EvaUnit02 on 26/6/2009 at 04:59
Lordy, looks like that Rapelay scandal is really done some damage to hentai game biz. Previously the industry as a whole decided to self-censor itself, placing a ban on rape games, which is a lot better than government stepping on their toes - British Video Nasties style.
Quote:
Also the 2ch thread for eroge industry people to post in has become quite depressing over the past days with posts where industry people talk about how they had their projects canceled or a writer who specializes in rape and sexual violence stories wondering how he can possibly find a new job now, and even one report from somebody who claims his friend at a small eroge development house had commited suicide as they were already doing pretty bad and now had to give up their next game project which meant the company had no chance of survival (info cannot be confirmed).
(
http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/06/25/owner-of-tachibana-shoten-in-akiba-arrested/)
(
http://kotaku.com/5302747/erotic-game-developer-explains-foreign-access-web-blocking) Another example of the Japanese Erotic games industry protecting itself:- blocking non-Japanese IPs.
Quote:
Why minori blocking foreign accesses?
We are little perplexing now because we received a lot of response about this issue from foreign people.
Now we will tell you the short detail about the reason why blocking you to this website, because of we, all Japanese EROGE makers were facing at the problem, the crisis of "Freedom of speech".
Currently, The bill that allows to limiting the content (It is censorship. Isn't it?) to all EROGEs is being discussed in the Diet because intellectuals and politicians said "Japanese EROGE were being problem and troubled with the foreign country. Therefore we should make EROGE hidden away from foreign country, and also its content should be limited and censored".
Okay, now we trusted the word what they said at once. So we blocked you to make stay away from the trouble.
Koki on 26/6/2009 at 05:22
They should just outsource to UK. They're very tolerant of other... cultures.
ZymeAddict on 26/6/2009 at 06:18
Figures. Damn government, walking all over the working man trying to make an honest living. Despicable.
aguywhoplaysthief on 26/6/2009 at 06:39
Who would have thought that there were countries that don't allow people to do or say whatever they want?