appeasing nature of Capcom to these vocal, non-gamers is sickening. Yet, gamers have been asking/pleading/begging for fan-friendly features and fan-based characters in their games, and you *consistently* tell us that we're second-rate citizens to you. Just so disrespectful...

[X-23]

Thanks, I appreciate it. Even if in some pieces what I said does come off a little rant-like, it all comes from a good place. It's not exactly the censorship in itself that's the huge problem for me. Although I think to a certain degree if something is ridiculous and you change it fans aren't going to get upset.

Case and point would be in the early stage of SFV, Chun-Li had some ridiculous DOA like breast physics and it was really apparent on the character select screen. Obviously it's been changed, but I think we can all agree it was obvious it needed to be fixed to a point. Which is why there was no outrage there.

What bothers me though, like I said prior is just the idea of them going out their way to cater to a certain demographic of individuals who could care less about Street Fighter, but fans are the ones who have to jump through hoops to essentially get what they want.

We're starting to see this more and more in the industry now; a lack of concern for what the consumer would like, there was a time where games where built on that concept alone and as a result lots of those old franchises still have the following they have today because of it. With the way social media is there is just no reason for these people to be so out of touch with their consumers.

[mixelon]

The overwhelming majority of past, present and future SF fans and consumers couldn't give two craps about a butt slap animation. They aren't disrespecting any of their old fans by editing their own, unfinished game, the fans are disrespecting *them* by acting like children.

I'll buy SF5, I liked the buttslap, but Its removal won't make the game worse, in any way. Seriously. If anyone is that bothered by such a silly little thing, something weird is going on. In or out, it's not a freaking big deal.

You know the initial Cammy design that was really strange - some people liked it but some people vocally hated it? When they changed that, was it censorship too? Lots changes during a development cycle, this sort of reaction to minute change is not going to encourage studious to do alphas and public preview builds. If you can't handle change, wait 'til it's done.

[DragonKnight]

"The overwhelming majority of past, present and future SF fans and consumers couldn't give two craps about a butt slap animation. They aren't disrespecting any of their old fans by editing their own, unfinished game, the fans are disrespecting *them* by acting like children."

Because you know them all on first name basis and are qualified to make that remark.

"I'll buy SF5, I liked the buttslap, but Its removal won't make the game worse, in any way. Seriously. If anyone is that bothered by such a silly little thing, something weird is going on. In or out, it's not a freaking big deal."

Does its removal make the game better?

"You know the initial Cammy design that was really strange - some people liked it but some people vocally hated it? When they changed that, was it censorship too? Lots changes during a development cycle, this sort of reaction to minute change is not going to encourage studious to do alphas and public preview builds. If you can't handle change, wait 'til it's done."

Depends on why the people didn't like it that prompted the change. Did they think Cammy just looked bad in general and was made to be less of a desirable character overall, or were they just complaining that her boobs were too small for example. Censorship is not just change for its own sake, censorship is either a preemptive change to prevent "value" based complaints, or pressure based change to end them. Censorship is nannying

[mixelon]

Umm. Common sense. The overwhelming majority will buy sf5 without ever hearing about the butt slap. Anyone with any sense realises a split second of animation doesn't make or break a game, regardless of what happens in that animation. It's a total non-issue. Just because a bunch of weirdos think it's important - they're just *another* vocal minority themselves.

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

You deserve a beer (or two) for this comment imo. As for Ono, the guy said that he loved R-Mika and everything about her. Then Capcom pulled this crap on us, like wtf?!

[Blacklash93]

I'm pretty sick of these issues over censorship at this point. I'm definitely in the "against censorship" camp, and I am getting concerned over the string of instances of censorship that have occurred over the past several months.

However, it seems that both sides are more interested in snarky name-calling, antagonizing, shaming, and being angry toward their designated societal menace than being respectful and constructive about this. This is the attitude that has dominated these debates for years, and it evidently isn't working in our favor.

[aslam_cse]

Some time negative publicity will not work.....

I have already canceled my SFV pre order.

Less character count
still the same slowness while fighting if we compare this Mortal kombat or tekken.
and the main part no story elements....

Immature game

[DaddyPoppa]

I'm canceling my preorder....no joke.

[JackEffinBlack]

I'm definitely not pre-ordering; might not buy it until used, honestly...😕

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

I did that a couple of weeks ago, since Capcom just kept on doing more and more stupid stuff (censorship, foolish statements and so on).

[GrimDragon]

Lol you can't stop the PC master race from modding nice try capcom but you will fail. Best thing you can do is not release the game on PC or watch a naked mika slap her ass in one week Muahahaha.

[DillyDilly]

Shitcom
Fucknami

The worst two developers of all time

[DivineAssault]

They should mod them butt naked just because it was censored..

[ThunderGod_Cid]

After all this censorship bullshit, the nonsensical "balance adjustments", and that goofy final boss, FANG; I'm done with SFV.

I'll just wait for Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator, and BlazBlue-CentralFiction.

[JackEffinBlack]

That's a good point; you hurry up and remove R. Mika's animation, but...'Fang' is a good idea?! Child please...lmfao.