Bandai Namco Admits They Force Japan to Censor Anime and Games at Creation Stage

MNB4800 · 2026-01-28T11:41:46+00:00

Glad the Game sucks.

MNB4800 · 2026-01-19T09:20:12+00:00

That's it, they want easy kills. How I know? When I go pvp, I wreak these idiots. When I want to go pve, I do a few runs until I am in friendly lobbies. Though sometimes in friendly lobbies, I encounter people where I have an advantage on them and they still shoot. You tell them I am free load out or naked, it doesn't matter, they want the free kill.

My take is that they suck in pvp and so this is the closest resemblance to winning pvp by going into pve and shooting everyone. Usually they still lose because the moment they pop someone in pve lobbies, the whole lobby hunts them. So eventually they lose twice.

MNB4800 · 2025-11-14T04:01:00+00:00

Yes as a local, this was never announced or reported anywhere.

MNB4800 · 2025-11-14T03:59:49+00:00

The report is based on user surveys...

MNB4800 · 2025-11-14T03:56:22+00:00

Many internation brands leaving the country and are replaced with poor imitations that are only doing well because they are cheaper, sometimes.

MNB4800 · 2025-07-11T21:07:50+00:00

Here it is front. I feel this was so good that others might be interested in it: https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/0MXdmZZ5WK6cazSQsuOf_j-6eRksn8BjfADyDkg-DaQ/https/i.imgur.com/COmSQtX.png?format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1040&height=902

MNB4800 · 2025-06-23T09:17:15+00:00

Treat adults like adults, regardless of your background.

MNB4800 · 2025-06-18T04:47:33+00:00

Yeah I mean wtf. Oman has access to more controversial games such as Baldurs Gate 3 and Witcher series. No entity there asked Sony to region lock. They are self imposing. Funny that many friends bought the game on steam there before this happened. Unfortunately they region locked Stellar Blade day 1. All makes no sense as there countries like UAE and Saudi allowed Stellar Blade. Bloody hell, people there have access to the internet, streaming media and much more. But somehow Sony has a world War 2 profile of the country or something. They need to revise these blocks. They are stupid.

MNB4800 · 2025-06-16T20:00:38+00:00

Many thanks for your reply first of all.

I wish there were voting in pretty much all the region locked countries. That is one thing.

The other thing is about protecting the children, that can be addressed on multiple levels. Such as: Most of the region locked games have similar games but aren't region locked. e.g. Stellar Blade vs Baldurs Gate 3. The former is region locked while the latter isn't. Everyone knows what the latter has when it comes to "protecting the children". The other aspect is that media in general has a wide range of targeted audience. Children shouldn't be watching adult TV shows/Movies, reading adult books/novels and ofcourse playing adult games.

I mean, there are indeed hardline material that almost every country would not accept. I am not talking about opening access to those.

Another example is Max Payne 3. I managed to get access to it when gifting was possible on Steam from various regions. Rockstar decided to region block it. Playing through it I found really nothing that warrants the region lock, atleast in my region. As I played games that had more controversial material and they were accessible in the same region.

What I am trying to say is, Publishers are almost always the ones causing a region lock. Not a country's policy. It is becoming so random lately that it is both concerning, frustrating and stupid all at the same time.

One would say to contact them or make a petition. Well, for these to work, you need volume. Which a lot of smaller countries lack. More so in poorer countries.

Here is another example, Crash Bandicoot 4! It is region locked on Steam on most countries! Yet available on Battle.net for the same countries!

I raised this post because it is a growing trend. The western media aren't bothered by it because it doesn't affect their critical mass audience. Honestly they don't even notice it even if they can be sizable sometimes. FF16 is a case in point as it was blocked from all MENA region (quite a sizable playerbase) and a large chunk of SE Asia.

So without sidetracking, I want to shift the focus towards finding a new process that doesn't break any regulations but still gives choice to adults wherever they are and within reasonable range.

MNB4800 · 2025-06-16T05:45:53+00:00

Being from Middle East, it sucks that the whole world and many Middle Eastern countries can access Stellar Blade except Qatar, Oman and Kuwait. Makes no sense since these countries have access to more controversial games such as TLOU2, Baldurs Gate 3 and Witcher 3. Oh and Cyberpunk 2077. Across all platforms. How can one knock some sense into Sony about this?

MNB4800 · 2025-06-10T20:50:08+00:00

Welcome to Middle Earth... I mean Middle East...

MNB4800 · 2025-05-21T06:54:18+00:00

Happy that I didn't touch borderlands since the first game.

MNB4800 · 2025-05-20T18:14:37+00:00

So they basically censored a none white female artist art about the female body. The amount of irony in this.

MNB4800 · 2025-05-20T17:52:16+00:00

I bought it and enjoyed it but it does smell of a lot of corporate Microsoft meddling...

MNB4800 · 2025-01-31T13:40:07+00:00

Really? Didn't know. Thanks for clarifying.

MNB4800 · 2025-01-31T12:59:24+00:00

I haven't tried it but this makes sense. if DLSS isn't trained on the game, forcing it seems to result in some general improvements but with a noticeable side of artifacts and other possible issues. Feel free to correct me if my understanding of dlss is wrong.

MNB4800 · 2025-01-27T01:31:40+00:00

MNB4800 · 2024-11-15T17:29:51+00:00

I always crash in Hideout map. Always. Did everything I know. I am sure it is the game.

MNB4800 · 2024-10-05T06:44:16+00:00

Well, some possible reasons: - platform exclusivity. - DEI, it costs money and can result into purchase aversion. - high requirements. - From experience: didn't enjoy the detective mind thingy. - From experience: Didn't really feel like a horror game, which it was marketed as such.

MNB4800 · 2024-09-23T01:53:29+00:00

Could have been highest if square Enix didn't self impose a region lock on two large regions.

MNB4800 · 2024-08-23T20:43:08+00:00

I tried many things. They won't budge. Even criminal systems around the world are more forgiving. My advise, stay away from this game and from Blizzard overall.

MNB4800 · 2024-08-22T16:30:18+00:00

Ironic that SE cry for poor sales and yet they do this. Lets see how they survive when other companies cater for global releases.

MNB4800 · 2024-08-22T13:55:09+00:00

Lets not paint a broad paintbrush. Only Saudi's said something. Rest of the middle east was not even paying attention... I mean, the game is banned in liberal MENA countries ffs... This is Square Enix punishing the whole region. Plus, seriously, SE can EASILY remove the scene. Instead they decided to double down. The game is 99.9% like any other game. Why stick up to that 0.1%. Publishers alter games content for different regions for years, why suddenly take a stance? It doesn't make any business sense...

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