Marcus-Havoc: This shows how effective voting with your wallet is. sadly, there are still too many NPC that will blindly buy or excuse such practices.
I just see it as saving money if they won't release the version I'm interested in. But for anime titles I'm very picky seeing as I also don't like the Westernization aspect.
rjbuffchix: Eh, I'm not so sure of that. Couldn't it instead be framed to say it shows how effective complaining enough is? In other words, perhaps the motivation to bring it here was more based around outrage, than around monetary numbers. I don't think we can really tell, one way or the other. As for the latter part, that's fair; I remember seeing you get into back-and-forths with a translator here, lol. I personally don't mind more loose translation but your perspective is valid as well.
Complaints could equal the amount of people that will refuse to buy a game that is censored. From what I have seen with the Mary skelter 2 release on STEAM, the amount of people playing it suddenly skyrocketed after The release of the patch.
What I find weird in general, is that the smaller devs seem to get the hint of bad press and general vocal complaints and mostly adept to counter it by listening, while bigger devs seem to want to "Go Woke Go Broke" seeing as battlefield series and most mainstream games are slowly going down the drain.