An Xbox Live Indie Game has been banned following concerns that it was too erotic and implied sexual abuse. And Yet, I Love You is a visual novel by Naoki Sagawa and, to its credit, there are no sex scenes. Despite this, Microsoft Europe took a dislike to the game and brought up three key elements they found offensive about the game:
- One of the girls has one restrained hand.
- The girl's head is being pushed down.
- The girl's underwear can be seen.
Sagawa didn't want his game pulled so he attempted to compromise, offering to remove the offending content and restrict sale of his game to Xbox Live Japan customers only. However, this was not deemed good enough, and Microsoft still demanded the game pulled. The 240 Point game is no more.
Very interesting situation. It seems that if one Microsoft territory is offended by something, then all other territories march in step. Ultimately, it's Microsoft's decision whether to public or bar any content from its own servers, so it's not exactly outrageous. Still, it's funny that something like this goes and utter crap like Kitchen Sink Wars is still allowed to charge people money.
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8:20 AM on 08.21.2009
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I think they actually refused because it's so niche they can't make money off it.
Bastards.
So, if it rates itself incredibly highly, and delivers an incredibly tame scene but then still gets banned then what the crap is that rating even for?
Truly the independent spirit runs free on this service.
But then, Microsoft messed up this agreement by still banning it even though he offered to compromise! Makes no sense.
Literally, quadrillion!
Counted it in fact.
Seriously, anyone seen Love Hina ? Obviously the ultimate rape-simulator... People are becoming too fucking paranoid over this fiasco.
...... thats kinda lame reason-_-
I would have purchased this game if it had an English equivalent. Its a shame that MS might have killed the genre on Community Games just because they think that Dead or Alive 4 is able to make money with its women beating and pantie shots while this indie game isn't.
Seriously, if these two were siblings this would sound like just the end of a scuffle, and for all we know not having actually played the damn game it could be.
Though it probably isn't.
Because everything is a conspiracy.
I saw this on XBL and was waiting for this to happen.
true it was a bit unrefined, and I did want to tie in how the Dishwasher allows you to kill hoardes of people (but felt that was a whole different argument), but its that kind of mentality that something in that scene is so horribly wrong that it can't be allowed to the public. Its not like this is the iPhone baby shaking app. For the reasons described, no actual crime is being portrayed in the game. You couldn't even classify it as assault since the story (supposedly) does away with that. But if Microsoft is banning the game even after all unsatisfactory content is removed, then it is a tragedy. People should be a bit outraged because it is an issue if the developer goes out of his way to appease Microsoft's rules of conduct and still gets his game permanently banned from the system.