Summary
While Capcom has been mum about a return to Dino Crisis, save forits port to PlayStation Plus Classics, the people at TeamKill Media are presently working on a spiritual successor titled Code Violet. The game, which was announced a few days ago, is a third-person action horror game featuring dinosaurs not all too dissimilar to Dino Crisis.
Currently, it’s being marketed as “exclusive toPS5.” However, it has nothing to do with handshake deals or paid exclusivity. Rather, the team has no intention of launching the game onPCdue to the potential for inappropriate mods.
Pornographic Mods Have No Place, Studio Says
In a statement released on Twitter, TeamKill affirmed that it “holds our voice actresses and actors with high regard, as well as our artistic vision for the game and story.” The potential to “destroy” that with sexual mods “is not worth the extra money we can make.”
In a follow-up statement, the team clarified that it isn’t “against” PC gamers or the platform itself, or even good-faith modders. Rather,the team is against pornographic mods, which “have no place” in games.
It’s a bold stance, but the presence of inappropriate mods, specifically sexually-charged mods, along with general inappropriate behavior is something that developers have had to contend with.
In the past,Naoki Yoshida expressed his desire for players to not make “offensive or inappropriate” mods ahead of Final Fantasy 16’s PC release. Those sentiments were once again echoed byNaoki Hamaguchi in December, when he said “We ask modders not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate” when Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth comes to PC.
Elsewhere,Guilty Gear Strive updated its Photo Mode entirely to prevent players from taking upskirt photos of its characters by disabling the camera entirely when near an inappropriate area. Meanwhile,Koei Tecmo revealed it issues nearly 3,000 takedown requests annually for inappropriate fanart created for “adult purposes” that is damaging.
Simply put, rather than patch the game or plead with fans, TeamKill is opting not to release Code Violet on PC entirely.Some have questioned whether the game is not releasing on PC due to an exclusivity deal with Sony, rather than the aforementioned rationale.However, the team has reiterated there is no such deal.
