I just finished playing through Tormented Souls, a mostly okay indie Silent Hill/RE clone and went to look at the unreleased sequel’s Steam page, and also regrettably the Steam discussions, which are probably the worst gamer cesspit outside of like, 4chan.
The “nudity for story purposes” from the first game being referred to here was a cutscene where you could see the main character’s boobs for like 15 seconds. Those 15 seconds of gratuitous polygonal nipples seem to be the main thing gamers took away from the entire 8-12 hour experience 
Here’s some enlightened discussion from the same thread
“In the trailer Caroline appears to have drastically shrunk in her chest area? Could you good sires please fix that?” 
There are also several threads where upset gamers vent their anger about the main character wearing pants instead of a dress in the sequel
The dress is the main costume? I really like the dress, makes her feminine and there is not a Lot of main protagonists using one… so its stays or no?
bring back the dress or no buy
Also, a woman should look feminine and not like a metal band singer guy in IKEA. Not to mention that beautiful and feminine women are one of the most basic cornerstones of the genre. Not to mention that any kind or any hint of wokeness these days results in a “0 sales” figure and a “never buy again anything from these” attitude towards a studio.
Nah, developers decided to go with a more boring design. Sorry, Did I say boring. What I meant to say was “MoRe ReAlIsTiC” Wouldn’t be surprised if the developers ended up making a bunch of dumb woke arguments as the reasoning. Frankly, kinda sick of this attitude in gaming in general. I bought the first one, not going to buy this one.
I remember the forums for the first game were full of cucks complaining about the dress, this is their fault.
PS: Keep the awesome hip sway she had! It was hypnotic!
I had a feeling the character design would be made to be more boring and generic this time around, looks like I was right. They literal just put a hobo jacket on her. Lame…nothing can just be fun anymore. Everyone so concerned with “It LoOkS mOrE rEaLiStIc”
The only thing that drew me to the original was a feminine looking protagonist, which you don’t see from the west anymore. They must feel like they’ll sell more copies if the sequel looks like everything else though.
There is a contingent of gamers that will buy games just to look at female character models they find hot. What type of game it is or even if the games are any good is not a concern. I just can’t wrap my head around being that horny
It’s what happens when you make a big online space for shitty
s, but put zero effort into moderating them.
I guess I would have just assumed that at least some of the companies who sell their stuff on Steam would object to the forums attached to their products looking like a backed-up toilet and make Valve do something
IIRC Valve only really tries to cover their asses when mainstream news starts covering something bad they’re doing. All the big publishers are completely amoral and couldn’t care less if the forums attached to their games are hives of nazism, so long as the games sell, and frankly I don’t think there’s enough backlash to stop that from happening. I’ve never heard of anyone boycotting Steam because of the forums, for instance.
I guess I’m just comparing Steam’s lax moderation policies to those of like, Xbox or whatever
It’s worth noting that Gabe Newell is ideologically libertarian, and he’s able make his dipshit
ideas into company policy. In comparison, Microsoft is a giant company run by more typical business people who don’t think it’s worth the risk (though I’m not sure that even really applies; does Xbox have forums?).
Not forums, no, but I do believe there are some social media elements to Xbox live, like user-made communities and groups and such. Pretty sure openly nazi posts, for example, would get deleted pretty quick
XBL is a paid service, though, so whatever moderation costs are passed onto the users via the subscription fees.