It’s a slippery slope once you start engaging in if, ins, ands or buts.

Personally, I feel like this argument just moves away from what people are actually bothered about.

Censorship and business are not mutually exclusive, the definition of censorship has nothing to do with whether or not greater profit is achieved as a result.

It’s not out of place, it’s the correct usage, and the very fact that discussing how the word is supposed to be used shows that there is not a unanimous perception on how the word is used. And regardless, the merits of altering a piece of media and how it affects the audience is still a discussion worth having, people…

Again, you’re right. More people will buy if they see it on the shelves of Walmart. Are you comfortable with the Walton family corporate interest determining what types of games you can play? It’s like how the Texas board of Ed gets to determine school textbook content for most of the nation. Is that a good thing?

Yeah, I don’t really disagree, I was just ranting. lol I can just tell you from personal experience, working in a creative field for a corporate company, I have to log all my hours, even though I get paid salary and those hours are put into the overall budget for each project I work on, which seems arbitrary to me,…

You’re fighting the good fight friend, as uphill a battle as that may be.

So...what? You’re advocating that we use the word incorrectly so that we can use it right? What the hell does that even mean?

Objectionable to whomever. If the reason a change was made was due to someone finding the material objectionable, it would fall under the definition of censorship. Now if the creators had no concern to whether someone found it objectionable or not and made a change because it made something easier or they found it to…

There is no data at all to prove they would loose sales. They are working under a false assumption that their game wouldn’t sale unless they alter it because westerners are offended by sex.

The thing is, I don’t think it’s usually done with the wants of the actual customers in mind. It’s done to avoid negative publicity from the usual suspects who do raise a stink like pandering politicians, the PTC, Million Moms, religious groups, etc. They don’t want risk averse big box stores to balk at selling the…

Honestly, who gives a fuck? You are trying to distract from the argument by arguing semantics (as I predicted).

I’ve gone over this a million times, but we are talking about Japan here, which has a very different culture when it comes to a lot of things, specifically art. And really this goes for America too. You want to keep your job, then you go along with what the company tells you.

What are you talking about? I defended localization in my original post.

Practically it does work, you just need to specify that you’re talking about government censorship if what you really mean to talk about is limited to government censorship. Accurately using a word correctly in no way puts government enforced censorship at the same level as artists willingly changing their own art, as…

You’re right, it is business. They’re weighing the original product vs the potential backlash. I’m not saying that there’s artistic integrity to be had or that it’s even culturally significant in most cases. I’m just saying that it’s some degree of censorship when content is changed for that reason. Of the original…

The difference is, one day when content you like has been altered and you are complaining, these “weeaboos” will be on your side to argue against it being changed, and you will just be an asshole.

I have, ‘officially’ does not mean ‘outside sources’. Anyone working on that game and making changes would be doing so in an official capacity.

I’ve read books, thank you, and looking at the definition is can apply to media and speech. Regardless, I’ve yet to find a definition of censorship that’s limited to exclusively the sources you listed.

Not a GGer, but censorship is any instance where material that an official body considers unacceptable changes or removes parts of that media, self censorship in companies happens quite often.