Individuals Who Won’t Accept Censorship
Author: S. A
I’ve heard of the fashion police, individuals who fight against fashion atrocity’s within their local community. I’ve even heard of the stupid police, which involves people trying to stop the ongoing rash of stupid acts within their neighborhood. However, I’ve never knew of The Cut Content Police until now.
This group has established themselves on the Steam servers with one goal: to warn the gaming community about games that have been “in some way censored due to cut, edited, changed, [or] modified content.”
These individuals have taken to the internet due to what they believe to be as unnecessary changes to their gaming content. After all, a host of games have had to change their graphical content levels due to strict standards set up by gaming companies such as Steam. That said, The Cut Content Police wants people to know about these censored games in full.
The group manages to spread the word through a function made available in steam, wherein which individuals can create groups identified as curators. These ‘curators’ have the ability to recommend games to other users, and depending on the groups popularity might be displayed more prominently than others.
Writers over at Kotaku managed to get in touch with these content bandits, and this is what the creator Marusame had to say in regards to his own group. “I felt that knowing whether a game has been altered for censorship or is lacking features and or content should be transparent and it often isn’t.” Which funnily enough isn’t something that is readily made available to gamers as they play a game. As a gamer, I’m often left in the dark about changes made to my favorite titles unless I dig in deep to its own history and the changes made to it. Often Japan made games have original touches that there North American counterparts will never be privileged with.
The whole change of games from one local to another has been happening for years in the gaming universe and has been an annoying aspect that we cannot escape. For its not just minor changes made to games, but rather exclusive content that only certain versions are privileged too. While it’s easy to understand that removing content is never a black and white issue, I do wish that getting an original version of the game could be an option made available to those who wish it. In any case, I suggest you check out The Cut Content Police on steam. Their list of games is sure to keep growing.
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