Swimsuit Transmog Only Available For CN 😡

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Would even love reskins

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It is, I do agree with this, I just realized I posted my lengthy reply on another poster’s duped thread.

However, let’s remember this practice is not new, nor is it exclusive to China.

Blizzard does marketing promos all the time (and this time it’s not even Blizzard) and whilst it sucks, if we give in to fomo, we’re just feeding the existing problem of needing everything.

If it comes to EU, cool. If it doesn’t? We’ll all live without it.

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I’m sure once they’re done converting the swimsuit to a fruit costume it’ll be released to the west

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That would look lovely on my Earthen. :eyes:

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Because it doesn’t cause a toxic backlash in China. Asian audiences very much approve of these things, while it’s a highly political issue in the West. And with large corporations avoiding any risk like the plague, they will steer clear of any potential political controversy.

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I’ve gotta be honest, I don’t think it would cause a toxic backlash among western consumers either
maybe some twitter personalities and people who don’t even play the game nor were they ever going too but who cares about those people for obvious reasons?

I think this is getting pushback from inside the company, maybe not for this specific swimsuit cause we don’t know the deals between Blizzard and the chinese company that hosts wow cn but for less covering outfits in general

edit: removed a double negative in the first sentance

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The Twitter personalities are the same people who are making this game.

Fortunately since I am a bear I get to fight completely naked.

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This, besides it isn’t really more skimpy than the beach transmog we got…

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Glad that abomination is only in china.

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Netease that run China WoW commissioned the work done for the suit it has nothing to do with Blizzard.

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You would look fabulous!

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Consumers are irrelevant, shareholders are important. But most shareholders are not individuals that look at each investment on their own merit or product portfolio, but rather institutional investors that assess investments by sometimes arbitrarily assigned risk factors.

So in a market that is culturally open to skimpy clothing, implementing that content will have positive effects. In markets that oppose skimpy clothing for political or religious reasons, the content will not be published to play nice with institutional investors. We can beg, cry and shout as much as we want, skimpy clothing is deemed heretical in Europe and the USA, so we won’t get those anymore until the next culture shift.

It is though. The beach stuff we got either had long shirts/shorts or hid the buttocks and thighs behind a mini-sarong, plus the weird net stuff. This is just a cute one-piece swimsuit without any weird additions to appease the modesty police.

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Someone needs to show them it would be profitable for EU!

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Yes

No

But Blizzard would have to paye Netease for the asset as its there own idea.

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No, it’s not. It’s just like a 2% issue of terminally angry people

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What about USA like that bike

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to the GROUND

and yes you’re right unfortionately about shareholders, though this method has also been used on other studios and those studios outright don’t exist or are a shell of their former selves today because of shareholder and investment putting themselves in the developer/pr seats.

I don’t exactly agree with skimpy clothing being heretical in EU/US tho, that is only true to a very small but very loud subsection of the population that gets insecure seeing other people’s skin and these people often don’t consume the products they criticize either

You can just prove this wrong by going to your average beach in either europe and the US or just going outside during hot weather in most of those regions

Honestly investors/shareholders need to get bullied out of the decision making process, don’t trust the company? don’t invest in it, its not that hard. Want to make decisions in a company? use that shareholder/investor money and start your own.

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Yes.

But I believe that if they thought they could get away with it, they’d buy the rights to it immediately.

I think they know it would be profitable, but it’s still too much of a risk factor. I am fairly certain someone in controlling has done calculations on this already.

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CN is more strict on such things if it is in something popular and
certain people become aware. So it might get changed later on.

Just an example from a game with same age rating.
Outfits like this have been modified, in cn/asia server it got replaced while in rest it was
added as optional outfit.
https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/editor/2022/01/8ece0-16427008171912.png
Left is original version while right is new version.

Both are less revealing than that swimsuit, thou it Netease so might survive.
But if any pressure come from above it will be changed with no questions asked.

If it was Korea on the other hand many statements in this thread would be true.

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I don’t think it really is “culturally” a problem, it’s Blizz’s own choosing, JRPGs with protags in way skimpier outfits get released here without any fuss, not to mention the countless NSFW games on steam, although some aussie christian conservative group is desperately trying to get them off the store.

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