I’m sure there are going to be more mental gymnastics displayed by faux “pro-consumer” pundits than the tumbling events during the summer Olympics, attempting to explain away how Tecmo Koei deciding not to release Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 in America as “not censorship” — and how it has nothing to do with feminists and Social Justice Warriors calling for the heads of developers making games with sexy ladies. Nevertheless, Jim Sterling was dead wrong: they are taking away your games.

Kotaku in Action has been all over the news that’s been spreading far and wide to people who actually buy and play games, managing to grab the attention of sites like Niche Gamer and Player Essence. It’s gotten to the point now where even a thread on /r/Games/ [backup] have finally said enough is enough of this SJW bull crap.

Things kicked off when the official Facebook account for Dead Or Alive stated that they would not be bringing the newest Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 to the West – a game that features bikinis slipping off the characters, enhanced boob and butt physics and improved lighting for glistening and wet effects – writing in reply to a post on Facebook…

“We do not bring DOAX3 to the west and won’t have any plan change in the future. Thank you for asking.”

A lot of people were curious why they had no plans to bring the game westward, especially when gamers comparing the sales stats realized that the last game in the Xtreme series – from nearly a decade ago – sold more than twice as much in America as it did in Japan, according to the rough estimates by VGChartz [backup]. Well, Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja made the decision to keep the game in the East due to fear of backlash from the politically correct left authoritarians, stating…

“Do you know many issues happening in video game industry with regard to how to treat female in video game industry? We do not want to talk those things here. But certainly we have gone through in last year or two to come to our decision. Thank you.”

Within the last year the issue of feminism, sexism and misogyny in gaming has been exaggerated by the media to the extent that it’s made a lot of gamers frustrated that the media is more concerned with political issues than gaming news. It reached a breaking point with #GamerGate when the media’s corruption being exposed turned into a campaign from the media against their own audience, calling them rapists, misogynists and “dead”.

Back in 2013 Jim Sterling defended the cult of censorship on a panel with Adam Sessler, stating…

“Anita Sarkeesian is not Magneto. And when people say she needs to be stopped, I think that’s what people say about Magneto. She is not that. She does not have a Sisterhood of Evil Mutants. She ain’t gonna take your games away.”

Sterling later did a video on December 8th, 2014, defending why GTA V being banned from a couple of retail outlets in Australia was not censorship and just the choice of the retailers. It’s ironic because way back on October 24th, 2012 [via TheAndredal], Sterling defended the SJWs in a video, stating…

“Are they gonna take away your Dead or Alive massive tit-parade? Would that be a loss… even if they did? Which they won’t, because as long as a market exists, publishers won’t change shit.”

And yet, publishers are changing their regional release for the game and not supplying it to Western audiences due to the SJWs in the media.

When asked about this most recent issue, Sterling replied on Ask.fm, stating…

“Nobody is taking the games away. I still stand by that. A corporation made a corporate decision (and if you think a few bloggers influence those decisions, you’re an idiot) to not localize a game that probably doesn’t sell very well in this market, all because it apparently can’t handle the criticism it expects. “That’s ALL on Tecmo Koei. They don’t want to be criticized, so they’re not bothering to bring a game out here. You wanna be mad at someone, be mad at a company not confident enough in its product to bring it out over here. “Or, y’know, look up some hentai or something. “It’s a shame, though. I was looking forward to reviewing that.

Can’t handle criticism? Let’s not forget that Sterling’s own past cohorts attempted to blacklist Allistair Pinsof for exposing a scandal and criticizing one of their own. Let’s also not forget about the cases throughout #GamerGate of people allegedly being fired or someone attempting to fire them for having the wrong opinion, as noted by SJWar. “Can’t handle the criticism” has nothing to do with someone trying to ruin your life. Koei Tecmo likely doesn’t want to deal with press trying to ruin their business.

In this instance, Koei Tecmo is literally making it known that they don’t want to have anything to do with the kind of backlash they would receive from the media for releasing a suggestively titillating game like Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 in America.

Already, various games have come under harsh fire or have been altered to fit the needs of the authoritarian left. Hatred incurred a moral backlash that temporarily had it removed from Steam Greenlight. Divinity: Original Sin had to alter the female box art armor after complaints from SJWs. Blade & Soul has undergone major rewrites to the characters and quests to become less “problematic” and “more welcoming”. A female customization feature was removed from Xenoblade Chronicles X. And even Street Fighter V had some light modifications made to some of the animations and camera work to be less suggestive.

On the Facebook post, gamer Evan Smith didn’t hold back his anger and rightfully pointed out exactly who the culprits are in this case…

“Well there you fucking go people. Straight from the horse’s mouth. One of my favorite Japanese game developers has declined to release a game to the west thanks to puritanical SJW’s lashing them endlessly over attractive females in bikinis being considered a whole range of negative buzzwords and thus, not suitable for a culture with its head to far up its own ass of political correctness.”

On the upside Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja do have English text options in the game, so the likely option will be to import the title when it does release over in Japan for the PS Vita and PlayStation 4.

I can’t wait to see how “pro-consumer” pundits make up excuses why some regions getting fewer games in fear of backlash is somehow a good thing.

Take note that gamers aren’t standing by idly, there are already petitions being put into place, with an operation currently underway on Kotaku in Action right now along with an e-mail campaign to Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja.