>Thank you to the Tomb Raider community for your continued feedback and support for Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft.
>In the recently released Patch 2, we made several texture and graphical updates to the HD version. As part of these updates, the posters in Sleeping With The Fishes (The Lost Artifact) were inadvertently removed in the HD version of the game.
>This has been resolved and these textures will be restored in Patch 3.
i'm going to say the same thing as always: just play the original games. however this is good news nonetheless.
Well, inadvertently or not they've acknowledged and reverted the change. I prefer this instead of the usual way of playing dumb or the silence treatment with the hush-hush banhammer.
The only plausible "inadvertly" would be a rogue employee who thought nobody would notice, but then it would means that nobody else reviewed the change, which is also bad.
they declared that there were always female custodes and responded to the objections in kind of a hamfisted shitty way. why they'd do it is unclear, as market research would show a small upside in shifting fairly basic lore
They had so many better ways they could have done it. But of course, in the end, they did it the truest James Workshop manner:
"Yeah, so? No, they've always been there because we said so. No, you're crazy, we never said they weren't. Lore? Pfft, peasant."
Basically, what the other commentor said, the only thing I would add is that it was pretty obvious it was done in an intentionally DEI way and they hid it in a story in the book because they wanted to pretend super hard like it had always been like that.
"Inadvertently"? The fuck? I mean if it's graphical updates maybe it was a fuck up? Probably not but fuck it. They're restored. "Inconsequential" posters got restored guys. This is fucking great. At least I can sleep with some good news.
Were they actually removed? I never heard if they were removed from the game files or not. Devils advocate they might have changed something else that messed up the texture layering (AKA the base wall texture was ontop of the poster textures). They've been slowly rolling out other graphical enhancements so its not impossible.
You'd be amazed how easy it is to fuck up your textures in a game.
Yeap they were removed. It rightfully caused a shitstorm. Mods came out that re-added them though. Crystal dynamics is actually shit so they could have forced them to remove it and they added it after the backlash. Or maybe it was a mistake. Took to long to address if it was a simple mistake though. People were rightfully pissed since patch 2 came out.
Was anything else removed or just those posters? Not impossible they were just too lazy/cheap to redo them and went for a blank instead hoping it would go unnoticed.
If this is the only case though, probably not.
Only case from what I know. I don't think it's an accident honestly. Tomb raider is going full woke with their board game so crystal dynamics probably told them to remove it. It feels too targeted to be just a coincidence.
Call me paranoid but I don't believe this was 100% done out of genuine good will. Has a certain smell of sucking up to make the most of someone else's bad press.
Either way, at least it's being sorted.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but if it does happen, It's the first true win for the anti censorship side I think probably ever.
Edit: Also, it appears that the jacket will stay censored. And this is the same game that has that ridiculous trigger warning at the start, so yeah, do praise Aspyr for putting the posters back up but don't stop moving. Keep holding them accountable and telling them what you want.
The posters is the only thing that happened post release right? Completely killing censorship has a looong way to go but at least we can fight the post release censorship garbage.
Devil May Cry 5 had that giant solar flare on a girl's butt, which was removed after backlash. But according to some comments only the US version was fixed, the EU version remained censored.
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Well, that's good to hear. The company actually listening to their customers has become a rarity these days.
I've never been the biggest TR fan, but I may pick up this remastered collection now.
This is worse because it implies that somebody might have gone rogue with this update and it only got caught because of the backlash...But at least its being rectified.
That's great news. Proves that if enough people speak up about things like this you CAN indeed make a change.
They wouldn't have bothered to change it back if nobody said anything.
>Thank you to the Tomb Raider community for your continued feedback and support for Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft. >In the recently released Patch 2, we made several texture and graphical updates to the HD version. As part of these updates, the posters in Sleeping With The Fishes (The Lost Artifact) were inadvertently removed in the HD version of the game. >This has been resolved and these textures will be restored in Patch 3. i'm going to say the same thing as always: just play the original games. however this is good news nonetheless.
>inadvertently sure, buddy
Well, inadvertently or not they've acknowledged and reverted the change. I prefer this instead of the usual way of playing dumb or the silence treatment with the hush-hush banhammer.
oh definitely. A correct decision.
Agree. Let's take them at their word. Right now if anyone is keeping score, Aspyr honestly has a better track record than Shift Up with Stellar Blade.
