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We don't live in a free market. We live in a regulated market. Free markets would be stuff like the illegal drug trade or poaching.

Blockades are exceedingly rare nowadays (and generally aren't used except in wartime situations), but tariffs exist as an anti-monopolistic measure on a global scale: Different countries can produce the same goods at different prices (whether due to differences in local availability of raw materials, in price of labor, in business laws preventing particular methods of manufacture, in culture, or local economies--you can see the starkness in the prevalence of outsourcing), so as to protect a country from some other country that could otherwise run roughshod over the world in some particular industry (a major case being automobiles). Tariffs are also used to shield a country as it recovers economically by encouraging (but not requiring) a country's populace to buy domestically-produced goods, which was commonplace after World War II.

It is important to keep in mind that there is still a lot of work and money to be done after that with an English dub, ratings submission, QA, packaging, shipping, and other stuff for a USA retail release. While some would like to discount the cost of full localization and release, I think reality vastly defers. Now maybe you can get away with a Japanese-voice-overs-only release for GameStop. I've been assuming that you can't get away with that with Best Buy, Target, Walmart, etc., though I would like to know if that isn't the case anymore.

K-T will win in the end because they got free publicity and people will buy it, including my friend who still thinks he can get Leifang and Hitomi to kiss in the game even though I always tell him it will never happen.

Also being alarmist about censorship is downright silly. It's not censorship, you can buy the game or watch it streamed or w/e you want. You just have to buy it online instead of walking into Wal Mart. Having to pay extra for shipping or import costs or w/e =/= censorship. It's not like Obama's going to come to your house and snap the disc in half. Criticism is not suppression or censorship. You may as well say critics are 'censoring' Adam Sandler by giving his movies bad reviews due to the immature humor

*Or prepubscent adolescents, w/e. Making a character 18 or a 1000 year old vampire/demon doesn't change the fact they look 11.

And also don't change the fact that these "characters" are fictional, non-existent, and don't resemble at all a human being in the first place, amirite?

I still think that people like you that care too much what other people create or play (at their home), people I disagree with politically, internet trolls, crusaders, whatever, are the main cause of the increase of censorship in anime and jrpg games.

And this derail attention from matters where real people should be protected to fictional and futile media that hurt no one but entertain a niche of players. It also force everyone into the same midset where few people dictate what other can or not see.

Chagen46 wrote:

WEL wrote: the fact that this forum itself is programmed to replace "a person I disagree with politically" to "a person I disagree with", it's prove enough of how cancerous they are to every and any community. It's filtered because it has lost all meaning and is now used solely by reactionaries like you as a snarl word for anyone left of Hitler. You made your bed, now lie in it.

Mods, better put Chagen on the watch list too. He's trying to instigate something.

Also don't change the fact that these works are both byproducts and perpetuations of a culture and certain attitudes that very much exist in real life and have an effect on real people.

Seriously, stop creating strawmen. It's not the fictional characters and polygon constructs that people are worried about.

Yeah, god forbid that, ah, a woman might watch a mainstream anime or play a game, and not be exposed to constant pandering to male viewers and female characters being used for fanservice.

It's so funny that every time someone challenges the kind of view that people like you have, it's "derailing attention from really important things". Apparently the really important things are "everything that doesn't directly affect our privileges."

I admit, DLC is an issue I'd have never thought of. In that case, I guess you'd have to hope for something like DOA5's Last Round where the DLC comes bundled with the main game. Though, to be fair, I can't tell if Last Round was spurred on by surprisingly good sales or what; I'm way outside of fighting game communities. But it sounds like a rough equivalent of triple-A company "Game of the Year" editions for games that sell very well.

And also don't change the fact that these "characters" are fictional, non-existent, and don't resemble at all a human being in the first place, amirite?
Polygons and bitmaps cgi generated images don't have any human rights, therefore you can sexualize inanimate objects as much as you want.
Anime style in particular, is far from resemble a real human being since is very stylized and disproportioned art. Unless you are one of these twisted people who think that fiction = reality.

You lose all your credibility whit this silly and redundant argoument, expecially because nobody force you to support or buy these games, and your life wont never change if these "sexualized" games exist or not.

I still think that people like you that care too much what other people create or play (at their home), people I disagree with politically, internet trolls, crusaders, whatever, are the main cause of the increase of censorship in anime and jrpg games.
And this derail attention from matters where real people should be protected to fictional and futile media that hurt no one but entertain a niche of players. It also force everyone into the same midset where few people dictate what other can or not see.

I'm really sick of people labeling women as "social justice warriors" and "moral warriors" and "feminazis" and putting the blame of anything in the industry on them. It's really toxic.

I'm absolutely for women's rights in video gaming, as a gamer since youth. I can even be called a feminist. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take all your happiness eat your children or something. Throwing the blame on a group of people who aren't even an organization like this is really childish and pretty disheartening. Makes me sad to work in the video game industry and be thought of like this.

Uh huh. But when it's on the flip side, it's okay to throw around misogynistic M.R.A. neckbeard man children and use it as ammo in the blame game about the lack of diversity/female players in gaming.

Yeah, god forbid that, ah, a woman might watch a mainstream anime or play a game, and not be exposed to constant pandering to male viewers and female characters being used for fanservice.

Do folks outside of sensationalist media still do this? It's hard for me to remember how folks outside the gaming industry view gamers by and large.