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THE MARY SUE MOVIES & TV Comics Space GAMING Play-Asia Will Sell Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 for Western Audiences, to Spite Feminists, or Something by Maddy Myers( Wednesday, November 25th 2015 at 12:59 pm DEAD OR ALME All rights Even people who know nothing about fighting games know about the Dead Or Alive series. In fact, people who know nothing about fighting games tend to only know about the Dead Or Alive series, in my anecdotal experience. henever I tell people l like fighting games, I feel like I have to waste a lot of time explaining that, yes, I know the camera zooms in on female characters boobs and butts a lot, and no, I don't like it eithe entertaining in spite of those elements. Dead Or Alive is one of the worst offenders when it comes to this sort of thing, and you don't need an expert to tell you that, because you probably already know just from doing a Google image search of "Dead or Alive." Did you know that the game actually has male characters in it? It does! More than one, even! Not that a layperson would ever know that, since they're almost never talked about or pictured. but fighting games can be The Dead Or Alive developers know about their reputation, too-since it's intentional, and all. They also know that the fandom for Dead Or Alive is pretty small here in the West-it's not a very compelling game from a mechanical standpoint. Arguably, the gameplay is not the reason why most people would pick it up, which would explain why it's not very interesting. It's not terrible, mind you-but its not as interesting a fighting game as your Street Fighters and your Tekkens, and as a result, the DOA competitive community just isn't that big. It doesn't feature first at EVO or anything, and it's not going to any time soon. As a result, I wasn't too surprised to hear that Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 wouldn't be made available here in America, cause it's just not that popular here. But, that's not exactly the reason that the game developers provided. When asked why the game wouldn't appear here in the States, publisher Koei Tecmo said, "We do not bring DOAX3 to the west and won't have any plan change in the future Do you know many issues happening in video game industry with regard to how to treat female in video game industry? We do not want to talk those things here. But certainly we have gone through in last year or two to come to our decision. How do you think Dead Or Alive fans reacted to this? Oh, you know. Poory Anyway, game retailer Play-Asia has decided to seize this opportunity to capitalize on DOA's anti-feminist audience and theyve announced that they'll be selling DOAX3 to Westerners. Play-Asia also sent out a bunch of tweets about how theyre doing it just to spite all those pesky S/Ws hat sort of trolling will work pretty well on sexist guys who think that eminists hate boobs and want to cover up every boob in every video game I mean, Iguess hich does seem to be what everyone thinks feminism is all about s entire topic is just exhausting, honestly, so let's just share our favorite epalm gifs and try not to think about how stupid and disappointing this repetitive, boring argument is. The people who want to buy Dead Or Alive will buy it. No one is censoring boobs. The people who don't want to buy Dead or Alive were already going to not buy it, so it's not like that's going to change either. No one is censoring boobs. Also, none of you know what "censorship" Video games.. video games never change.

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"Nobody is gonna take your games away" 2015 Eiditiom "It's due to cultural differences. The West has it's own thinking about how to depict women in games media which is different from Japan. Speaking personally, ifcontroversy. It will, however, have to endure criticism it is a representation acceptable to the general people in Japan, I wouldn't be concerned about it in Japan. It's a difficult problem." "The decision, which is certainly morally correct, will undoubtedly help Nintendo avoid some unwelcome from some fans who will inevitably accuse it of censorship." MVCUK journalist Ben Parfitt on Nintendo's decision to remove the lingerie costumes in Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida on Koei Tecmo's decision to not bring Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 to the West "We didn't make any change because of external influences. Those changes came up internally. We decided to remove that because we want the biggest possible number of people to play, and we don't want to have something in the game that might make someone uncomfortable." "That's honestly their decision, but yes, sadly, it has stopped us from localizing certain Compile Heart games. We don't want to censor anymore because we know that's not true to the original developed art" Idea Factory International President Haru Akenaga on Koei Tecmo's decision to not bring Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 to the West Street Fighter V producer Yoshinori Ono on the decision to remove Mika's buttslap from the game Source 1: archive.is/Xauf7 Source 2: archive.is/p5PmM Source 3: archive.is/i8Rs7 Source 4: archive.is/IZ4EP
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Christine M. Cabanos @ChristineMCVA * Follow Don't let your feminist ideals get it in the way of my income RETWEETS LIKES 362 586 9:03 PM-30 Nov 2015 Reply to @ChristineMCVA Master Miller @ji millerworks 8h @ChristineMCVA The SJWs have a tendency to f--- up things for women/Poc far more than they will ever admit. Really stop "helping" us 3995 View other replies
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I don't find this stance honest, not because of feminism at all, but because there's absolutely 0 to show the author means what they say when it comes to not wanting to take away games.

Here is an example of a game being denied to a country due to the current cultural climate, that is influenced by people working for media designed to talk about and in some way try to influence culture. Instead of turning an introspective gaze into the current approach to addressing the "problem" in gaming, IE people boycotting, doxxing, releasing highly negative opinion pieces, what you see is either celebrating the decision, angrily fuming about efforts to get the game to the US, or feigning indifference while saying "but I'm glad the game isn't coming out anyway".

You can't claim that you want more diverse games while not touching other peoples games, while being happy about a game being denied to people over politics. Just like you can't claim to be pro-dev and then try to get game content removed because it might be "pro-sjw".

That's what's frustrating about this whole thing, and what this article fails at doing. It just reiterates a hypocritical stance that "It's good this game got taken away, and by the way we aren't trying to take away peoples games", instead of either coming out and saying plainly how they want games they don't like taken away, or how the pro-active ways they've gone about tackling this issue are causing bad things to happen.

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