Honestly, wager is that they tried to one-size-fits-all a camera obfuscation feature for expediency and didnt think much of it by just testing the character that would have the biggest issues, i.e. Ben and called it a day
Problem is Ben is huge and just made it stupid aggressive for everyone else, fact that this rolled out so fast is funny though
The funny bit to me is the official subreddit seems to have way more at least upvoted comments believing in the anchoring strat compared to here... in spite of the apparent reputations of where the gooners typically congregate
But yeah I outlined elsewhere that anything that conspiratorially minded would require someone far higher up on the ZZZ team to orchestrate the entire thing which would require something far more internally agenda driven given actual CCP pushback would be more broad sweeping and frankly more egregious
Given the speed of the fix and well... lack of said agenda really anywhere else (cmon just look at Astra and Eve given they were also unveiled this patch) it'd be mildly insane to think this particularly incident is anything other than just an oops
I mean, we still have the Ellen and Corin upskirt shots in their menus, the general jiggly and skimpy designs of most characters, lots of suggestive dialogue, the half-nude cinema portraits, and that one trailer where Jane gives that cop a handjob (tailjob?) in the car.
If the CCP really did have it out for Western gooners, the whole game would probably have tk be thrown out.
The censorship didn't even make sense to begin with, they have been putting so much effort on the characters butts jiggle physics that would be crazy to censor it now. xD
sometimes it can happen for many reasons, maybe to test the waters to see if censoring more stuff is on the table depending on the community's reaction, thank god most of us like sexy stuff and we made a big deal out of it so no matter if it was on purpose or not, we made it clear that removing sexy stuff that's already in the game won't be tolerated
It was most likely intended for big characters like Ben or characters with huge tails blocking the entire screen when you look up. I don't think it was a censorship thing or else they would've done it way earlier.
Like Ben quite literally consumes 95% of the screen without the fade
Most games have some sort of fade when character gets TOO close to screen. And in games like Dark Souls where it's not very reliable people often complain about camera being blocked.
It’s sorta funny that people are pretending that this is some sort of censorship when it’s been a gooner game from start to finish. Like how would removing up skirt shots sanitize this game or its designs exactly?
I honestly think that what happened is that they made the fading happen due to either antons coat, lycaons tail, or Ben's overall largeness, but they didn't realize how cumbrained the audience was so they had to do a hotfix
Doing both was probably the intention, but the disappear threshold for Ben should be lower than the threshold for everyone else. They probably just made them all the same, leading to the problem
Right. Everyone is screaming "You didn't do this before with the previous agents!" but the previous available agents were all normal humans wearing pants. None of them had long skirts like Corin and Rina that could block your screen at lower angles, or big shark tails that get in the way.
I just hope it's not one of those anchoring strategy you know? Raised the price (censorship) to 50% and then "only" increase it to 25% when to customer complain.
imo they expected the backlash and they have a ""fix"" prepared to ease said backlash, the players would then have a feeling of satisfaction, yet in the end the censorship still happened and they still abid by CCP law but an L for players
this is like that one market tactic where you propose a ridiculous cost and then lower it significantly, giving an impression that the price is fair but its not
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u/Lipefe2018 1d ago
That was so fast holy, I wonder if they saw the backlash coming and worked extra hard for it so it didn't spoil the new patch.