When can we make lalaqotes?

[Alacran]

Don't mean to patronise you here, but:

"Oh won't somebody please think of the imaginary pixels?!".

And still one must understand as a business, controversy is never a good thing, the issues have been brought up before. Depictions of child like characters is enough cut onto profits if games and often requires more work than their worth (redesigning of gear, animations, handeling of press due to unneeded controversy, ect...) However you don't need to take my word for it.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-were-censored


excerpt:01
"There has been a lot of debate about the Elin race, which has been censored versus the Korean version. Can you explain what happened?

Lucile Le Merle: Yes. This topic has been discussed for about a year and a half now, ever since the Elin were announced at G-Star in 2010. There has been a huge amount of controversy because of the different ways Asian, Europeans and Americans see this kind of graphic content. The decision to change slightly the Elin armour was made with En Masse, the US publisher of the game. At first there was supposed to be a massive change on this race. We were supposed to add tights on every single one of them, but we knew there was going to be massive community uproar, and this is not what wanted for the game. Which is why we had a lot of discussion about it. Now, the models of the armour have changed, but only slightly."

excerpt:02
"In late April you issued a statement saying these changes were made because the Elin could have attracted to the game Unsavory users. What exactly does that mean?

Lucile Le Merle: It's a matter of point of view. We did not want to implement the Elins as they were in the original version because if you look at the forums and how users usually react to this race, it's either people offended by the way they look, or it's people trolling, saying, hey, I'm "pedobear". This is the kind of behaviour we want to avoid at all costs.

We know unless we removed the race entirely from the game, which would have caused an even bigger uproar, we could not avoid having such comments. But we wanted to reduce the amount of comments because some people are offended or some people have a different opinion.

You also say it's part of Frogster's responsibility to protect younger audiences from the unsavoury users. Is that a suggestion that there may be people who are attracted to playing Tera for reasons that aren't to do with playing it in the right way?

Lucile Le Merle: Exactly. Obviously just like any other online game, there are going to be people who will be on the game but not to play it. They are going to be child predators, harassers, people who insult each other. That's something we cannot avoid.

However, we have customer support, which is working very hard to ensure nothing like that happens. And especially in regards to the Elins, we have had a few users in the past who were doing, let's say, bad communication, running around with an Elin character saying sexual content. Those users have been banned because this is not the kind of attitude we want to see in the game."