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As generally distasteful as explicit fanart usually is, I'm surprised Blizzard is so uptight about it. Any publicity is good publicity, as they say. When you've got an excited, dedicated fanbase before the game is even out, it seems almost like a disservice to reward that level of dedication with censoring. I'm not saying they should actively support or even acknowledge it - far from it, that would be extremely stupid considering the nature of it - but to actively censor it? It just seems a bit...well, strange.

I'm sorry, I'm not buying the "protecting our image" line. Nintendo are as family-oriented as they come, to the point that they frequently censor their games for Western releases, but nowhere do I see them doing anything to actively or effectively remove the obscene amounts of Pokemon fanart, and let me tell you, there is some seriously disturbing stuff online when it comes to Pokemon. It's the internet. You're fighting a losing battle here, Blizzard. You're just making yourself look silly. It's an admirable effort, but when every other company pretty much just ignores it, just doing that would have been enough.

Moving away from that particularly sticky subject...as for the copyright video thing, Jim Sterling found an amazing way around that. Well, that works with monetisation, but I'd think it'd apply for making actual videos as well, maybe? They've not cut out his recent Jimquisition on the Overwatch scene, anyway...by the way, don't watch that at work. Or if you're even remotely sensitive. Because it's Jim Sterling, with all that implies.
 
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Blizzard is fighting a losing battle if they think they can take down all the rule 34 of Overwatch out there. Active censorship is only going to draw more attention to it. Streisand Effect and all.
 
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It wouldn't surprise me if that was the point of it, actually - more publicity for Blizzard, more sales for Overwatch, etc. It's driven down the price of Battleborn by 50% in GAME already...well, that might be a half-term deal, but I was still pretty shocked by that today!

Speaking of half term...PSN sales. God damnit. £4 for The Walking Dead on Vita, Axiom Verge for £9, £8 for BioShock Infinite plus DLC, £7.39 for all three Trine games...need to get me a PSN voucher, stat. Or just buy the things, but then, reward card points.
 
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I need to put my current reply in some sweet delicious bullet points (or some nice "-"'s) for once so I'll say them one by one

- Ahh Jimmy.. when it comes to giving Konami a verbal smackdown, you never fail me. Also, that Copyright Deadlock got me learning. I could always just Stream League though once i GIT GUD (i mean I'm already decent anyway as a League player, but I'd definitely need to sharpen my mental fortitude even harder), or something. I'd want to have an alternative source of fun (and the $$$) other than some office job.

- We can all thank Kotaku for having to expose that sticky side of Overwatch... Blizzard must be celebrating in their offices with Dustin Browder screaming TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE in their offices. Not that its anything true though. But that Kotaku article mang.

- Is it me or is that Overwatch Porn episode of the Jimquisition is one of the better things I've seen lately? I really love how he pointed out that we need more colorful and more personality based shooters in this day and age, and not just more CoD chasing here and there. And I'm proud and happy of the month of May being literally a month of pure colorful, personality driven, and simply fun MAYHEM with DOOM, Battleborn, and Overwatch definitely being the highlights of this year's May 2016. MAYHEM BABY!

- is PSN finally learning from the Lord Master King and God Emperor of 1-2-2.5 Gaben himself? You gotta love it when PSN sales act like a man possessed xD.

- I really would love to endorse more people to help support the Battleborn community of all things. I've mentioned it before that I would have prefered Battleborn myself because its an FPS+MOBA hybrid, and I have a sticky fetish for MOBAS. I mean I would if i could really. Which is why I would love to tell BB's players to keep their community alive instead of needlessly moving to Overwatch because they wanna play as Tracer, Widowmaker, Mercy, D.Va (mah bae) or any of OVW's lovely ladies. I mean Battleborn has some nicely designed characters as well, and I've already checked who's the bae material of the game...

oh wait.. Its just Phoebe and Thorn. Phoebe for those who like blondes, and Thorn for those who like tough looking white haired ladies with war paint.
 
Blizzard, stay the hell away from those lovely "fanart" pics of D.va

STAY. THE HELL. AWAY.
 
machomuu said:
They can't stop it. But it'll be amusing to watch.
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I see what you did there. I've got my eye on you, mister.

I wonder how this is all going to be remembered...because it WILL be remembered. The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that that is the whole point of this ridiculous campaign to eliminate Rule 34 and stifle a ridiculously dedicated fandom.

...still not buying the game here.
 
Blizzard is really effing up right now by putting themselves such a compromising position. The artists won't come quietly and are sure to be real tight about this sticky situation. Blizzard better pull out right now before they go deeper or else they'll have a huge mess on their hands. If not, they're most certainly screwed.
 
Blizzard will probably enjoy all the publicity they're getting. They've been in such controversies since the start of this year so it's nbd for them.
 
Controversy sells titles. People will buy the game just to see what all the fuss is about; they'll want to know what sort of characters could inspire such a ridiculously filled-out pornography fanart demographic. Admittedly, it IS very interesting if you don't know anything about the game...I mean, Rule 34 aside, it's not a common occurence. It's even less common that a publisher will step up and do something about it. It's all very clever...although I still think it a disservice to the fandom and their creativity, regardless of whether that creativity is being put to the best possible use or not.
 
Before i get srs:
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PHOEBE PLZ!

And it all started from a player's complaint about Tracer's booty months ago...

I forgot to mention something like this...

