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[Toots]

Not quite. Ready or Not is a slow paced SWAT sim. Nothing about that has changed. The analogy would be more accurate if the weed had exactly the same effect and even taste, but the zipper on the baggie was a different color all of a sudden. The major point of the product has not changed a bit, just edge case window dressing. I've got 60+ hours in the game and I probably could have played the rest of my life and not notice these things got changed. A certain sect of gamer is really sensitive to any question of their ability to "handle" or consume vulgar content. It's a condition many Americans who came of age in the Eminem and Marilyn Manson era are stuck with.

Truth is between us two.
People here seem to find it less enjoyable after the changes. Some might be part of a certain sect of gamer that is really sensitive about vulgar content, some might not.
Also you should be aware of the "they give you an inch, you take a mile" mindset of every type of activist nowdays, and not be too naive about the interests at stake. Giving this particular inch doesn't bother you, but the mile you'll be asked to give down the line might.

 

[SunnySideGuy]

Excellent game, but for some reason the developer Void decided to dumb down the visuals for pc gamers to match console versions with the update yesterday. No idea why the hell they did this and didn't just let PC be its own desperate thing, but yeah, game looks considerably worse in all aspects visually.

 

[Gamezone]

They lost me with the censorship

They also downgraded the PC graphics, thinking we wouldn't notice.

 

[simpatico]

Truth is between us two.
People here seem to find it less enjoyable after the changes. Some might be part of a certain sect of gamer that is really sensitive about vulgar content, some might not.
Also you should be aware of the "they give you an inch, you take a mile" mindset of every type of activist nowdays, and not be too naive about the interests at stake. Giving this particular inch doesn't bother you, but the mile you'll be asked to give down the line might.

I'd love to know how long it would have taken people to notice those things were missing. The game rewards and encourages not killing, so there being less blood is very minuscule. For the digital titty, even less so I would say. The developer isn't censoring this to be a prude, they're doing so to comply with Australian and British content regulations. They're a tiny indie developer and don't have to resources to fight those people or, as I've seen suggested here, stop being too lazy to simply double the amount of games that they support by making an entirely new SKU.

In terms of taking an inch, a lot of the same avatars can be found rallying for new forms of government regulation in gaming. I'd agree with the adage in that context, I just don't think it applies to the blood pool and titty in this police sim. It's not the developer being a prude.