“Now, when people censor video games, it’s almost always under the guise of removing what they feel is dangerous information. In the case of Skullgirls, two of the biggest aspects that were censored were allusions to real-world hate groups and racial sensitivity.

This is one of the biggest misconceptions of the pro-censorship crowd. They believe that not talking about or not depicting real-world issues is a noble idea. However, this accomplishes the complete opposite of what they think it does. Censoring these issues brings less awareness to these topics instead of more.

The Skullgirls team has taken a digital product that many people purchased and altered it in very significant ways. They’ve cut out entire pages from the art book, removed and re-announced voice lines, and drawn over concept art to make it less offensive. The current Skullgirls team, while many of them have ties to the very beginning of the game, is not the same team it was at the beginning. They’re missing some of the most important contributors to the Skullgirls brand. They’re also literally a completely different company than the original Lab Zero, who is now censoring Lab Zero’s products.

The digital age just made the censorship okay in some people’s eyes, but imagine if these were physical products. Imagine if you bought a physical art book that you really loved. Ten years later, when the company you bought that art book from is overtaken by another company, that new company comes into your house and demands that you give them the pages of the art book that they deemed offensive.

Now, even if you had no problem with it, although many popular gaming websites try to unfairly characterize everyone who’s raised their voice about this censorship as n*zi pedophiles, this is truly what the backlash against Skullgirls has been about. It’s about censorship and the nature of owning digital art. If consumers allow such censorship without raising any concern about it, that’s a very dangerous precedent. At any time, a developer can drop a digital patch removing swaths of content that consumers enjoyed under the guise of reflecting on past decisions.

Although the changes with Skullgirls might not seem like a big issue to some, if these kinds of actions are allowed, another time will come where a developer censors something that the so-called pro-censorship crowd loved, that they were attached to, and then they will have zero recourse to get that content back because they’re the very ones who cheered that censorship on from the start.”

To call it a review bomb, when it's on topic and people rightly upset and doing the only few things consumers have available to them. That's not a review bomb.

That's people saying that the original sonic in the Sonic movie looked like crap, when they course corrected we now have sequels instead of it being dead in the water.


giving out free copies of a game to counter negative reviews?

and the official account giving it a favorite? well i think that was a mistake. because they were so swamped with negativity in july... that well. maybe they thought that was some support.

Even though the person who is giving out the copies is friend with Future Club staff.

Oddly enough this wasn't the first time something was changed.


unfortunatly this aged like milk and became what people feared.

were some people hateful? i have no doubt.

but the abuse>>>

well. doesn't stop.