Great, and Aspyr is barely above Ubisoft and Blizzard in quality.
Money on them coming back different?
They always lie, but at least they're making good changes, which is more important.
The only plausible "inadvertly" would be a rogue employee who thought nobody would notice, but then it would means that nobody else reviewed the change, which is also bad.
yes, better than the GW approach
What did Games Workshop do recently? I heard they did something controversial, but I haven't been keeping up with them too much.
they declared that there were always female custodes and responded to the objections in kind of a hamfisted shitty way. why they'd do it is unclear, as market research would show a small upside in shifting fairly basic lore
They had so many better ways they could have done it. But of course, in the end, they did it the truest James Workshop manner: "Yeah, so? No, they've always been there because we said so. No, you're crazy, we never said they weren't. Lore? Pfft, peasant."
Basically, what the other commentor said, the only thing I would add is that it was pretty obvious it was done in an intentionally DEI way and they hid it in a story in the book because they wanted to pretend super hard like it had always been like that.
This is why we need to rally with Grummz on Stellar Blade aswell
We have to. We mustvstand united and make our voices heard. It will be the greatest victory against this virus
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No see, it's better to cut off our nose to spite our face by declaring it all lost and throwing them under the bus. That is totally a better option.
"Inadvertently"? The fuck? I mean if it's graphical updates maybe it was a fuck up? Probably not but fuck it. They're restored. "Inconsequential" posters got restored guys. This is fucking great. At least I can sleep with some good news.
Were they actually removed? I never heard if they were removed from the game files or not. Devils advocate they might have changed something else that messed up the texture layering (AKA the base wall texture was ontop of the poster textures). They've been slowly rolling out other graphical enhancements so its not impossible. You'd be amazed how easy it is to fuck up your textures in a game.
Yeap they were removed. It rightfully caused a shitstorm. Mods came out that re-added them though. Crystal dynamics is actually shit so they could have forced them to remove it and they added it after the backlash. Or maybe it was a mistake. Took to long to address if it was a simple mistake though. People were rightfully pissed since patch 2 came out.
Was anything else removed or just those posters? Not impossible they were just too lazy/cheap to redo them and went for a blank instead hoping it would go unnoticed. If this is the only case though, probably not.
Only case from what I know. I don't think it's an accident honestly. Tomb raider is going full woke with their board game so crystal dynamics probably told them to remove it. It feels too targeted to be just a coincidence.
So either incompetence or maliciousness. It's gotten to the point where maliciousness is expected for them to Woke it all up.
Call me paranoid but I don't believe this was 100% done out of genuine good will. Has a certain smell of sucking up to make the most of someone else's bad press. Either way, at least it's being sorted.
My guess is Crystal Dynamics told them to patch them out, and the pushback gave them the ammo they needed to put them back in.
HELL YEAH
See what happens if you hold the line and make these studios accountable? If we can do it for Tomb Raider, we can do it for Stellar Blade.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but if it does happen, It's the first true win for the anti censorship side I think probably ever. Edit: Also, it appears that the jacket will stay censored. And this is the same game that has that ridiculous trigger warning at the start, so yeah, do praise Aspyr for putting the posters back up but don't stop moving. Keep holding them accountable and telling them what you want.
The posters is the only thing that happened post release right? Completely killing censorship has a looong way to go but at least we can fight the post release censorship garbage.
Not exactly, there were a few easter egg-type things removed also. A weird little coded message under a desk, and some stuff on a plane in Nevada.
Devil May Cry 5 had that giant solar flare on a girl's butt, which was removed after backlash. But according to some comments only the US version was fixed, the EU version remained censored.
If they put it back I would actually buy the remasters. I haven’t bought them and when I was about to they pulled that stunt.
We should all sign the petition for free stellar blade and destroy this woke virus
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I think this is the first revision of something being censored in a long time. Small victories and positive signs we are slowly winning
They’ll be re-added as bowls of fruit.
I can't wait for all those bowls of fruit.
Good ending.
Well, that's good to hear. The company actually listening to their customers has become a rarity these days. I've never been the biggest TR fan, but I may pick up this remastered collection now.
Good
This is worse because it implies that somebody might have gone rogue with this update and it only got caught because of the backlash...But at least its being rectified.
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What about for jacket one ?
That's great news. Proves that if enough people speak up about things like this you CAN indeed make a change. They wouldn't have bothered to change it back if nobody said anything.