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sorry chrono i thought i was posting on the discussion cointament thread but then i saw my mistake and deleted it
No, the tweet talking about the changes specifically cites flags as well as armbands and symbolism under their "allusions to real world hate groups". There's no getting around the fact that the Egrets are inspired by WWI prussia and WWII Germany so unfortunately that should probably include the flags on Big Band's blockbuster and I wouldn't want anyone to be surprised if such a change comes to the fighting game down the line. Although most likely such a change would just be changing the color to the banners from red. Because you could argue that in context; bands during that time and even in modern times would have had decorative banners on music stands, but given it's red with a white circle and black insignia it can and will be taken the wrong way.
I don't know if the mobile game is actually censored, the video I've seen from last year compiling blockbusters still has the banners on the stands. Do you have a recent screenshot or video showing this?
IIRC in his default palette in Mobile, the black sigil is filled with white instead so it's less invocative of the flag. I may be remembering wrong though, since I have not played it in a while.
Your mind is playing tricks. Bassline Big Band, nor any of the other Big Band variants, never have had their Strike Up the Band blockbuster edited.
Thanks for checking. Yeah, I think I'm probably going crazy because I swear I have seen it with the black sigil blanked out before. Maybe I saw it somewhere else or or I was thinking of one of the alt palettes.
The thing is the devs opted to remove the armbands completely rather than just changing the colour and design. In fact, the in-game default Parasoul palette had always had black armbands for the Black Egrets.
Honestly if they just remove the digest file or modified it so it specifically accepts older versions of the files, the uncensored ones, modders could very easily change it.
That’s not how we should approach the game. People feel bothered by the changes because of the message it sends in bad faith. If the devs wanted to do this for a long time, they got their chance to do so. I’m not gonna judge the devs by their intentions, but by how they went about it. The “dirty socks“ refers to the things they wanted to change, not the game itself, and that means that they been wanting to do this for a long time but they couldn’t because they didn’t have enough money to do so. Having said that, I wish they recompense for the removed content, I don’t think it’s fair to just remove content without appropriate replacements to compensate for.
Thanks for fact-checking for me. I now realize it is a flimsy excuse I didn't mean to use for any reason, only because it was the only excuse I thought was justifiable before seeing this. This makes me realize they probably do have the money to recompensate but are too busy focusing on Marie for now.
Where are you getting any of this from? I've never heard any mention before of creative differences within the team, the problem was Alex and Mike's behavior. This really just sounds like you're making up stories out of whole cloth.
Alex hasn't worked on Skullgirls since 2018. A little late to be worried about that since the current team has been working on DLC characters for 3 years.
It's just a conspiracy I thought of (and seen from steam forums), there's nothing more to it. Like I said in my post, I won't endorse it because it's just a theory without significant evidence. it's not facts, it's just speculation.
It's one thing to speculate where there are gaps in facts, but so-called "speculations" that ignore well-established facts are not speculations, they are misinformation. The reasons why Mike was removed from Skullgirls development is well-documented, including his own statements in support of Lab Zero in his lawsuit, which has nothing to do with creative visions. The reason for Alex's firing was also documented, and while it has not been directly collaborated by Alex himself, he has not disputed it either. There is no reason to believe these facts are false.
Kind of a bad argument, all the dlc content till now has been done via Alex notes and whatnot.
The point I was responding to was "Alex Ahad's style is not easy to emulate or replace". They have been doing exactly that based on Alex's notes.
Correct, we have yet to see them doing the style on their own without the notes.
I'm not arguing that lol. You're taking to a straw man. My point is the current devs have maintained the art style since Alex left throughout the current DLC cycle. Most casual fans didn't even realise Alex already left years ago until the update blew up, and now people are patching together half-truths and misinformation to come up with all sorts of wacky ideas.
Yes, with the notes.
