Okay, here’s gonna be my pat response: where were these guidelines and these statements about morality and protecting our IP and X/Y/Z when stuff like guro, loli and the shota genres became huge things in Japanese fandom? When incest and rape did as part of the larger culture driving hentai and other pornographic works…

I mean, in the case of Yoko Taro? Yeah, I’d believe it.

That’s the thing, though: the doujinshi market has existed for years without any company stepping in—afaik—to try and police it like this. Porn studios regularly sell videos with models dressed up in cosplay of many different characters, and even outside of a pornographic context: fanworks have and continued to be…

Two things with that, though:

Yeah, in a vacuum, I’d agree. But this is also part of legislation, iirc, that goes hand-in-hand with how Japan is trying to push for creators to pay royalties to corporations for producing fan works that use their characters.

Okay, let me rephrase: how is the threat of legal action not actively contributing to an “obstacle” being put in the way of creators?

How is that any different from trying to stop them?

That’s absolutely part of the reason they’re cracking down like this—because Rule 34 artists and Cosplayers are making money that Squeenix depserately wants to have control over—because capitalism lmao—and the only real way to adequately start approaching that problem is the tired and true “But we’re really doing it…

When will companies learn that you...cannot ever stop people from making porn of your characters? Or cosplay? Or fanfiction? Or fanart, just in general?

There’s actually a mod for TW2 that lets you play as Kislev, and it’s fantastic--imo--if you’re into modding the game just slightly.

IIRC, you can run TW2 just fine without the launcher. Mods, too. (My game is heavily modded, though, so maybe that’s why.)

If you actually want to play as Kislev in TW:WH2, there’s a mod for it thatis absolutely fantastic, no DLC needed.

Please please please please give us the dueling mechanic from Three Kingdoms along with expanded siege mechanics, siege and ambush maps that are actually interesting, updated horde mechanics, and politcal options/mechanics that aren’t just “ally or confederate everyone you can before the AI does,”.

I will deffo check that out for ME3. Hopefully there’s similar mods that restore any cut content/add new content for ME2, because I really feel like that game is the shortest of the three.

What mods would you suggest for ME2&3?

Will the game still be moddable? As much as I love BW games, both DA and ME as series are made 100x more pleasing to me with mods.

I realize. And I’m saying there’s a difference between calling the game mechanics of DS/BB rudimentary as in simple and rudimentary as in feels simple.

Does the game still have the problem where unlocking some weapons actively dilutes the pool of “actual useful,” weapons available to you? Always hated that about the game when I played it back before the DLC were out.

Maybe they should talk to movie celeb connections they might have because they are under similar things.