Not that surprising in retrospect, apparently "Jake Rodkin" of Campo Santo is part of the team making this "Remaster" and he literally paid bail for those "militant college students" earlier this year:
Do you really think that the free market has anything to do with this decsion?
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Censorship is censorship!
Okay, out of all the one's here this one bugs the shit out of me the most. Why is his French identity changed?! What, is it current year that sissypants is offensive to someone? Who?!
The devs might be politispergs but they still want to make money. The free market will decide if their remaster is worth money or not. I haven't done any market research but it may be that the audience for these games are sensitive extremist retards and they will make more money this way.
Censorship is the anti-thesis to the free market, the removal of the freedom of choice. You can't force Disney to release violent slasher films featuring rape, but if that's what you want then you also don't have to buy Disney movies. Disney also can't prevent you from selling that either, they might not want to publish it themselves, but they have no power over that sort of thing. Government censorship does however and that is what censorship means. You can't release games that make fun of commies in China, that's censorship, or games that mention certain things or does this or that. Some countries pretty much forbid violence and blood, others forbid nudity. That's actual censorship. Developers and publishers changing their products to appeal to certain audiences is not censorship.
It's Bowdlerization, not censorship.
Where is it legally available uncut? They purposefully removed season 1 from Steam so you have to buy the remaster if you don't already own it.
because new customers don't exist
Yes.
Also yes. Trying to appeal to a market is not censorship. So if you remove scenes from a film for example to make it more family friendly is that censorship? No it isn't, you are adapting it to a target audience. You can't distinguish this from any other changes you make to these kinds of products. What makes censorship bullshit is because you have another party that says you can't sell something for X reason. Let's say you want to sell video games in the middle-east to arabs. Censorship is when their governments tell you that your game can't feature things and they have to be removed to be sold. If you want to sell your game there you have to localize it for that market though and that can involve making changes that appeal to that market. To retards this might seem like the same thing, big gov demanding for example that there is no drinkable alcohol in the game or the publisher removing alcohol in the game to appeal to that market. But it isn't the same at all, one is censorship and the other is creative decisions to maximize sales.
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Yes, none of those are censorship, just crime. The first hypothetical is fallout from extreme butthurt because there was no censorship.
