ThirtySevenCoins wrote: »

I think gamers want to be given the same respect that followers/readers/viewers of other media art forms are given. I choose to buy an age restricted product, movie, book, television show, the label tells me what to expect, nobody should be under any illusions about what is on offer, don't expect unicorns and rainbows or some virtual Narnia.

The most ridiculous example of overbearing censorship I have seen in games was in the Stolen Memory mission of Mass Effect2. After breaking into a private art collection I noticed the famous "naked" statue of Michelangelo's David had suffered some considerable damage to it's underpants region in transit. As an art lover, I found it offensive that an image of one the greatest artworks in human history had been mutilated in order to pander to the moral minority, The Eight forbid that these people enter an actual museum, fig leaves for the statues most probably.

Kaynlor wrote: »

ThirtySevenCoins wrote: »

I think gamers want to be given the same respect that followers/readers/viewers of other media art forms are given. I choose to buy an age restricted product, movie, book, television show, the label tells me what to expect, nobody should be under any illusions about what is on offer, don't expect unicorns and rainbows or some virtual Narnia.

The most ridiculous example of overbearing censorship I have seen in games was in the Stolen Memory mission of Mass Effect2. After breaking into a private art collection I noticed the famous "naked" statue of Michelangelo's David had suffered some considerable damage to it's underpants region in transit. As an art lover, I found it offensive that an image of one the greatest artworks in human history had been mutilated in order to pander to the moral minority, The Eight forbid that these people enter an actual museum, fig leaves for the statues most probably.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_leaf
From about 1530, the developing reaction to Renaissance freedoms and excesses that led to the Council of Trent also led to a number of artworks, especially in churches or public places, being altered to reduce the amount of nudity on display. Often, as in the famous case of Michelangelo's The Last Judgement, drapery or extra branches from any nearby bush was used. For free-standing statues this did not work well, and carved or cast fig leaves were sometimes added, such as with the plaster copy of Michelangelo's David displayed in Victorian era London.[3] The Adam and Eve panels on the Ghent Altarpiece, already equipped with fig leaves by Jan van Eyck, were simply replaced with 19th-century panels copying the figures but clothed. Many of these alterations have since been reversed, damaging some of the statues.

Majic wrote: »

For Mature Audiences Only

ESO has plenty of problems, but a lack of "mature content" isn't one of them.

Players who want more "adult" content won't stop playing if it's absent, but a large percentage of potential players not represented here either wouldn't want to or be able to play ESO if it contained too much. That's not just on a "family" level, because there are also significant legal restrictions on such content in a surprisingly large number of countries.

ESO really doesn't need to narrow its marketability or appeal, thus more "mature" content is a losing proposition for the game, no matter how much some of us might want it.