Censorship does not help sells in the first place, because it’s taking aspects that are integral to advertising and gameplay to help sell people on the game that would have helped in Japan and Overseas. It can have a base if Censorship does not exist, but when you censor something the global niche audience base you would have had goes out the window because they are getting a worse and inferior version of the game that only a single country or region has. Gameplay is important, but feature parity is far more important than anything else, and it loses soulistic elements of the original in the process.

Also nobody ever thought Blue Protocol would compete with FFXIV, but it would have a good niche sized audience that can help make good with feedback and consistent revenue to help keep it alive. But it did not because of the lack of feature parity and excuses with “Uncomfortably”. Japanese companies will keep failing until they figure it out.

I sank a considerable amount of time into the game and while I enjoyed it, I can also say the gameplay loop was average at best, which is nowhere near good enough in an environment where you have to compete against other anime-styled live service powerhouses like FFXIV and Genshin.

https://blue-protocol-db.com/news/exclusive-interview-franchise-lead-mike-zadorojny-blue-protocol-hands-on-demo/

Here is an interview in which talks about it. It is funny how they allowed Casino gambling which is worse for children but did not allow fanservice mechanics. The disconnect between Japan and the West is very much the reason why Bandai Namco Online is a huge failure and other games are not successful and the result will end up the same.

There is a term in Marketing to know your audience but Bandai Namco and many others just seem out of touch at the executive level causing huge losses in money with no real ROI on any of them. Something needs to be done to prevent such horrific spending and bad decisions that misread their own audiences and allow it to fail.