I am now (somewhat to my surprise) in favor of full frontal male nudity in all my games. It’s just a naked body. What’s the big deal? Why can’t I see Cloud’s other buster sword? What are they trying to hide?
The issue is society at large.
With the whole "Won't somebody think of the children?" aspect.
You can have a game heavily feature gamblling and it gets a rating of 3+.
You can have a game about killing people and it gets a rating of 12+.
You show a single nipple and bam, 18+.
This increase in age rating will negatively impact sales (Because some people actually care about age ratings) so companies tend away from it.
100%. I forgot which social media platform this happened on, but I remember there being a large pushback on that platform that men could be topless but women couldn't. So instead of allowing women to be topless like they should, they banned men from being topless. Talk about three steps back lol.
