Prudence prevails again: Watch Dogs 2's nudists will no longer be going commando. You may have read our earlier story on the player who got banned for sharing a shot of one character's honeypot – well, Ubisoft has now responded, and promised to patch some panties into the game. But is this really the solution?
The company claims that it's just one character model which is particularly explicit, despite the game being properly rated as mature by the ESRB and PEGI for its inclusion of nudity. "We apologise and will update this NPC model to make it more consistent with other NPC models in the game in a patch to be released this week," a spokesperson said.
It added: "We also are working with our first-party partners to ensure that players can continue to play and share all content from the game within the bounds of the first parties' respective codes of conduct." Look, we totally get it – but what kind of message does this send? Guns and violence are totally fine – but don't you dare look at someone's bits.
[source kotaku.com, via eurogamer.net]
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One particular model? Was she the wrong race? Piercing? Bush shaved into an Illuminati symbol? Too much roast beef? Just what the heck is going on?
Are there any naked shemales in the game? You know some group or another is going to be offended if they left them out.
One week after election, Yeats the prophetic poet.
The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats, 1865 - 1939
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Aww Nintendo's Treehouse censoring games again! Why doesn't this happen with other game companies! You never see this happen to a PS4 or XB1 game!
It shouldn't be in the game to begin with! If a 10-year-old boy wants to see boobs and vaginas he has access to plenty of real porn which is more entertaining than cartoon body parts. So, if devs are just going to be soft and cave to whining cry babies in the end anyway, don't put useless crap like nudity in the damn game. I also think somebody should interview a developer from the Watch Dogs 2 team and ask how much time and effort went into adding this nonsense. If it took a substantial amount of time then they should be taken to task for focusing on this instead of fixing the multiplayer. That's the real outrage here. An entire part of the game is broken and they're worrying about censoring stuff that shouldn't have been in the game to begin with that detracted from far more important areas. And I continue to be part of the problem because I buy this company's games. I really need to start learning.
Nudity is still seen as a pretty big taboo in certain places. The violence we see so often now just feels rather blasé, plus there's no doubt that Watch Dogs will be played by those under 18 years old and these companies know that. Look at GTA V, I hardly doubt that all 50 million plus of it's sales were adults.
@TheMightyPunram
It wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the rise of obnoxious people such as Anita Sarkeesian. That's not letting Sony off the hook. I think banning the guy who posted the picture was absolutely absurd. What should've happened was removal of the pic and at worst for the user, a warning. The ban was going too far.
We must respect women!...what they covered up the nude woman? How dare they... we must have our women as sex objects. Blah, blah, blah sprinkle in the term "artistic expression" to try to make an argument.
Society...smh
Things like this are starting to push me more and more to game on PC only... This is whole situation is completely ridiculous. Oh well, I guess.
@Constable_What
I think the fact Sony provides a 'Pro' console that for some games performs worse than the original PS4 model would be more a reason to go to PC than this kind of silliness. At the end of the day at least this doesn't effect if a game is good or bad. Horrendous performance is a big deal though and one we shouldn't take lightly.
@TheMightyPunram
Well, I'd agree with the hypocritical part. If this is in fact about creating a 'kid friendly' environment then might as well get rid of all the M rated games that revolve around murder, which would take away at least 75% of the console's library.
Can't say i'm surprised by Sony, although I think its more about sharing it through their own PSShare, than anything else, so the possibility of someone "under age" seeing this by simply searching the #PSShare hashtag is quite high. It is hypocrisy though, considering I can butcher heads off in Fallout 4 and share those with complete abandon, yet a bit of "honeypot" as written...is fine.. Nonsensical...
Self censorship isn't exactly new though, happened often in the past, Bare Knuckle 3 on Megadrive had the campest boss you'd ever seen when released in Japan, but it was swiftly changed for the Europe release (Streets Of Rage 3) in case it offended.
Fast forward twenty years and ya get the outcry due to having a choice of being gay or not in Mass Effect... I dont have much sympathy for devs but they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
And the reason i don't have much sympathy is this.... According to ESRB, its rated "Mature" which means for 17 and over, while PEGI say 18 and over..
it contains Blood, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs...
Either its aimed at adults or not... So why the hell Ubisoft have decided to cover up is beyond my realm of reasoning, considering that both sexes have visible genitalia anyway and the game should not be viewed by children according to the rating recommendations.
@Gamer83 I already have a good gaming PC and do a lot of my gaming there; the main reason I don't just get rid of my PS4 are friends and that's really it, even the exclusives I'd be fine without. The reasons just keep ditch console altogether just keep on stacking up. All of these things irritate me about console. The silliness, the performance issues, almost everything. The community is something I just don't want to leave behind though...
It's not a game release without this discussion, eh? sigh
Pretty much everything I've wanted to say has already been said above. Sharing stuff should come with tags so that you know what you're seeing, and everything the game has is on the ESRB or PEGI or CERO or whatever rating equivalent in your region. If you buy it and are disgusted by it's content, it's on you.
@SkanetWasTaken
Nah, it's even more ridiculous than that. Little Timmy is using mommy's iphone to look up all the naked women to his heart's content.
Im upset nudity in a game is art not a disgrace. Im sure sony first party game god of war 3 remastered has boobs so they gonna cover those boobs up now.
C'mon... stop talking about ethics and moral, this is just crap marketing. We already know that nudity and vulgarity is the easiest way to start a mess on social networks, gaining free advertising from that.
Most importantly, is the game fun to play?
Well that is my order cancelled. I only buy games for simulated nudity I can easily google myself.
Guess they shed the clothes of some NPC to improve the frame-rate.
Looks like Sony has taken a page out of Nintendo's playbook. Pathetic.
@Gamer83 Who is this Anita person you're on about? Maybe there's a way you two can talk it out and still be mates?
Sony were alright with the many, many sex scenes in the witcher 3, and the dong's a danglin in outlast?
#freethevag
I blame anyone who buys children an adult game.
I am now waiting for Rockstar to take the naked dude's package out of GTA5 because I have one of those and seeing a polygonal representation offends me.
@ApostateMage Yeah I rate it
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