Quote Originally Posted by rainichan View Post
If you're truly still struggling to understand why, especially some female players would not want this in a place that they do try to get away from some real world instances, this video is plenty. I can deal with politics, I can deal with war, and I can deal with nihilism and existentialism in my games because while yes, it makes for a more interesting world, but sometimes, there has to be a line where it stops and borderline sexual harassment is it.
I don't think equating a form of harassment to a character in a video game is at all an appropriate comparison... I can understand the discomfort people feel about this, but I guarantee you that it's nowhere close to this. I don't doubt that cases exist, but changing the story to accommodate for them is something that.
And even then, taking Haurchefant's interactions and calling it 'harassment' is something I can't understand...
I don't think such standards need to be applied to fictional characters in such a way, with the same reverence we would apply to them in real-life. I'm perfectly capable of taking the threat of being murdered or assaulted seriously even after all of the media which depicts, if not glorifies, such things, same with media which or glorifies sexual things. Japanese users don't seem to take issue with it either, even rebelling at the thought of it having an effect on behavior. Why can't Westerners see it the same way? I don't think it needs to be regarded the same way as it does in real-life, context matters and the same couldn't be said about this.

My overall take is, if it were genuinely better for it to not exist, then it should be that way for the game as a whole, not only in specific regions. A book shouldn't have chapters removed just so it can be published in a different country. A game shouldn't have content be cut or revised for the same reason either.