Wuthering Waves Hit by Sudden Censorship: Character and Boss Designs Altered With out Discover Avid gamers Enviornment

In an surprising improvement, fashionable gacha sport Wuthering Waves has carried out design modifications to a number of characters, sparking concern of censorship amongst its neighborhood. Gamers lately found that each a restricted banner character and a weekly boss obtained underwear design modifications in a latest replace, with developer Kuro Video games making no official announcement relating to the modifications.

The alterations primarily have an effect on the present banner character Cantarella, whose underwear design has been modified to be much less revealing. The purple-haired Havoc heroine’s earlier design featured higher-cut undergarments, which have now been adjusted to supply extra protection. In what seems to be a scientific change moderately than an remoted incident, gamers on Reddit additionally observed that the weekly boss character Fleurdelys has been up to date with further under-shorts that weren’t current within the authentic design.

The Wuthering Waves neighborhood response to the censorship has been blended, with some gamers expressing frustration over what they understand as pointless censorship of content material that was already launched. Others have speculated this is perhaps associated to ranking concerns, with one X consumer suggesting these modifications might be related to a latest shift to a 16+ ranking, doubtlessly permitting the sport to return to a 12+ classification.

Some neighborhood members have drawn parallels to an identical scenario with competitor Zenless Zone Zero, which confronted vital backlash final 12 months after implementing measures to stop gamers from viewing up-skirt angles of characters—a choice that was shortly reversed following neighborhood outcry.

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