I obviously struck a nerve if it made you write 3 seperate posts
The only reason I separated my response into three different posts was to try and work around the forum's filter, given the topic at hand. As for the length of the response, I don't really see how me having a lot to say makes me wrong- especially considering the only reason you're saying I'm wrong is because I don't agree with you.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter- they're entirely in their right to change what they want about the game. I just find people like you who are obsessed with complaining about it entertaining because of all of the insane mental gymnastics you have to do to make it sound like they did something unforgivably corrupt.
The changes made to the game had no benefit
I'm personally glad they removed the armbands from the black egrets- I like them and think they're interesting and it looks a lot less suspicious to say "I think these characters are cool" when they don't have Certain Iconography on them.
I also appreciate not having the kinds of fanservice in the game that was removed- I feel like people like you don't really understand the difference between, say, a character like cerebella being seductive intentionally, and having filia be felt up by a guy and having that be portrayed as seductive to the viewer.
we lose nostalgia from them
To be blunt, I don't believe you. I don't believe that the removed content is something that makes you "lose nostalgia". Like... If it honestly is, you really gotta get a grip and learn how to enjoy things for reasons beyond surface level nostalgia. Like, the idea of enjoying the game less because the black egrets don't have red armbands is genuinely the most comical thing in the world to me, and really, it's one of the main reasons I keep responding, this stuff is a riot.
we don't need to justify a game NOT changing after a decade of being enjoyed by fans
This point is so silly to me too, like... does the fact that something was once enjoyed mean that it can never be improved? What the hell are you even talking about? Normal people don't act like a game is ruined because they removed imagery of a certain german fascist group.
they gave no reasonable explanation for the changes
Yes they did, and I've repeated them to you, you simply don't agree with their reasoning. That doesn't mean that they *don't have reasoning*, and to think that it does says a lot. Like, you don't HAVE to agree with them- I don't agree with their reasoning for the change to big band's story, but I don't think they just did it for no reason. They objectively gave reasons.
appeasing google/apple/steam leads to better outreach
I hate to break it to you buddy, but google, apple, and steam do not care if a game has the kinds of things they removed. You can say that, "oh, secretly, they do!", but that's contrary to the blatant evidence that there are countless games with significant outreach with Themes Like That. It's just desperation to pin the fact that Hidden Variable has liberal ideals that you don't agree with on something that might make your absurd temper tantrums seem justified, like you care about something important, rather than something as absurd as "nostalgia" for The Good Old Days when we got to see Filia getting felt up FULL SCREEN!!
Please take your own advice and stop arguing
Not as long as you guys keep sperging out and making fools of yourselves because mean old Hidden Variable took away your precious nostalgia for Funny Red Armbands.