En primer lugar me parece bochornoso que teniendo un sistema de calificación por edades los "jueces" de UK decidan si un juego se vende o no en UN CONTINENTE ENTERO.
En segundo lugar, me parece una muestra de tremenda cobardía por parte del distribuidor del juego hacer esto, y hace al usuario sentirse traicionado y estafado.
No he querido quedarme de brazos cruzados, y, aunque no sirva de nada, he decidido enviar un e-mail a richard.braclay@risingstargames.com
Al menos he luchado.
Este es el e-mail:
Rising Star Games:
I am a Spanish user of the Nintendo's console Wii, and as mature and hardcore gamer, I am quite disappointed with how Rising Star Games is approaching the distribution of the game No More Heroes in Europe.
As far as published information has told us about the subjet, it seems the company has decided to censore the blood and the violent scenes from the game in Europe in order to evade eventual problems similar to the ones Manhunt 2 had with the UK content rating system.
From the user's point of view, this makes no sense with the publisher duty: the sensible thing would have been to try the full version of the game to pass the rating. If not, then censoring the game would be what the company would be told to do, but then the users would not blame the company for it, just the UK content rating system.
Anyway, almost all users that were looking forward to buy the game are convinced that the full version of No More Heroes would for sure have passed with an 'over 18' rating, like God of War did. By the way, this game has more gore content than No More Heroes. Other example is Grand Thef Auto San Andreas, in which virtual freedom lets the player act with much less moral behavior than in No More Heroes.
In the other hand, the violence in No More Heroes is not is something that has been included by commercial reasons: it is fundamental to enjoy the game's humor and parodies, and some of them, as far the game has been shown -in it's American and uncensored version- are senseless without blood.
Of course, taking out blood of the game means taking out the game creator's signature form it. Could someone imagine how Killer 7 would have been played if it had not all the adult content? Goichi Suda designs the games the way Rising Star Games is preventing us to see, because of one reason of style and background message that your company is trying to maintain far away of us, users, that are looking for it.
On users, by the way, you may have been noticed I am not the only European Wii owner who is not happy with the publisher decisions, my opinion is shared widely in the Internet. In all the forums I visit there is a lot of people that is not interested in the game anymore because of this. And I am only speaking about Spanish forums. You are loosing a large number of potential clients of the product, I am one of them.
I hope this e-mail has clarified how most European Wii users feel about your policy.
Truly,
(Aqui va mi nombre)
Madrid, Spain.
Recordad que si decidís hacer algo parecido debeis hacerlo de forma respetuosa, razonada y en inglés.
Si estais interesados en el tema podeis, además, firmar en la petición online, que, para variar, no ira a ningun lado, pero al menos...I am a Spanish user of the Nintendo's console Wii, and as mature and hardcore gamer, I am quite disappointed with how Rising Star Games is approaching the distribution of the game No More Heroes in Europe.
As far as published information has told us about the subjet, it seems the company has decided to censore the blood and the violent scenes from the game in Europe in order to evade eventual problems similar to the ones Manhunt 2 had with the UK content rating system.
From the user's point of view, this makes no sense with the publisher duty: the sensible thing would have been to try the full version of the game to pass the rating. If not, then censoring the game would be what the company would be told to do, but then the users would not blame the company for it, just the UK content rating system.
Anyway, almost all users that were looking forward to buy the game are convinced that the full version of No More Heroes would for sure have passed with an 'over 18' rating, like God of War did. By the way, this game has more gore content than No More Heroes. Other example is Grand Thef Auto San Andreas, in which virtual freedom lets the player act with much less moral behavior than in No More Heroes.
In the other hand, the violence in No More Heroes is not is something that has been included by commercial reasons: it is fundamental to enjoy the game's humor and parodies, and some of them, as far the game has been shown -in it's American and uncensored version- are senseless without blood.
Of course, taking out blood of the game means taking out the game creator's signature form it. Could someone imagine how Killer 7 would have been played if it had not all the adult content? Goichi Suda designs the games the way Rising Star Games is preventing us to see, because of one reason of style and background message that your company is trying to maintain far away of us, users, that are looking for it.
On users, by the way, you may have been noticed I am not the only European Wii owner who is not happy with the publisher decisions, my opinion is shared widely in the Internet. In all the forums I visit there is a lot of people that is not interested in the game anymore because of this. And I am only speaking about Spanish forums. You are loosing a large number of potential clients of the product, I am one of them.
I hope this e-mail has clarified how most European Wii users feel about your policy.
Truly,
(Aqui va mi nombre)
Madrid, Spain.
Recordad que si decidís hacer algo parecido debeis hacerlo de forma respetuosa, razonada y en inglés.
http://www.petitiononline.com/nmh3r03s/petition.html
Por otro lado, se rumorea que la censura solo afectara a UK, pero mejor prevenir que curar...
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