F... those decision makers on GOG. It seems they really want to lose me.

GOG is NOT thinking anymore at all. They try to attract new customers with nonsense like tthe PR preservation joke and the dreamlist which is mostly the community list in nice .... and at the same time they alienate a customer base they wanted to attract before. GOG simply has lost all reasonable thinking. I don't know if something changed in the management but with such decisions they will lose the rest of their loyal customer base ... and imo completely deserved.

I half-agree however I think I do see some signs of improvement. F.e. I prefer them showing off preservation program or dreamlist (even if with no real change) compared to yet another 'we support current thing' stuff they did in the past. F.e. they didn't announce women's day sale here nor on twitter (finally), because they know they'd have people like me rightfully indicting them "where was men's day sale on Novermber 19th". They do have generic female protagonist sale rn with no announcement which is innocent enough I'd say.

EXACTLY THIS

Read this @GOG!

GOG is outright discriminating anime fans and anime games with this decision.

No different then Steam I bet in this case where it depends on who sees the game and the patchs as that seems to be how things go in terms of allowing the games and patchs.. anymore

I absolutely don't care if Steam is as bad as GOG or better. They are worse when it comes to DRM and they are as bad when it comes to censoring. It does not change the fact that this is unacceptable, short sighted and in the case of this game even completely unreasonable. I am 54 years and I don't need a stupid platform to protect me from a videogame! If platforms don't stop with this behaviour it's the best advertisement for pirating. No censoring at all. Iirc GOGs original pitch was to make the product so good that people WANT to pay for it instead of pirating. Well GOG ... you failed 100% in this case. The devs offered you the opportunity to make their product more attractive and you refused it. That is the way to go out of business in the long run and I cannot say that it would surprise me anymore.

Wasn't saying Steam is better nor anything like that as I don't like Steam for varies reasons ,while I am all for DRM-free platforms..i just was trying to say that its likely the same case of''depends who sees the game or in this case uncensor patch when it comes to ''anime style games'' as game platforms and even streaming platforms that dabble in gaming no matter which ones have more and more been against ''anime style games'' even streaming platforms that legit focus on anime like say Crunchyroll has been found to censor and not like ''anime style games'' when they dabbled in the game side of things ..

Which each case its brought up to the devs and studio's its often said by them ''it depends on who sees the game/patch if it gets aproved'' or some more corpo excuse

The lack of transparency in the video game industry is what I hate the most. I would love to see a statement by the people in charge of GOG explaining why they are rejecting the 18+ patch for this game when it's not even considering hentai Vs all of the hentai shit they allow on a weekly bases.

GOG and communication ... that was a good one. In all those years I am here they never learned how to talk to their customers and be transparent. SIlent treatment -. that's what GOG stands for. Everything is top secret for some reason and if they start to lose customers (which already happened) because of their stupid policys they are actually still wondering how this could even happen. Absolutely ridiculous.

GOGs unofficial mascot is actually a anime character... but people can be sure with the exception of a bit of the legs, arms and the face, nothing is naked there.

What is worrying me the most is rather that there is no single comment from GOG and that they do NOT put a note on the game site related to the censorship and if someone is trying to refund the game because of censorship, it will get denied.

No nudity in Tokyo Clanpool as well afaik - which makes this whole censoring even more ridiculous. (Imo censoring nudity in such games at all is laughable since we are talking about fictional drawings - but that's just me).

Pretty sure that they would refund if you would complain about censoring you weren't aware when buying the game because of a missing warning thereof. I am even sure that you would have legal standing in such case since the game is not advertized as being incomplete.

Oh and the belly is naked too... She is not the most innocent girl, rather a teen which is trying to appear "sexy". However, not a unusual appearance in any big city or "on the beach",

I did NOT buy the game, because i was suspicious of censorship from the beginning and realized the censorship almost instantly. So, nope... i did not buy it. It was the experience of another user and it seems legit.

Eastasiasoft reaffirms that GOG rejected the patch. Again, the same store that has unrated/uncensored patches for explicit loli content now won't allow a Vita game uncensored. This is clear evidence of a shift in policy. That GOG refuses to disclose because they know they'll get shit for it, so they just keep it classified and let the unwitting publishers take the brunt of it.

Regarding the general policy related to games which might include any sort of "nudism", and no matter how they call it, we know what we talk about: All i know so far is that no one can talk for any extended period about this issue on the forum. It will become shut down rather sooner than later, so it is no use even to bring it up. Indeed, no use going to argue about because the "opponents" will try to beat each others until someone is completely nuked down for eternity and for good. There is a very strong polarization related to this matter and a good bunch of users, dunno how many of them, are willing to boycott any site bringing up any "visible grade" of those sort of content (involving nudism in general). To GOG it seems to have become a pretty "heated up" topic already with opponents voicing their opinion on that matter even stronger than any other topic i could think off.

On Steam they simply mostly lock such content away behind a 18+ lock. Although it is no secret, those who want to see it, at any age... got a good chance unlocking it at any time. So far GOG was not really setting up such a lock, but this seems required else those in disfavor might be haunting them even in their bad dreams.

Anyway, no use talking about because this matter is usually "hard coded", so it means, no one would be able to change anyones mind. It would be easier telling a believer "God does not exist"... eventually they might overthink their "potentially false belief", as funny as it sounds.

It seems like GOG has now changed their mostly "censorship free" mentality and it will now become very hard getting many of the uncensored games it seems. If it is bringing them "more luck"; i mean "more gamers", is not yet known... this will become a matter of new insight.

For all the publishers out there: What i do recommend is simply to put a extremely censored version on GOG or Steam, which might only attract one of 2 potentially interested gamers, perhaps even lesser. But it does not matter because, those who are truly interested and are moaning about censorship, they will have the option to get a "better" version on another site (in some cases a patch, but dunno if this might still cause a issue). What truly matters is simply that the game is visible in some way, because without any visibility no advertisement and way lesser buyers.

Some publishers/creators was already accepting "mosaic mode" as a standard, so censorship is their standard... there is no uncensored version anymore. The true question simply is: Why even to create such a game at all if it can not be delivered uncensored? In such a case i would rather create a "jumping frog game" instead of being dishonest with myself and my art... but this is just a very personal opinion.

Do not get me wrong: I only occasionally buy such games if it is able to meet by pretty demanding "artistic taste", so i am not a typical customer of those sort of games and my interest into "protecting it" is rather low, as i may not miss a lot. On the other hand, i stand in for censorship-... and DRM- free content and i got no issues with it.

Besides: I dunno how much influence politics and especially ESRB (rating agency required for releasing games) got but this comment does not look good:

"""The ESRB's highest rating, "Adults Only", has been considered a total ban on the mainstream sale of certain games, as most retailers refuse to stock games carrying the rating, and they cannot be published on major video game consoles due to company policies."""

What matters even more, a retailer (no matter online or "offline") may just straight out refuse such a game due to many complications (simply the general lack of acceptance).

At least there is a uncensored version, but on Vita only, which is nowadays very hard to get. There is even a physical Switch SE box in my countrys retail shop but no one seems to buy it, i guess we know why.