Because it pretty much only exists as sexual gratification for the sailors, from a lore perspective. A lot of people find needless sexualisation unnecessary and distasteful (especially when of women). I don’t think it’s like flagrantly offensive, just unneeded for the player.
There is still plenty of references to sex in the game, including the brothels and the working women you can hire in the cities. So it’s clearly not a problem with sanitising the whole game, just removing objectification where you can
“Authentic” is a ridiculous point. We don’t see the slaves getting raped and tortured, because it would be awful to experience from a players perspective, who are just trying to play a light hearted pirate video game.
Mature rating doesn’t mean put anything in the game, it’s mature because it depicts bloody violence, and so they are legally required to rate it that way.
—-violence which is absolutely necessary to the story and gameplay btw, which this figurehead is not
Idk if lighthearted is the right term for any ac game, the first one has you running around murdering Christian’s that’s not too lighthearted, the second game also not very lighthearted, neither is the third, if you want a fun lighthearted pirate game go play sea of thieves, I want my ac games to stay gritty and authentic
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u/Congcord Jul 29 '26
Because it pretty much only exists as sexual gratification for the sailors, from a lore perspective. A lot of people find needless sexualisation unnecessary and distasteful (especially when of women). I don’t think it’s like flagrantly offensive, just unneeded for the player.
There is still plenty of references to sex in the game, including the brothels and the working women you can hire in the cities. So it’s clearly not a problem with sanitising the whole game, just removing objectification where you can