We are all aware about Rule 34 of whatever game there is right? If it exists there's sticky stuff of it. I mean, even something as Dynasty Warriors wasn't safe, and remember jimmies and jilles, Dynasty Warriors way back especially during the dark ages was basically a sausage fest save for the few chosen ladies (SSX, Qiao Twins, Diao Chan, Zhurong, Zien Ji) and I still remember those dark days where I was that desperate... hey, i was a young and stupid teenager back then and I had to claw my way through a ton of pages just to see if there exist decent DW Doujins that didn't involve BL and Bara... then came DW5 and beyond, and especially right now, every faction, is now a nice Co-ed of things with each faction having a sizeable amount of ladies,. inb4Xinthat'stotallyhardcore and Lu Lingqi and Diao Chan.

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Also, this is official Koei art. its a work of beauty. and I get macho and other Yinping's fans regarding that booty. Indeed. Okay I see were they are coming from. I am on to you.

So yeah, i mean, its already a given. Yes for a couple of people like some of us here, its really hard to accept that we can't have any game nowadays without a perverted fandom. But as mentioned before, most companies probably do not go to an extent on going after said fanwork as long as they aren't like using any of the game's assets (as mentioned before, many of the sticky OVW stuff have used models extracted directly from the game, and for Blizzard's case, they have the right to cease and desist these things because its their game assets.. its not really all about the prawn)

However, I am still a believer that hey we all have our own ways of expressing our love in whatever mediums. Some people like writing fan fictions. Some people like just simply making youtube videos (and those doing youtube full time, are making money of it as well and providing more exposure to the game), some love making fan art, and some... well.. we already know.

I mean I like D.Va and Mei, it be all like, having fun together, giving me something cool, LIKE YEAH, JUST I tag team with D.Va and Mei with my SUPER SHOTGUN, THATS HOW ITS DONE... I dunno what the F*** i'm talking about... but what i do know is that seeing that Blizzard is doing something like this, and knowing Blizzard's status as an iconic company already since the dawn of time, some developers might try following Blizzard's ways of keeping things PG and this might become another Polygon or Kotaku capitalization of some distasteful controversies to capitalize on, and another culture war..

Or something. I dunno. I mean all i care about is either breaking enemy faces and carrying my teammates and being a nice and responsible Doomguy or Xin Zhao to all ;)
 
Xin ZhaoYun said:
even something as Dynasty Warriors wasn't safe
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Even Minecraft wasn't safe, Dynasty Warriors had no chance. Rule 34 of Dynasty Warriors still makes at least some sense when you look at it that way.

I mean, I really don't get the appeal of pixelated blocks doing the dirty. But whatever gets people going, I suppose.
 
I can't help but wonder if my last post flew over all your heads or if it was genuinely that terrible.

Or both.
 
CarcharOdin said:
Blizzard, stay the hell away from those lovely "fanart" pics of D.va

STAY. THE HELL. AWAY.
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You mean this one? :))))))))

the only thing that i can say is...

NERF THIS
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and its totally safe for work. Sadly, I came across a couple of NSFW ones in GOOGLE SEARCH, because i forgot to turn off my safe filter on, because I like being risky and risque, like my Super Shotgun.
 
Xin ZhaoYun said:
You mean this one? :))))))))

the only thing that i can say is...

NERF THIS
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and its totally safe for work. Sadly, I came across a couple of NSFW ones in GOOGLE SEARCH, because i forgot to turn off my safe filter on, because I like being risky and risque, like my Super Shotgun.
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No, the other one...>_>
 
CarcharOdin said:
I can't help but wonder if my last post flew over all your heads or if it was genuinely that terrible.

Or both.
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It didn't so much as fly over my head as it did past it as I stepped to the side to avoid it...but then, I know you didn't expect me of all people to comment on it, right?


Also, that's rather cute fanart even if I have no idea who it is. Her outfit and general design reminds me an awful lot of Reimi from Star Ocean, though.


...and does anyone have any updated news on the Bioshock remaster that might be happening but doesn't appear to be confirmed? Because I am two clicks away from buying Infinite in the sale, but if it's coming to PS4 I won't bother. I can't see anything concrete, and when the latest news is for April 1st it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
 
Hmmm...I might skip out on it anyway; rumours have been going strong for a while now, E3 is coming up, and I just bought two PS4 games...and I'm getting Anima either tomorrow or Saturday, depending on Amazon's postal service.

...plus if I take it out I only need to get one PSN voucher, too.
 
I forgot to mention, the fanart i shared a while ago was something that Odin shared in the OVW thread but since the OVW thread is now reserved for the more actually serious players, I might as well.. okay, She's D.Va, one of the characters from said game. Odin and I share the same sentiments - D.Va is best Blizzard girl.

Anyway, i suddenly remembered this relic from the interwebs since I feel like I wanna play some Megaman Maverick Murder X. This was YEARS ago but man i want to just get it off my chest. and since this reminds me of a "missed opportunity" or a "what could have been", I might like repost this in an appropriate thread.

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and I aint resizing this picture. This picture deserves to be gloriously shared in its full size!

Feels bad man.

This my friends, my fellow grunts, my fellow ladies and gentledudes. Some of you may have heard it.. but this was.. Maverick Hunter.. yes. That could have been the Megaman X that someone like me could have wanted, and the more purist fans are gonna be like "OH NO! WHY ARE YOU TURNING MEGAMAN INTO SOMETHING LIKE THAT! YOU SONS OF CAPITALIST PIGS!" and I be like "NO! THIS CONCEPT IS MOTHER CROCKING COOL AND YOU ARE ALL GOING TO LIKE IT ELSE IM GOING TO RIP OUT YOUR THROATS AND SH*T DOWN YOUR CLOSE MINDED NECKS, AND YO MOMMAS GUNNA BE LIKE OH NO!! MY KIDS ARE DEAD!! NUUUUUUUUUUUU :((((((!" WHOOOOOOOOOO XDDDDDD

And guess what mates.. this was supposed to be... dun dun dun...

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Whew.. okay.. I need to relax.
 
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