BanditKeith2: Well in truth in game media have been going ''lowest common denominator '' in goverments and what the guidelines for games in the countries they want a game in to be sellable is.. this has been done for years to lessen extra work and money spent adjusting games for other regions.. granted Console wise thats a different subject .. Aswell as I am unsure some games get censored with a patch later on but I am just saying is all
Tracido: To excuse this from a company that took 50 re-cuts of sex scenes in the Witcher 2 for United States audiences, to GET the MOST content into the game says plenty about how worthless they are now as a company that you can state they are the same as every other. XD
Times have changed. Witcher 2 times are gone, and so are (rather loose) regulations and requirements of those times.
When it was some one, or two, big countries for which "separately developed" versions would need to be shipped - then it was frankly quite sensible to put some effort. But when it's dozens countries and lots of them have plenty detailed "rules" and such? Nightmare to deal with via "individual versions"; definitely not viable for a studio. Plus, lots of things become international now, which complicates things further.
Today, multiple governments in Asia, Middle East, Europe and elsewhere _ban_ many titles, including AAA ones, on their territory. For somewhat impressive, but by far not complete, list - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games .
See, for example, Germany. One of largest economies, and seemingly not banning "nudity" games. But as you can see in that list, gore is what them germans ban alot. And so - all the following is merely a wildest guess, - i can quite imagine how corresponding german authority would send something like "look pals, you gots LOTS of gore in your game, and we wanna ban it, especially since it's many gore scenes involving nudity as well, which we especially do not like". Which is indeed one rather sick thing even for (modern, average) mature person. And since removing gore from CP2077 is frankly impossible (given the nature of the game), it had to be nudity to be removed - "if you want to sell your game in Germany at all" and somesuch.