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Bud, myself and many, many others are not contesting any of that regarding current music license status... that's all well known regarding Artlist. It still fails as a dev argument if he is also stating S2 will have adult content (which we all agree has been stripped continuously in S1). Do folks really think he won't be running away from suit paranoia then? If he changes the music licensing source for S2 then it would have been much easier to do the same for S1 rather than gutting all the content. Therefore that whole excuse or reasoning of music being the sole issue is BS (imo). That's one of the points that those of us that have well over $100 invested in the original VN debut have... one of many points.Patreon does not give age ratings, steam does. While it may be possible to dancing around gray areas on patreon, this din't work on steam.
Steam is not the license holder of the music. Artlist is it.
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And Artlist prohibits the use of music titles whose licence rights they own in any form of pornographic content.
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Now guess what happens if someone violates these guidelines?
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The game would be DMCAed from Artlist in no time and all efforts are gone out of the window. Steam is merciless with DMCA strikes, just ask Drifty what happened with Leap of Faith.
Steam is also checking if a game contains music that has copyright on it, during the waiting time that steam has used to review the game Ocean got contacted by Steam because they noticed that the game contains © music. Then they demanded a proof from Ocean that he has bought the right to use the music.
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And in parts some of the changes Ocean has done can in the best case only explained through "German Angst" or better to say, don't give chances.
On example was also during the table top game.
At the time when all players were using that holo console to get the individual gadget was above a top-down pyramid of light. In it's center was that fish meme from discord worked in:
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That was removed because Ocean feared to get smacked by God knows who because of this.
And if we take a look in the past, and see for what George Lucas has sued random people, this is fear is not justified if we consider the times at now.
Additionally there's even a discord of him even stating there's no censorship when it's the very definition of it.
Doesn't matter though, I've stated even last night that he can obviously do whatever he wishes. His actions over the last couple of years have been some of the worst possible for clientele retention.
If some folks enjoy and support this non-originally intended VN concept (I still stand it's no longer an AVN now) then kudos and best to them, sincerely. But with all due respect, these numerous varied excuses as to why this entire process has been habitually occurring over the last two years is bologna, including this rehashed dev reasoning he provided months ago regarding licensing as the motivation to gut the project.